OMG it's hilarious! Not.

[Scuba]

[Enthusiast]

1. Kicked and recommended!

Actually they put it on the Social Security credit.

[rurallib]

2. Bushco left all sorts of little time bombs to explode at various intervals

to keep any Dem president busy fighting fires and distracted from actually pursuing policies.

[mopinko]

6. and how many dems just dont GROK that?

those bombs go off and it's all' the obama administration did this or that.

[rurallib]

8. what is GROK?

[mopinko]

9. its a kid word. sorry. but i do like it.

it means get it, but in a larger, more global way. seeing the whole system, not just getting the parts.
works, dudnit?

[rurallib]

11. yep

[hootinholler]

12. That's no kid word

What once was geek, is now mainstream.

It is an 'alien' word from a Heinlein novel. Literally, it means to drink, but was used by that race to refer to understanding and knowledge and implies more than a surface understanding.

[mopinko]

13. why thank you.

now i know the exact origin. and definition.
i will now say it is a kid word, also for those with young minds in old bodies.

ok, its from a scifi novel is a little tidier.
thank you
and how ya been?

[kentauros]

17. It's from one of Heinlein's most famous and popular novels:

Stranger in A Strange Land

It's been ages since I read it, but have to wonder if some of it is a parody of Scientology (the way the "religion" is set up and operated...)

[abakan]

22. The book is titled...Stranger in a Strange Land..

To GROK something is to understand it.

[hootinholler]

25. I'm glad others provided the citation.

I have a submandibular gland stone. I get to spend a night at the UofMd medical center to have it removed. Other than that things are steady for a change. (knock wood)

[mopinko]

28. oh fun.

well, the aca is there to make sure you get better care!!
feel better

[antiquie]

18. Not just a "kid" word...

The word was coined by Robert A. Heinlein for his 1961 science-fiction novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, where one character defines it as follows:

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines to grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy; to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment".

See here for more.

[mopinko]

29. hhmmm

it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.

that pretty much sums up most of the people i use it on.
i started this little farm, and everything about it just unfolded for me.
i'm spend a lot of time sidewalk teaching and preaching, sometimes to people who have never seen a tomato plant. i sho do get that one.

[antiquie]

30. Love your ark pictures.

Art stumps.

[mopinko]

31. thx

proving to be quite the journey.

[mopinko]

14. and honestly, this is what dems ALWAYS end up doing.

illinois is still struggling from the legacy of republican governors after 8 years of dems (or 4 years of loony and 4 years of dems. we have a few bad apples, too.).
that legacy, unfortunately, includes a dem that should be gone but isnt- mike madigan.
those thugs were such perfect foils for him, and sometimes fools for him, that they made a midget into a giant. (ritchie daley, you too. i have many good things to say about the man, but he let WAY too much slide out of battle weariness.)

now pat quinn and rahm emanual get to make all the hard choices. and take the flak.
from dems

[libodem]

23. They HATE all government

And they get elected to destroy it. They call it "Big" Government, to make it sound really hateful, and then proceed to try and drown it in the bathtub and rinse it down the drain. They want to spoil it for the people because there are about 400 mega rich families have way more than all of the rest of us put together and they don't feel like it is fair to share. Because they are racists, sexists,, classist, Fascist dirtbags. They hijacked the government for themselves and not the working class. They are killing the middle class. We might need to start calling ourselves a labor party rather than a liberal party. Maybe the working class would stop voting against their own interests, Republican.

All of the middle class should vote Democrats in, especially the upper middle class and values voters.

[n2doc]

3. Really should add "and we made a killing on our stock portfolios!"

fuckers.

[mopinko]

10. ^^^this^^^

how the hell that is even legal, i will never know.
might be fun to dig into old dicky's agreements about that stuff, and make sure they were at least paper legal. they likely made the paper all up and up, then went about their merry ways. would be fun to hang him with it.

[proReality]

4. Ever notice

that Cheney looks evil EVEN when he's laughing?

[Mnemosyne]

5. War criminals laughing. nt

[lpbk2713]

7. They drove the car into the ditch.

And it's all Obama's fault for not getting it out his first year in office.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

15. k&r... (Will we ever see them in Jail?) nt

[rhett o rick]

16. I wonder if DipShit will ever realize that his father and Cheney manipulated the shit out

of him. Laura knows, maybe she will tell. Or Condi. I see it coming down like this:

"Georgie, there is something you need to know. Your mommy and daddy always liked Cheney best. He is the son they never had. But they knew that America would never vote for a face like his so they ran you, you and your stupid grin. Then they told you to have the Evil Dick help you find a VP. LOL. Jokes on you. He found himself, and he essentially became the president. While the whole world was laughing at you, he brought the American Empire to it's knees for a few gold coins. But Babs and Poppy were proud. Not of you or your nitwit brothers, but of Evil Dicky."

[blkmusclmachine]

19. That's what happens, when you (refuse to do anything but) look "forward."

[littlemissmartypants]

20. Sociopaths. eom

[libodem]

21. Thank you Scuba

Perfect in every way. But I don't think it mentioned wasting the surplus before enriching Halliburton.

[obxhead]

24. Tweety, big ed, even Rachel to an extent.

Cable news is not news, it just an infomercial for the politician of the day that is fighting for corporate profit.

[Cha]

26. I think this fits here.. thanks Scuba

TOD

[delrem]

27. It was signed by Bush. It was as "bipartisan" as it can get.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/10/03/us-financial-idUSTRE49267J20081003

IMO it was a paradigm instance of "shock doctrine politics".