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Funny Did the guy go on to

rmrd0000 — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 20:01:11 +0000

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Funny

Did the guy go on to write go on to write a "sheepish" column on dagblog?

I am late on this blog. It

Richard Day — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 19:07:19 +0000

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I am late on this blog.

It just brought to mind the 60's and I would sit at a table in the student union.

Just ugly tables and cheap chairs and something called a microwave and a strange coffee machine and...

Once a week this big guy would wander down the aisles screaming:

SHEEP, SHEEP, SHEEP

hahahahah

All I ever wished to do was finish my readings for the day before I went to work.

A Glenn Greenwald

NCD — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:21:02 +0000

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A Glenn Greenwald blockbusting Revelation that Americans, Americans in our own government, could be controlled by corporations seeking more money, would lead me to say:

"I am shocked,....shocked, that the government could be used by corporations to increase profits".

Boston seemed to indicate

NCD — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:10:44 +0000

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Boston seemed to indicate that our law enforcement anti-terror apparatus is by no means efficient or competent, or that it can digest and analyze the most relevant information in their possession (they couldn't even identify the older brother in marathon photos even though the FBI had interviewed him about 1 1/2 years previously).

They need all the germane video and data they can get when a crime is committed. A point can be reached though where the useful data is hidden in a huge sea of extraneous often error filled data, decreasing the chance of finding the 'actionable' stuff.

No matter what algorithms you use, having it all may mean having nothing, important material is diluted into nonexistence. NSA certainly seems to have arrived at that point.

I stopped reading at "Glenn

Ramona — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 15:51:24 +0000

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I stopped reading at "Glenn Greenwald".

I trust that the folks at

Oxy Mora — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 14:02:16 +0000

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I trust that the folks at this site will now begin to show their outrage, at something, and begin to speak up! What a bunch of sheeple. Forget two issues, just pick one issue---now, where was I?

I'll have to put this piece in the category of a Dennis Rodman rant, along with the suggestion that Tim might benefit from the Murrow-ish quote yesterday from Ambassador Rodman:

"People write what they hear. But they don't see what they write." No kidding.

I thought it sounded like a

EmmaZahn — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:50:30 +0000

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I thought it sounded like a sermon as well except its call to action was way too vague:

If affecting change is the plan, do it and do it now. Pick two issues and participate. Just show up. The only way to fight the money is with voices - lots of them. Until then, it's just noise. Their noise.

IOW, do something, do anything and make a lot of noise while doing it?

He asks where is the outrage

rmrd0000 — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:02:54 +0000

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He asks where is the outrage while totally ignoring the fact the people and organizations are fighting back against government and corporate overreach fast food workers put their jobs on the line to combat a system that requires them to live off of food stamps while corporation profits swell. This goes on, but we are all sheeple.

Good point AA, this does read

tmccarthy0 — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:34:33 +0000

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Good point AA, this does read much like a sermon and talk show radio hosts do act like they are the righteous, I hate talk radio though, and don't listen to it, like most regular people. I just don't have the time to be over-the-top angry over every issue.

It just bugs me that people like Mr. Danahey seem to believe that too many people are just dumb sheeple, because they don't buy his answer to this particular problem. Such hubris! And I agree with you, we can know so much more now, why is it people like Mr. Danahey seem to be fighting against that?

"the reader", (me) "has two

artappraiser — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:09:10 +0000

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"the reader", (me) "has two choices", black or white

More like: sin or redemption, heaven or hell. Reads just like a Sunday sermon, including the ending: Go and sin no more. Even made me wonder whether Mr. Danahey might have had seminary training, but then preaching is the stuff of most talk radio, is it not?

What I don't agree with in the content is the vague underlying suggestion with Murrow reference et. al. that things were better in some good old days somewhere. They were most definitely not. The elites until very recent history managed to keep nearly everything from the "sheeple" that they didn't want them to see until the history books came out. Even Saint Murrow participated in government propaganda at the end of his life. We can know so much more now, the good, the bad and the ugly. And yes, if we want to, we can even see the grey that only "the elites" used to be allowed to see.