Fuck its silent in here.......

[Internet Apex]

In double-posting douche news, I present the new hotness: http://atdhenet.tv/

Fortunately, Al Yellon is there to weigh in on this situation. His entire pantywaisting post:

This is a difficult post to write since the subject of it, ATDHE, is a site which live-streams sports events in the USA... that it doesn't legally have the right to stream.

But today, ATDHE, which many of you might not have even heard of, was seized by the federal Department of Homeland Security. Going to their homepage at ATDHE.net, all you see now is a large Department of Homeland Security seizure notice.

Without any further comment on the federal government's action or what might be next, I want to make it clear that SB Nation does not endorse illegal video streams nor allow such streams to be linked here or on other SB Nation site. There is word that ATDHE has already come back on line, but I will neither link nor post the location here -- the purpose of this post is informational only, to report something that is of interest to sports fans.

This post is immediately followed by a fellow SB Nation blogger making fun of him:

why so serious?

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Feb 1, 2011 4:06 PM CST

Just reporting the facts.

by Al Yellon on Feb 1, 2011 4:18 PM CST up reply actions 

112 posts on "The Deep Dish" since the start of the year, 14 total comments.

This is SB Nation Chicago leveraging Yellon's formidable community-building prowess.

Community-building and unbeatable original content...

http://chicago.sbnation.com/2011/1/26/1957442/lingerie-football-league-tells-the-heckler-to-cease-and-desist

"www.thehacker.com"? Nice try. That site doesn't even exist. Your move, LFL.

I saw a commercial for the lingerie football league. Oh, my.

[Quality Start Machine]

In double-posting douche news, I present the new hotness: http://atdhenet.tv/

Fortunately, Al Yellon is there to weigh in on this situation. His entire pantywaisting post:

This is a difficult post to write since the subject of it, ATDHE, is a site which live-streams sports events in the USA... that it doesn't legally have the right to stream.

But today, ATDHE, which many of you might not have even heard of, was seized by the federal Department of Homeland Security. Going to their homepage at ATDHE.net, all you see now is a large Department of Homeland Security seizure notice.

Without any further comment on the federal government's action or what might be next, I want to make it clear that SB Nation does not endorse illegal video streams nor allow such streams to be linked here or on other SB Nation site. There is word that ATDHE has already come back on line, but I will neither link nor post the location here -- the purpose of this post is informational only, to report something that is of interest to sports fans.

This post is immediately followed by a fellow SB Nation blogger making fun of him:

why so serious?

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Feb 1, 2011 4:06 PM CST

Just reporting the facts.

by Al Yellon on Feb 1, 2011 4:18 PM CST up reply actions 

112 posts on "The Deep Dish" since the start of the year, 14 total comments.

This is SB Nation Chicago leveraging Yellon's formidable community-building prowess.

Community-building and unbeatable original content...

http://chicago.sbnation.com/2011/1/26/1957442/lingerie-football-league-tells-the-heckler-to-cease-and-desist

"www.thehacker.com"? Nice try. That site doesn't even exist. Your move, LFL.

The Heckler piece would have been funnier if it had the LFL players putting themselves up for bid on eBay.

[Slaky]

In double-posting douche news, I present the new hotness: http://atdhenet.tv/

Fortunately, Al Yellon is there to weigh in on this situation. His entire pantywaisting post:

This is a difficult post to write since the subject of it, ATDHE, is a site which live-streams sports events in the USA... that it doesn't legally have the right to stream.

But today, ATDHE, which many of you might not have even heard of, was seized by the federal Department of Homeland Security. Going to their homepage at ATDHE.net, all you see now is a large Department of Homeland Security seizure notice.

Without any further comment on the federal government's action or what might be next, I want to make it clear that SB Nation does not endorse illegal video streams nor allow such streams to be linked here or on other SB Nation site. There is word that ATDHE has already come back on line, but I will neither link nor post the location here -- the purpose of this post is informational only, to report something that is of interest to sports fans.

This post is immediately followed by a fellow SB Nation blogger making fun of him:

why so serious?

by your friendly BullsBlogger on Feb 1, 2011 4:06 PM CST

Just reporting the facts.

by Al Yellon on Feb 1, 2011 4:18 PM CST up reply actions 

112 posts on "The Deep Dish" since the start of the year, 14 total comments.

This is SB Nation Chicago leveraging Yellon's formidable community-building prowess.

Community-building and unbeatable original content...

http://chicago.sbnation.com/2011/1/26/1957442/lingerie-football-league-tells-the-heckler-to-cease-and-desist

"www.thehacker.com"? Nice try. That site doesn't even exist. Your move, LFL.

I need closure goddamn it.

[Wheezer]

OMG, it's all true.

[Chuck to Chuck]

I guess Crain's doesn't monitor their comments.

[morpheus]

Kudos to Andrew Cuomo.  I never thought I'd say that, but he deserves it.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703960804576120360648820674.html?mod=rss_opinion_main

These cuts are impressive on their own, but Mr. Cuomo's real conceptual breakthrough is to expose the rigged-game of "baseline budgeting." This is a gambit by which spending increases automatically each year even before a Governor submits his budget. The "baseline" grows each year due to spending formulas that legislatures build into the law even before they take a single vote.

Mr. Cuomo put it this way in a New York Post op-ed on Tuesday: "When a governor takes office, in many ways the die has already been cast. Unbelievably, this year these rates and formulas in total call for a 13 percent increase in Medicaid and a 13 percent increase in education funding next year."

This means that if Mr. Cuomo proposes a spending increase for Medicaid that is less than 13%, he will be attacked for "cutting" spending. Yet overall Medicaid spending would still increase. As Mr. Cuomo notes, "this process frames the dialogue around the budget and biases the political discourse." That is precisely the goal of government unions and the politicians who follow their orders because it allows them to increase spending even as they cry fiscal havoc.

Exactly.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/04/guantanamo/index.html

... Gul was imprisoned for 8 years without a shred of due process (outside of internal Bush Pentagon "administrative reviews") and finally had his Constitutional right to obtain habeas review affirmed by the Supreme Court in 2008.  His habeas petition was fully submitted and orally argued almost a full year ago, yet even in the face of his prolonged, due-process-free imprisonment, the federal judge presiding over the case just never bothered to rule on his claims.  There's a well-known legal maxim that "justice delayed is justice denied," but this goes well beyond merely violating that.  Taking almost a full year -- at least -- to decide a habeas petition for someone who is languishing in indefinite detention for their ninth year is simply inexcusable.

Gul's death -- and what turned out to be his due-process-free life sentence -- is an important reminder of the heinous detention policies of the U.S.: not as a matter of the Bush/Cheney past, but very much the current U.S. posture as well.  The only difference is that there is no more partisan gain to be squeezed from the controversy, so it has blissfully disappeared into the harmonious dead zone of bipartisan consensus.

[Wheezer]

It wasn't a great block to start with.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/business/media/07aol.html

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Monday. AOL will pay $315 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock. It will be the company's largest acquisition since it was separated from Time Warner in 2009.

The deal will allow AOL to greatly expand its news gathering and original content creation, areas that its chief executive, Tim Armstrong, views as vital to reversing a decade-long decline.

Lint?

[Bort]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/business/media/07aol.html

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Monday. AOL will pay $315 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock. It will be the company's largest acquisition since it was separated from Time Warner in 2009.

The deal will allow AOL to greatly expand its news gathering and original content creation, areas that its chief executive, Tim Armstrong, views as vital to reversing a decade-long decline.

Lint?

Should have gotten Jesse Michaels.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/business/media/07aol.html

The Huffington Post, which began in 2005 with a meager $1 million investment and has grown into one of the most heavily visited news Web sites in the country, is being acquired by AOL in a deal that creates an unlikely pairing of two online media giants.

The two companies completed the sale Sunday evening and announced the deal just after midnight on Monday. AOL will pay $315 million, $300 million of it in cash and the rest in stock. It will be the company's largest acquisition since it was separated from Time Warner in 2009.

The deal will allow AOL to greatly expand its news gathering and original content creation, areas that its chief executive, Tim Armstrong, views as vital to reversing a decade-long decline.

Lint?

Should have gotten Jesse Michaels.

He's got to be way more available.

[Gilgamesh]

I'm not trying to make a big point of this or start a debate (OBSESSED!!!), especially since it is my birthday, but I found this funny.

Sarah Palin and her daughter Bristol are attempting to trademark their names. 

The Palins are facing a long road in the effort to trademark their names. "Generally one can trademark one's name," said Jeffrey S. Kravitz, a Los Angeles-based intellectual property attorney. "But, it is not easy."

The funny part is this:

It seems like signing your name is not something you would forget when your name is what you're trying to trademark, but she's a busy woman.

The application also says that the mark's "first use in commerce" was on January 1, 1996.

This is actually the second Palin registration effort - the first one, in September of last year, was filed by Bristol. She, too, says she provides "motivational speaking services," but hers are "in the field of life choices."

Bristol didn't sign, either.

I just found these items interesting.  http://www.politicsdaily.com/2011/02/02/protecting-the-palin-brand-sarah-and-bristol-go-for-trademark-s/ and http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/02/sarah-palin-tm-having-trouble-with-registration.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LoweringTheBar+%28Lowering+the+Bar%29

I've redacted the second quote to take the author's potshots out.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but no one particularly cares when your birthday is.

Also, you are obsessed.

[Gilgamesh]

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but no one particularly cares when your birthday is.

Also, you are obsessed.

I wasn't saying that to make that information public, I was saying it because I didn't want to start a large debate, especially since it happened to be today.

However, I'm sure there's a new meme around that posits that I did it because I wanted to spread that news, so c'est la vie.

EDIT: ASSHURT!!!

[Brownie]

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but no one particularly cares when your birthday is.

Also, you are obsessed.

I wasn't saying that to make that information public, I was saying it because I didn't want to start a large debate, especially since it happened to be today.

However, I'm sure there's a new meme around that posits that I did it because I wanted to spread that news, so c'est la vie.

EDIT: ASSHURT!!!

I find it interesting you haven't produced a birth certificate yet people readily accept that it's your birthday.