Yo: You're all lying to yourselves

  One cultural behavior that seems to be gaining steam is doing whatever you want, hoping you don't get caught, then crying about it and apologizing publicly.
  Sometimes you don't have to really apologize; all you have to do is say, "I take responsibility for my actions" and that's enough to get you off the hook. If you're a liberal Democrat that usually works anyway, unless the party's poll numbers start to go south.
  Take, for example, the two Canadian students who were caught taking part in the mob that  trashed Vancouver last week.
  One is a 17 year old with Olympian dreams. Oooo, I'm really sorry, the boy sobs, now that his picture is all over the internet.
  What did he do?
  He set fire to a police vehicle. Watch it here:

  Another student who got caught on film, merrily stealing clothing from a store, is also really, really sorry, as she states in her online apology, which appears to have been altered since her initial posting. Here are the paragraphs which appear to have been deleted:

At the time, being a part of the riot was simply to fulfill the adrenaline rush I was looking and hoping for – an adrenaline rush that I previously got from post-winning games: hugging randoms, dancing on the streets, honking car horns non-stop, and high-fiving just about everybody. In the same way that everybody enjoyed collectively showing pride in our team, it was enjoyable to express my disappointment in a collective manor.

I had no intentions of defiling the city. I love Vancouver as much as you do – I’ve lived here since I was 7 months old. But in my immature, intoxicated perspective all I saw was that the riot was happening, and would continue happening with or without me, so I might as well get my adrenaline fix.

  Now, in a remarkable suit, the Florida Education Association is claiming in a lawsuit that Florida had no right to ask them to pay 3% of their paychecks toward their pensions. (In Ohio, teachers pay 10%, soon to be 12%.) Apparently Wisconsin and Florida taxpayers have been footing the entire bill for their government employees' pensions and health care. 
  Now that they are being asked to pony up something for these benefits themselves, they don't like, claiming in Florida, in fact, that it's illegal for them to have to pay anything at all for these benefits.
  Back to the young woman's apology. Here she deals with the fact that she and others have been outed on social media and subject to harassment. She's being harassed and she doesn't like it!

Harassing people, ruining their lives, and finding unlawful punishments? Not at all helpful. It gives the cops more things to deal with, and is in a way a form of anarchy. The laws were made for everybody to follow: criminals and spectators alike. So for you to disregard the laws makes it seem like you are an anarchist…starting a mob…based on social media…starting to get the picture yet?

Anyways, long story short, venting your anger on people does not make the situation better, so feel free to ID people and help in ways that you can, but don’t ruin our lives!

  Also in the news was Jon Stewart's encounter with Chris Wallace at Fox News. Egad, Stewart claims, no (liberal) media outlets (except maybe MSNBC) are biased. Only the ill informed FNC viewers! (Liberal) Viewers of CNN or WaPo or the NY Times are WELL informed. All the studies show this.
  In fact, Stewart himself who, as a comedian, feels that he presents the news comedically but without prejudice.
  In all these cases, one point has to be made, as Greg Gutfield so insightfully puts it.
  You're all lying to yourselves.
  Nobody owes you anything; you have to pay a price for illegal behavior. You are the only one responsible for your lives.
  And everybody has biases.
  It just depends on how much you can live with them and still lie to yourself.