A great Colbert clip:

Let me clear this up:
I'm blogging about a youtube clip that talks about how kids/people these days don't stand up for anything but then go home and watch youtube then blog about it.
my head hurts.

haha... seriously, it makes sense and it's the same thing - people get all tough on a forum then you meet them and they're well-mannered pansies. haha...
That being said, it takes huge balls to stand up for what you believe in. The recent story about the guy that recorded the cop claiming to 'make up nine things to arrest him for" -he was a paranoid freak! Who really drives around with several video cameras hidden/placed around your vehicle? really? really? (think SNL)
if you don't know about it - read about it here

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so reading about the guy that stood up to circuit city receipt checkers only to be arrested - infuriates me! then I think about the people that just mindlessly show their receipt to the people when leaving. I don't mind showing my receipt as long as they're efficient about it. I mean, hire enough people to do the job if it is really worth that much in shrinkage. (I really can't say "shrinkage" without thinking of Seinfeld.)

On the other hand, I'm grateful to these people for standing up for civil liberties. They do an invaluable job in showing us the edges of our rights and where the fuzzy boundary is. Without them the liberties will erode and eventually disappear. They make the issue unavoidable and delineate the boundary between anarchy and civilized behavior. (ok, so maybe that's an exaggeration but I think my point bears it out.) Having read the article it makes me interested in what I do and more importantly do not have to provide to circuit city and police officers. So I'm grateful to them and respect them even though it would certainly be easier for everyone involved if they just showed the receipt. As for the 5-0 - I respect them for taking their life in their hands on a daily basis, and knowing and enforcing the laws. But when they overstep their bounds they should be punished as much as I am punished when I overstep my bounds! They shouldn't get do-overs any more than I get let out of speeding tickets. The power to interpret the laws doesn't only rest on their side!
But still, they walk a fine line and I can respect the extremely disciplined among them.

That's about all I have for today.