Drinking Harvey Milk’s Kool-Aid

City Journal ^ | 5/21/09 | Dan Flynn

[paltz]

This Friday would have been slain San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk’s 79th birthday, and California state senator Mark Leno has introduced legislation to mark the date with a state holiday. The bill doesn’t call for a furlough from work, but instead instructs the governor to proclaim a “Harvey Milk Day” and designates “that date as having special significance in the public schools and educational institutions” and encourages them to “conduct suitable commemorative exercises.” The legislation passed muster with the state senate in overwhelming fashion last week. Though only about one in five Californians polled supports the measure, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill last year, Leno is optimistic. “If there’s one thing Arnold Schwarzenegger understands, it’s box office,” Leno relates. “And Harvey Milk now has box office.”

[rickmichaels]

...and encourages them to “conduct suitable commemorative exercises.”

Such as touching one's toes, dropping soap, and hiding pickles, perhaps?

[Da Coyote]

Does wiping my butt count?

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

How many special, commemorative days do they have now? I sure hope they are not letting real educational topics get in the way of all this feel-good learning. :-/ Reading, writing, and arithmetic are soooo passe.

[Steely Tom]

School cafeterias to be purged of all Twinkies.

[Desron13]

This is all about inculcating the children into thinking that being a rump ranger is just as normal as being black or preferring apple pie over cherry pie. If they did this at my kid’s school I’d make sure that my kid was absent that day.

[SnakeDoctor]

>> Drinking Harvey Milk’s Kool-Aid

Yikes. No thanks.

SnakeDoc

[Rummyfan]

I wouldn’t drink anything associated with Harvey Milk.

[Califreak]

LOL!

[relictele]

conduct suitable commemorative exercises

I just read a synopsis of This is Paradise!: My North Korean Childhood by Hyok Kang and it doesn't seem to be coincidence that liberals and their 'commemorations' sound very much like the daily praise that communist leaders receive.

[Dilbert San Diego]

They fail to mention that Mark Leno, the senator introducing the bill, is openly homosexual himself. A few years ago he had introduced a gay marriage bill in the Calif. state assembly when he was an assembly man. So he’s a homosexual activist, which the news people “forgot” to mention in telling us this story.

[kaehurowing]

Gay Day in California.