Repeat Tweets: Talking Back

Repeat tweets from February, 2013:

• Feb 1 2013: 38 references to Afghanistan vs 178 to Israel in Senate hearing on Hagel. Amazing lack of interest in war by @SenTedCruz and GOP senators.
  
• Feb 1 2013: Headline: "Stocks hit 5-yr highs on upbeat jobs report." Meanwhile, @SenTedCruz introduces bill to repeal Obamacare.
  
• Feb 1 2013: Read and retweet my warning not to believe anything @SenTedCruz quotes, without checking the context for yourself.
  
• Feb 1 2013: RT @BetseyStevenson: "Over the past 3 months the private sector added 624K jobs, while the govt lost 24K jobs." So much for bloated govt.
  
• Feb 1 2013: RT @ryanavent: "Employment now up 5.5m from low in Feb 2010. That's plus 6.1m private jobs, minus 600k govt jobs." So much for bloated govt.
  
• Feb 1 2013: "Reduced govt spending [is] a drag on recovery. The public sector lost 9,000 jobs last month." So much for govt bloat. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
  
• Feb 2 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: Berkner 53, Pearce 48. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  
• Feb 2 2013: Little Shop of Horrors at RHS: Intimate setting works well. The macabre has never been this much fun. Feed me! www.marksteger.com
  
• Feb 3 2013: Headline: "Watch the Throne: No. 1 ranking awaits Indiana" after #3 Hoosiers beat #1 Michigan. sports.yahoo.com
  
• Feb 3 2013: Bye Bye Birdie at BHS: A+ all around -- orchestra, lead singers, chorus, choreography, comic acting (Shriners hilarious). Best sound ever.
  
• Feb 3 2013: Caltech's baseball team beat Pacifica 9-7 Saturday. The win ended a 228-game, 10-year losing streak. Go Beavers! www.usatoday.com
  

After the jump, more repeat tweets.

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• Feb 4 2013: Football should be played outdoors in the daylight, the way God and Lombardi intended (but I repeat myself). #SuperBowl blackout
  
• Feb 4 2013: Meanwhile, somewhere Jerry Jones is smugly smiling. #SuperBowl blackout
  
• Feb 4 2013: Don Draper would not be impressed. #SuperBowl ads
  
• Feb 4 2013: Ravens win #SuperBowl. Joe Flacco named MVP. Flacco says it's hard to believe. America agrees.
  
• Feb 4 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "What we need is less government.." Say it. Cruz means no Social Security, no Medicare, no Medicaid. Just say it.
  
• Feb 5 2013: RT @stefani_carter: "Rep. Carter is already working hard on the Appropriation Committee this morning." LOL. Tweeting is not "working hard."
  
• Feb 5 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "@m_rhee: 'Are we beholden to public school system or public school child?'" The child, which is why we support system.
  
• Feb 5 2013: RISD applauds court's ruling that Texas' school finance system is unconstitutional. www.risd.org
  
• Feb 6 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "If jobs & growth are goal, we need plan to cut spending & lower taxes." He's half right.
  
• Feb 6 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: W.T. White 56, Berkner 62. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  
• Feb 6 2013: Northwestern AD announces football at Wrigley Field: "As Chicago's Big Ten Team, this is a natural fit." No, football doesn't fit Wrigley.
  
• Feb 6 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "RT for #FullRepeal!" How many millions will lose health insurance if Cruz gets his way and Obamacare is repealed?
  
• Feb 6 2013: "What's conservative about letting wolves run free through the village? Austin isn't conservative. It's just pro-wolf." blogs.dallasobserver.com
  
• Feb 6 2013: "Boehner: We need 'adult leadership' in Washington." Write your own punchline
  
• Feb 7 2013: Wow. It's not often press holds their own to account. "Occam's Razor: Dick Morris is a sleazy liar." -- David Weigel www.slate.com
  
• Feb 7 2013: Conservative take on Agenda 21: "Lowering costs & conserving resources is always a good idea - even if the UN agrees." www.thedailybeast.com
  
• Feb 8 2013: Krauthammer: "Of course, the sequester is terrible policy." So, naturally, he says he's for it. He's a lousy bluffer. www.washingtonpost.com
  
• Feb 8 2013: RT @RichardsonHS1: "Last day to turn in AP exam scholarship applications. Turn in at A207 no later than 4:15!" Won't interfere with 4:20.
  
• Feb 8 2013: .@SharonFGrigsby says DMN op/eds are chosen 5 days ahead. No wonder DMN feels even staler than daily newspaper needs to. dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/
  
• Feb 9 2013: @DonMcLeroy, Darwin's Dead Idea??? On what planet? Not even most religions think that.
  
• Feb 9 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: Berkner 71, Richardson 50. It's a great time to be a Ram! District 9-5A champions. #txhsbb
  
• Feb 9 2013: Once again @SenTedCruz wants to screw workers just because they happen to work in the public sector.
  
• Feb 10 2013: West Side Story at PHS: Everyone loves the songs, but it's the dancing that really sets this musical apart. Huge Pearce cast nails it.
  
• Feb 10 2013: RT @mattyglesias: "Starbucks attempting to address its bad coffee problem." Glad to learn I'm not only one who didn't love Starbucks coffee.
  
• Feb 10 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Obama has yet to make unemployment his top priority." Sad but true. On other hand, he's stopping GOP rush to austerity.
  
• Feb 11 2013: Breaking: Pope resigns, saying he wants to spend more time coaching Little League. #IsThatCode
  
• Feb 11 2013: Old pope/new pope: You're doing it wrong. / Am not. / Are too. / I should know, I'm infallible. / No, I'm infallible.
  
• Feb 12 2013: MT @MikeHashimoto: "Spending denialism." I see what he means. Or not. Conventional wisdom is impervious to facts. www.slate.com
  
• Feb 12 2013: Breaking: @SenTedCruz and @JohnCornyn refuse to act to prevent violence against women. thinkprogress.org
  
• Feb 12 2013: @budkennedy, you really have a Fort Worth inferiority complex. Forget about Dallas. Dallas never thinks about Fort Worth, good or bad.
  
• Feb 13 2013: High school men's basketball. Final: Skyline 33, Berkner 54. It's a great time to be a Ram! Undefeated district season 14-0. #txhsbb
  
• Feb 13 2013: @JonathanNeerman defends Americans' voting experience, implying the snafus aren't part of reason voting rates are low.
  
• Feb 13 2013: Rather than reach across the aisle and propose pro-growth policies, @SenTedCruz chooses to embrace obstructionism. #PotKettle
  
• Feb 13 2013: @SenTedCruz only knows how to slash Medicare and Social Security. He has no idea how to grow economy. #PotKettle
  
• Feb 13 2013: @MikeHashimoto finds his 2013 DMN Texan of the Year: someone who doesn't like President Obama.
  
• Feb 13 2013: "60% of GOP supported path to citizenship in a poll, but total dropped to 39% when Obama’s support was mentioned." nymag.com
  
• Feb 13 2013: MT @WayneSlater: "Rick Perry says Calif-bashing radio ad 'doing what it was intended to do, getting people talking.'" Just like "oops" did.
  
• Feb 13 2013: "Fort Worth has been working up a mad for Dallas lately." -- @BudKennedy. Makes Steve Blow sound smart: "Who cares?" www.star-telegram.com
  
• Feb 13 2013: Another blow to conventional wisdom: "Actually the Deficit is Falling Too Fast" www.thedailybeast.com
  
• Feb 13 2013: Another blow to conventional wisdom: "Our borders have, in fact, never been stronger." -- Janet Napolitano. tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com
  
• Feb 13 2013: "Why don't we eat horse?" Are you kidding? It's because ... it's because ... Don't be ridiculous. Are you kidding? blogs.reuters.com
  
• Feb 15 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Today the Senate rightly voted to continue debate on Sen. Chuck Hagel's nomination." After @SenTedCruz's McCarthyism.
  
• Feb 15 2013: Lake Highlands Advocate headline: "Kroger ‘Express Checkout Line’ drops exact count limit." Not The Onion. lakehighlands.advocatemag.com
  
• Feb 15 2013: RT @georgepbush: "What do you think lawmakers should be doing [about education] during session?" Start by restoring funding cut last session
  
• Feb 15 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Global impact of #ShaleOil could revolutionize world energy markets." Revolutionize? No. Extend fossil fuels a bit? Yes.
  
• Feb 15 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "TX students: Are you interested in interning in one of our offices?" Great opportunity to see modern McCarthyism in action
  
• Feb 16 2013: High school men's basketball. District 9-5A 4th place playoff game. Final: Skyline 63, Lake Highlands 46. #txhsbb
  
• Feb 16 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "#ZeroDarkThirty writer Mark Boal: 'Our movie was hijacked for political purposes.'" He's crying all the way to the bank.
  
• Feb 17 2013: Safety Not Guaranteed (2012): Time travel, tin foil hats, govt agents, investigative reporters, catfishing, ultimately a change of heart. A-
  
• Feb 17 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Last week might have been good time for me to take my advice on not reading NYT." And for all not to listen to @SenTedCruz
  
• Feb 17 2013: Richardson historian Andrew Lang describes POW life in Texas during the Civil War: "Captivity in Black and White" opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com … …
  
• Feb 17 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Unhappy birthday to stimulus! What does $1 trillion get you?" Avoiding another Great Depression. Thank stimulus for that.
  
• Feb 17 2013: @MikeHashimoto, I'll see your gun stat and raise you one. Gun death rate in Mass. is lowest in nation. www.vpc.org.htm
  
• Feb 19 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Visiting rifle manufacturers for press conference on defending 2nd Amendment." How about reducing gun violence, too?
  
• Feb 19 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Proud to help lead the fight to defend our Second Amendment rights." How about being proud of reducing gun violence, too.
  
• Feb 19 2013: MT @mattyglesias: "What share of GDP will Medicare spending account for in 2045?" Real Medicare or something called Medicare in 2045?
  
• Feb 20 2013: High school men's basketball. UIL Playoffs - 1st round. Final: Berkner 59, McKinney Boyd 48. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  
• Feb 20 2013: MT @TheWarRoomCTV: "Freshman disorientation: Is Ted Cruz becoming the GOP’s worst nightmare?" bit.ly
  
• Feb 20 2013: Headline: "John Cornyn pushes back on Ted Cruz-as-guidestar narrative." After first checking with Cruz, presumably. trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/
  
• Feb 20 2013: As March 1 nears, @MikeHashimoto sounds in denial of debt crisis and the consequence his GOP team voted for. #PotKettle
  
• Feb 20 2013: Headline: "Internet moves to ad-based CAPTCHA." I can't stop websites using ad-based CAPTCHA, but I can hate them. news.yahoo.com
  
• Feb 20 2013: MT @teainfo: "Congratulations to Barbara Cargill who was confirmed as chair of the State Board of Education." Throw out your science books.
  
• Feb 20 2013: @budkennedy, "The Dallas 2024 Committee is a grassroots organization ... who share a common goal of engaging all of North Texas."
  
• Feb 20 2013: @budkennedy, how is it "clear" there's no intention of DFW-wide cooperation? "About Dallas2024" mentions Arlington, Frisco and North Texas.
  
• Feb 20 2013: RT @budkennedy: "If everybody isn't represented on the committee, they're lying about their common goal." Lying? Unsubstantiated charge.
  
• Feb 21 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Dems don't quite know what sort of spending problem we have..." Sure they do. @MikeHashimoto, erector of straw men.
  
• Feb 21 2013: @MikeHashimoto, With "Tailgunner" Ted Cruz as their point man, are the gun-rights advocates really serious? #PotKettle
  
• Feb 21 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obama should withdraw Hagel’s nomination. He lacks the trust & confidence needed to serve." So do you. So? #PotKettle
  
• Feb 21 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Re universal preschool: Before we argue cost, does it even work? Evidence says no." Evidence says yes. #BothSides
  
• Feb 21 2013: Headline: "Woman shot by oven while trying to cook waffles." We just need to arm all cooks. usnews.nbcnews.com
  
• Feb 22 2013: @MikeHashimoto, how GOP crazily rejects good ideas, even their own ideas, if Obama agrees they are good ideas. NationalJournal.com
  
• Feb 22 2013: @MikeHashimoto, Heritage's @amympayne creates fanciful work of fiction on sequester, in the style of Seuss. Just makes up stuff. #Fact
  
• Feb 23 2013: High school men's basketball, UIL playoffs round 2 final: Berkner 81, Mesquite Horn 54. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  
• Feb 23 2013: @MikeHashimoto, the problem with guns is that most gun tragedies are the result of legally-owned guns: accidents, arguments, suicides.
  
• Feb 23 2013: @MikeHashimoto, sequester passed both houses of Congress and was signed by President. Everybody owns it. Now, GOP likes it more than ever.
  
• Feb 23 2013: @SenTedCruz is shocked -- shocked -- to discover that Americans don't want a revival of McCarthyism in the US Senate in 2013. #CruzNoBogart
  
• Feb 24 2013: Flight (2012): Alcohol, drugs, gratuitous sex, then an exciting plane crash 30 minutes into movie. Should have ended there. Formulaic. C-
  
• Feb 24 2013: Newsflash to @SenTedCruz: You're now part of DC ruling class keeping popular positions from passing Congress in favor of Tea Party minority.
  
• Feb 25 2013: And the Oscar for Best Picture goes to ... Argo, also known as Jingo Unchained.
  
• Feb 25 2013: "Comet Town will have coffee shops, sandwich shops, maybe a pub or two." Laura Maczka talks to the UTD student paper. www.utdmercury.com
  
• Feb 25 2013: RT @TheCourtMarie: "We visited @SenTedCruz's new DC Senate office this afternoon!" Any chance it's Sen. Joe McCarthy's old office? #RedScare
  
• Feb 26 2013: Drift, by Rachel Maddow: How war powers have shifted from Congress to President. By a liberal but lessons for all except maybe neo-cons. B-
  
• Feb 26 2013: Don't fall for fake Norman Thomas quotes on socialism. Fact-checking can be your friend. www.snopes.com.asp
  
• Feb 26 2013: @SenTedCruz, yes, KY progressives were out of line. Like you were in your attacks on Sen Hagel. You burned your own credibility. #PotKettle
  
• Feb 26 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "hope concerns on Hagel's record are proven wrong." Like the rest of us hope concerns on Cruz's record are. #PotKettle
  
• Feb 27 2013: High school men's basketball, UIL playoffs round 3 final: Berkner 66, Dallas Jesuit 57. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  
• Feb 27 2013: Berkner beats Jesuit to advance to Sweet Sixteen. Fact: Conclave of cardinals to choose pope is also called the Sweet Sisteen! #JesuitHumor
  
• Feb 27 2013: Headline: "$7 million legal tab and Farmers Branch is going back to court?" Thanks, Richardson, for not being FB. dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/
  
• Feb 27 2013: @MikeHashimoto: Re: Sequester and rounding error. How about folks wetting their pants over infrastructure reinvestment? Same rounding error.
  
• Feb 27 2013: MT @mattyglesias: Has @MikeHashimoto "decided yet whether the sequester is Obama’s fault, or a good idea that cuts spending?"
  
• Feb 27 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Calif. high-speed rail saga, still hilarious." High-speed rail in FL, OH and WI even more hilarious.
  
• Feb 28 2013: @SenTedCruz says media attacks a sign 'We're Doing Something Right.' The Kardashians must be doing everything right. www.huffingtonpost.com
  
• Feb 28 2013: RT @RTPModerator: "Cruz Beats Senate Gun Witnesses At Statistics Game." So, it's all a game to @SenTedCruz. It's life and death to victims.
  
• Feb 28 2013: In East Texas, a school district decided to send custodians to gun training--and now one has shot himself in the leg www.kltv.com
  
• Feb 28 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "What an incredible two months! Wanted to update you about what I'm working on in DC." Oh, we know already, Sen. McCarthy.
  
• Feb 28 2013: W00t! House passes Violence Against Women Act. Don't surrender, @RTPModerator. Tell us again why the war against women is worth waging.
  
• Feb 28 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Congress must get serious about reducing federal spending." No, Congress must get serious about sustaining the recovery.