The Best Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Review You'll Ever See

The following is a hilarious, very well made, 70 minute long review of Star Wars - Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Warning: Not for young children. He's also ripped into a few of the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. RedLetterMedia

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Top 10 Health Care Bill Myths

1) Even though this has already been covered,  no,  the government will NOT kill or assist the suicide of your grandparents.  After all, if Demo wanted senior citizens to have long and healthy lives, why would we have created Social Security and Medicare? Think about it. Death to grannies has long been the core of progressive policy, 2) No one is going to kill or "stop healthcare support"  for Sarah Palin's baby.  The legislation may actually get her better support. 3) The government will not nationalize hospitals and other health service providers. 4) The reason the bill is not available for review yet?  The bill is not written yet.  They have proposals, but no final bill to show.  When they have one, if they still don't allow review, THEN complain. 5) The bill WILL NOT subsidize abortions.  Both FactCheck.org and Politifact insist that this was decided on months ago. 6) The government will NOT have direct access to anyone's bank account. Not only is it not needed, it would also be illegal. 7) This bill covers AMERICANS.  There is NOTHING in the bill to provide the healthcare of illegal immigrants.  Also, why would they be provided to illegal immigrants while you claim Americans would have to run through a bureaucracy and denied all health-care?  That makes no sense. 8 ) Private health insurance will not be eliminated.  WILL NOT.  As in YOU WILL STILL HAVE PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT. 9) You will not be issued a "National Health Insurance ID."   You will be issued the same type of proof of insurance that every other health insurance company provides.  And it would only be for the people that signed up for the public health insurance option. It's very useful for when you need health care and would like the insurance to cover it. 10) There is no Super-Duper-Secret Health Care Plan for ACORN members. Politifact shows that ACORN isn't the all-incompassing evil Illuminati group the right seems to think it is, but either way, they get no special treatment. So there.  Now that the Top Republican talking-points have been addressed, how about addressing the actual problems that need solving?

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Problems with "Nothing to Hide"

I've been wanting something like this for awhile.  It goes over the arguments of privacy and the argument that "I'm not worried because I have nothing to hide."
Abstract: In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the "nothing to hide" argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: "I've got nothing to hide." According to the "nothing to hide" argument, there is no threat to privacy unless the government uncovers unlawful activity, in which case a person has no legitimate justification to claim that it remain private. The "nothing to hide" argument and its variants are quite prevalent, and thus are worth addressing. In this essay, Solove critiques the "nothing to hide" argument and exposes its faulty underpinnings.
Read the essay here.

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