Tallahassee, Florida Voting is Almost Over!

Good luck to:

Rick Minor
Karen Geivers
Cliff Thaell
Alex Sink
John Marks
Allen Boyd
Dave Aronberg
Nancy Miller
Kendrick Meek

These candidates are the most progressive choices for the election and I send my best regards to all of them!

DNC Ausman discloses joining Greene Campaign 6 weeks too late

Per an email sent from Jon and Donna Ausman on July 31st 2010,

Nearly six (6) weeks ago I wrote an email suggesting that Florida Democratic Party leaders at the state and county level take a very serious look at the candidacy of Jeff Greene for the United States Senate. I have joined the Greene campaign as a paid adviser and am fully disclosing such to you at the beginning of this note.

Ausman is compelled to inform us of this now yet according to Tampa bay online, the Washington Post, CREW and a nipping comment from AmericaBlog; Ausman was paid $4000 by Jeff Greene's billion dollar campaign 6 days before he sent out a mass email endorsing Greene for the primary.

Tampa Bay Online reads:

He signed the endorsement e-mail as a DNC member but didn't mention that he was being paid by Greene. He says he provided 35,000 e-mail addresses in exchange for the money.

... "Frankly I liked Greene from the word get go," said Ausman.

Oh, sorry for not tapping into your psyche with my inherent telepathy and omniscience. A person with that caliber of logic would have to be advising a once-republican.

The email then displays 3 charts depicting Meek as losing support marking Greene as the leading democratic candidate. He then goes further to say:

So, I write to ask two things from you. One, is to speak positively of all our candidates for the Democratic nomination (as I have done in this email to you). Two, is to be prepared to support to the fullest whoever our nominee shall be.

Jeff Greene according to Citizens for responsibility and ethics in Washington CREW:

Mr. Greene also has been criticized for amassing his wealth through credit default swaps and subprime mortgages.  In fact, Mr. Greene was likely the first individual to trade credit default swaps. Mr. Greene invested millions of dollars betting that the market would fall, and once it did, made $800 million while many Americans were facing foreclosure.


Finally, Mr. Greene paid Democratic National Committee member Jon Ausman $4,000 for political consulting and strategy six days before Mr. Ausman endorsed Mr. Greene for Senate.

In light of my earlier post Meltdown Mogul's Senate Agenda - Through Time, which was nominated this year for the Netroots best post award, it is a moral imperative that I don't support Jeff Greene in the democratic primary; whether he is losing in the polls or not (update: which may not be the case after all). Ausman is supporting Greene simply because he is already ahead of the game - which says a lot about his initiative since he also works for the campaign.

Just because the chances of getting a progressive in the race isn't as likely doesn't persuade me to take sides with the most corrupted democratic candidate in the state of Florida - much less accept bribes to do so. Thank you Ausman for having the most eloquent way of advising others that they should give up. Next time save that advice for Jeff Greene.

What is an RSS feed? Crucial, that's what.

So you don't use an RSS feed. Not a pleasure to meet you either, Mel Gibson.

If there's anything in the "series of tubes" that can prevent you from being the closest life form to a neanderthal, it's this. RSS feeds help you keep up with everything you read online at once and even lets you organize your feeds in sub-folders. Warning: If Fox is your sole news source or you don't fact check web pages, then this application is not going to work for you. If you want a goulash of the latest information so fulfilling that you will cry tears of joy (and a little blood) then an RSS feed is right up your alley.

I'm going to keep this simple and I have included some snippets of my own account to help us along. There are many RSS readers but I like Google for an abundance of reasons. In light of that let's start with Google Reader - link

Go ahead and sign in with your gmail account. If you don't have one, you should really consider getting one. With it you can access every Google tool out there with the same sign-in name while also having an email account with maximum free memory and customization.

Alright, so now you're in. At first glance you might believe you have just accessed your regular email with an empty inbox. Don't be fooled; this is a simple beast, easily tamed.

There are a few easy ways to add a subscription. The orange button you see here is an icon you may have noticed on some websites. Clicking on them will ask to confirm which RSS reader you use. If you're already signed in then your subpscription will be added automatically.

You can also get a subscription from typing in the web address of the site you would like to read. While logged in to G-Reader go to this button on the top left and click "Add Subscription." 

Note that some websites do not have a feed built into them and Google will create a makeshift feed for you. If this is the case, most websites will have an RSS button or a subscribe button apart from their home address.

You may notice in my example that all of my feeds are neatly organized in cascading sub-folders. I'll show you how to do that, too. Once you get past a few, say hundred subscriptions, you will certainly be irritated in managing them all at once. This is how to avoid that and keep up with your sites from the get-go.

Take a gander toward the bottom left corner and you will notice a small blue font that says Manage subscriptions.

Once you click it a list of your blogs and websites will show up ion this format.

Go to that gray button you see here on the right that says "Change folders..." here you can create a new folder or categorize the chosen address into an already existing file. Having an RSS feed without organizing it is like going to a concert whilst being hearing impaired. Unless it was a Def Leppard concert... Yes I went there. If you go to a Def Leppard concert and no one is there to see you, did you really go?

And here I bequeath your new RSS feed! Now go be omniscient!