Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Repeat Tweets: Sports and Weather

Repeat tweets from January, 2013:

  • 1 Jan 2013: Headline: "Bard men fall to Caltech again in basketball." Go Beavers! http://www.dailyfreeman.com
  • 2 Jan 2013: Final. Berkner 100, Sunset 36. It's a great time to be a Ram. #txhsbb
  • 4 Jan 2013: Headline: "Senator John Cornyn's Outrageous Op-Ed On The Debt Ceiling." Cornyn's a deadbeat. http://www.slate.com
  • 6 Jan 2013: I'm glad I'm not only one who thought Sunday's Redskins game was less playoff football, and more medical malpractice. http://www.slate.com
  • 7 Jan 2013: Headline: "Seahawks' Russell Wilson last rookie QB left in playoffs." He's from the University of Wisconsin. :-)
  • 8 Jan 2013: Headline: "Australia Is So Hot, They Had to Add a New Color to the Weather Map." Not to worry. Weather is not climate. http://www.theatlanticwire.com
  • 8 Jan 2013: Headline: "US roasts to hottest year on record by landslide." Great. Global warming wasn't bad enough? Landslides, too? http://news.yahoo.com

After the jump, more repeat tweets.


  • 8 Jan 2013: Headline: "FTA 'New Starts' rule will encourage good projects and walkable neighborhoods." Change we can believe in. http://www.slate.com
  • 9 Jan 2013: World population growth is slowing. In 50 yrs, it will be shrinking. Instead of border fences, US will be laying down welcome mats. Ironic.
  • 9 Jan 2013: "We know how to dampen excessive population growth -- just educate girls." http://www.slate.com
  • 10 Jan 2013: Headline: "New York Jets expand their search for a general manager." Hire the GM of the Cowboys. Please, please, please.
  • 11 Jan 2013: High school men's basketball final: Berkner 80, Richardson 61. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  • 13 Jan 2013: Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers out of the NFL playoffs and Joe Flacco and Colin Kaepernick advance. Are you kidding me? Topsy-turvy.
  • 13 Jan 2013: Headline: "NHL agreement puts Dallas Stars back on ice Saturday." On ice? I thought that's where NHL hockey was during the lockout, on ice.
  • 14 Jan 2013: Tinfoil hat mindset at work: "Have you all noticed TRI lateral (TRI=3) and Agenda 21 (2+1=3). To deny a conspiracy is naive!"
  • 14 Jan 2013: GOP: "Fiscal status quo is worse than potential global meltdown, but even slightly higher revenue is worse than both." http://nymag.com
  • 14 Jan 2013: Buzz Bissinger: "I was played by Armstrong." If there's anyone who knows about playing the public, it's @buzzbissinger. http://www.thedailybeast.com
  • 14 Jan 2013: Congrats to Berkner's Soma Edo, Dallas Morning News' basketball player of the week.
  • 16 Jan 2013: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo : Non-fiction account of life in a Mumbai slum. As important to read as it is depressing. B+
  • 16 Jan 2013: @SenTedCruz, Senator Obama was demagoguing the debt ceiling in '06, just as you are today. Nothing's changed. Didn't we elect you to change?
  • 16 Jan 2013: "Conservatives are sure the Obama presidency will lead to an economic calamity, and they will prove it, if necessary." http://www.bloomberg.com
  • 16 Jan 2013: "Big Ten boasts three of the top 10 and six of the top 25. The last team unbeaten in Big Ten play isn't one of them." W http://sports.yahoo.com
  • 16 Jan 2013: Sad to see @SenTedCruz trying to exploit anti-Obama derangement to push pro-gun agenda.
  • 17 Jan 2013: @JasonVillalba, it is clear we have a partisan politics problem and you're not helping.
  • 17 Jan 2013: "Drug tests are 'intelligence tests' -- if you can’t get around them, you don’t deserve to play." -- Bruce Schneier http://www.wired.com
  • 17 Jan 2013: Texas' 10 biggest highway headaches include Central Expway in Richardson. Uh oh. Prepare for even more concrete. http://transportationblog.dallasnews.com
  • 17 Jan 2013: @TheDailyShow FAIL week. Ignorant and defensive about platinum coin. Worse, goes soft on torture. Worst week for Jon Stewart ever.
  • 17 Jan 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "I’ll help lead fight to protect our right to keep & bear arms." I hope you'll also join President in fighting gun violence
  • 18 Jan 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Gun proposals from Pres & Dems in Senate are unconstitutional & they don't work." Nothing you want works. New ideas?
  • 18 Jan 2013: Headline: "The Republican Debt Ceiling Gambit Is Unconstitutional." GOP knows 2nd Amendment, but clueless about 27th. http://thinkprogress.org
  • 18 Jan 2013: Headline: "75% Back Congress Term Limits." Yet 80% of Congress was re-elected. Voters don't know they can vote the bums out every two years.
  • 18 Jan 2013: High school men's basketball battle of the District 9-5A once-beatens: Richardson 55, Jesuit 34. #txhsbb
  • 20 Jan 2013: RIP Orioles manager Earl Weaver. I remember him as mgr of Appleton, Wisconsin's Fox Cities Foxes. http://postcrescent.com
  • 20 Jan 2013: Looper (2012): Time travel premise can't sustain 120 min movie. So we get some Goodfellas, Mad Max, and The Exorcist as well. Loopy. D+
  • 22 Jan 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: Lake Highlands 59, Berkner 91. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  • 23 Jan 2013: Beyonce lip syncing scandal. OMG. Wait til the public learns the official oath, the "real" one, was administered in private the day before.
  • 23 Jan 2013: DMN's Mike Hashimoto: "Sorry, sheriffs don’t get to choose which laws to enforce." I did not see that coming. http://dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com
  • 24 Jan 2013: US Senate finally disposes of notion of reforming filibuster and now can get back to their regularly scheduled business of doing nothing.
  • 25 Jan 2013: MT @CookseyPR: Irving "City Council voted to loosen the city’s alcohol ordinance to promote development within the Urban Center."
  • 25 Jan 2013: RT @mattyglesias: "Triple dip in the UK as productivity keeps collapsing" http://www.slate.com Deficit scolds want US to follow UK.
  • 25 Jan 2013: GOP self-assessment: "We can't come off as a bunch of angry white men," said one of the angry white men. http://news.yahoo.com
  • 25 Jan 2013: Start of email from Laura for Mayor campaign: "Dear (Contact First Name), ..." #facepalm
  • 25 Jan 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: Jesuit 46, Berkner 63. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  • 26 Jan 2013: "Some say scientists can't agree on Earth's temperature changes. Here's what 'disagreement' looks like." https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee
  • 26 Jan 2013: South Pacific at LHHS: Oddly, both dated yet still has something to say. All-state voices. Flawless sound, lighting and sets. Excellent.
  • 26 Jan 2013: Blow to conventional wisdom: "Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Obama?" http://www.forbes.com
  • 26 Jan 2013: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012): Great movies take you to new worlds. This is one. With characters as real and noble as they come. A+
  • 28 Jan 2013: Headline: "Sen. Cornyn: Hagel 'the wrong man' for Secretary of Defense." So? Cornyn is 'the wrong man' for Senate and we let him serve.
  • 29 Jan 2013: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain: Iraq war vets on a PR tour at Texas Stadium. Entertaining, enlightening, frustrating. B-
  • 29 Jan 2013: .@amiromar reveals electoral strategy: "there are enough UTD students that they could actually turn the vote." http://www.utdmercury.com
  • 29 Jan 2013: Amnesty! Amnesty! Amnesty! Curiously, it's the same chant from both sides. In one case a cheer, in the other a jeer.
  • 29 Jan 2013: Got a cat? Put a bell on it. http://www.bbc.co.uk
  • 29 Jan 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: Richardson 56, Lake Highlands 42. #txhsbb
  • 29 Jan 2013: Are those "Tree the Town" plantings I see on Collins Blvd east of Plano Rd? Woot!
  • 29 Jan 2013: Headline: "Atheist Scouts Need Not Apply." Discrimination against atheists is the last bigotry practiced openly in USA. http://www.realclearreligion.org
  • 29 Jan 2013: Confidential to @CookseyPR: Malcolm Baldrige award is not all it's cracked up to be.
  • 30 Jan 2013: Steve Mitchell endorses Laura Maczka for mayor of Richardson. That's one council member spoken for, four to go.
  • 31 Jan 2013: "Green Bay has won 22 times the number of championships (all of them football) than its size would predict." Go Pack! http://www.theatlanticcities.com
  • 31 Jan 2013: Don't believe anything @SenTedCruz quotes from w/o checking out the context yourself. Back at you: "Cruz describes "US as 'world's bully'."

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