• Update on Quickbooks Sucks

    A few weeks ago, I posted my opinion on Intuit and QuickBooks on this blog. Essentially the company created a program to get people to sign up for a monthly technical support plan costing $39, and then when that plan […]

  • Evidence of Naked Short Selling? Hardly.

    The tinfoil hat-wearing crew over at Deep Capture thinks they’ve finally demonstrated an actual case of Naked Short Selling damaging a company.  (They’ve been asked repeatedly to prove that naked short selling has ever severely damaged a company, and have […]

  • Why I Hate Intuit and Quickbooks

    I hate Intuit, the makers of Quickbooks and Quicken software. The reason is simple: Instead of relying on value to sell their products, they use trickery, deceit, and strongarm tactics. Any accounting professional who uses Quickbooks in their work knows […]

  • There Is No Need For Government-Run Health Care

    More words of wisdom from DownsizeDC.org: Sadly, the politicians now want to create a new dragnet program that will once again fail as a safety net. And they’re once again using fraudulent claims to con us. The politicians tell us […]

  • Government-Sanctioned Violence

    Our government forces us to paytaxes, giving an ever-increasing amount of money earned for our hard work, rather than end up in jail. Pay. Pay as much as we demand. Or we will use violence (imprisonment and more) against you…. […]

  • What’s Wrong With the U.S. Healthcare System?

    The problem with healthcare is not the “uninsured” or that people aren’t getting the care that they need. On the contrary, people are getting care whether they’re insured or not. They are getting some of the best care in the […]

  • Challenging property tax assessments

    I recently got a very nice note from a gentleman who works in a city assessor’s office (not local to me). I thought I’d share it with you, and below is the video that he’s referring to.

  • A math lesson for MPS board candidate Annie Woodward

    I have no idea who Annie Woodward is. I never heard of her before last week. All I know is that she’s running for a seat on the Milwaukee School Board. Today I had the pleasure of getting one of […]

  • Fraud Discovery Institute issues report on Speedway Motorsports (NYSE:TRK)

    Barry Minkow and his team at Fraud Discovery Institute has issued a new report on Speedway Motorsports Inc. (NYSE:TRK) This report is a follow-up to the report on the company’s president, Marcus Smith, who lied about having a college degree. […]

  • The latest bailout scam

    Yesterday Obama announced his plan for buying so-called “toxic” assets from banks. The stock market responded positively. Why? The taxpayers are footing the bill for the bailout (taking all the risk), while investors can get all the rewards. From DownszeDC.org: […]