When confronted with people who do not believe as they do, Liberals screech, insult, intimidate, protest, boycott, threaten, and riot. Progressives use these tactics on individuals, groups, organizations, and corporations to advance their social issues agenda or to silence or punish opponents.

Take no prisoners. Resistance is futile. Never stop even after you get your way. This is how the minority party exerts a majority force even though most of the zip codes across the fruited plain lean the other way. We here at the Grok have been refusing to be cowed for over a decade and taken the fight to them at every opportunity. Some are suggesting that it is time for more of us to do the same, and take at least one page in particular out of the progressive playbook. 

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On the front page of yesterday’s Union Leader (Greater Manchester Edition) the subheading reads, “Professor knows some of those injured in Monday’s lone-wolf attack.”

The Islamic State has taken credit for the actions of Somali immigrant Abdul Razak Ali Artan who drove his automobile into a crowd and then emerged to attack bystanders with a knife until he was shot and killed by police.

So, if an international terror group takes credit for an act based on a global movement, can you still call this a lone wolf attack?

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And a real life example with uber-Left (and Hillary rump-swab) “journalist”Andrea Mitchell:

On her MSNBC show on Wednesday, anchor Andrea Mitchell’s exchange with former Defense Secretary William Cohen turned surprisingly contentious when the Clinton cabinet official started lecturing the press on its obsession with every tweet from President-elect Donald Trump: “I think we have to be less concerned with tweets, chasing every one as if it’s some sort of revealed wisdom that’s going out into a rabbit hole – ”

Mitchell countered: “But when he tweets something about ISIS claiming responsibility for what happened in Ohio State, when that’s not at all confirmed, doesn’t that raise questions about the judgment – he is the president-elect.”  Cohen pushed back: “It raises questions, but also raises questions about the media. Why are you chasing it? Why, when a story comes out with a tweet which intuitively you know is not of significance, and yet, you spend an entire day analyzing it?”

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Shot:

“We regularly work with our media-buying partners to ensure our ads do not appear on sites that aren’t aligned with our values as a company,” said Kellogg’s flak Kris Charles. “We recently reviewed the list of sites where our ads can be placed and decided to discontinue advertising on Breitbart.com. We are working to remove ads from that site.”

Chaser:  My dollars are no longer aligned with your products.

Hangover:

I don’t eat their products (listed at the above link) – but TMEW does….er, did.  But you know, if Kellogg wants to slag me simply because I visit their sites (and often link them up on stuff that matters to me), so be it.  They certainly don’t have to spend their money on Breitbart – after all it is THEIR money.

But that sends a message in which they are now complicit

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Shot:

…So, while we understand the heartfelt and strongly-held opinions on both sides of the gun debate, it is with the safety and security of our employees and customers in mind that we respectfully ask people not to bring firearms into our stores, offices or facilities, even in states where it’s permitted by law. Of course, authorized members of law enforcement are an exception.

Chaser: OK, dude, my firearm will not as my feet won’t either.

Hangover:

While I have purchased Levi jeans in the past, I generally now only purchase either Land’s End or more recently, LL Bean.  So saying that I would participate in a boycott is rather weak statement.  And TMEW hates to go clothes shopping for herself so…

This is just adding to

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For Immediate Release – November 30, 2016
Contact: Greg Moore (603) 303-9297

Rep. Frank Edelblut to Receive Americans for Prosperity 2016 Tom Thomson Conservative of the Year Award at Christmas Party December 9th

MANCHESTER – Americans for Prosperity – New Hampshire (AFP-NH) today announced that State Representative Frank Edelblut will receive the organization’s coveted 2016 Tom Thomson Conservative of the Year award.  Edelblut, who finished 2nd in the Republican primary for Governor, scored a perfect 100% in the AFP-NH 2016 Legislative Scorecard and led efforts to oppose ObamaCare expansion and health care regulations in New Hampshire.  He also sponsored tax relief legislation for employers that quadrupled expense deductions.

“Frank Edelblut has been a leader on the issues of economic freedom throughout 2016, and it’s only appropriate that he receive the 2016 Tom Thomson Conservative of the Year award,” said Greg Moore, AFP-NH State Director. 

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This is what happens when you let your kids grow up to be cowboys gender study academicians – they write a lot of run-on sentences that mean pretty much nothing:

Gender as multiplicity: Desire, displacement, difference and dispersion

Stephen Linstead, University of York, UK, and Alison Pullen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

This article argues that although gender is no longer widely considered to be a property of individuals, the alternative of viewing it in terms of performativity, where it is the outcome of linguistic and social performances, unnecessarily limits the possibilities of thinking of gender as a form of multiplicity that is both internally and externally differentiated.

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Republican State Senator Chuck Morse is irritated.  My, my, the person who blessed implementing Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion here in NH allowing grown able-bodied men to sponge off the rest of us, is upset.  And he doesn’t like it at all.  Piqued?  Surely.  Angered?  I just wish I was there with camera in hand to catch the exact nuances of his “black gaze” and probable sharp tongue when confronted with “voter fraud” (reformatted, emphasis mine):

Capital Beat: Talk of election complaints touchy subject in State House

Don’t suggest voter fraud in front of Senate President Chuck Morse. The Salem Republican became agitated in budget meetings last week when the deputy attorney general requested a full-time employee to help investigate a growing backlog of open election law complaints.

“I don’t understand why it’s coming out today,” Morse began, his voice rising. “I have been assured by the secretary of state that our elections are good and clean. I wouldn’t want the press to know anything different.”

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Chicago recently instituted a new $0.07 per bag tax on plastic grocery/store bags. No price is too high to save the environment, right? What if the “environment” is the city budget? Roughly 70% of that green-tax will go directly to the city to plug holes in the municipal budget. The stealth tax does not quite achieve a Clinton Foundation level of fraud, but it comes close.

And this isn’t their first rodeo. The experts in city government banned some bags outright based on their thickness. Chicagoland residents responded by using thicker bags to avoid the ban.

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