Repeat tweets from June, 2013:
- 1 Jun 2013: MT @aviselk: "Irving ISD has private investigator looking into board President." Richardson ISD is well run. Reward good trustees, voters.
- 1 Jun 2013: Silver Linings Playbook (2012): Bipolar patient meets flipped out young widow. Somehow it works. Uncomfortable with a happy ending. B+
- 2 Jun 2013: Overheard: "I keep asking when they are going to hire a qualified person to run the Dyslexia program." And school board candidates. ;-)
- 2 Jun 2013: "We were put here on earth to help others. I'm not sure what others were put here for." -- W.H. Auden
- 2 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Obama Admin is using machinery of govt to target political enemies." Who needs evidence? Darrell Issa's "gut" is enough.
- 2 Jun 2013: Unfortunate choice of headline: "One-legged torso found floating in Venice lagoon has authorities stumped."
After the jump, more repeat tweets.
- 3 Jun 2013: Overheard (regarding traffic near Richardson's new park): "Maybe put in chicanes." Chicanes! Yes. Or curb bumps. Someone who gets it!
- 3 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Quick poll. Is it time to abolish the IRS?" #wacko
- 4 Jun 2013: LH Advocate: "A forum planned by the fine arts boosters clubs of RISD was canceled after Greenhaw agreed to participate & Chumney declined."
- 4 Jun 2013: News that Isn't: "Blacks more likely to get busted for pot than whites."
- 4 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "#SCOTUS decision in MD v King is an alarming step towards Big Brother.." Like collecting fingerprints of arrested. #wacko
- 5 Jun 2013: MT @JohnJHarwood: "Bob Dole calls Samantha Power 'eminently qualified' for UN." Which is Dole? A Republican facing a primary or retired?
- 5 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "MD v. King #SCOTUS decision undermines constitutional rights, poses real risks to liberty." Liberty of criminals, that is.
- 5 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "It's time to #AbolishtheIRS." Wonkblog: Ted Cruz unintentionally explains why we need the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com
- 6 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Disturbing pattern. Govt wants your DNA, prayer content & now...phone records? Where will it end?!" Gun registry, I hope.
- 6 Jun 2013: Overheard: "I attend school-related events all over LH every year. I have never encountered Mrs. Chumney at a single one." Oh, snap!
- 6 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "I made a friendly wager on the #NBAFinals w/ @MarcoRubio & @SenBillNelson." When will the rest of us get to gamble legally?
- 7 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid "admits" immigration bill is partisan." Partisan because GOP doesn't want reform. #wacko
- 7 Jun 2013: The real problem. In2011, Komen "spent a paltry15% of its donations on cancer research." www.salon.com
- 7 Jun 2013: 178,000 new private-sector jobs in May & 39 straight months of job growth. @SenTedCruz blames Obama. #wacko
- 8 Jun 2013: Headline: "Ted Cruz: Obama biggest obstacle to immigration reform, calls himself a 'proud wacko bird'." He's half right. #wacko
- 10 Jun 2013: Headline: "Stefani Carter mulls statewide campaign." I hoped that had Romney won, he'd take her to DC. Anywhere but representing RIchardson.
- 10 Jun 2013: 5 Broken Cameras (2012): Documentary of Palestinian village resisting Israeli settlements. Important history. Not compelling filmmaking. C+
- 11 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Trusting this Administration not to abuse power has become increasingly difficult." Like you were ever a big Obama backer.
- 11 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Speaking against immigration bill now." Didn't you say Obama was the biggest obstacle to immigration reform? #wacko
- 11 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "I very much want commonsense immigration reform to pass." No you don't. Now you're just being squishy on top of #wacko.
- 12 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Time to #AbolishtheIRS & reform tax code to be simple & flat." You would still need an IRS to collect a flat tax. #wacko
- 12 Jun 2013: Sen. John Carona (R-Dallas) named to Texas Monthly's list of ten worst legislators. That's my man! :-( www.texasmonthly.com
- 12 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Raising debt limit should take 60 votes, not just partisan majority." But a 41 vote partisan minority can crash economy?
- 12 Jun 2013: Headline: "Redskins have no plans to change their offense." Or their offensive, racist nickname, for that matter.
- 12 Jun 2013: Overheard: "Prayers for the sale of houses. ... Will start a novena."
- 13 Jun 2013: RT @BarackObama: "Tomorrow will be six months since #Newtown and Congress still has done nothing to prevent gun violence." @SenTedCruz?????
- 13 Jun 2013: MT@SenTedCruz: "fight back against assault on religious liberty." You mean fight religious liberty by making America Christian. #wacko
- 14 Jun 2013: I get Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Independence Day, when we fly the flag to honor our heroes. But Flag Day? Is that a meta holiday?
- 15 Jun 2013: "Iranians know hope." Word from Iran regarding Presidential election there. dish.andrewsullivan.com
- 16 Jun 2013: Headline: "RISD: Lopsided victory for Greenhaw" Turnout in Lake Highlands increases in runoff. lakehighlands.advocatemag.com
- 18 Jun 2013: .@SenTedCruz equates Syrian rebels with NRA. Or something. He sure isn't trying to do anything about gun violence in US. #wacko
- 18 Jun 2013: Overheard: "Opening the conversation with Agenda21 references from Fox News doesn't really elevate the conversation."
- 18 Jun 2013: MT @GrahamBlog: "#CBO report is proof immigration reform is good for our economy and will help reduce the deficit." Hear that, @SenTedCruz?
- 19 Jun 2013: The last 7 seconds of Heat/Spurs, full of non-calls by refs (fouls, traveling, whatever), reminds me why I don't usually watch NBA.
- 19 Jun 2013: Indie Game (2012): Nerds hope to get rich writing video games. Maybe if you're into Super Meat Boy or Fez. Even then, play, don't watch. D+
- 19 Jun 2013: .@SenTedCruz wants more nukes or something. His partisan grouching is getting harder to follow. #wacko
- 19 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "If legalization comes first, border security will never happen." Cruz knows if he can separate these, he can kill reform.
- 19 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "We'd be better served by Reagan's 'peace through strength' than Obama's 'peace with justice'". Reagan would back both.
- 19 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "The Gang of 8's immigration bill is a disaster." ... Because it actually reforms our broken, unjust immigration system???
- 20 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Gang of 8 bill gives employers an incentive to hire those here illegally over Americans." Then make them legal with rights.
- 20 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Washington is a bubble ..." Then, Cruz links to Rush Limbaugh. Today's nominee for award for unintended irony. #wacko
- 20 Jun 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Meanwhile the People's House is STILL closed for tours." The People's House is Congress, closed since GOP takeover in2010.
- 20 Jun 2013: Headline: "Zebra mussel discovered in Lewisville Lake." Meanwhile NTMWD races to build pipeline in what is certainly a futile effort.
- 20 Jun 2013: "Imagine smooth-flowing traffic and student-populated sidewalks" where LBJ/Skillman neighborhood is now just a mess. lakehighlands.advocatemag.com
- 20 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Let me suggest a simple rule. Don't give weapons to people who want to kill us." Background checks will help identify them.
- 20 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Don't arm al Qaida, those who hate us. and those who want to kill us." And don't arm criminals. Background checks.
- 21 Jun 2013: Overheard: "The rule is: If you're a Richardson business that wants to succeed, you must be a Hookah Bar." Who doesn't want to succeed?
- 21 Jun 2013: "Even if we double the size of US 75, we're still going to get congestion." Don't expect that to stop road-widening. www.pegasusnews.com
- 21 Jun 2013: Headline: "Food Network won't renew Paula Deen's contract." There's always Fox News.
- 21 Jun 2013: .@SenTedCruz, so get off Twitter and do your job. Read the legislation. You spend more time whining about Obama than passing laws. #wacko
- 23 Jun 2013: RT @jefflittlejohn: "Took me until halfway through to realize it, but Swamplandia! is a fantastic book." Agreed: www.marksteger.com
- 25 Jun 2013: The Turin Horse (2011): Farmer, daughter and Nietzsche's horse in a post-apocalyptic barren landscape, a la Bergman. Dry as a dust storm. C-
- 25 Jun 2013: Headline: "High Court Strikes Down Key Provision of Voting Rights Act." Conservatives are suddenly just fine with activist judges. ;-)
- 25 Jun 2013: RT @stefani_carter: "Senate Democrats plan to kill the SB 5 fetal pain bill with a13-hour filibuster." Also kills the war-on-women bill.
- 26 Jun 2013: RT @stefani_carter: "DEWHURST: SB 5 WAS NOT PASSED IN TIME. IT WILL NOT BECOME LAW." A win for women! #StandWithWendy @WendyDavisTexas
- 26 Jun 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Until Pres. nominates a State Dept. IG, I'll place a hold on all State Dept. nominations." Latest excuse for not governing.
- 26 Jun 2013: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami: Missing wife, old war crime, dream world, evil. Riveting. More questions than answers. B+
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