Repeat tweets from December, 2015:
- 1 Dec 2015: Final: Naaman Forest 64, Berkner 52. #txhshoops is baaack!
- 2 Dec 2015: RT @SenTedCruz: "Scientific conclusions should be based on the evidence & data, not the wishes of liberal global warming alarmists." @SenTedCruz is trolling us.
- 2 Dec 2015: What's the difference between the KKK and the Irving anti-Islamists? One is a group of racist bigots and the other wears hoods.
- 3 Dec 2015: MT @cressman: "When you live outside the US you think Americans are nuts regarding guns." Inside the US you *know*.
After the jump, more repeat tweets.
- 4 Dec 2015: RT @JimPethokoukis: "Since January 2010, full-time employment has increased by 10.1 million, part-time employment has declined by 43,000." Wait, @PeteSessions keeps telling me that Obamacare is resulting in lost fulltime jobs and more part-time jobs.
- 4 Dec 2015: "The Packers, who had lost four of five, improved to 8-4. The Lions (4-8) remained the Lions." nj.com
- 4 Dec 2015: "87 percent of children killed by guns in 23 of the world's most developed, wealthiest countries were Americans." vox.com
- 4 Dec 2015: RT @GregAbbott_TX: "I'm EMBARRASSED: Texas #2 in nation for new gun purchases, behind CALIFORNIA. Let's pick up the pace Texans. @NRA." I'm embarrassed for Texas that this guy is the governor.
- 5 Dec 2015: RT @BudKennedy: "The Texas secession vote at #txgop #srec today is an attempt to draw Trump voters into the primary and hurt Ted Cruz." I thought the secession vote was an attempt to show how unhinged the Texas GOP is. Oh wait...same thing. Never mind.
- 5 Dec 2015: RT @BudKennedy: "Votes to poll R's on Texas secession: Richardson R @KVoigtsberger + Beckmeyer, Chiles, Clede, DuBose, Lugo, Narvaiz." Oh yeah, @kvoigtsberger, the Richardson city council candidate whose campaign opposed UN takeover via Agenda 21.
- 5 Dec 2015: I thought the GOP believe that Harvard University is "the Harvard University of terrorism." @wpjenna
- 5 Dec 2015: Michigan State's 9:04 minute, 22-play drive to win the B10 championship over Iowa was one for the ages.
- 7 Dec 2015: "Other than bullets", what do mass shootings have in common? As if that's not enough in common to do something. dallasnews.com
- 8 Dec 2015: RT @mattyglesias: "Recall that Rubio, Jeb, Cruz, etc. have all pledged to back Trump for President if he wins the primary." Trump might not win the Republican nomination, but no matter who does win, the GOP is the party of Trump.
- 8 Dec 2015: The secret to defeating radical Islamic terrorism is not creating more terrorists by using the term "radical Islamic terrorism."
- 8 Dec 2015: RT @SenTedCruz: "Many in the media reflexively oppose anyone who actually says, ‘Was @JohnKerry’s prediction accurate?'" @SenTedCruz criticizes others for taking positions reflexively. Not ironically, apparently.
- 8 Dec 2015: RT @SenTedCruz: "Public policy should follow actual data." Yeah and the actual date shows global warming is real.
- 9 Dec 2015: Life itself (2014): Biography of Roger Ebert. Alcoholic. Movie critic. Husband. Cancer victim. Movie touches on all of these, shallowly. C+
- 9 Dec 2015: Ban all Muslims? "So what? They’re Muslim!" That's @KatrinaPierson who ran for Congress to represent Richardson. mediaite.com
- 9 Dec 2015: RT @WayneSlater: "Now THIS is how you deal with being undeniably wrong. Ban entire religion? Trump spoksmn: 'So What? They're Muslim!'". Not just "Trump spokesman." Texan @KatrinaPierson who ran for Congress to represent Richardson. Crazy then and now.
- 9 Dec 2015: There were 2 shootings within 3 miles of my house in the past year. How many near you? slate.com.html
- 9 Dec 2015: "Petition to ban Trump from UK passes 250K." Should be good for at least 250K votes for Trump in GOP primaries. cnn.com
- 9 Dec 2015: "It can’t be disproven that Ted Cruz isn’t the reincarnation of my grandparents’ brain-damaged dachshund, either." grist.org
- 10 Dec 2015: GOP candidates have switched to demonizing Muslims (instead of Hispanics) as the way to appeal to the mythical "missing white voters."
- 10 Dec 2015: The advent of kristallnacht right here in Plano, Texas? #MuslimsAreNotTerrorists. rawstory.com
- 10 Dec 2015: RT @jonathanchait: "Confessing my unpopular opinion: Cruz in private comes off more likable and intelligent than he does in public." Cruz's public persona is an act that he can change in an instant...and will if he wins the nomination. #NewNixon
- 11 Dec 2015: A Thousand Acres: King Lear on the Iowa prairie. A dysfunctional family whose story gets more interesting as their troubles get worse. B-
- 11 Dec 2015: RT @WayneSlater: "Look for Cruz charm offensive. His problem - seen as principled but unlikeable. Coming: chats with children, wife's family-friendly stories." "Cruz charm offensive", aka #TheNewNixon
- 11 Dec 2015: RT @SenTedCruz: "Proud to celebrate the 5th night of #Chanukah at our staff holiday party yesterday." The Prophet's Birthday (Milad un Nabi) is coming up. Will @SenTedCruz's office be celebrating that holiday too?
- 11 Dec 2015: RT @JulieFineNBC5: "Rep. Barton wants law changed so it's harder for an unaccompanied minor to get hearing." Shorter @RepJoeBarton: Bah Humbug! #GodBlessUsEveryone
- 12 Dec 2015: Mrs. Bob Cratchit's Wild Christmas Binge at RHS: Absurd Christmas Carol with an inept ghost. Don't know what the moral is, but I laughed.
- 14 Dec 2015: CPC will consider zoning change request for a self-storage warehouse behind the shopping center at n/e corner of Plano/Campbell. OK by me.
- 14 Dec 2015: RT @Daniel_Houston: "Man at @IANTmasjid protest was arrested on weapons charge -- but not how you'd think. Spoiler alert: exactly how you'd think.
- 15 Dec 2015: .@paulbrowntx is challenging @PeteSessions for Congress. I have lamented having Tweedledee as my Congressman. Time for Tweedledum?
- 15 Dec 2015: Spoke with @PaulBrownTX, aka Tweedledum, who says he differs from @PeteSessions by being a no-compromise conservative, not just saying so.
- 16 Dec 2015: "Like all of you, I'm angry." -- Carly Fiorina. Not me. Economy, health care, foreign policy, environment all are moving in right direction.
- 16 Dec 2015: "If you are in favor of World War III, you have your candidate!" -- Rand Paul on Chris Christie, but he could have meant any of the others.
- 17 Dec 2015: Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002): Whites' inhumanity to blacks, Australian aborigine edition. Girls win out, sort of. More sad than uplifting. C+
- 17 Dec 2015: Hot take: Homo sapiens is a breathtakingly intelligent species. That does some incredibly dumb things.
- 17 Dec 2015: Suggestion to improve Twitter: a filter that will block posts about soccer from otherwise interesting Twitter posters.
- 18 Dec 2015: .@SenTedCruz, consistently conservative or consistently political? Five times Cruz flip-flopped. washingtonpost.com
- 18 Dec 2015: RT @KatrinaPierson: "What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you're afraid to use it?" OMG. North Texas's own @KatrinaPierson.
- 18 Dec 2015: Final: Lakeview Centennial 71. Berkner 62. Roller coaster game. Down 9, up 7, down 16. #txhshoops
- 20 Dec 2015: I feel kinda sorry for the DMN sportswriters for having to work a Saturday night covering that game and that team.
- 23 Dec 2015: Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies (2014): Over the top telling of a children's story. Jackson does CGI great, but Tolkien's charm is lost. C+
- 24 Dec 2015: Mr. Nobody (2009): 117-yr-old man looks back at his 9-yr-old self's big (in)decision in life. What choice did he make? Quirky sci-fi. B-
- 29 Dec 2015: Downton Abbey Season 6 Spoiler: Robert Crawley, the Earl of Grantham, asks to be called "Bob." #DowntonKERA