Repeat Tweets: Election Edition

Repeat tweets from October, 2012:

• 1 Oct 2012: Libertarian candidate upset by treatment by WFAA. Complains to government for help. Can you say irony? http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/10/libertarian_senate_candidate_j_1.php
  
• 1 Oct 2012: Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell. Intrigue. Treachery. Smart dialog. Rich characters. A-
  
• 2 Oct 2012: Romney sounded like a moderate Dem. I wonder how his answers would have gone over at GOP primary debate.
  
• 3 Oct 2012: Romney's for good things in Obamacare, and good things in Wall St regulations, and against tax cuts. He's a closet Democrat!
  
• 3 Oct 2012: Romney promised tax rate cuts, no education cuts, bigger military, more Medicare spending, reduced deficits. But no plan how.
  
• 3 Oct 2012: My previous tweets focused on substance. But let's get real. Many people care only about style. Stylistically, Romney won.
  
• 3 Oct 2012: "I'm not going to say I've done a poor job." -- Jim Lehrer. Sadly, not the biggest lie told on that stage in debate full of them.
  
• 3 Oct 2012: "Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time." -- Harry Truman. Listen up, Obama.
  

After the jump, more repeat tweets.

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• 4 Oct 2012: Headline: "Study: Free birth control leads to fewer abortions." D'oh.
  
• 5 Oct 2012: Final: Dallas Skyline 42, Lake Highlands 6. #txhsfb
  
• 5 Oct 2012: Margaret (2011): Girl witnesses fatal accident then alienates all around her. Learns the world doesn't care. Uneven & an hour too long. C+
  
• 7 Oct 2012: Letter 6 from Bill McCalpin regarding direct election of the mayor, in which he quotes a lot from ... me! http://www.rumorcheck.org/Letter6-NoPublicInput.html
  
• 12 Oct 2012: Final: Dallas Sunset 0, Richardson Berkner 50. Homecoming. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsfb
  
• 12 Oct 2012: Headline: "Amazon in talks to buy TI's mobile chip business." Hmm. So mobile chips now a commodity. The wheel turns. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/morning_call/2012/10/report-amazon-in-talks-to-buy-tis.html
  
• 15 Oct 2012: Headline: "Debate's over; Russell Wilson's rally past Pats wins over fellow Seahawks." Natch. He's a Wisconsin Badger. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--morning-rush--debate-season-over--russell-wilson-s-rally-past-pats-wins-over-teammates.html
  
• 15 Oct 2012: Skios, by Michael Frayn: Farce with mistaken identities and implausible coincidences. Short, easy read. A few nuggets of good satire. C+
  
• 16 Oct 2012: Texas Tribune summarizes TX HD-114 race between Carol Kent and Jason Villalba. http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-legislative-election/hispanic-newcomer-challenges-former-dallas-lawmake/?utm_source=texastribune.org&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=Tribune%20Feed:%20Top%20Stories
  
• 17 Oct 2012: Objectified (2009): Interviews with designers from Apple, Ikea, IDEO. Frustratingly unenlightening. C- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1241325/
  
• 17 Oct 2012: MT @BHS_MRB: "Berkner receives straight 1's!! Congratulations to the Mighty Ram Band! Area Marching competition on 10/27."
  
• 18 Oct 2012: A compelling argument against Richardson city charter change: "Letter #7- The Startling Errors in the Charter Proposal" http://rumorcheck.org/Letter7.html
  
• 18 Oct 2012: Headline: "A-Rod benched twice for the same game." Ouch.
  
• 18 Oct 2012: "The chances that Newsweek will succeed as a digital-only subscription-based publication are exactly zero." So sad. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/10/18/why-keep-newsweek-on-life-support/
  
• 18 Oct 2012: WTF?!? DMN endorses Paul Sadler for Senate?!? Hashimoto must be spitting hockey pucks. http://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/20121018-editorial-we-recommend-paul-sadler-for-u.s.-senate.ece
  
• 18 Oct 2012: "Banana Boat sunscreen is recalling spray-on lotion after a handful of people have caught on fire." No word on whether Big Tex was one.
  
• 19 Oct 2012: Final: JJ Pearce 37, Richardson Berkner 50. It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsfb
  
• 19 Oct 2012: Video of the debate on direct election of Richardson's mayor between Darrell Day and Bill McCalpin can be found here: http://www.rumorcheck.org/TheDebate.html
  
• 21 Oct 2012: Richardson residents will vote on Proposition 1: Direct Election of the Mayor. For a Pro-Con VOTERS GUIDE, see http://www.lwvrichardson.org/files/2012_Charter_Pro-con.pdf
  
• 21 Oct 2012: Video of the LWV forum for candidates for SBOE, Tincy Miller and Lois Parrott, is on the LWV-Richardson website: http://lwvrichardson.org/SBOEvideo.html
  
• 21 Oct 2012: October 21. It's officially upon us. I saw my first television commercial of the Christmas shopping season, for Target.
  
• 22 Oct 2012: Richardson Coalition discovers city charter amendment was sloppily written and will cause problems and says, Vote NO. http://www.richardsoncoalition.org/news.html
  
• 22 Oct 2012: Headline: "Does TI's forecast mean the economy is in for a chilly winter?" The semiconductor business is sucky. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/blog/2012/10/does-tis-forecast-mean-impending.html
  
• 22 Oct 2012: "NTTP Recommendation on the General Election" Guess what? Tea Party reveal themselves as Republicans in disguise. http://northtexasteaparty.org/2012/10/23/nttp-recommendation-on-the-general-election/
  
• 23 Oct 2012: Cardinals vs Giants: That was the most suspenseful 9-0 ninth inning in a playoff game I've ever seen. #MLB #WillTheyCallIt
  
• 23 Oct 2012: "Our annual look at player popularity in the NFL: fans like quarterbacks, low-key pass catchers and Green Bay Packers." http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2012/10/23/the-nfls-most-and-least-liked-players/
  
• 23 Oct 2012: The Information, by James Gleick: Jungle drums, telegraph, computers, genetics, more. History of an abstraction changing our world. B+
  
• 24 Oct 2012: No one's ever explained why @AlamoDFW warned city that Hollywood would never allow them and @StudioMovieGril to both show 1st-run movies.
  
• 25 Oct 2012: Headline: "Greg Abbott says no foreigners in Texas polling places." Abbott's 2014 campaign for governor on the Tea Party ticket has begun.
  
• 25 Oct 2012: Hurricane Sandy is nature's way of pointing out how wrong it was that the presidential debates never included the topic of global warming.
  
• 26 Oct 2012: RT @jefflittlejohn: "Line about 60 deep at Richardson city hall for early voting." Hey, everyone, avoid the crowds. Vote on Election Day.
  
• 26 Oct 2012: Final: Dallas Jesuit 45, Richardson Pearce 7. #txhsfb
  
• 26 Oct 2012: Chemical Imbalance at BHS: Spoof of Jekyll and Hyde, a comedy of horror. Great cast, sets, sound, lighting. Great fun. "I'm the good one."
  
• 27 Oct 2012: RT @BHS_MRB Berkner finishes 1st at Area Finals & makes State Marching Contest!!! http://berknerband.com/home/?p=5649
  
• 27 Oct 2012: "Ukraine is not Texas." He didn't mean that in a good way. Ouch. http://www.texasmonthly.com/blogs/burkablog/?p=14414
  
• 29 Oct 2012: My Twitter stream is eerily sparse this morning. #Sandy?
  
• 30 Oct 2012: The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes: Retired man looks back on a youthful love triangle with remorse. Believable and compelling. A-
  
• 31 Oct 2012: Maybe "council member" and "councilmember" mean two different things. Nah, that doesn't work either. http://www.rumorcheck.org/Letter11.html
  
• 31 Oct 2012: RT from July: @MarkSteger: "Expect Rob Portman to be picked as VP in attempt to win Ohio." I was wrong, but does Romney wish for a do-over?