Saturday, June 2, 2012

Repeat Tweets: Don't Believe Conventional Wisdom

Repeat tweets from May, 2012:

  • 2012 05 01 - Forum for candidates for State Board of Education, District 12, Tuesday night. Be there to support our public schools. http://t.co/yBtrC8hB
  • 2012 05 01 - Maybe I'm not following enough Twitter users, but the *only* candidate I see hyped for "One Man Dallas" is @amiromar. He must be a shoo-in.
  • 2012 05 01 - Osama bin Laden is still dead. President Obama killed him. Just thought I'd say it. There seems to be some confusion about it.
  • 2012 05 02 - China removes some highway tollgates. Traffic increases 20%. Some suggest leaving tolls in place to control traffic. http://t.co/iXsouGbO
  • 2012 05 02 - Headline: "Coroner: UK spy found in sports bag likely killed." Have they ruled out suicide?
  • 2012 05 02 - Don't believe conventional wisdom. US oil production is up; China trade surplus is down; Mexican immigration to US has reversed.
  • 2012 05 03 - Headline: "Study finds dramatic drops in L.A. beach pollution since 1970s." Score: Gov't Regulation 1, Free Market 0. http://t.co/tQPLQdSi
  • 2012 05 03 - Advice to new C-USA schools. Use Velcro to attach your new conference patches to your uniforms. If you're still in C-USA when they arrive.
  • 2012 05 04 - RT Kevin: "MOVIE FANS, GEEKS REJOICE!! THE DFW ALAMO DROUGHT IS OVER !! SOO excited. Richardson is LUCKY!!!" http://t.co/IHuCc2nq

After the jump, more repeat tweets.


  • 2012 05 05 - Ranking NFL head coaches. Jason Garrett comes in at 19, right behind ... Chan Gailey. http://t.co/bPzTJZxJ
  • 2012 05 05 - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Blue collar spies. George Smiley outsmarts 'em, not outshoots 'em. Cerebral. B+ http://t.co/UgmcwTnY
  • 2012 05 06 - Hollande defeats Sarkozy to give Europe hope that growth will replace austerity as focus of economic policy. Let's hope US is watching.
  • 2012 05 07 - Who will be first to endorse geoengineering as solution to global warming -- the left or the right? It'll define politics for a generation.
  • 2012 05 07 - RT @brucetomaso: "I'd rather brush my teeth with a saw than go to the post office to mail a package." Last straw.
  • 2012 05 07 - MT @jfloyd_dmn: "Spoke today to a very smart Preston Hollow audience - they treated me like a friend." @jfloyd_dmn thinks she's a rebel.
  • 2012 05 07 - Congratulations, @jfloyd_dmn. You are the 2,000th tweet.
  • 2012 05 07 - Don Draper finds his wife Megan in the kitchen, barefoot and ...? Foreshadowing is too easy. Her dream of an acting career will be short.
  • 2012 05 08 - "I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won’t give a shit” -- Maurice Sendak
  • 2012 05 08 - Headline: "Fossil outlook disappoints, shares plummet." I gave up wearing a watch years ago.* http://t.co/DPuB1Uvu
  • 2012 05 09 - Headline: "A Massacre at 901 South Central Expressway." http://t.co/cRm2p3tO
  • 2012 05 09 - MT @amiromar: "Great time fishing Duck Creek in Richardson w/ my lil buddy." Next, take him to Floyd Branch downtown ... before it's buried.
  • 2012 05 10 - Hashimoto: "Which way will your ed board go on the GOP Senate race?" Do newspapers even matter anymore? Sad how irrelevant DMN has become.
  • 2012 05 11 - On China, by Henry Kissinger: History of Chinese diplomacy by the master of Realpolitik. An arrogant know-it-all but he was there. A-
  • 2012 05 11 - Catholic high school forfeits baseball game rather than play a school with a girl on its team. Jesus didn't play girls. http://t.co/pdlqBwtV
  • 2012 05 11 - Teenage Romney assaults gay fellow student. Hashimoto's concern? Whether a source was upset then or only now. http://t.co/UxWOecFn
  • 2012 05 12 - RT @brett_shipp: "If you are not reading your city newspaper this morning then you are not informed." I was informed of this by ... Twitter
  • 2012 05 12 - The Hunger Games (2012): The Lottery. Gladiator. Survivor. Football. All of that and less. Plot grinds on while audience counts to 24. D+
  • 2012 05 12 - The Hunger Games (2012): Filmed on location in North Carolina. Who knew it was a documentary?
  • 2012 05 13 - How long will dippin' dots be the ice cream of the future?
  • 2012 05 13 - I got a text today, "Happy Mother's Day," from a wrong number. That is so wrong in so many ways.
  • 2012 05 17 - Farhad Manjoo: "I'm Through With Paper." I guess that means he's through with faxing, too. http://t.co/PK1jGPnG
  • 2012 05 18 - Mitt Romney: "I'm Not Familiar Precisely With Exactly What I Said, But I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was." http://t.co/SyYoqIMB
  • 2012 05 18 - MT @clcutrone: "Austin bike riders think they are so entitled. #getofftheroad" Chris Cutrone doesn't want to share the road. Interesting.
  • 2012 05 19 - Headline: "Minority births now a majority." Whites, don't fret. 500 years after Columbus, there are still Native Americans. OK, bad example.
  • 2012 05 19 - Project Nim (2011): Sobering documentary that shows how chimps are people too. No, they aren't. Disturbing, either way. B-
  • 2012 05 20 - Why does only one company own the trademark to the board game Monopoly®?
  • 2012 05 21 - "Viola!" -- North Texas Tea Party. They're agin one stringed instrument, or maybe they're for sex with stringed instruments. I'm not sure.
  • 2012 05 22 - Headline: "SC union leader attacks pinata with Gov. Nikki Haley’s likeness." Pounding donkeys with sticks, hilarious. Paper people, never.
  • 2012 05 24 - Headline: "Grover Norquist Says He Never Compared Schumer To Nazis." Or the Unibomber or Jeffrey Dahmer. He's touchy. http://t.co/jwzhoDTj
  • 2012 05 24 - Headline: "Yes, State Board of Education races matter." Vote Thomas Ratliff and George Clayton. Wow! I agree with TDMN. http://t.co/QAm07OhD
  • 2012 05 25 - George Clayton (SBOE) in neighborsgo draws distinction with his opponent: "Believes the Pilgrims were committed Communists?" Clayton: No
  • 2012 05 27 - Headline: "Northwestern women lacrosse NCAA champs again." Repeat champs. 7th title in 8 years. Go purple. http://t.co/DDmd8zsf
  • 2012 05 28 - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011): Child's grief after 9/11. Well-done tear-jerker. Safe script. Great job by young actor. B-
  • 2012 05 29 - Shutter Island (2010): We're all inmates in the fun house. The longer it takes the viewer to catch on, the better. Scorsese phones it in. C-
  • 2012 05 30 - Rumorcheck.org questions who is behind "the so-called 'Richardson Citizens For A More Democratic Government'"

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