Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, one-man wrecking crew: Kaczynski managed to unearth a 200-page booklet with all of John McCain’s talking points against Mitt Romney in 2008. While RedState.com had part of it, this is the first time the whole thing’s showed up online. Opposition researchers, time to jump in. (via Reuters)
Sources say McCain became furious after mistakenly thinking he would have to memorize all 200 pages, snarling at an aide before deleting his Twitter account.
More pillows!
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The Most ‘America’ Ever Crammed
Into One PhotoThis delightful Friday discovery comes via Copyranter.
She stood me up against a tree, she took the shotgun out of my hands, and she put it to my head. She said, ‘This is the tree that I’d take my son to and blow his head off if he ever decided to be a faggot.’
Nathan Hoskins knew from an early age that he was gay. But when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, his mother took extreme steps to convince him otherwise. Looking back on it now, he says, “I am who I’m supposed to be.”
Threats And Lies, And ‘Who I’m Supposed To Be’ : StoryCorps
(via npr)Taken from the Honest Girl Scouts campaign. For a campaign trying to get people /not/ to buy cookies and /not/ support the GSUSA, this is doing an awful lot to suddenly make me want /to/ support the GSUSA. (and I’m saying this a a former Girl Scout of about 6 years who hasn’t bought cookies in years because they’re too expensive).
I see so much acceptance here, and especially in a time in children’s lives where acceptance is so important, taking that away from them is just cruel.
If you don’t have a niece or young neighbor, plug in your ZIP code here to find a pro-abortion feminist-minded little girl to sell you some sweet, sweet progressive cookies.
^Do this shit. I buy them in troves from the Scouts that sell at the supermarket.
(Source: indietits)
The Longest Week: I just saw one of the most frightening photos ever - and I don’t know...
Continuing the theme of shit that pisses me off todayI just saw one of the most frightening photos ever - and I don’t know if I want to share it. It’s of a German Shepard after a kid put a firecracker in its mouth, “and made sure he (the dog) could not open it.”
I’ve seen horrific pictures, we all have, but this got to me in a way that nothing has…