Repeat Tweets: Deficit, Heat, Drought, Quake

Repeat tweets from August, 2011:

• 2011 08 01 - Stock market off 0.5% after debt deal. Business understands economy's problem is *not* deficit, but jobs. And debt deal will cost more jobs.
  
• 2011 08 02 - What's the official name of the new deficit reduction committee? For the record, it's the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
  
• 2011 08 02 - Democratic stimulus in 2009 arrested economy's freefall. Now we see if GOP austerity in 2011 will lead to growth or double dip recession.
  
• 2011 08 02 - Cotton Belt Rail Corridor simulation on YouTube. Skip to about 7:00 mark for Richardson/Plano alignment options. http://t.co/LsdvtTd
  
• 2011 08 02 - ABC is bringing back "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire." Updated, of course. For one thing, it'll be called "Who Wants To Be A Job Creator."
  
• 2011 08 03 - Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro: Memoir of growing up in a weird orphanage. Might be a better Twilight Zone episode than novel. C-
  
• 2011 08 04 - Headline: "Wall Street stocks drop 3 percent on economic fears." In other news, Boehner and McConnell are high-fiving each other.
  
• 2011 08 04 - Spoiler alert: Don't look at your retirement 401K balance. ... Correction: 301K. ... Make that 201K.
  
• 2011 08 04 - Texans, we're all supposed to pitch in and reduce our overall energy demands. I dunno, sounds like tree-hugging environmentalism to me.
  
• 2011 08 04 - President Obama defends debt ceiling deal as balanced. Equally significant concessions were made by Democrats in both House and Senate.
  

After the jump, more repeat tweets.

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• 2011 08 04 - MT @amiromar: "Informative meeting @stefani_carter. Appreciate her passion to make a positive difference." Positive? Carter? Name something.
  
• 2011 08 05 - Headline: "U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P." In related news, Boehner and McConnell were seen giving each other high fives.
  
• 2011 08 06 - I have no problem with Rick Perry being in Reliant Stadium for Prayerapalooza. It's him in the Capitol that I have a problem with.
  
• 2011 08 07 - Why do movies think gorillas, orangutans and chimps will ally against humans? They're as different from each other as they are from humans.
  
• 2011 08 07 - Headline: "School boards pay big money to part with superintendents." RISD's recent case makes the story. http://t.co/6oRZUpF
  
• 2011 08 07 - That Houston Chronicle story I cited looks like a restatement of a Dallas Morning News story. But that's behind paywall, so it's dead to me.
  
• 2011 08 07 - @brucetomaso, I don't link to DMN stories in tweets because only 0.1% of Twitter users would be able to read it. DMN is dead to twitterverse
  
• 2011 08 08 - @roddreher defends a woman's right to control what happens to her own body ... but only if she's dead. http://t.co/RPOCspU
  
• 2011 08 09 - @LHToday, temper your excitement. NFL has banned two-a-days. NCAA limited them in 2003. High schools should follow suit. http://t.co/8FwBcBC
  
• 2011 08 10 - New study of austerity and anarchy 1919-2009. Great timing. Since then, Britain passed austerity budget & suffers riots. http://t.co/jpRPtH6
  
• 2011 08 11 - Big GOP presidential candidate forum tonight from Iowa, featuring 5 politicians and 2 corporations. Or maybe it's the other way around.
  
• 2011 08 13 - MT @roddreher: "Jaw-dropping, monstrous result of consumerism uber alles society." Or miracle of modern medicine making this baby possible.
  
• 2011 08 13 - @jefflittlejohn: Schaeffer, Eidsmoe, Noebel are some scary influences, but they explain a lot about Michele Bachmann. http://t.co/CseWaWv
  
• 2011 08 13 - @imccanntx, as Barbra Streisand said, "Corporations ... who need corporations ... are the luckiest corporations ... in the world."
  
• 2011 08 13 - Are we sure this A&M-to-SEC is really a done deal? I seem to remember last year, UT-to-Pac10 was a done deal, too. Until it wasn't.
  
• 2011 08 13 - More economic trouble in Europe: The german umlauts "äöü" are not working.
  
• 2011 08 13 - Source Code (2011): Groundhog Day on a train, where hero has to save Chicago. A good variant on time travel and alternate realities. B+
  
• 2011 08 14 - A&M gets turned down by SEC. Was this Gov. Rick Perry's first loss in his campaign for President? Burka seems to think. http://t.co/ES7kOMs
  
• 2011 08 16 - Whole Foods becomes a victim in the War on Ramadan. http://t.co/Qsha1ZC
  
• 2011 08 16 - Japan puts environment minister in charge of regulating nuclear industry. Silly. Safety lies in less regulation, no EPA. http://t.co/4JlpvW6
  
• 2011 08 16 - Ever hear of Dominionism? It might be time to bone up. http://t.co/YnUk1iM
  
• 2011 08 17 - Thanks @RussosCoalFired for following me on Twitter. Now, how about getting your Health Dept score up from 89 (Good) to the 90s (Excellent)?
  
• 2011 08 17 - Headline: "Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth." Ouch. http://t.co/LssChm9
  
• 2011 08 18 - Headline: "DNA Implicates Another Man in 25-Year-Old Murder Case." Wow. Housecleaning is needed. http://t.co/LsSKrSS
  
• 2011 08 19 - Cheat sheet for 2012. It's like 2008: Romney==McCain. Bachmann==Huckabee. Perry==Edwards. Except Obama != Obama.
  
• 2011 08 19 - Keynes in 2016. What? Too soon?
  
• 2011 08 19 - @amiromar is out schmoozing with Nikki Haley and Tom Leppert. No exclamation marks. I know I'm reading into it, but thanks anyway.
  
• 2011 08 19 - Date Night (2010): Surprisingly intelligent and funny grownup rom-com farce with Tina Fey and Steve Carell. Watch it shirtless. B-
  
• 2011 08 20 - Headline: "Texas unemployment rate hits 24-year high." So much for the Texas miracle.
  
• 2011 08 20 - All in the Timing at Richardson HS: One act plays put on by grads in memory of Tracy Fisher. Ask for fun, you won't get a "Philadelphia."
  
• 2011 08 21 - Headline: "GOP may OK tax increase that Obama hopes to block." OK, the GOP is now just punking us, right? http://t.co/2S7wNF0
  
• 2011 08 21 - Headline: "Libya rebels in Tripoli, Gadhafi defenses collapse." We live in truly amazing times. http://t.co/Zfi2kIn
  
• 2011 08 23 - Hey, it's still hot here in Texas! Doesn't anyone care? Anyone?!?
  
• 2011 08 23 - East Coast destroyed by quake. Dow up 322. Coincidence? You decide.
  
• 2011 08 23 - Yikes! Midland is out of water. Maybe Gov. Perry can go out there and cut taxes. Or pray. Or something. http://t.co/2GurqrY
  
• 2011 08 24 - RT @AIR4arts: "We could have told you there was something in the AIR!" Unfortunate tweet. Unfortunate handle. I always read it AIRfarts.
  
• 2011 08 25 - Final. South Garland 23, Berkner 29. #hsgt #txhsfb
  
• 2011 08 26 - Headline: "SMU Wants to Join the Big 12." Isn't that like wanting to buy a ticket for the Titanic after it already struck the iceberg?
  
• 2011 08 26 - Final. Mesquite 27, Lake Highlands 34. #txhsfb
  
• 2011 08 28 - The Help (2011): Story? Very good. Dramatizing evils of Jim Crow? Good. Downplaying violence & making white woman the hero? Not so good. B+
  
• 2011 08 29 - Rick Perry warns the young that Social Security won't be there for them. If they elect him anyway, they can't say he didn't warn them.
  
• 2011 08 30 - Headline: "So, Carla Ranger's not resigning." Elsewhere, thank you, RISD Board of Trustees. Thank you.