Repeat Tweets: Lyin' Ryan

Repeat tweets from August, 2012:

• 2012 08 06 - I wish Richardson would spend a tenth of the effort keeping residents informed about redevelopment plans as it does about mosquito spraying.
  
• 2012 08 06 - The Second Amendment was our Founding Fathers' biggest Fail, except for that whole thing about Slavery. #no-one-is-perfect
  
• 2012 08 08 - Life of Super-Earths, by Dimitry Sasselov: Surprising pairing of alien worlds and the origin of life. Easy read on the latest science. C+
  
• 2012 08 09 - "Nancy Brinker’s Komen shakeup too little and way too late" http://t.co/z0UcBcX7
  
• 2012 08 09 - Headline: "July Set Mark as U.S.’s Hottest Month" Weather isn't climate blah, blah, blah. OK, expect lots more weather like this. http://t.co/kI3nmPGv
  
• 2012 08 09 - Breaking: Greenhouse gases lead to global warming leads to extreme weather. ... Breaking news from 1997, that is.
  
• 2012 08 11 - Romney/Rand 2012: Bold VP pick by Romney -- a woman and an atheist for VP. But how is that possible? Isn't Ayn Rand dead? ... oh, nevermind.
  
• 2012 08 11 - McCain/Palin 2008. Romney/Ryan 2012. Why does the GOP keep putting their preferred candidate in the second slot of the ticket?
  

After the jump, more repeat tweets.

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• 2012 08 12 - Never Let Me Go (2010): Memoir of growing up in a weird orphanage. Moody. Sad. Fated. Sci-fi take on being a second-class citizen. C+
  
• 2012 08 13 - Drive (2011): Low budget thriller. Slow motion. Long pauses. Moody music. Gratuitous gore. Implausible love triangle. Great cast, though. C-
  
• 2012 08 15 - Headline: "Optimal Lawn Mowing Patterns." Problems that absorb nerds. I'm a box-shaped loop man myself. http://t.co/VsfDAchz
  
• 2012 08 15 - The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009): Murder mystery. Psychological thriller. As intense as Dragon Tattoo. It's the real deal. B-
  
• 2012 08 16 - "Agenda 21: Everything you need to know about the secret U.N. plot, in one comic" http://t.co/N7ttXgsi
  
• 2012 08 16 - #ProjectRunway Season 10 is most dysfunctional yet. More drama than design, like it's hosted by Donald Trump not Tim Gunn. #GuiltyPleasure
  
• 2012 08 18 - The Iron Lady (2011): Does the impossible - humanizes Margaret Thatcher. PM years, so-so; retirement years, boffo. Meryl Streep *is* MT. B+
  
• 2012 08 20 - Countdown to Zero (2010): Nuclear threats from accident, miscalculation, and madness. Puts WNV aerial spraying in perspective. No nukes. B+
  
• 2012 08 21 - Absolute Monarchs, by John Julius Norwich: It's all here, 2000 yrs of popes, antipopes, power struggles, politics. God? Not so much. D+
  
• 2012 08 21 - Margin Call (2011): Fictional telling of 2008 financial crash. So-so history. So-so drama. Non-fiction "House of Cards" tells it better. B-
  
• 2012 08 22 - Former Berkner basketball player Jordan Mickey, who jumped to Arlington Grace Prep, jumps to Deion Sanders' Prime Prep. http://t.co/OLTg8iNx
  
• 2012 08 23 - #ProjectRunway: That a fashion designer has big ego is no surprise. That he's oblivious to pissing off client & judges, is. #GuiltyPleasure
  
• 2012 08 24 - The court can have my Samsung Galaxy S II Android smart phone when it pries it from my cold, dead fingers.
  
• 2012 08 25 - Armstrong died. The astronaut, not the cyclist. For Lance, it was only his reputation that died.
  
• 2012 08 25 - I like to think that Neil Armstrong requested burial in the Sea of Tranquility.
  
• 2012 08 26 - RT David Letterman: "A hurricane headed directly for the Republicans -- more proof that God is a woman." #Isaac
  
• 2012 08 26 - North Texas Tea Party huffs, puffs, & pretends like they aren't joined at the hip to Mitt Romney and the national GOP. http://t.co/3vzaGcJD
  
• 2012 08 27 - Headline: "Seattle Seahawks name Russell Wilson starting QB." On, Wisconsin! http://t.co/ixnCYcuy
  
• 2012 08 28 - Headline: "Republicans nominate Romney as presidential candidate." Well, they did it. How many people present really like Mitt, like really?
  
• 2012 08 28 - Headline: "Sen. Cornyn pledges support against zebra mussels." Really, is there any US Senator less relevant than Cornyn?
  
• 2012 08 30 - Headline: "Ryan takes factual shortcuts in speech." Headline writer demonstrates how to be diplomatic.
  
• 2012 08 30 - Headline: "Ryan Launches Campaign Theme of Lying About Everything." Different headline writer demonstrates how *not* to be diplomatic.
  
• 2012 08 30 - "There are some things that I think were factually questionable." -- Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. Really? Damning review of Ryan's speech.
  
• 2012 08 30 - Headline: "Condoleezza Rice slams Obama on foreign policy." Didn't she preside over the biggest foreign policy debacle since Vietnam?
  
• 2012 08 30 - Romney is still working on the biggest speech of his life. Or, as his campaign puts it, he's still shaking the old Etch-a-Sketch.
  
• 2012 08 30 - Why Michael Williams to head Texas Education Agency? Paul Burka says: "He is there to serve the governor, not the schools." http://t.co/3r5WN5mW
  
• 2012 08 31 - Stefani Carter can't get guns to blacks and women fast enough. http://t.co/Sojq6SjA
  
• 2012 08 31 - MT Howard Kurtz: What's the difference between Hurricane Isaac and Clint Eastwood? One of them was a *natural* disaster.
  
• 2012 08 31 - Final. Allen Eagles 24, Southlake Carroll 0. #txhsfb