[Peace-discuss] Alea iacta est

[C. G. Estabrook]

Cast or oil seems to be the alternative, and the Obamans seem all too willing to 
throw the dice, regardless of whom they crush.

"Pamapi" is a keeper, given the usual recipients of sycophancy - a strange & 
interesting word in itself.

"Pudenda" in Latin is mostly post-classical and referred primarily to male 
genitals - but in Victorian English applies mainly to female genitals and seems 
unavoidably misogynistic.

"Psychophant" (from David Johnson) of course means a particularly deranged 
ass-kissing chicken-shit.


On 5/26/10 9:22 AM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> It's a hoot. and it has an outcast like me shaken, and casting about for
> something aleatoric to roll out.
>
> I am not sure if I mentioned it in this forum before or not... but
> "sycophant" literally means to display a fig [sukon], and figuratively
> speaking the fig represents "the female pudendum" as the American Heritage
> dictionary puts it.
>
> Ass-kissing chicken-shit is the bowderized version of sycophant, sort of.
>
> * BTW, the common term for sycophant in Chinese is "pamapi" which means to
> "Pat the Horse's Ass".
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "peace discuss" <Peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> Sent: Wednesday, May
> 26, 2010 12:09 PM Subject: [Peace-discuss] Alea iacta est
>
>
> David Petraeus Announces for President After All Submitted by davidswanson on
> Wed, 2010-05-26 http://asskissinglittlechickenshit.com
>
> My name is General David Petraeus and I want to be your Commander in Chief
> because I admire everything about you, especially that amazing and unique
> way you have about you.
>
> Here's a little background on who I am, just a few highlights that I know
> you will be able to appreciate.
>
> In 2007, Gareth Porter reported:
>
> "In sharp contrast to the lionisation of Gen. David Petraeus by members of
> the U.S. Congress during his testimony this week, Petraeus's superior,
> Admiral William Fallon, chief of the Central Command (CENTCOM), derided
> Petraeus as a sycophant during their first meeting in Baghdad last March,
> according to Pentagon sources familiar with reports of the meeting.
>
> "Fallon told Petraeus that he considered him to be 'an ass-kissing little
> chickenshit' and added, 'I hate people like that', the sources say. That
> remark reportedly came after Petraeus began the meeting by making remarks
> that Fallon interpreted as trying to ingratiate himself with a superior."
>
> Fallon's problem was actually that he didn't want to escalate the war in
> Iraq, and I did. He lost, and I won. Well, the people who died lost too, but
> you know what I mean. We put more blood on the ground in Iraq, and through a
> combination of utter devastation, displacement, segregation, bribery,
> corruption, withdrawal, and promises to leave, we were able to pretend that
> wars of occupation are ended by escalating them. This is paying off BIG TIME
>  right now in Afghanistan.
>
> We all know Afghanistan can't be won except by withdrawal, but we're going
> to escalate. The counterinsurgency manual that I pretend I wrote says we need
> to put 80% of our effort into civilian solutions. We're going with 3%
> instead, as a compromise with real world conditions on the ground, such as
> the fact that they're all a bunch of Muslim Arabs or some such thing!
>
> And, because you idiots think we have a peace prize winner in charge now,
> I'm expanding our efforts with death squads into a number of neighboring
> nations, including Iran, which is going to be the real big one, I mean really
>  really, I mean my mouth starts watering at the thought of how much blood is
> going to flow, I can just feel the taste of it bubbling down my throat, I . .
> . I . . .ahem, I mean to say, the New York Times has given credit where it's
> due:
>
> "The secret directive, signed in September by Gen. David H. Petraeus,
> authorizes the sending of American Special Operations troops to both friendly
> and hostile nations in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa
> to gather intelligence and build ties with local forces. Officials said the
> order also permits reconnaissance that could pave the way for possible
> military strikes in Iran if tensions over its nuclear ambitions escalate.
> While the Bush administration had approved some clandestine military
> activities far from designated war zones, the new order is intended to make
> such efforts more systematic and long term, officials said."
>
> Damn straight. And it's got the hippies running scared. Here's Robert
> Dreyfuss in the Nation:
>
> "If President Obama knew about this, authorized it, and still supports it,
> then Obama has crossed a red line, and the president will stand revealed as
> an aggressive, militaristic liberal interventionist who bears a closer
> resemblance to the president he succeeded than to the ephemeral reformer that
> he pretended to be in 2008, when he ran for office. If he didn’t know, if he
> didn’t understand the order, and if he’s unwilling to cancel it now that it’s
> been publicized, then Obama is a feckless incompetent. Take your pick. If
> Congress has any guts at all, it will convene immediate investigative
> hearings into a power grab by Petraeus, a politically ambitious general, and
> the Pentagon’s arrogant Special Operations team, led by Admiral Eric T.
> Olson, who collaborated with Petraeus. And Congress needs to ask the White
> House: what did you know, and when did you know it?"
>
> My favorite bit is "If Congress has any guts." Let me let you in on a little
> secret. I've been to testify in Congress, and those clowns mostly beat up on
> each other and kissed my ass. I testified there in September, 2007, for
> example, and toward the end of the hearing Rep. Brad Sherman asked me what I
> would do if Congress ended funding for the occupation of Iraq and Bush
> ordered me to continue with it anyway. I told that chump I would have to ask
> my lawyer, and he let it go. Ha! And people think there's a legislative
> branch of government running things. Come on! I tell them what to think
> before the hearings!
>
> I even tell them things they will never remember when I tell them the
> opposite and show them how the new story will protect them from the heathen
> hordes. Like when I told them I would never run for office. James Madison
> said, "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise
> of fighting a foreign enemy." It's here, children, and you are going to love
> it!
>
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>

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