Dead Man Blogging

Today I got up at 6 a.m. and went to my computer. I created a Youtube playlist. A playlist is a set of videos that play consecutively. You select the first video and play it, and the others play automatically.

My playlist is made up of Christian songs. I needed music for my morning worship sessions in living room.

After I created the list, I opened a 10-hour MP3 of Julie True soaking music and started it playing. I went downstairs and left it on. When you keep Christian music playing in a room, it changes things, even if no one is there.

This sure beats living in a house where Christianity is limited to the second story. If life in a house with no unbelievers is this good, I wonder what heaven will be like. In heaven there are no atheists, Antifa mobs, botanicas, yoga practitioners, socialists, environmentalist nuts, angry vegetarians, weed activists, or women who insist on breastfeeding topless in public. Among Christians, there is no squabbling over doctrine, because everyone believes the same things. It must be nice.

In what may have been a bad idea, I looked at the news after worship and breakfast. I saw the story about Democrat Virginia governor Ralph Northam. He is going to leave office. He hasn’t announced it yet, but it will happen.

Someone found out that in 1984, Northam posed for a medical school yearbook photo. There are two people in the photo. Northam won’t say which is him. One person is in blackface, and the other wears a Klan costume.

Northam has been in the news because he made it clear he felt the law should permit mothers and doctors to allow undesired newborns to die. He said this in connection with his full support of a vile bill intended to permit the murder of the unborn right up to the moment of birth. I am not a Northam supporter. Nonetheless, I am against punishing people for 35-year-old photos that don’t reflect their current states of mind.

One of the weird things that happened during the spawning of the #MeToo movement is that leftists agreed to ban forgiveness. They go after people who did “offensive” things many years ago, as though those people were currently doing the same things. If leftists find out you used the N-word or put a beer can in the regular trash in 1992, it can cost you your job in 2019. That’s sick.

As a lawyer, I can tell you that courts are supposed to consider two things when they rule: the law, and public policy. “Public policy” means the welfare of the public. In reality, they shouldn’t think about public policy, because it’s none of their business. Courts are supposed to decide what the law says and apply it. My guess is that the notion that courts should consider public policy comes from the left, because it is used as justification for making rulings based on what judges, who are politically biased, think is good for society.

Anyway, courts consider public policy when they rule. They don’t want to issue rulings that cause problems. As a result, we end up with interesting doctrines. For example, when you sue a business over a dangerous condition that caused an accident, you may not be allowed to tell the jury about remedial measures they took to fix the problem. Why? Because it would discourage other businesses from taking remedial action, and more people would be hurt.

There are other examples of courts taking positions based on the notion that people have to be encouraged to repent and transform themselves.

The left’s new inquisition could take a lesson from the courts. If leftists continue destroying people for old “offenses” without giving them a chance to repent, they will kill people’s motivation to change.

Things weren’t always like this. Senator Robert Byrd was a Klan official at one time, and although leftists knew about it, they defended him with tremendous fervor. They said he had changed, and that was good enough for them. I doubt he had changed; he persisted in using the N-word in his old age. Nonetheless, they were right to give him a chance.

Arianna Huffington pretended to be conservative in order to help her career as an incompetent pundit. When she saw the leftist light (over a period of about 15 minutes) and switched sides, liberals accepted her. They knew she was insincere, but they took her in just the same.

Things are very different today. Kevin Hart was just driven out of a job hosting the Oscars (the closest thing homosexuals have to a major religious feast) because he used the word “gay” in a negative way in jokes eight years ago.

Leftists are busy establishing a policy of mercilessness. What a big, awkward word. There are no other words in English that capture the idea well. That shows that the idea isn’t a big topic of conversation among English-speaking people. People talk more about things that are important to them; they say Inuits have a whole bunch of words for “snow.” We have a lot of words that are at least roughly synonymous with “mercy” because mercy is important. Mercilessness is repugnant, and that’s probably why we don’t have many words for it.

It makes sense that leftists would reject mercy. Their father is a self-pitying fallen angel who could not get mercy from God. Jesus allowed himself to be tortured to death for evil people, but Satan and his friends were irrevocably disinherited. They can’t receive mercy. For thousands of years, they have known that the lake of fire was waiting for them, no matter what they did. I can see how they would want to make human beings, who are created in God’s image, feel what they’ve been feeling.

Why is Satan doing this at this particular time? I suspect it has to to with the Internet. Thirty years ago, you could say and do things with some hope they would be forgotten. Now everything is documented. Facebook is 15 years old. Twitter is around 13 years old. People have written a great deal of things online since then. Blogging is about 20 years old, and blog posts are very hard to get rid of permanently. Satan has a huge, unprecedented pile of evidence to use against people who oppose him. What good is his precious trove if they can escape punishment simply by repenting? Obviously, when he gets the power to drag Christians out of their houses and kill them, he will prefer to have a system in which mercy is not available.

Not too long ago, I committed what may have been a felony. I can’t say what it was. I did it out of absent-mindedness. It was unintentional, it was completely harmless, and when I realized I had done it, I undid it in less than a minute. There is no record, and it can never be proven. What if Google had had sensors trained on me, and my offense had been detected and recorded on the Internet? Given the right political atmosphere (one in which conservatives or Christians were shown no mercy), I could have been in big trouble. Without the benefit of a statute of limitations, I could have been in danger of prosecution for the rest of my life. Do we really want to live in a world where things like that are possible?

Ask Ralph Northam.

Think you’re not a criminal? You probably are. It’s hard to reach middle-age without committing a number of crimes. Have you ever guessed someone else’s password and used it on the Internet? Have you downloaded music or movies without paying? When you were young, did you ever steal a road sign as a prank? Have you ever fired a gun from a moving vehicle for fun? Ever drive drunk or stoned?

I know someone who set off a smoke bomb at an old folks’ home when he was a kid. Felon.

I know another person who used to shoot buses with his BB gun.

As for PC infractions, have you ever used a racial slur? I have. I don’t have a Klan hood or black face paint, but when I was very young, the N-word was considered acceptable usage in my area.

Almost nobody is really innocent.

Where there is no mercy, there is no incentive to repent or change. Human beings can’t live that way. We screw up all the time. Because we screw up more when we’re young, our errors often have the potential to ruin most of our lives, but for mercy.

Leftists have some strange beliefs. They want to put rapists and murderers back on the street early, but Kevin Hart and Ralph Northam, who are guilty of making jokes people didn’t like, aren’t eligible for parole!

It would be great to see Ralph Northam lose his job, based on his approval of the heartless slaughter of unborn babies. That’s the correct reason for driving him out. Going after him based on a 35-year-old joke that bothers people who have no sense of humor is not right.

I wonder why no one has gone after Robert Downey. He appeared in blackface in a movie, and in the same movie, he told Ben Stiller, “Never go full retard.” Gene Wilder did blackface. Should we jackhammer his Walk of Fame star and dynamite his grave? Quentin Tarantino used the N-word repeatedly in a movie, and he also wrote the script. Where are the torches and pitchforks?

It’s weird how certain people get away with things and others don’t. A long time ago, I saw a movie about a whorehouse in New Orleans. Louis Malle directed it. Brooke Shields appeared in it, and she was about 12. The movie featured full frontal nudity. Viewers saw Brooke Shields naked from every angle. Why weren’t the people who made the movie arrested? What about the people who own tapes and DVD’s? Aren’t they guilty of possessing kiddie porn?

The Dukes of Hazzard was a popular TV show and then a movie, and until a few years ago, it was okay to drive around in a tribute car with a Confederate flag on the roof. Then PC returned, and we found ourselves in a country in which a Confederate flag T-shirt was considered grounds for persecution. Tom Wopat and John Schneider got exiled from popular culture retroactively. How did Louis Malle escape the purge?

A lot of us are going through life with nooses around our necks, and we won’t even know it until they’re jerked tight.

I’m as good as dead, if leftists get their way. There is no way for me to recover, after all the blogging I’ve done.

I don’t particularly want to be on earth 10 years from now, but I would love to be able to travel through time and see what will be happening. I can’t help but be curious. It will be a fascinating and brutal time.