Sunday, June 2, 2013

Repeat Tweets: NPR Liberal Know-it-all

Repeat tweets from May, 2013:

  • 1 May 2013: Overheard: "Mark reminds me of an NPR liberal know it all. You can argue with a know-it-idiot, but it is best not to."
  • 1 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "In my short tenure, my focus has been on fighting for conservative principles." Conservatives, he's making you look #wacko
  • 1 May 2013: .@amiromar's latest mailer is the worst. Says @lauramaczka's "apartment policy" envisions Richardson becoming an "inner city." Disgusting.

After the jump, more repeat tweets.


  • 2 May 2013: Is it too early to talk high school football? The 2013 Berkner Rams football schedule is released. www.berknerfootball.com
  • 2 May 2013: RT @AngieChenButton: "Just passed HCR 96 naming Garland the Cowboy hat Capitol of Texas!" But not the spelling capital.
  • 2 May 2013: Headline: "American Auto Industry Has Best Performance in 20 Years." Is it too late to take another poke at Mitt? Yeah? Thought so.
  • 2 May 2013: Overheard: "I have come to the conclusion that he is not 'one of those Muslims' after watching him for the past 4 years."
  • 2 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Proud to join effort to prevent Dept of Ed from setting a nation-wide curriculum." Doesn't want others to see Texas scores.
  • 3 May 2013: Headline: "April Jobs Report Full of Good News." Thank you. Because Amir Omar's negative campaign was such bad news it was getting me down.
  • 3 May 2013: Headline: "For only 2nd time in history, DFW temps dipped into the 30s in May." In related news, Omar and Maczka crossed paths at city hall.
  • 3 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Apr '13: 165,000 new jobs under Obama. Sept. '83: Over 1 million new jobs under Reagan." Reagan didn't have Cruz in Senate.
  • 3 May 2013: Headline: "St. John’s President Retires Amid Corruption Investigation." SIgn of the times that I felt relief it was over money, not sex.
  • 4 May 2013: DMN's Rodger Jones explains his vote in Richardson mayor's race. dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/
  • 4 May 2013: Zero Dark Thirty (2012): Torture porn. Controversial history. Little dramatic tension. I thought death of UBL would be more satisfying. C+
  • 5 May 2013: Overheard: "We do not have to wait for another Richardson City Council election, there is a caveat in the charter for Council recall."
  • 5 May 2013: On becoming a feminist in Saudi Arabia: "As a woman, you either lose your mind or you become a feminist." -- @MonaEltahawy
  • 5 May 2013: Overheard Omar supporter: "When apartments changed from adult-only, attention turned and south Richardson was ignored. Now it's a ghetto."
  • 5 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "RT if you don't want to become a tax collector for politicians who don't represent you!" Cruz doesn't represent me.
  • 5 May 2013: Economic case for urban density: "If the population of a city doubles, gross domestic product more than doubles." www.smithsonianmag.com
  • 5 May 2013: "There are few turnarounds in sports as stunning as what the Northwestern women's lacrosse team pulled off Sunday." www.chicagotribune.com
  • 5 May 2013: Mad Men cast: Amir Omar as Don Draper, Laura Maczka as Peggy Olson, Bob Townsend as Bert Cooper, Gary Slagel as Roger Sterling.
  • 6 May 2013: RT @DonMcLeroy: "Wow! I just back home after speaking about evolution in Istanbul." Strange bedfellows.
  • 6 May 2013: Good news for those who remember the old days! "Border crossing in Big Bend breathes new life into tiny Boquillas" www.khou.com
  • 7 May 2013: Overheard tea party member: "By allowing people to vote DIRECTLY for spending, the spenders ALWAYS win." The people can't be trusted!
  • 7 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "we shouldn't allow the Senate to use back-room deals to raise the debt limit!" Raise debt limit in the open like Cruz wants
  • 8 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "8 mos after #Benghazi, there's an impression of paralysis at DoD, State Department & WH." Job well done, Cruz. #Wacko
  • 8 May 2013: The Book Thief, by Marcus Zuzak: Life in Nazi Germany for a young girl. Ugly and glorious, a story each generation needs to relearn. A-
  • 8 May 2013: Overheard: "Everyone thought he was crazy and they kidnapped him to shut him up, yet at the end much of what he was saying was true."
  • 9 May 2013: Overheard: "Steger is a lonely heart with only a handful of facebook friends."
  • 9 May 2013: Overheard: "I read some of his posts. They certainly are not brilliant and often make little sense. Why should we even care what he thinks."
  • 9 May 2013: RT @WayneSlater: "After shaking hands at airport, Obama motorcade leaving, ..." Sorry, talk of presidential motorcades in TX creeps me out.
  • 9 May 2013: Overheard: "When has politics ever been pretty but things get done and life goes on."
  • 9 May 2013: Headline: "Rep. Pete Sessions blasts President Obama for Texas trip." If you can't extend Southern hospitality, stay away. Go to Vegas.
  • 9 May 2013: What I hear, if you want to understand The Great Gatsby, read the book. If you want to watch an unrelated movie of the same name, go for it.
  • 9 May 2013: Overheard: "This is what we need to consider after the election: Section 5.01. - Recall of mayor and city councilmembers."
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "I've been called drama gal, emotional, fixated, over-sensitive, stupid, a waste of energy."
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "These attempts to deflect and attack the messenger are well-known tactics from the pages of the Clinton Playbook." WTF?!?
  • 10 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Revisionist history by the Administration on #Benghazi?" No. Same story. GOP has been making up story from start. #wacko
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "For far too long the Canyon Creek area has had too much sway with the people of Richardson." Really? www.marksteger.com
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "It looks like this race is really a race for 'most popular' ". Isn't every election a race for most popular? By definition?
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "Have a great day." Looks better printed out than it sounds spoken. Spoken, it sounded more like "Harrumph!"
  • 10 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Outrageous that tea party was targeted by IRS." Racial profiling of old white guys. Tea Party hates racial profiling.
  • 10 May 2013: She says neighbors of mine support her. She dares quote one. She kindly lets us know where "we" will vote. The nerve of that woman!
  • 10 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "President Obama touting 'benefits' of Obamacare as gifts for Mother's Day." Meanwhile, Cruz is handing out guns. #wacko
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "It's the masses that can't even pronounce the names of half the candidates." So, we can't trust the voters to elect a mayor?
  • 10 May 2013: Overheard: "there are lots of people who have no idea who they should vote for and will just make a choice at the time they vote."
  • 12 May 2013: MT @RichardsonISD: "Dewey Defeats Truman." Embarrassing.
  • 12 May 2013: Overheard: "Are you saying someone took the citizens' right to elect their mayor away from them?" The most vocal are the least informed.
  • 13 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "HHS is already begging for $$ from private sector." Congress passed health care. Now Congress won't pay for it. #wacko
  • 13 May 2013: Overheard: "We should be paying as much attention to RISD election as we are to CoR." Judging by Saturday's results, a lot of voters aren't.
  • 13 May 2013: Overheard: "Almost no one that voted for Amir voted for the other council members." Data doesn't prove that. Can't rule out coincidence.
  • 13 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "We need to keep working to prevent such crimes against humanity from happening again." You talking gun violence? Go for it.
  • 13 May 2013: "With fifteen days to go, the House has accomplished ...nothing...and will accomplish...nothing." www.texasmonthly.com
  • 14 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "A govt that systematically misleads its people threatens the underpinnings of democracy." Self-confession time, is it?
  • 14 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "immigration, #Benghazi, #IRS harassing conservatives & more in latest newsletter." Anything about reducing gun violence?
  • 14 May 2013: Overheard: "You give way too much latitude to a snake and you will get bitten." Isn't giving latitude to a snake how to avoid getting bitten
  • 15 May 2013: Overheard: "I have been called a 'liar', a 'lackey', 'an idiot airbag', 'McFartpin', a 'douchebag', the 'king of the douchebags.' "
  • 16 May 2013: Headline: "Dallas Cowboys reportedly may leave Valley Ranch for new home." Remember when Cowboys practiced next to Pizza Hut on LBJ Frwy?
  • 16 May 2013: Headline: "GOP not satisfied by Benghazi email release." In other news, dog bites man.
  • 16 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Mr. President, if your #1 priority is fixing the problem, let's abolish the #IRS." There are problems with Senate, too.
  • 16 May 2013: "Let's be clear that by doing this we're going to see increased stacking & traffic congestion." Plano does it anyway. www.pegasusnews.com
  • 16 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Who could possibly oppose taking action to ensure there isn't another Kermit." Cruz for one. #wacko Defend women's rights.
  • 16 May 2013: MT @SenMikeLee: "@SenTedCruz & I support resolution to investigate abusive, unsanitary, & illegal abortion practices." Nanny state for all.
  • 16 May 2013: Why do reviews of new Star Trek movie warn that they contain spoilers? Is that even possible? #StarTrek
  • 16 May 2013: RT: @SenTedCruz: "RT if you agree the Senate shouldn't use procedural tricks." Agreed. No filibusters! #wacko
  • 18 May 2013: Lincoln (2012): Why Lincoln was our greatest president. More true now, 150 years on, than ever. Great storytelling. Deserved the Oscar. A+
  • 18 May 2013: Headline: "Northwestern makes 9th straight lacrosse Final Four." Go U NU.
  • 19 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "How about some good news to start your Sunday? At least we don't live in France!" Childish *and* #wacko
  • 19 May 2013: Headline: "Why Ted Cruz isn't presidential material: Column - USA Today." You can get all that in a single column? #wacko
  • 20 May 2013: Overheard: "The rules of Survivor, as Mark Steger would note, require that someone be voted off the Council, and the people have spoken."
  • 20 May 2013: Overheard: "Every time we get a car this place turns into a whorehouse."
  • 20 May 2013: Headline: "Texas’ weird form of democracy at work in Austin." Tea Party R's would go ballistic here. Dems are wimps. dallasmorningviewsblog.dallasnews.com/
  • 20 May 2013: Overheard: "Rally Force is holding a protest against tyranny (pick your tyranny and bring a sign)"
  • 20 May 2013: Congratulations to the new City Council members, Mayor Laura Maczka and Mayor Pro Tem Bob Townsend.
  • 21 May 2013: City of Dallas is building restaurants and shopping near public-owned hotel. Meanwhile, private companies are building highways. Topsy?
  • 21 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Proud to offer amendments to immigration legislation to help solve problems." You mean proud to turn your back on millions.
  • 21 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "We shouldn't allow the Senate to use procedural tricks to raise the debt ceiling." Like your use of filibuster? #wacko
  • 21 May 2013: Headline: "Stefani Carter Announces Deadline Extension for the Carter Future Leaders Program." Youth seeing through this? My respect raised.
  • 21 May 2013: Headline: "John McCain, Susan Collins Oppose 'Bizarre' Rand Paul, Ted Cruz Demand." First #wacko. Now #bizarre. What's next?
  • 22 May 2013: Headline: "Sen Inhofe supports tornado aid, says it’s 'totally different' from Hurricane Sandy aid." For one, it's for his home state of OK.
  • 22 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "HHS Secretary is in Europe touting Obamacare. Is she asking them to send euros, too?" Congress should fund laws they pass.
  • 23 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "It's time to stop our unsustainable debt." Unsustainable? Where have you been? Deficits are dropping fast. Too fast. #wacko
  • 23 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Budget debate is about only one issue - raising the debt ceiling." Then raise it. Congress should pay its bills. #wacko
  • 23 May 2013: Angie Chen Button and Stefani Carter vote to deny women the right to seek legal redress for gender-based pay discrimination.
  • 23 May 2013: RT @jamdunn: "Enjoying a cigar with my son at Calypso Cigar." Calypso Cigar is like a hookah lounge but with stogies instead of water pipes.
  • 24 May 2013: Overheard: "RISD Trustees praised Stefani Carter's willingness to ask for input. How many times did Carter vote that way? ZERO, they said."
  • 24 May 2013: Overheard (from a Chumney supporter): "Teachers and administrators are the biggest bullies I have met in RISD."
  • 25 May 2013: Overheard: "I will be voting for Chumney. We already have a group of 'qualified' trustees."
  • 25 May 2013: At the football game. Green Bay vs Texas. It doesn't get any better than this.
  • 25 May 2013: Prayer before the game prayed that Jesus would give the home team a victory. We're in the Bible Belt, Green Bay fans.
  • 26 May 2013: Les Misérables (2012): Classic literature, French history, opera. Blood, sweat and tears. You either love it or you hate it. I loved it. B+
  • 27 May 2013: Headline: "Tearing down freeway 'makes a lot of sense.'" Robert Wilonsky slips some heresy into highway-boosting DMN. transportationblog.dallasnews.com/
  • 28 May 2013: RT @SenTedCruz: "Majority of Americans want to repeal #Obamacare." Also, majority of Americans like Obamacare's benefits. #wacko
  • 28 May 2013: Headline: "The Push to Tear Down I-345 Gains Steam." Dallas Observer joins DMN's Rob Wilonsky is stoking the boiler. blogs.dallasobserver.com.php
  • 29 May 2013: Overheard from a Chumney supporter: "We don't need anymore voters drinking the koolaid."
  • 29 May 2013: Headline: "Michele Bachmann Retires As President of Crazyland." Stay classy out there.
  • 29 May 2013: RT @RachelChumney: "Campaigning is HARD!" Wait until you're a trustee.
  • 29 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Together we'll take country back, restore economic growth, & defend Constitution." Maybe 1st of the three anyway. #wacko
  • 29 May 2013: Headline: "Ted Cruz avoids controversy in NYC speech." The #wacko is a squish.
  • 30 May 2013: Headline: "The Cotton Belt is Dead, at Least For Now." The killer? The state legislature. Vote 'em out. blogs.dallasobserver.com.php
  • 30 May 2013: "Why It's So Hard to Get From Brooklyn to Queens." Hint: No more trolleys. Their demise wasn't by natural causes. www.theatlanticcities.com
  • 30 May 2013: MT @SenTedCruz: "Very troubling: Obama uses machinery of fed govt as partisan tool to punish political enemies." Tell that to Hagel. #wacko
  • 30 May 2013: Headline: "Disney World visitor finds loaded gun on ride." Good thing we have gun registration so owner could be identified and gun returned
  • 30 May 2013: Did the bridge collapse happen in the wrong Washington to get Congress' attention to the need for infrastructure investment?
  • 30 May 2013: Overheard: "You can’t naysay your way to prosperity." Said about Irving, but could describe Richardson naysayers. dallas.culturemap.com
  • 31 May 2013: MT @GlennThrush: "Party committees exist to aggregate negative news stories and email them to reporters." @MikeHashimoto forwards them on.
  • 31 May 2013: "I find that a lot of people are more invested in position-taking than they are in the inquiry." -- Gov. Jerry Brown

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