Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Repeat Tweets: Ted and Mike and Me

Repeat tweets from April, 2013:

  • 2 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "UN Arms Treaty should be rejected. It's international gun regulation, plain and simple." Leftover #AprilFools tweet, right?
  • 2 Apr 2013: Headline: "In Nelson, Georgia., you now have to own a gun." I thought mandates were supposed to be tyranny.
  • 2 Apr 2013: Hard to imagine, but print dinosaurs like @MikeHashimoto still use terms like "Chicago union thugs."
  • 4 Apr 2013: .@SenTedCruz, folks in Lubbock have some of the worst uninsured rates in the nation. That's the result when govt gets out of the way. #wacko
  • 4 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Obama gives Hollywood a pass on violence." His hands are full trying to reduce real gun violence.
  • 4 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Cut extravagant parties at the White House-not cancer treatment for Medicare patients." Really? Have you no shame? #wacko
  • 5 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "We must champion growth & it won't come from politicians in DC." No, but politicians demanding austerity can kill growth.
  • 5 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Don't blame sequester for awful jobs report, says even the NYT." @MikeHashimoto suddenly likes NYT. Who knew?
  • 5 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "over 4 years after financial crisis, the economy is gasping for breath." So, quit choking it. #NoToAusterity #wacko

After the jump, more repeat tweets.


  • 6 Apr 2013: .@MikeHashimoto @SusanCombs, after an avg of $4 billion/yr in subsidies, oil companies don't need any more windfalls from Congress.
  • 7 Apr 2013: Amir Omar responded to Bike Friendly Richardson's Mayor & Council Survey: bikefriendlyrichardson.org
  • 7 Apr 2013: RT @matthewhaag: "Dallas Morning News wins Newspaper of the Year." Also known as "Last Man Standing" award.
  • 8 Apr 2013: It's funny that they call the discussion at council meetings "deliberations" when deliberating is the last thing they're really doing.
  • 8 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Will Rubio roll over or walk away?" Seriously? Those are his only two options?
  • 8 Apr 2013: Headline: "US Treasury chief urges EU to ease off austerity." In other words, do as US says, don't do as US does.
  • 8 Apr 2013: Since when did NCAA basketball refs start using the football rule book to call games? I. Hate. It. #ncaachamp
  • 9 Apr 2013: A tweet unrelated to me that nevertheless hits close to home today: "Priceless. I can see that every writer gets the readers he deserves."
  • 10 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." No more true than with capitalism.
  • 10 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Our rights as Americans matter most in times of crisis." Then you admit that gun violence is a crisis. What are you doing?
  • 10 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz "We must vigorously protect #2ndAmendment & Bill of Rights." Good. Don't forget to take steps to reduce gun violence, too.
  • 10 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "How 1960s radicals ended up teaching your kids." And I thought it was because we all married and had children.
  • 11 Apr 2013: The Time Keeper, by Mitch Albom: Modern fable of Father Time. For those with too much time or too little. A waste of my time. C+
  • 11 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "#2ndAmendment rights of law-abiding Americans should not be up for debate." They aren't. Do something about gun violence.
  • 11 Apr 2013: MT @MikeHashimoto: "Release of Obama budget allows media to perpetuate myth of his centrism." Instead of his socialist-Muslim-Kenyan-ism.
  • 11 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz "Why is the Senate voting on a bill no one has even read?" Why did you promise to filibuster a bill that wasn't even written?
  • 11 Apr 2013: MT @RichardsonEDP: "@UT_Dallas business school ranks among best business schools in nation: bit.ly." According to @UT_Dallas
  • 12 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "GreenTech proving an embarrassment and another crony-capitalism horror tale." Like dirty tech, only planet not ruined.
  • 12 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "It's no coincidence that April begins w/ April Fools Day..." It's no coincidence Cruz is very familiar with April Fools.
  • 12 Apr 2013: .@MikeHashimoto ignores media's coverage of Philly abortion doc's house of horrors. www.religiondispatches.org #PotKettle
  • 12 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "The goal of the background check legislation is a national gun registry." No it isn't, but then what? Confiscation? #Wacko
  • 13 Apr 2013: Argo (2012): Gripping suspense. Feel-good ending. Based on real historical events, with a few too many literary liberties taken. A-
  • 14 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "RT if you stand against a national gun registry!" RT if you stand against @SenTedCruz's straw man argument. #Wacko
  • 14 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "'You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.' - Margaret Thatcher" Like Cruz refighting McCarthyism. #Wacko
  • 15 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "It'll take avg taxpayer 46 yrs of paying taxes to pay for 1 robosquirrel. That's just nutty!" OTOH, Cruz's salary is #wacko
  • 15 Apr 2013: MT @MikeHashimoto: "85% approve of people 'doing everything within the law to lower their taxes.'" Is rigging the law within the law?
  • 16 Apr 2013: MT @MikeHashimoto: "Thomas Sowell: Amid all the emotion, have you heard any hard evidence that more gun control reduces murder?" Yes.
  • 16 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Yes, there's a #Gosnell trial coverup by the big news orgs." I wish there were a coverup of the whining about coverup.
  • 16 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "It is a disgrace Senate is not giving Thatcher the honor she is due." It's a disgrace Cruz does nothing about gun violence.
  • 16 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Freudian slip? Sen. Harry Reid calls bill 'anti-gun legislation'" Cruz's opposition to Reid suggests Cruz is "pro-gun."
  • 16 Apr 2013: MT @SenKenPaxton: "Today TX Senate passed legislation I authored that promotes local control ..." for sales taxes for transit, too, please.
  • 16 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Under no circumstance should Congress undermine our constitutional right to keep and bear arms." Background checks don't.
  • 17 Apr 2013: .@SenTedCruz, I thought the saying was, "If you set out to be an ass, you will compromise on nothing, and would achieve nothing." #wacko
  • 17 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Rather than restrict rights, should focus on keeping guns out of hands of violent criminals." Universal background checks!
  • 17 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Pathway to a national gun registry defeated..." Now background checks are "pathway," not gun registry Cruz claimed. #wacko
  • 19 Apr 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Furloughs, air traffic control tower closures & delays on the way..." Thanks to sequester. Thanks to Cruz. #Wacko
  • 20 Apr 2013: Life of Pi (2012): Boy and tiger adrift in lifeboat on ocean. Beautiful fable of survival and the way of God. Which story do you prefer? A+
  • 21 Apr 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Why oppose a meaningless win for anti-gun zealots?" Anti-gun zealots? Biased much? #Wacko
  • 23 Apr 2013: Head Games (2012): Exposé of concussions in sport: football, hockey, even soccer. Mamas, don't let you sons grow up to play football. A-
  • 24 Apr 2013: Think you don't need to worry about backups because everything's on Google? Think again. www.slate.com.html
  • 24 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Happy to work w/ anyone if it means we're protecting constitutional liberties." But not to reduce gun violence. #Wacko
  • 25 Apr 2013: Maybe what most infuriates me about this City of Richardson election is that it has reduced me to making Stalin references on my blog. :-(
  • 25 Apr 2013: .@AmirOmar at Richardson mayoral forum: "500 pot plants in a grow house. That's a lot of smoking in the bedroom."
  • 25 Apr 2013: Despite my frustration with the Richardson mayor's race, it's stories like this that make me thankful for my city. www.mysanantonio.com.php
  • 25 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Unfortunately, Internet sales tax vote occurred while I was in Texas." Welcome home. Stick around as long as you want.
  • 26 Apr 2013: .@amiromar's mailer today quotes @lauramaczka out of context, then calls for a full retreat from mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly development.
  • 29 Apr 2013: RT if you agree with @SenTedCruz's desire to give schools a loophole to escape accountability for teaching students the 3 R's. #Wacko
  • 30 Apr 2013: Headline: "S&P500 hits all-time high." If Obama's a socialist, he's doing it wrong.
  • 30 Apr 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Obamacare is working 'fine'?" Yes. It's on its way to insuring millions of Americans. Cruz's alternative is just say no.
  • 30 Apr 2013: Overheard: "Sprawl is sprawl whether it is horizontal or vertical."
  • 30 Apr 2013: Overheard: "Poor little stinker. He runs a sectarian blog site that runs stories from homosexual high school gladiators."
  • 30 Apr 2013: Overheard: "He is kind of a know-it-all and I don't think he is that knowledgeable."

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