And each, believing he was utterly and finally right, damned with equally positive conviction the rest of the world.
Algernon Blackwood, The Damned (1914).
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Algernon Blackwood
Author: Redactor
We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.
Saki, The Unbearable Bassington, ch. 13 (1912).
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First U.S. budget
On September 19, 1778, the Continental Congress passed the first budget of the United States.
Congress last passed a budget in 1997.
Oliver Stone’s movie is in the theaters now (see yesterday’s video page). But really, you were waiting for Paul Jacob’s take, weren’t you? Click on over to Townhall, then come back here because, well, this is where you belong.
- Pardon Snowden
- The Guardian: Edward Snowden makes ‘moral’ case for presidential pardon
- Electronic Freedom Foundation: Timeline of NSA Domestic Spying
- The Guardian: The NSA Files
- New York Times: Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program
- Wall Street Journal: Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy
- House Intelligence Committee: Executive Summary of Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Agency Contractor Edward Snowden
- The Century Foundation: The House Intelligence Committee’s Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Snowden Report
- NBC News: Why Edward Snowden Won’t Face Charges
- Democracy Now!: Assange Responds to Hillary – Fair Trial for Snowden “Not Possible”
- Democracy Now!: Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
- Washington’s Blog: The Government is Spying on Us . . .
- Common Sense: Snowden Film Festival
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Algernon Blackwood
Not easily may an individual escape the deep slavery of the herd.
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Washington
On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the Capitol building.
It has grown, since.
On September 18, 1838, Richard Cobden established the Anti-Corn Law League, which proceeded to bring free trade to Britain.
ReasonTV interviews Trevor Timm regarding Edward Snowden:
Now, in theaters (the weekend premiere was yesterday; today’s the second day):
News conference for the new effort to gain a pardon from Obama:
https://youtu.be/vB0qg4XKWno
Ed Snowden begins to speak at 16:37 of the above video. Here is just the Snowden portion:
Previous to the current biopic, there was Citizenfour, winner the Academy Award for Best Documentary:
Full film (two hours):
https://youtu.be/h9RI78fRWC4
Terminal F, another documentary:
Living Liberty 2016 Forum — Edward Snowden Live from Russia:
https://youtu.be/ZuwW3VhIRkM
Real Time with Bill Maher with filmmaker Laura Poitras:
Real Time with Bill Maher featuring Glenn Greenwald:
https://youtu.be/wjEEM1XCfTk
HBO’s State of Surveillance with Edward Snowden:
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Willa Cather
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
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U. S. Constitution
On September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States was signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In 1849 on this same day in September, Harriet Tubman escaped to freedom in Philadelphia, but soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family. She made at least 13 trips into the slave-owning South to liberate more than 70 slaves before the Civil War (in which she served as a spy for the North).
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Independence Days
September 16 marks the Independence Days for Mexico (celebrating the declaration of independence from Spain in 1810) and Papua New Guinea (commemorating the exit from Australia in 1975).