The End of America?

November 2nd, 2008

It amazes me how easy it is to get used to anything.    I used to change out the hot grease at restaurants when I was younger.   The stuff is well above 300 degrees and I would be carrying about 10-12 gallons of the stuff across a brick floor covered with soapy water with a hot water hose snaking around my feet.   One slip and I was going to the burn unit to be tied down.    There isn’t anything that can kill that level of pain.

However, I would slip and slide my way across the floor nightly taking that amazing chance… Why?   Because I was used to it.    The reason, I suppose, that firemen run into blazing buildings.    We assume they are braver than us and I am sure that they are braver than me, being the most craven coward on earth, but it’s more than that.    They are used to it.    I doubt they would wander into the field with a bunch of bulls the way I have seen an old rancher do.    He was used to the idea that one of them might gore him and trample him into the dirt, I suppose.   I doubt he would run into a burning building.    However, I digress.

Newsmen, I include the females, must be used to liars.    It certainly doesn’t impress them anymore.    Same thing with evil, hate filled, power hungry madmen.   They see them so often the danger doesn’t impress anymore.    Of course, there is another possible explanation.   They really could be a stupid as they seem.   Blinded by the lights?   Who knows?

This country is being turned over to a man who could not get even the lowest level federal job requiring a security clearance.    I pray to God, should there be one, that people with the highest level of secrets know better than to let him find out what they know.    Better to call Putin, Castro and Chavez themselves;  they might be able to get something in exchange.    Obama will give our country away for free.  

Why did we do this?   The obvious answer is for a check.   Most people voting for the thing think they are going to get a couple of hundred bucks out of the deal.   Of course, there are others who are just getting to feel morally superior.   Others, rich pampered racists, get some assuagement of their guilt.   Of course, many are simply hypnotized.    They listen without thinking, have done so their whole lives, and absorbed their instructions from the constant drumbeat of the entertainment programs that is their primary occupation.    Ask people who are opposed to the obamathing what they watch and listen to daily.    It is totally different from the slop in which the believers bathe their minds.    Often not  much more sophisticated perhaps, but different.   

Imagine this.   You, a healthy adult we will assume, are fighting a ten year old child.    The child doesn’t have a chance, right?    Let’s change the rules.    Suppose you don’t fight back,  never hit the kid,  only try to block his blows and then, as gently as possible.    The kid is allowed to used bottles, bricks, baseball bats — anything he can pick up and hit you with.    Who is going to win?    Hint:  It ain’t you.

That’s the rules the GOP, the Republican party has been playing under for the past several decades.    The opposition can lie, can steal, can ignore all and any rules of decency.   Republicans immediately destroy any member who commits the slightest indiscretion.   Cheat on your wife?   You’re through.   Have a friend do work on your house and underbill you?   Eliminated.    Your roomate runs a gay prostitution service out of your home?   Wait.   That was a Democrat — no penalty.   That guy still chairs important committees and is considered a spokesman for the party.   See how this works?  

I’m not saying that we shouldn’t have ethics, shouldn’t strive to have the best people in positions of power.    I’m just saying that in politics a crook with an R after his name should be left in power until a better person with an R can be found.   Never, under any but the most extreme circumstances — say, treason — should that person be replaced with a D.   NEVER.

Judges, the courts are the path our enemies and our countries enemies have chosen to power.   Right now, a record number of judge positions sit empty.   They have been empty for years.   They are waiting for Obama.    They are destined to be filled with scum.   SCUM.   People, and  I use the word loosely, who intend to subvert our way of life, to ignore the constitution wholesale.    Unbelievable as it may seems Republicans will vote to confirm every one of these bastards.   Every one.    Even though they may not be able to stop the confirmations this HAS TO STOP.    When a judge is proposed who will not rule according to the constitution every senator must scream and scream loudly.   THIS IS NOT RIGHT AND I WILL NOT VOTE TO CONFIRM.    They must be identified by name and position.    They must be identified directly to the public so the public can watch.   AND THEY MUST BE REMOVED AT THE EARLIEST TIME POSSIBLE.   THIS  is why they must be identified.   This is why the public must be aware.   They must not be “shocked” when, should there still be a chance to correct this horrible election, actions are taken.     It is going to take time for the public to “get used to it”.    Better that than what they HAVE gotten used to, the theft of America, the destruction of liberty, the tyranny of the unopposed left.    FIGHT BACK.    DON’T GO QUIETLY.   FIGHT.    

RECALL MCCAIN, ARIZONA

October 27th, 2008

How did you ever send this idiot to the senate?     How and why did you leave him there?   He brags about supporting every liberal nut that was ever sent up to the SCOTUS by a democrat.   Of course, he ambushed Bush’s nomination of Harriet Myers, a political stroke of genius by W.   If she had been put on the court she would have been a solid vote for 40 years and her nomination after Roberts was intended to convince the remaining ultralib 80 year olds that Bush was going to nominate “moderates” and one of them would have retired, opening the way for an ACTUAL MAJORITY of strict constructionists.  

I won’t go into the obvious qualifications of Harriet Myers.    Just this.   If you are a strict constructionist you don’t NEED to be able to make up fantastic leaps of logic to explain where your decisions come from.   This ability, which is called “intelligence” by nutjobs like Laura Ingraham is completely unnecessary.    Not that HM isn’t plenty smart.   Microsoft doesn’t pick you as chief counsel to argue in the SCOTUS if you are an idiot.   Most of the judges couldn’t find their way around an anti-trust case.   Alito said as much when he was nominated, an obvious nod to Harriet as qualified.   

Obama is going to be president.   McCain did that.   He is going to have majorities in the house and senate.    We have to start working on getting those majorities down.   We need people that will FIGHT even as minorities, not sit there and praise Obama as McCain has done throughout the campaign.    He has to go.    HEAR ME, ARIZONA.   RECALL MCCAIN. 

Enjoy Voting. It Could Be The Last Time

October 23rd, 2008

In 2012 we may not need to go to vote.    We won’t need to worry about Acorn registering bums and dead people.   No more long lines at the polls.   With the Dems having giant majorities in both houses union members won’t vote for their leadership anymore.   Don’t have a union at your place of employment?    Soon you will.

The unions have been pushing for the “card check” rule.  Now they will get it.   That means you, yes you, will be unionized very soon.   Here’s the deal.   Up until now, unions could get people to sign  a  petition asking for an election among all employees.   When they got enough names there was an election with a secret ballot.   The American way.   Time after time, the unions lost.   Not always,  but often enough.

As we morons say down here in Texas…”How come?”   It’s like a joke a friend of mine with the teamsters like to tell.   How many Teamsters does it take to change a light bulb?  Don’t know?  He’s a pretty big guy and he would get right in your face.   “Five……..  Got a problem wit that?”

It’s a funny joke, but there’s nothing funny about intimidating people into voting the “right” way.   Without that secret ballot there would be a lot more union shops.   Maybe you’re a tough guy yourself.   How about your wife and kids?   Feel like losing them?   Accidents happen.    Somebody boxes your wife’s car in on the way to the kids’ school.  Or on the highway.   Or a bottle with a rag in the mouth comes through a window of your house one night.   It’s full of water.    This time.    You that tough?

We all saw what happened to Joe the Plumber.    Yeah I’m sick of hearing about him too, but doesn’t he have a right to ask questions of the “Messiah” right in his own driveway?   Should the Major Media jump all over  him?   How come his tax problems are all common knowledge now?   The Obama Campaign said they had investigated and “found a few things.  Nothing Major.”    WHAT THE FU..????   THEY INVESTIGATED HIM????   BECAUSE HE OPENED HIS MOUTH???   WHERE THE HELL ARE WE?   RUSSIA?  

What’s it going to be like when Obama has the FBI and the CIA and the IRS and Homeland Security to “investigate” people that DARE to open their mouths?     Remember all the insane rantings of the liberals in the media about how Bush and Rove and Cheney want to know what’s going on in everybody’s bedroom?    How the Patriot Act could be abused?   My mom used to say people that look behind doors might have hidden there themselves.    I never worried about Bush because I believe he and Cheney and his administration were worried about terrorists.    The fact that multiple plots have been foiled tends to  support those beliefs.   That and the fact that I haven’t heard about a single case of Homeland Security busting anybody for sex acts or watching porn or anything else.    If there really are concentration camps for gay people set up like the libs kept telling me at least one of them must be in the Oak Lawn section of Dallas and two or three in San Franscisco and Las Vegas and some more in South Beach.   Pretty nice camps if you ask me. 

I am a lot more worried about the massive power we are putting in the hands of a race obsessed hate filled man  raised on the ideologies of Reverend Wright, Saul Alinsky,Reinhold Niebuhr,James Cone, William Ayers, Bernadine Dorn, Father Pfleger,Louis Farrakhan,Tony Rezko. … the list goes on and on.    It isn’t one or two people that Obama happens to know or might have read.    Virtually EVERYBODY this man associated with, read or admires is a hate filled neo-nazi racist madman.    He is like Charlie “Lucky” Luciano, the man who nobody ever saw with a gun, who wore nice suits and ate and walked comfortably among the genteel people of his day?    A nice guy, but for some reason he could snap his fingers and Al Capone would jump and run from Chicago to New York to take orders.   Who could send a note and stop a bloody gang war on the opposite coast.   He organized and ran the mob from coast to coast, but he would have been described by Joe Biden as a clean cut well spoken guy.  

Fear this man.   Fear what he represents and what he will do.   And enjoy voting for President of the United States.     You may never get another chance.    In 2012 someone may simply drop by your house and get you to sign a loyalty oath to Obama.   With almost everybody signing one, just like those union cards, an election won’t be necessary. 

Let’s Put the Intern in Charge!

October 22nd, 2008

Ever work at a big company?   Remember that loud mouth intern?    He got to spend his summer break making 30 or 40 bucks and hour making photocopies because his mommy or daddy knew somebody.   He basically hit on girls and went to lunch and shot his mouth off. 

All day long the idiot rattled on about how badly the company was run.   He didn’t know what they did, but he could certainly run it better.  Blab, blab, blah, blah….    Yeah, that’s the guy.   Guess what?   He’s ba-a-a-a-ack.   He’s OBAMA.   

Obama has not finished a single term in the Senate.   That’s right.  He has only been in congress for LESS THAN FOUR YEARS.   That means he knows LESS than nothing.   Negative knowledge.   That’s where you not only don’t know anything you “know” a lot of things that ain’t so.    It’s common.   That’s why they don’t give freshman any important assignments.   No important committees.   Just sit and learn, boy.   (and NO, that is NOT a code name for black.   It means somebody that hasn’t grown up.)

Now, they did put Obama in charge of a committee on Afghanistan.   He NEVER HELD A MEETING.    Hard to believe, since he says that Afghanistan is the central point for the war on terror.   Someplace he is going to put huge amounts of men into.    but, HEY,  why have a meeting?   Why ask questions?   That’s for people who don’t already know everything.   Not Barry.  

 Well,  we are about to put the intern in charge.   Noticed that frightened look in his eyes lately?    It’s the first glimmer of intelligence.    It wonderfully sharpens the mind to know you are about to blow up your damned country.   Jughead is starting to figure it out.   Jughead.    That’s a code word for Barry.

Bailout hasn’t even started

October 16th, 2008

I am getting a little tired of people who know absolutely nothing saying that the bailout didn’t work.   It wasn’t a psycological problem that was going to be ‘fixed’ as soon as the bill passed.  Not a single asset has been bought; the people to run the majority of the activities are still being selected and put into place.   Some of the effects of the bank “investment” should start showing in the upcoming weeks, but the buying of the so-called toxic assets has not even begun.    Of course,  nobody said these actions were going to “fix” the economy in the sense of what most people seem to expect.  They are intended to stop things from getting unbelievably worse, worse than anyone under 80 years old has never experienced.   40 percent unemployment,  people standing in line for food,  80 percent of the banks closing, followed by nobody knows what.   People still talk about inflation.   This current situation is what only a few weeks of deflation is like.    Want more?    People are actually calling their Congressmen and Senators demanding it.   Cut my throat.   Please.

These reactions point out another problem we need to get to work on.   Education.   We have a huge percentage of the population who know absolutely nothing about economics or government.   What they have had pounded into their otherwise empty heads is that their opinions are terribly valuable.   Yes, they have no knowledge, but plenty of “self esteem”.   Maybe we could change the name of what comes rushing out of their mouths every time they open them from “hot air” to “selfish steam”.  

Once these people got out of the schools that taught them nothing they get their opinions polished by listening to endless hours of talk radio and opinion TV.    They pick a station that agrees with whatever they think they know and a host that mentions over and over again that “the American people are smart” and “you can’t fool the public”.   Many times these hosts are actually educated and knowledgable on the issues they talk about, but they don’t ever express a complicated idea or discuss the contradictions inherent in any solution to complex problems.   Why that would cost them audience.   As time goes by, one who follows the career of many of them will see their ideas get simpler and simpler and their in depth understanding of the issue get more and more vague.  No time for study when you are flying about the country doing concert like talks to packed arenas and signing ghost written books.  While they are being heard and watched by millions and selling commercials at high rates, intellectual discussions of the same problems in depth are being followed by a few hundred over on BookTV or some other cable station most people never hear about.

Now we have a choice in this election.   The liar or the idiot.   Scylla or Charybdis.   They agree on only one thing.   George W. Bush, the greatest president in the last 100 years, was a failure.   Banks are failing in Iceland.   The Russian stock market dropped 60 percent in ONE WEEK and is now down more than 90 percent from its highs.  The Australian dollar is in trouble and I could go on and on.   All this, according to the liar because George W. Bush didn’t tax rich people enough in this country.   The idiot thinks it is because of a few billion dollars in earmarks it seems.   Both promise to “balance the budget” even though that is the absolutely stupidest thing any government could do after several trillions of dollars have disappeared from the economy.  Scylla or Charybdis were nothing compared to these two.   Unfortunately there is no way to steer between them.

McCain Beyond Stupid, Past Dementia, Post Looneytunes

October 13th, 2008

Is it a brain tumor?   I had the unfortunate experience of watching a loved one with one.   It’s terrible.   I loved this person as much a anyone on earth, but she was no longer herself.   What is wrong with John McCain?   Is there at least some excuse?

He was always strange, but not this strange.   Now, he wanders around the stage at a debate  - chatting with people instead of paying attention.   He lectures supporters about what a good President Barack Obama will be.   When the fact that Obama will appoint activist judges — maybe he forgot WHAT the President does — he specifically praises the type of judges that Obama will appoint.   Then he starts in with the damned thumb again. 

What is this bit shuffling around with his thumb up all the time?    Sorry, but that shuffling gait is a first sign of something — dementia.   The thumb in the air all the time??  What the hell is that about?   It looks like he is going to suck on it any second.   Or sit on it.   Is he Little Jack Horner reborn?   Stop it for God’s sake.

I know I sort of promised to point out the many problems with Barrack Obama.    They are many, but they are the type one normally complains about.   He is a socialist if not a communist.   He is a liar.   He thinks he can talk to psychotic killers and they will “change”.   He wants to tax every business and wealthy person completely out of the country and use the money to buy votes from the stupid people who support him.  

He isn’t senile.   He isn’t hopelessly stupid.  He doesn’t wander around lost with his thumb in the air.  He doesn’t tell people his opponent is going to be a fine president.  That’s the Republican and he is going to end the Republican party forever.   I pray every day that a vein will explode in what is left of his brain and end this charade.   As it is, mark my words, he will not finish the campaign anyway.    Shortly before election day he will concede the race and tell everyone to vote for Barack Obama as a show of unity.   God help us all.

Obama is Evil Personified

October 8th, 2008

I want to apologize.    I know nobody reads this blog, but on the odd chance that somebody chasing down one of the damned porn links I keep deleting from here accidentally pauses here to read for awhile I want to clarify something.  I keep screaming at McCain and calling him names.  Sorry.   You should vote for John McCain.   Why?  Because Obama is evil in every sense of the word that matters in politics.    Why do I constantly scream at McCain and call him vile names?   Because his pathetic noncampaign is going to end up putting a very bad man in the whitehouse.    Anything that helps Obama is bad for the country.   In the next few days I will go over some of the details.  If I miss anything, feel free to add in.    Nobody will spam you.  

Abortion.    This man-thing Obama is the most extreme, left wing,  radical, evil lover of legal baby murder that exists in the country.  STOP!  Don’t freak out on me.  No matter how much you are indoctrinated in the “woman’s right to choose” logos, he is further into it than you.   Just listen for a second.  

Do you believe that it is ok to take a living, breathing baby — outside its mother — in another room from its mother — and kill it?   Once the baby has been taken out of the room and the mother is back in her hospital room receiving whatever medical care she requires would you agree that any baby in the world no longer can harm her?   That movie where babies crawl around with huge teeth and rip people’s throats out in their sleep, slip into pools and attack them while they swim etc is just a movie.    Babies don’t hurt people.

I mention this because “the health of the mother” is often cited as a reason for killing unborn children.   The babies I am speaking of here are not unborn.   They have been delivered, their umbilical cord cut and are no longer anywhere near their “mother”.  Cannot reasonable people, indeed any sane people, agree that these babies cannot hurt or harm anyone?   That they are in other words – “harmless”?   They are.

The people of Illinois tried to pass a law about babies in this situation.  Not fetuses, babies.   The children in question had mothers who had gone to a hospital to get an abortion.   They were given treatments to cause the child to be born early and dead.   Unfortunately for “mom” and the doctor sometimes the babies are born but are not dead.   The mother’s body pushes them out and they end up on the delivery table breathing, their hearts beating, alive.

“People” and I use the term in quotes because I wonder about the humanity of these doctors used to put them in a plastic bag or do other things to kill them.    They have stopped this to avoid prosecution.   Instead the babies are taken somewhere, often with the dirty laundry and left lying on a table naked until they die.   Sometimes it happens fairly quickly, but sometimes it take a while maybe an hour or longer.   They breathe, they whimper they breathe slower, they whimper lower, finally — thank God  — they die.   

A few of these babies have been rescued by couragous nurses, but only one or two.   After all, doing that is a crime.   That is interfering with delivery of medical care.  Funny, yes?  I hope you are laughing.  Doing something like that would cause a nurse to be fired and to lose here license.   Although to my knowledge no one has been so charged, if the state prosecution failed they could be charged with the federal crime of denying the mother of her constitutional rights.  

In case you were under the impression Barrack Obama has never done anything at all, on this issue he has excelled beyond measure.     The Baby Alive bill has come to the Illinois Senate twice.  Once he voted present.   The second time he voted against it. More than once.  Here are two links to Youtube.  This way Obama has a chance to defend the indefensible.    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4B3O9uUc-4      Here is another.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRpIf2F9NA&NR=1     Clinton, Kennedy, Boxer, even NARAL the abortion lobby  did not oppose this legislation, but Obama did.   PLEASE consider that the Supreme Court appointments in the next four years will decide the abortion issue for at least 30 years.   The “conservative” side only wants to let this issue, like all laws about murder, manslaughter even the butchering of animals — be decided in the individual states.  All these type issues are handled by state laws.   There are no federal laws against murder.    If Nevada, California, New York or any other state wishes to allow abortion at any stage, until a certain stage of pregnancy then they will have that power.   People may have to travel a few miles to have their unborn children killed.   I can live with that possibility.   It is at least a start toward decency.   However, if you believe that abortion must be available immediately everywhere and even until the moment of birth, even during birth, in fact, even AFTER THE BIRTH OF A LIVING BABY,  then vote for this guy.  

Palin won? Biden Lost.

October 4th, 2008

You have to wonder.  A Tie?  Not even close.   A tie is what the Old Media call it when their candidate loses utterly.   Biden was hopeless.   Of course, even many conservatives can’t count anymore.   Krauthammer announced on Fox News that she had won on style, but Biden had won “on points”?

Sorry, Kraut, you’re wrong.   Apparently he has never been on a debate team.    The debate might well have been stopped and Biden given a forfeit.   Certainly he didn’t win on “points”.   See, they deduct points when you are caught lying and making up facts.   Krauthammer is right if you believe everything Biden said.   Unfortunately there are more than 10 out and out total lies about McMoron, the Oreobama and most importantly a little thing called “history” that any debate judge would have called him on.   Everybody has a right to his own opinion, but not his own facts.   God Bless ya!

It’s Over. Think 2010.

October 4th, 2008

John “The Hopeless” McCain dropped out of the Presidential race today.   He announced that he had given up on MI and FL.   Nobody has ever won and lost both of those, have they?   Wait, I forgot about 1830! 

Face it.   This is lost.   McCain only knows one trick — scream about Republicans being a bunch of crooks.    Obama doesn’t even have to campaign.   This isn’t a joke.   One ad touts how HE fought crooked Republicans in Congress and SHE fought crooked Republicans in Alaska.  Of course, he went to New Orleans and pinned that Democratic disaster on George W. Bush.   We are currently going through a major meltdown caused by Democratic policies that were fought against for years by Republicans.  He refuses to be “partisan” about it.  That’s ridiculous.  It’s so far past ridiculous they don’t have word for it.   It’s McCainish.

Please, John.   Die.   Now.   A stroke.   We don’t have time for the cancer.   As a party we need to move on.   We have to say “Never again” and mean it.   You are the stupidest, worst candidate any party has ever run for office.   You announced you are going to make a fight for Maine.   They split their electoral votes John.   I assume you think that way you assure of ONE vote in the college so Obama won’t get them all  even though he wins all 50 states.   That’s quite a strategy. 

It’s a Pavlovian  response.   You used to complain about Republicans and the Major Media put you on the Today Show.   Had some young girl puff you up in the Green Room.   Now you can’t stop.   It’s the only trick you know.  

Please die, John.    We can make it a race between you and Teddy Kennedy.    Maybe you can still win something.    We need to find a real candidate to run next time if there is still a country left.  

Look! Gravy! And Biscuits!!

September 27th, 2008

Truth is Congress will cut its throat and drink its own blood if you call it gravy.   Yes, and eat shit if you call it biscuits.   That’s why I wish there was a law for mandatory hard time in prison if a member of Congress calls any proposed law by any name other than House Bill number xxx or Senate Bill yyy.   It worked ok for 403B and 401K.  

What do I mean?   No “Fairness Act”, no “War on Drugs”, no “Wall Street Bailout”.    The current bill is NOT a Wall Street “bailout” whatever that is, but now that the term has been used — nobody can vote yes on it.    Instead, the house Republicans want to “insure” something.   Can somebody explain “insurance” to them?   It’s NOT a good idea.   If we “insure” these loans we just “insured” that the taxpayer will end up with all the bad ones.  That’s who “insurance” pays.   The losers.  House Republicans need to cut out the crap about giving money to ACORN, letting judges decide ANYTHING, letting Unions get involved….   Work on that, boys.   That’s some serious garbage. 

The Paulsen idea, bill, proposal is for the government to take over a large number of mortgages.   Buy “mortgaged back securities” on the general market.    That’s a GOOD thing.   They need to force the institutions to unwind break up or crumble (like a biscuit?) the damned things first.   Tell them “we ain’t buying any mortgages that are currently in default.  YOU keep those.   And choke the best possible price out of them, say nothing more than 60 percent of face value.    I’ll do the math for you.    Got a current up to date mortgage on a 200 thousand dollar house?   We’ll give you 120K for it.    Next?    See how easy that is?

Insurance is insane.    If you insure crap all you are going to get is ones that default.   No good ones.    Why the hell would you want those?   Even my dog  knows how, hell, even my WIFE’s dog — no brain — knows how to pick out the ground meat I mix in and leave the kibble.   She would prefer you insure her meal.   In that case, she would get all the kibble replaced with meat.    NO,  BAD DOG.   Somebody swat congress with a rolled up newspaper. 

Folks,  if the government buys GOOD debt, they will get it all back, probably with a profit.   That’s a good idea.   It doesn’t bail out any “fat cats”.    You know when the idiots make a loan at a bank they don’t take money from somewhere to give it to you.   The MAKE MONEY OUT OF NOTHING.   That’s what being a bank is.    They look at the loan, type in the amount in an account under your name,  POOF!   The money just got created.   The amount they can make is determined by some multiple of what they have in “reserves”.    Don’t cry for them.   They have a license to make money.   That beats printing it.

How come they don’t run out of currency that way?    Easy.    Once that money is created, by creating a loan for you or for me, it is real money.    If a lot of people say they want it in cash, you know paper?  they just tell the Feds how much to deliver the next day.    If the “money” is there, the Feds provide it in paper or coins on demand.    Scary?   Only if you didn’t know before.   It’s really that simple.     So……  

Take the good loans,  replace them with Treasuries at 50 cents on the dollar and let them make more money for everybody and we can get the wheels moving again.    When companies like Bear Stearns and Wamu that used to be worth billions went down to nothing and dissapeared a lot of money “disappeared”.    People holding that stock and stock in Fannie and Freddie got hurt big time.   A lot of them were “Fat Cats”.   I didn’t own any, did you?   When the banks make more, let them do it by giving your brother in law a loan for that personal watercraft he is looking at.   He deserves it.