HARVEY MILK: My name is Harvey Milk, and I want to recruit you. I want to recruit you for the fight to preserve your democracy. Brothers and sisters, you must come out. Come out to your parents. I know that it is hard and will hurt them but think about how they will hurt you in the voting booth! Come out to your friends, if they indeed are your friends. Come out to your neighbors, to your fellow workers. Once and for all, break down the myths, destroy the lies and distortions. For your sake. For their sake. For the sake of the youngsters who are becoming scared by the votes from Dade to Eugene. On the Statue of Liberty it says “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.” In the Declaration of Independence it is written “All men are created equal and are endowed with certain inalienable rights.” For Mr. Briggs and Mrs. Bryant and all the bigots out there, no matter how hard you try, you cannot erase those words from the Declaration of Independence. No matter how hard you try, you cannot chip those words from off the base of the Statue of Liberty. That is what America is. Love it or leave it.
—- Milk
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I just genuinely have no idea what to think. I’m thinking a bunch of things at once. I’m relieved that we might be getting something, incredibly fucking pissed that the assholes in Washington couldn’t do any better … and really scared about what’s going to happen to me, and whether or not my husband and I will actually, not theoretically, be able to afford coverage when this is all said and done, and what will happen if we can’t.
Ditto.
I’m scared that my non-profit company will have to raise our premiums or start to lower our coverage in hopes of saving money by forcing people to look at private insurance plans. I pay almost $140 a month for an individual plan, and who knows how much that would be for the boy and I if we got married. I could go with private insurance, but after seeing my parents jump through hoops with their own private insurance (they’re both self-employed), I really don’t want to go through that hassle.
While I’m incredibly happy that this reform is going through, I’m pissed that it can’t be any better. And I’m pissed that stupid Utah doesn’t care/have a clue/is too brainwashed to pay attention and vote these assholes out of office who are against real reform/against reform for no good reason.
(724): I just used a franzia box to scrape the snow off my car.
ohnotheydidnt: Brittany Murphy Dies
Brittany Murphy died last night after she went into full cardiac arrest and could not be revived, multiple sources tell TMZ.
She was 32.
The Los Angeles City Fire Department tells TMZ they received a call to a home in Los Angeles that is listed as belonging to her husband, Simon Monjack.
We’re told Murphy was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Murphy starred in such films as “Clueless,” “8 Mile,” and “Don’t Say a Word.”
Story developing …
Another outtake from Colbert’s SI photoshoot.
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U.S. Speed Skating gets Stephen Colbert. U.S. Skiing and Snowboarding get…..
I wish we could get John Stewart. But we’ll probably end up with nothing.
Nothing but gold medals!
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theduty: roommate of the year.
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