Go to hell, Intuit

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday January 30, 2015 · 8:24 AM PST

2015/01/30 · 08:24

Damn it, the unbelievable greed. I have been using Intuit software since the early nineties - it is good software for small businesses, easy to learn, but can be used for some very complicated situations. I have used it to keep track of the freelance work I do, and record the business transactions of a long time client. I have been using Turbotax for about 10 years for my personal income taxes - it is software that I like using, rather bug-free considering the complexity of the tax code it is dealing with. So while I like the product, I am extremely pissed about what they did this year. And based on an email I got from the General Manager of the "Turbotax Team", I was not alone. The gritty details follow below the orange croissant.

oddmike

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday November 05, 2014 · 10:12 PM PST

2014/11/05 · 22:12

I remember how disappointed I was back in November, 2000. An intelligent, science-minded candidate splitting the vote so closely with a old spoiled rich kid who showed serious evidence of difficulty speaking in his native tongue. I was disgusted with the collective lack of wisdom of the electorate, and then, dismayed by a partisan Supreme Court selecting our president instead of letting the votes be counted.

I consoled myself with the thought - how much damage could the Republicans really do in four years? We all know how much of a "misunderestimation" that proved to be.

So now, the Republican Congress has "only" two years to show us how much damage they can do to the progressive policies and society that they so fiercely disdain.

oddmike

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday September 12, 2014 · 7:59 AM PDT

2014/09/12 · 07:59

I was in a corner liquor stock talking to the owner about local real estate. I told him how when I started working here 4 years ago I checked out the houses on the hill, and the basic 3 bedroom home built in the sixties and seventies was going for a million bucks. They sell for a lot more now. And I had just spent Saturday working for a leasing agent in San Francisco, and he had described to me the impossible prices for studios and multi-bedroom flats, more than doubled since we worked together in 2008.

So this owner told me Daly City (remember, where the houses are all made of ticky-tacky) was cheaper because the weather is so bad. (Yes, even colder than San Francisco). Finally stated that our crazy real estate prices would go down once Obama left office. I have never talked politics with this man, he's a nice guy, and his wife has that friendly charm so useful in the retail arena - I like giving them my business. But this was an intriguing comment. So I asked him why, and he said that you can get a green card if you buy a house for $500,000. Obviously he was implying this was an policy started by Obama, and it would go away when he was out of office. I had never heard of any such policy, and it seemed rather far-fetched. Had I just heard a new right-wing lie?

oddmike

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday July 28, 2014 · 5:29 AM PDT

2014/07/28 · 05:29

I started watching Fareed Z.'s GPS on CNN early in the Ukraine crisis, and the expert panels seemed more rounded, and his presentation and questions of political reality impressed me as perhaps the most intelligent and thoughtful I have seen on cable news. I really can't watch any of the other CNN new shows without an sharp increase in my blood pressure.

A few weeks ago I began a diary regarding his comments on raising the minimum wage, but life got in the way of that, so quickly: he suggested that increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit would be more effective in getting money into the hands of low income people. That seemed to be missing the point - increasing the minimum wage is one of the parts of the policy for reversing the current flow of wealth of the 99% to the 1%. Much better for the economy and the folk who work for minimum wage to see an increase in income in every paycheck instead of an annual lump sum of what would probably be a smaller amount of money alloted to a smaller number of people. I wondered if Fareed, who I believe is of humble background, now thinks too much like a 1% percenter himself. They would be more comfortabe with income tax credit then an increase in wages, which is always presented as a definite decrease in profits for the owner class.

I just watched this morning's show, which was mostly an interview with Hillary Clinton. Follow me below the orange political football for my comments.

oddmike

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday May 26, 2014 · 8:33 PM PDT

2014/05/26 · 20:33

So it was just another quick errand to the store because I had a craving for the taste of sourdough dipped into an olive oil and balsamic vinegar mixture. Securing some sourdough, I quick-marched to the opposite end of the store to check on the grapes. But same as the last couple of weeks, the grapes weren't sweet or firm, so I grabbed a couple of apricots to put in my daughter's lunch. I noticed members of what I assumed were an extended family hovering over a nearly empty bin of corn, mainly because they were being a little loud. Hunter-gathers, I thought, probably because I am reading a book about Vikings and I am now more educated about pre-historic Scandinavia then I was last week.

A store employee was rushing by, and the patriarch of the group called out, asking if there was any more corn in the back. The employee responded that she didn't work in this department but would go have someone check.

"Well, I know you work in a union...." I looked at the guy, thinking "What???"

Poll

143 votes Show Results

When you hear conservative memes being rudely cast in public do you

143 votes Vote Now!

When you hear conservative memes being rudely cast in public do you

Laugh nervously

0 votes

Roll your eyes loudly

23 votes

Toss out a liberal sound bite

10 votes

Declaim a few facts in short, polite sentences

30 votes

Check the safety on your side-arm

10 votes

Laugh loudly and say "you're kidding, right?"

44 votes

Leave the area quickly

26 votes

The News at Noon – April 10, 2030

oddmike

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday March 16, 2014 · 11:36 AM PDT

2014/03/16 · 11:36

Another temperature record today here in San Francisco, where we expect the mercury to hit 96 degrees. The previous record for April 10th was 94 degrees, set in 2022. A lot of records for April occurred in that year. San Franciscans are already crossing their fingers and hoping they won’t get a repeat of last year’s summer without the usual cooling fog.

Poll

10 votes Show Results

The safest North American place to live in 30 years will be

10 votes Vote Now!

The safest North American place to live in 30 years will be

West Coast

1 vote

East Coast

1 vote

Oh Canada!

1 vote

Pick a mountain, any mountain

1 vote

A well hidden, gated compound

0 votes

Depends on the meaning of the word "safe"

3 votes

Underground house more than 100 ft above sea level

0 votes

All places will be equally at risk

2 votes

I'm waiting for the scientists to tell us

0 votes

Other

1 vote

My wife got mad when I bought the island

oddmike

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Wednesday March 12, 2014 · 11:25 PM PDT

2014/03/12 · 23:25

It was just a little island in Lake Champlain, with a nice house on it's highest elevation, and it had a functional boat dock. She wanted to get a Paris penthouse. She dreamed of spending every morning eating authentic, fresh croissants. The kind that melt in your mouth and give your taste buds so much pleasure that you know you deserve to be much richer than most everyone else. But the kind of digs she was angling for would cost three times more than the island, and with the extra millions left over I could transform the existing house into a real castle, with actual towers with turrets and nice decks where we could sun bathe high up, out of sight of the punters tooling around on the lake in their twelve foot motorboats.

Newer
Older

RSS

Go to hell, Intuit

Collect Call from Cassandra

Obama's Green Card Sale -A New Lie?

Fareed plays pattycake with Hillary

Anti-union crap in the grocery aisle

The News at Noon – April 10, 2030

My wife got mad when I bought the island