Repeat tweets from August, 2013:
- 1 Aug 2013: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz: Brief not wondrous. Maybe more than you want to know of Dominican culture. Still... B-
- 1 Aug 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Anti-Assad priest kidnapped by al Qaida jihadis in #Syria. Prayers for Father Paolo." Prayers for the 100,000 killed.
- 3 Aug 2013: Overheard: "FREE 'No Spanish Village Walmart' yard signs. Use butcher paper to cover them and make a school/Girl Scouts/lemonade sign."
- 3 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "al Qaida still a threat. The more reason to find out what happened at #Benghazi." Why not shut down CIA like IRS? #wacko
- 4 Aug 2013: Detropia (2012): Scenes from the hollowing out of a great American city, Detroit. No politics, no preaching, no prescriptions, no hope. C+
- 4 Aug 2013: RT @TomPauken: "Republican candidate yesterday claimed to be a Reaganite." Pauken moves from '60s to '80s. No longer fighting Vietnam War.
- 4 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obama told us al Qaida was on the run. Today many US embassies are closed in face of new terror threats." He sounds giddy.
After the jump, more repeat tweets.
- 5 Aug 2013: Amazon's Bezos and The Washington Post. The Gilded Age is back.
- 5 Aug 2013: MT @rodgermjones: "I'm embarrassed to be suspicious of the government's terror alert." Embarrassment is the first step to recovery.
- 5 Aug 2013: MT @Jeffreyweissdmn: "A-Rod contract with NY Yankees: $275 mil. Price for Washington Post: $250 mil. sigh." Spoken like a religion writer.
- 6 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "With embassies closed, perhaps sending terrorists from GTMO to Yemen isn't the best idea." Cruz sounds giddy. #wacko
- 6 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "Maggie Thatcher said too many politicians want to be somebody, instead of doing things." Tom Pauken, stuck in the '80s.
- 6 Aug 2013: Headline: "Mitt Romney trashes Ted Cruz-style brinkmanship on government shutdown." @SenTedCruz grins like a fox. trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com.html/ …
- 7 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "There is a better way to fund property-poor school districts than the Robin Hood scheme." Tell us the better way.
- 7 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Now is the best time & opportunity to defeat Obamacare." No, 2009 was the time to defeat it. It passed. Now, make it work.
- 7 Aug 2013: Headline: "Al Qaeda Conference Call Intercepted by U.S. Officials Sparked Alerts." Will @SenTedCruz demand hearings?
- 7 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "The wheels are coming off Obamacare." In fact, as furiously as Cruz spins his lug wrench, the wheels are turning fine.
- 7 Aug 2013: There's a War on Women being waged in Texas and women are losing. Fewer women receiving health care at 10x the cost. www.dallasnews.com.ece
- 8 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Texans know better. They want to #DefundObamacare." Some do. Others want health insurance. Serve *all* your constituents.
- 8 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: Obamacare is killing jobs and our economy. Let's stop it." Economy is coming back, despite Cruz's attempt to sabotage it.
- 9 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Majority of Americans agree Obamacare will be disaster." Majority of Americans have been lied to by Cruz and GOP. #wacko
- 9 Aug 2013: MT @mattyglesias: "Future economic history books won’t have footnotes, they’ll have hyperlinks." Same as having every footnote number 404.
- 9 Aug 2013: MT @KenPaxtonTX: "Proposed law in #SanAntonio discriminates against people of faith!" No, it doesn't. It's an ANTI-discrimination law. Liar.
- 10 Aug 2013: Hyde Park on Hudson (2012): FDR mothered by houseful of women. Intimate look at bigger than life man. Downton Abbey in a funhouse mirror. B-
- 10 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obamacare: Putting Americans out of work and on to welfare." Cruz is obsessed with denying 30m Americans health insurance.
- 11 Aug 2013: The Invisible War (2012): Culture of rape in US military. Victims are blamed. Rapists are not prosecuted. Shameful. Shameful. Shameful. A+
- 11 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Think Obamacare is bad?" Since you asked, no. What's bad is your obsession with denying 30m Americans health insurance.
- 12 Aug 2013: Headline: "Richardson man accidentally shoots wife while reloading handgun." www.upi.com
- 12 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Fund government, not Obamacare!" Like Obamacare isn't govt. Guess your argument that Obamacare is big govt isn't selling.
- 13 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Hardworking Americans are forced to face brunt of Obamacare." No, they benefit. Cruz wants to take away your health care.
- 13 Aug 2013: Pete Sessions rallied the base at town hall meetings in 2009. This year? He's ducking the voters. www.nytimes.com.html
- 14 Aug 2013: A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers: A hollow man trying to do business in Saudi Arabia. A hollow novel. Waiting for King Godot. C+
- 14 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obama thinks these are OK for drug cartel members but not you." Remind me, what are you doing to reduce gun violence?
- 14 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Remember when Pres Obama promised not to raise taxes on middle class?" Promise kept. Taxes are lower under Obama than Bush.
- 15 Aug 2013: Back to the Future: Dole Kemp 96 Web Site. Ironically, still about 100 yrs ahead of where @SenTedCruz would take us. www.dolekemp96.org.htm
- 16 Aug 2013: Seven episodes to go. Flashback: Walt watching Scarface: "Everyone dies in this movie, don't they?" #BreakingBad
- 16 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "What occurred in Egypt was a coup; US must send msg that we are a nation of laws." Because Egypt listens to messages.
- 18 Aug 2013: Headline: "Adios, Reality: Texas Culture Wars Take a Madcap Turn." CSCOPE, the Tea Party and tin foil hats. www.texasobserver.org
- 18 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "Jeanne Kirkpatrick said she left Democratic Party because of San Francisco Democrats." In 2013, Pauken mired in the 1980s.
- 19 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "My mistake." Are you kidding? Pauken is so stuck in the past he conflates Jane Fonda, Ann Richards & Wendy Davis. It's 2013.
- 19 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "Abbott isn't a Conservative." Pauken blasts Abbott for a lot of things, but not for calling someone "retard Barbie."
- 19 Aug 2013: Overheard: "I clicked on the link and found it to be redirects to porn websites and I was applaud." Hmm, does that mean he liked it?
- 19 Aug 2013: Irving city leaders "need to stop eating their young," Irving City Manager Tommy Gonzalez said, then burped. frontburner.dmagazine.com
- 19 Aug 2013: Obamacare is a great help for Americans w/o health insurance and a great help to @SenTedCruz fundraising. Win-win!
- 19 Aug 2013: .@SenTedCruz: "I will renounce any Canadian citizenship" Why now? It's not like he's running for President or anything. #wacko
- 20 Aug 2013: Headline: "Americans Could Get 'Addicted' to Obamacare, Cruz Warns Tea Party." Meaning they'd like it once @SenTedCruz's lies are exposed.
- 20 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Why is Obama not willing to give Obamacare waivers to all Americans?" All have responsibility not to burden the rest.
- 20 Aug 2013: MT @ezraklein: "Health costs are growing really slowly." wapo.st @SenTedCruz hasn’t noticed. Too busy defunding Obamacare.
- 20 Aug 2013: .@BarackObama welcomes Sunny, a Portuguese water dog, to the First Family, after first demanding he renounce his Portuguese citizenship.
- 20 Aug 2013: .@SenTedCruz, Fact: GOP premium support plan would cause seniors to lose current health insurance. #wacko Obamacare preserves Medicare.
- 20 Aug 2013: MT @ThomasARoberts: "Is Ted Cruz, born in Canada, eligible to be president?" You mean eligible as in qualified, suitable, acceptable? LOL
- 20 Aug 2013: RT @AngieChenButton: "Enjoyed spending the evening with the North Texas Tea Party." Race will come down to who best panders to base.
- 20 Aug 2013: Don't believe @SenTedCruz. MT @MotherJones: "Healthcare Premiums Not Soaring and Full-Time Jobs Not Disappearing." mojo.ly
- 21 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." Yes! You can't lose it because you get sick. Cruz doesn't want this.
- 21 Aug 2013: MT @KA_Willey: "Abbott should denounce his foul-mouthed Twitter follower." And @TomPauken should criticize Abbott, not condone by silence.
- 21 Aug 2013: Headline: "Report: NRA keeps database of gun owners and potential members." Write your own joke.
- 21 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Can we #DefundObamacare? With your help #YesWeCan!" You mean some way we can express our opinion like in the 2012 election?
- 21 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Hearing from small biz owners in Kerrville about Obamacare's impact on them." You got an earful from people in Dallas. LOL.
- 21 Aug 2013: Overheard: "3 cop cars at house close to Weatherred and Beltline." "Which house?" "2nd from corner." "A brothel?" Write your own joke.
- 22 Aug 2013: How to Survive a Plague (2012): History of movement to get govt to accelerate AIDS research as millions died. Forgotten today. Our loss. B+
- 22 Aug 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "FACT: Under Obamacare millions of seniors will face HIGHER premiums." FACT: Under CruzCare, Medicare is history. #wacko
- 22 Aug 2013: MT @KenPaxtonTX "DOJ is suing Texas over #VoterID law. Sign our petition if you oppose the feds meddling." Petition as legal defense! #wacko
- 22 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "Texas needs a Governor who will join forces with the #freemarket not Obama administration." Pauken calls Obama a communist.
- 23 Aug 2013: MT @TomPauken: "Holder sues Texas to stop voter ID law. Texas needs to be rid of this." Yes! Voter ID law is discriminatory. Get rid of it.
- 23 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "FACT: Obamacare is likely to reduce patient access to physicians." FACT: Obamacare gives 30m uninsured access to doctors.
- 26 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obamacare is disastrous for individuals, businesses, and doctors alike." And kittens. And baby pandas, too. #wacko
- 26 Aug 2013: "Ted Cruz, a man who combines Sarah Palin’s worldview, Richard Nixon’s commitment to fair play, and Al Gore’s folksy charm." - Peter Beinart
- 26 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obamacare will drive 1000s of physicians out of the workforce." Those who think being a woman is a pre-existing condition.
- 27 Aug 2013: Being Elmo (2011): Documentary of a puppeteer. Behind the scenes on Sesame Street. Too sweet. Maybe should have picked Oscar the Grouch. C+
- 27 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "More Obama DOJ ridiculousness..." You can believe it, because if there's anyone who knows ridiculousness, it's @SenTedCruz.
- 27 Aug 2013: MT @KenPaxtonTX: "Photo ID is required to board a plane, drive a car, and cash a check...why not to vote?" Voting is a fundamental right.
- 29 Aug 2013: MT @stefani_carter: "I posted a new photo to Facebook." You know, you can post photos to Twitter, too. Don't tell us on Twitter, show us.
- 29 Aug 2013: Headline: "Perot Foundation announces $1 million gift to Planned Parenthood of Texas." Score one for women's health. www.dallasnews.com
- 30 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Why isn’t Admin prosecuting felons&fugitives who illegally try to purchase firearms?" Now, you're just trolling us. #wacko
- 30 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obamacare's standards will likely make your health plan more expensive." Obamacare means 30m will now have a health plan.
- 30 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz "Sad story, Obamacare causing many to lose their doctors." Before Obamacare, 30m couldn't afford doctors. Now, that's sad.
- 30 Aug 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "No one wants to shut govt down." Cruz does. Making ridiculous Obamacare demands is just his means to do it. #wacko
- 30 Aug 2013: High school football opening game. Final: Berkner 7, South Garland 35. #txhsfb
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