Harvey Milk awarded presidential medal

SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 7/30/9 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

[RVN Airplane Driver]

WTF is harvey milk?

[Redleg Duke]

A queer from San Francisco who along with Mayor Muscone, was shot by a former councilman named Dan White who was harrassed out of his job by them.

White got off on a "Deminished Competency" defense based on excessive consumption of Twinkies and other high sugar foods.

[clintonh8r]

Now, how am I going to get that picture out of my head? (damn funny though!!)

[sitkaspruce]

Hmmm giving a medal to a dead guy. Guess he won’t be there to pick it up.

[fwdude]

Senator Edward Kennedy!!!???

Please!

[massgopguy]

Milk and Monscone were loose ends that People’s Temple mad man Jim Jones had taken care of posthumously after the drinking of the Kool-Aide. They got killed a week after Leo Ryan. If not for the political cover they provided for Jones, he would not have been able to escape San Francisco and go to Guyana and kill 900 mostly African-American people.