Is Obama a chicken hawk?

General Odierno will always the man because he got all Army soldiers in Iraq 2 beers to enjoy for the superbowl, but I gotta respectfully disagree.

You guys are really cheap to buy off aren't you?

eth·nic
1. Of or relating to sizable groups of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage... b. Being a member of a particular ethnic group... c. Of, relating to, or distinctive of members of such a group: ethnic restaurants; ethnic art.

2. Relating to a people not Christian or Jewish; heathen...
n. 1. A member of a particular ethnic group, especially one who maintains the language or customs of the group. [Middle English heathen from Late Latin ethnicus from Greek ethnikos from ethnos people, nation; See - in Indo-European Roots.]

Notes: When in a Middle English text written before 1400 it is said that a part of a temple fell down and “ mad a gret distruccione of ethnykis, ” one wonders why ethnics were singled out for death. The word ethnic in this context, however, means “ gentile,” coming as it does from the Greek adjective ethnikos, meaning “ national, foreign, gentile. ”

The adjective is derived from the noun ethnos, “ people, nation, foreign people, ” that in the plural phrase taethn meant “ foreign nations. ” In translating the Hebrew Bible into Greek, this phrase was used for Hebrew g oyim, “ gentiles”; hence the sense of the noun in the Middle English quotation. The noun ethnic in this sense or the related sense “ heathen” is not recorded after 1728, although the related adjective sense is still used. But probably under the influence of other words going back to Greek ethnos, such as ethnography and ethnology, the adjective ethnic broadened in meaning in the 19th century. After this broadening the noun sense “ a member of a particular ethnic group, ” first recorded in 1945, came into existence.

s(w)e- . Important derivatives are: self gossip bustle 1 suicide secede seclude secret secure sedition seduce segregate select separate sure sober sole 2 solitary solitude solo sullen desolate soliloquy custom ethic ethnic idiom idiot idiosyncrasy. Pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of the sentence); further appearing in various forms referring to the social group as an entity, “ (we our-)selves. ” I. 1. Suffixed extended form *sel-bho- . SELF , from Old English self , sylf , self, same, from Germanic *selbaz , self. 2. Suffixed form *s(w)e-bh(o)- . SIB ; GOSSIP , from Old English sibb , relative, from Germanic *sibja- , “ one's own, ” blood relation, relative.

3. Suffixed form *se-ge . BUSTLE 1 , from Old Norse -sk , reflexive suffix, as in b ¿ask, to make oneself ready, from sik , oneself (reflexive pronoun), from Germanic *sik , self. 4. Suffixed form *swoi-no- . SWAIN ; ( BOATSWAIN ), from Old Norse sveinn , herdsman, boy, from Germanic *swainaz , “ one's own (man), ” attendant, servant. 5. Suffixed form *s(u)w-o- , one's own. a. SUICIDE , from Latin su º (genitive), of oneself; b. SWAMI , from Sanskrit sv ³min, “ one's own master, ” owner, prince, from sva- ( < *swo- ), one's own.

6. Extended form *sed . SECEDE , SECERN , SECLUDE , SECRET , SECURE , SEDITION , SEDUCE , SEDULOUS , SEGREGATE , SELECT , SEPARATE , ( SURE ), from Latin s ¶d, s ¶, s ¶- , without, apart ( < “ on one's own ”); a. SOBER , from Latin compound s ½brius, not drunk ( ¶ brius, drunk; see ¶ g w h-). 7. Possibly suffixed lengthened o-grade form *s ½-lo. SOLE 2 , SOLITARY , SOLITUDE , SOLO , SULLEN ; DESOLATE , SOLILOQUY , SOLIPSISM , from Latin s ½lus, by oneself alone. 8. Extended root *sw ~dh-, “ that which is one's own, ” peculiarity, custom. a. SODALITY , from Latin sod ³lis, companion ( < “ one's own, ” “ relative”); b. suffixed form *sw ¶dh-sko-. ( CONSUETUDE ), CUSTOM , DESUETUDE , MANSUETUDE , MASTIFF , from Latin su ¶scere, to accustom, get accustomed; c. ETHIC , ETHOS ; CACOETHES , from Greek thos, custom, disposition, trait; d. suffixed form *swedh-no- . ETHNIC , ETHNO- , from Greek ethnos , band of people living together, nation, people ( < “ people of one's own kind ”).

9. Suffixed extended form *swet-aro- . HETAERA , from Greek hetairos , comrade, companion, earlier hetaros . 10. Suffixed extended form *swed-yo- . IDIO- , IDIOM , IDIOT ; ( IDIOPATHY ), ( IDIOSYNCRASY ), from Greek idios , personal, private ( “particular to oneself ”). 11. Suffixed form *swei-no- . SINN FEIN , from Old Irish f ¶in, self. 12. Suffixed (ablatival) form *swe-tos , from oneself. KHEDIVE , from Old Iranian khvad ³ta-, lord, by haplology from compound form *khvat ½-d³ta-, created from oneself ( d ³ta-, created; see dh ¶-). [ Pokorny se- 882. ]

Please disregard the errant format, but that's the gist of it. :)