Abuse of Power

It's amazing. I have never seen anything like it. Our Transcendent President and his pack of wolves are out on the biggest power grab, the most overt abuse of power that perhaps the office of the President of the United States has ever seen in history. Am I reaching here? You decide.

First we have TARP II (Bush is to blame for TARP I): $754 billion. With that the passing out of favors, control of whole sectors of the economy, and the take over of the auto manufacturers began. No one knew it at first, but now it's quite clear. Take Chrysler for example - secured lenders like the State of Indiana were deprived of their property without due process of law (also known as thievery or private property seizure without just compensation). Bankruptcy court was bypassed and so bankruptcy law protecting secured lenders was skirted, and the UAW (a major Obama ally and campaign funder), which held no meaningful legal equity or debt claim, was made a 55% owner. This is consistent with the Obama agenda to redistribute property. It's just that this time public employee retirement funds for the state of Indiana were bilked to the tune of 29 cents on the dollar. The basic philosophy is, "Take it from others and give to our guys". That works for them. They are so okay with that. Does that work for you? I call that abuse of power. And perhaps you may have no idea how undermining such an action is to the sanctity of private property.

So consider GM. Obama and the knights of his round table give them their requested loan(s). The hook is set. Then after the UAW president gives the order to Team Change, they pull the levers, and cause GM's president to be kicked to the curb. Is any of that constitutional? Nope. Abuse of power.

So consider the Stimulus bill's (hilariously named and insidiously created) Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, SO appropriately acronymed the RAT Board. This board's creation is buried in 1073 pages of law, known generically as the Stimulus bill. It creates a board that is authorized to stop inspectors general from inspecting government program for potential fraud, abuse, and corruption. The language in the law enables them to ask "that an inspector general conduct or refrain from conducting an audit or investigation." Ask yourself, under what circumstances would you want to ask an independent oversight office's inspector general to refrain from conducting an audit or investigation of a government program or government-funded program (insert ACORN here as one type of government-funded program)? Answer: when you have something you wish to hide. Abuse of power.

Sidebar: will we please fire those who voted for this bill, exclusively and particularly for failing to read it in its entirety before making a vote/no-vote choice? Not to mention those crafty slimy power-lusting black widows who have spun this web. Say it with me: "Abuse of power."

Ah, and last but not least, and not even half-told, is yet still another overt move to expand his power footprint on this country (definitely not to be confused with a carbon footprint). Obama has grown fond of appointing a platoon-sized cadre of "czars". His predecessor (W) had set the previous record at four czars. The current and growing list stands below:

Army of Czars:

1. Drug Czar. Okay I guess I get that. I think this is the pharmacist who gets drugs for all the other czars. Someone is selling some really bad drugs here.
2. Energy and Environment Czar. The fact that these two topics are - in Team O's mind -closely linked together represents the depth of stupidity in this administration and a guaranteed abdication of any meaningful national energy independence policy. Their whole energy policy is: protect the environment. I think this particular czar graduated from the Seminary of the Church of Environmentology.
3. Homeland Security Czar. Don't we have a Secretary over that Department?!
4. Health Czar. Does the Dept of Health and Human Services know about this? What about the Surgeon General? Or is this person the planned viceroy of the new Health Kingdom Obama is trying to make into law, with an associated power grab of 17% of the economy?
5. Urban Affairs Czar. Um, did we dump the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Does this guy sell "protection" ala the Sopranos? What about a Rural Affairs Czar then? Give me a break. More than likely its a political payoff for someone who has a track record of zero.
6. Regulatory Czar. Huh? Do we need another guy making up regulations? Are the Feds understaffed on those types? Perhaps, this czar exists to aid some of the other czars in their assigned agendas.
7. Technology Czar. What happened to the Federal Chief Information Officer Barry just appointed?
8. Government Performance Czar. Outside of the fact that this is an extreme oxymoron, isn't this what the Government Accounting Office does, audit crap?
9. Border Czar. Isn't there a Border Patrol with a person who already runs that? Is this guy there to let select people in to vote in the next election? I don't get it. Do you?
10. WMD Policy Czar. Don't we have a policy of "we don't let terrorists get those" already? Have we had any attacks since 9/11? I didn't think so. So is there something deficient in that policy or is he in charge of making it jihadist-friendly?
11. Intelligence Czar. Do we think appointing someone to that role will cause better coordination among intelligence agencies? Perhaps this will be the person whom Princess Pelosi can designate the new Head Liar of the Intelligence Community?
12. Car Czar. Oh yeah, this is the guy who is going to be the UAW's enforcer, and work to pummel all auto manufacturers into submission to their will, and to get them even more sweet ownership/equity deals in other auto sector companies.
13. Pay Czar. And he shall reign over executive compensation of all debtors and servants of the Obama Kingdom (aka, all the banks and all the financial institutions and insurance companies and auto companies that were forced to take TARP money, and as many others as they can try to control). Do they think they have the constitutional authority to dictate pay and compensation? Does that scare you? Does that strike you in any way as the slightest bit wrong, perhaps? Shouldn't the share-holders who own the company be the ones to decide? Are we back to a backyard break-in on our private property rights again?
14. Great Lakes Czar? Come again? Huh? Are you kidding me? Team Change has slated $475m to "clean up" the Great Lakes, no doubt as a payback to the high priest of the Church of Environmentology.
15. Cyber Czar. Announced position, but as yet unfilled. This guy is going to rule the cyber-space for Team Change, and cooperate with the Regulatory Czar to prevent any political opponents from using the internet to organize against them.

So this overlay gang of executive hit men are going to execute Obama's rule, satraps ensconced in their perches of freshly minted power. Yet one more in what I promise you will be a long and unmitigated string of abuses of power. That is, until (hopefully) the next election, when enough people have had enough and conservatives hold at least 40 seats in the Senate. At that point someone will finally be able to stop the bus before it runs clean off the cliff of constitutional integrity and faithfulness. So much for solemn oaths to protect and defend the constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help you God. Those were just words. Their value evaporated ten seconds after departing the New Executive's lips.

Thanks for playing. :^\

Using Ize to Destruct the English Language

Alright, I am going to take a brief reprieve from my anger-filled rantings on political issues, which I know you savor like sweet little baby bell peppers filled with cream cheese. Or not, but anyway (thinly veiled self-affirmation there). Something has been bugging the living crap out of me regarding the slow destruction of the English language. I am not an English language expert. I do, however, know when stupidity and word-abuse is occurring, and this is the linguistic equivalent of child-abuse. It's the use of the suffix -ize, to turn a noun which is turned into an adjective already, into a verb. I'll explain (with the example that makes me realize how ignorant some people are - but intelligence was never a prerequisite for jobs in the news media, and we know they are not prerequisites for jobs in the entertainment industry):

Incentive - noun: something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort.

Incent - verb; to do something that incites...(insert the definition above).

--We're okay so far, but here comes the problem--

Incentivize (word used repeatedly on the news) - verb (I differ here because this word is not in any dictionary you pick up that has been printed 5 years ago or early, but you will now find it in online dictionaries, because complete idiots have used this so many times, it is now being considered a word). 

It is acceptable to take a noun, like money, put an -ize on the end of it, and make a word that means to turn into money: monetize. Another example is the noun weapon being converted into the verb weaponize. Again, -ize is to turn into.

You would never say adaptivize, or addictivize, or consumptivize, or constructivize, or delusivize. You would say adapt, or addict, or consume, or construct, or delude. So that's why I say these guys have crap for brains, and need some extensive 2x4 therapy to the head. (Now, if you are secretly thinking to yourself, yeah, I would say that, or, I have said that, or, that sounds pretty cool and sophisticated, I think I will use that word in the future to impress people, you are also a candidate for 2x4 therapy to the head.)

I would love for these media buffoons who use make-up words like incentivize (and think they are clever in doing so) to apologize that they repeatedly failed to recognize their murder of the English language. Their crime of popularizing this pretend word causes me to agonize, and provokes within me the desire to cauterize the bleeding extrusions of such disfunctional brains, but I know that will not civilize their dialectal deviance. I remain constrained to only satirize and attempt to ostracize their actions, to theorize on the sources of their obtuseness, while they brutalize the language and antagonize those who care, truly care about its proper usage. 

Okay, enough. Thanks for playing. :^/