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From Sipsey Street Irregulars
This is beautiful. The infamous “White House Insider” has released another volley, this one involving Operation Gunrunner, something the “three percenters” at Sipsey Street have been diligently working on for months.
Could DoJ AG Eric Holder be about to be hoisted on his own petard? Head to Sipsey Street to find out more about the intrigue.
A petard was a small bomb used to blow up gates and walls when breaching fortifications. The term has a French origin and dates back to the sixteenth century. In a typical implementation, it was commonly either a conical or rectangular metal object containing 5 or 6 pounds of gunpowder, activated with a slow match used as a fuse.
The word petard comes from the Middle French peter, to break wind, from pet expulsion of intestinal gas, from Latin peditum, from neuter of peditus, past participle of pedere, to break wind; akin to Greek bdein to break wind. (Merriam-Webster) Petard remains a French word meaning a firecracker today (in French slang, it means a handgun, or a joint).
The word remains in modern usage in the phrase hoist with one’s own petard, which means “to be harmed by one’s own plan to harm someone else” or “to fall into one’s own trap,” literally implying that one could be lifted up (hoist, or blown upward) by one’s own bomb. — Wikipedia.
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