Saturday, April 6, 2013

Repeat Tweets: Berkner in Final Four

Repeat tweets from March, 2013:

  • 1 Mar 2013: Headline: "Catholic Church goes leaderless." Not out of the hole yet, but at least a chance for Church to quit digging.
  • 1 Mar 2013: @MikeHashimoto, Obama's real agenda: do things that are generally popular and that he campaigned and won an election on.
  • 1 Mar 2013: Headline: "Europe's horsemeat problem hits Taco Bell UK." Write your own punchline.
  • 1 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "700+ more reasons for #FullRepeal [of Obamacare]." Quit whining and do something to enable health care for all.
  • 1 Mar 2013: Edo slams it. Berkner Rams up 64-58 and win regional semifinal in overtime over Westfield by same score. It's a great time to be a Ram!

After the jump, more repeat tweets.


  • 2 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "World doesn't end, Obama hardest hit." No one said world would end. #StrawMan Obama not hardest hit. USA workers are.
  • 2 Mar 2013: High school men's basketball, UIL playoffs round 5 Final: Berkner 66, Austin Anderson 52. Final Four! It's a great time to be a Ram! #txhsbb
  • 3 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Obama sought to break GOP 'fever,' but did Republican resolve break his?" GOP resolve only breaking US economy.
  • 3 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Editorial: Wildenthal backers pick and choose facts..." Picking and choosing facts is @MikeHashimoto's stock in trade.
  • 3 Mar 2013: Mitt Romney: "I lost my election because of my campaign." No, no, no. You lost because of your "severely conservative" policy positions.
  • 3 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Joe Biden advises women to get a shotgun for protection." That's hilarious? @MikeHashimoto damns Biden no matter what.
  • 3 Mar 2013: @MikeHashimoto, why not use this quote? "The veep is right: A 12-gauge shotgun is the best defensive weapon you can buy." -- @jedbabbin
  • 4 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz admits that the sequester, which he supports, is "cutting vital services."
  • 4 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz, which is it? Does sequester threaten teachers and police or not? #HavingItBothWays
  • 4 Mar 2013: RT @koliver: "I just ousted Celina C. as the mayor of RISD Admin Building on @foursquare!" Uh oh. A lost vote there.
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @JimMitchell18: "UT/TT Poll: 49% of Texans have favorable view of @NRA." I only said yes because I'm afraid of those guys.
  • 5 Mar 2013: Seems like a good time to revisit this review: "Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy." Check out Pope Joan. www.marksteger.com
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Americans favor building Keystone XL Pipeline. Let's get Americans to work!" Sure,pass Keystone XL *and* American Jobs Act!
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @AP: BREAKING: Dow Jones industrial average surpasses all-time high." GOP blames Obamacare, Benghazi, Keystone XL and birth certificate.
  • 5 Mar 2013: Jeb Bush was for a path to citizenship before he was against it before he was for it again. #FlipFlopFlip www.slate.com
  • 5 Mar 2013: Rachel Chumney, candidate for RISD school board, responds to my blog post, "RISD Election: Put the Popcorn Away" www.marksteger.com
  • 5 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obama should cancel aid to Egypt & use it instead to fund vital priorities." Like military to defend US when Egypt blows up
  • 5 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Smoking gun memo: Obama Admin, in writing, tells agencies to follow Congress's instructions." Wait. What's wrong with that?
  • 5 Mar 2013: "Lots of things are unprofitable if you narrowly consider outlays and income-including most of our roadways." www.newyorker.com
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Shouldn't taxpayers be able to see the place that's spending all their money?" Um, Congress decides how to spend money.
  • 5 Mar 2013: @TheSlowPath, House and Senate can and do pass appropriation bills. That's what actually determines spending, not the so-called budget.
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @TheSlowPath: "I'm not defending Cruz, btw." I'm actively blaming him. He's in the branch of govt that determines how money is spent.
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @TheSlowPath: "We should have gotten spending under control in the good times." Who was it who said pay down debt instead of tax cuts?
  • 5 Mar 2013: RT @TheSlowPath: "Now it's higher taxes or go broke." Paradoxically, higher taxes or spending cuts *right now* means going broke faster.
  • 5 Mar 2013: Headline: "Anguished Venezuelans mourn Chavez." They're doing it just to bug @MikeHashimoto.
  • 6 Mar 2013: Turing Test for Twitter: when a machine can produce tweets indistinguishable from @pourmecoffee, we will have a real thinking machine.
  • 6 Mar 2013: What @MikeHashimoto doesn't tweet: "I feel as though the biggest obstacle to the recovery of the economy is the Congress." -- Joaquin Castro
  • 6 Mar 2013: What @MikeHashimoto doesn't tweet: "ABC constructs deeply misleading sequestration poll." www.slate.com
  • 6 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz, quit grandstanding, quit filibustering, quit obstructing and start working. Confirm Caitlin Halligan. www.nytimes.com
  • 6 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz, we're proud to live in a country where senators' vanity amendments fail to pass. Quit obstructing and start working.
  • 6 Mar 2013: "We live in the reddest county in the reddest state, and we ... allow redistribution of wealth?" -- David Stolle planoblog.dallasnews.com
  • 6 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz "Joining @SeanHannity to discuss 'Restore Growth First' amendment to defund Obamacare." First? You'll fund Obamacare after?
  • 6 Mar 2013: "It can be lonely at the top. After nearly a decade of dominance, the top is where Northwestern finds itself." thequad.blogs.nytimes
  • 7 Mar 2013: Funny how @MikeHashimoto has become converted to the cause of safeguarding rights of terrorists now that Barack Obama is in the Oval Office.
  • 8 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "A leftward view..." Funny how Hash never uses "A rightward view" to introduce his wingnut links.
  • 8 Mar 2013: MT @davidplouffe: Great jobs report. Unemployment down. "Economy poised for solid growth." Expect Boehner to blame "job crushing tax hikes."
  • 8 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz, no. I'm with growing jobs, dropping unemployment, and health care for all. Are you with me?
  • 8 Mar 2013: High school men's basketball. UIL state semi-final. Final: Fort Bend Travis 59, Berkner 52. Thanks for a great season, Rams! #txhsbb
  • 9 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz and McCarthyism: RT @MikeHashimoto: "historically illiterate." Why? 'Cuz "There were many other overzealous communist hunters."
  • 9 Mar 2013: @SenTedCruz, you lie. GAO does *not* say Obamacare adds to budget deficit. GAO was asked an "if" questions whose premise was false.
  • 10 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Want more innovation in health care services? RT & join fight to #DefundObamaCare!" Want to cut off health care for poor?
  • 10 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz "Take a stand against Obamacare’s assault on religious liberty." Don't twist First Amendment to support your war on women.
  • 11 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "If you like your health care plan, under Obamacare you may lose it" Scaremonger. More people were losing insurance before.
  • 11 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "RT if you've already seen an increase in your health care premiums." Not said: growth in costs is slowing under Obamacare.
  • 11 Mar 2013: Robot & Frank (2012): Old man with failing memory gets robot caretaker. Risky adventures for daring duo ensue. I want one of those! A-
  • 12 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "rules written by unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats." Cruz wants rules by unelected, unaccountable insurance companies.
  • 12 Mar 2013: Headline: "Legislator Wants Texas to Have its Own Fort Knox, in Case of Global Collapse." I blame the voters. blogs.dallasobserver.com
  • 12 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "#DefundObamacare and stop it from killing jobs." I thought the rap was that it was creating tons of new govt jobs.
  • 12 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Reason #2 to #DefundObamacare -- it contains 20 tax increases." And the Ryan budget keeps them all and drops the coverage.
  • 12 Mar 2013: Headline: "Cardinals locked into Sistine Chapel." Victims everywhere ask if they can throw away the key.
  • 12 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Don't let emotions obscure gun-control debate." Goldberg: Gun control advocates hate women. No emotional argument there.
  • 13 Mar 2013: The Mayor Quiz (Richardson Texas) www.rumorcheck.org
  • 13 Mar 2013: Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami: Love triangles, friendships and loss in Tokyo circa 1970. Many characters, each unique and original. B+
  • 13 Mar 2013: RT @MikeHashimoto: "Obama’s approval drops as Americans take dimmer view of his economic policies." Also, retail sales gain largest in 5 mos
  • 13 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Obamacare fundamentally changes relationship between individual & state." By ensuring all have access to health care. OK.
  • 13 Mar 2013: "we have already seen ... stolen signs, whisper campaigns, and even an anonymous negative hit blog" -- Amir Omar. What's he talking about?
  • 13 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "All 45 Senate Republicans wasted America's time today and failed to do anything to ensure all have access to health care."
  • 14 Mar 2013: .@SenTedCruz, does Secret Service let wackos get near the President?
  • 21 Mar 2013: .@SenTedCruz reports that he wants to make it harder for the poor and middle class to get basic health care needed to get and keep a job.
  • 21 Mar 2013: .@SenTedCruz cheers @GovernorPerry's decision to deny access to health care to the poor and lower middle class in Texas.
  • 21 Mar 2013: RT @WayneSlater: "GOP stalwart Tom Pauken to run for governor." It's a trap! Pauken boosts Perry by making Perry look better in comparison.
  • 22 Mar 2013: Headline: "Boys shoot infant in stroller in botched robbery." Texas legislator proposes sending all babies home from hospital with a gun.
  • 22 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "On Senate floor offering an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution to repeal Obamacare." RT if you think Cruz is wacko.
  • 22 Mar 2013: Skyfall (2012): Superannuated M and 007 in a cross between "No Country for Old Men" and "Home Alone." Franchise tired again already. D+
  • 23 Mar 2013: Sounds you don't want to hear before your CT scan... "Did you try restarting it?" "Try again." Then, sounds of the Windows startup chime.
  • 24 Mar 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "we can't sell off children's future because we're too irresponsible to live within our means." Tax cuts are irresponsible.
  • 26 Mar 2013: Texas "lawmakers will slam into reverse the work that has gone on here for 3 decades to improve public education." www.dallasnews.com
  • 26 Mar 2013: As @MikeHashimoto proves over and over again, obstructing sensible law is bad for children, even when it's for gun "rights." #PotKettle
  • 26 Mar 2013: .@SenTedCruz, 3 years since Obamacare's more affordable and caring health care vs Cruz's alternative, which is ... nothing.
  • 26 Mar 2013: .@SenTedCruz promises to obstruct the will of the majority and debase our democratic institutions to get his way. #Wacko
  • 27 Mar 2013: MT @ProducerSusan: "@SenTedCruz joins us to discuss latest actions to [obstruct any actions to reduce gun violence]."
  • 27 Mar 2013: .@SenTedCruz wants to turn his back on 50 million Americans without health care. RT if you think that's #wacko.
  • 27 Mar 2013: NIMBYism at Coit and Arapaho: "Neighbors Are Rallying to Stop a Walmart." blogs.dallasobserver.com
  • 27 Mar 2013: Cornyn votes for sequester, then denounces result, calling "Border Patrol cutbacks 'outrageous' and 'reprehensible'" trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com
  • 28 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "If we want to get more people back to work, we must get economic growth back." Do you know austerity holds back growth?
  • 28 Mar 2013: MT @SenMikeLee: "We must ensure that Constitutional rights are not taken away." Universal background checks don't take away any rights.
  • 28 Mar 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "I am committed to protect constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans." Good. What are you doing to reduce gun violence?
  • 31 Mar 2013: .@MikeHashimoto says Steven Hayward says climate change is not a significant issue. Wait, Hayward is not a climate scientist? Never mind.
  • 31 Mar 2013: Headline: "Ted Cruz objects to 'climate change' clause in International Women's Day bill." A twofer - @SenTedCruz insults women and science.

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