Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Attorney General Abbott: Austin & Travis County Better Expect “Double-Barreled Lawsuit” Over Gun Show Ban

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Over on my Twitter account, I asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott about Austin and Travis County’s proposed gun show ban in light of LG.229.

This is what he put up:

If Austin or Travis Co. try to ban gun shows they better be ready for a double-barreled lawsuit.

Now, a Twitter post hardly comes to the level of an official press release from the Attorney General’s office, but it does represent a shot across the bow of Austin and Travis County gun grabbers who think they can flout state law without consequences.

Finally, I must admit that I really dig Abbott’s Twitter background:

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LiveBlogging/LiveTweeting the Election

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Congratulations to Ted Cruz and Tony Dale on well-deserved victories!

And on that bit of good news, off to sleep…

Weber beats Lampson in CD14.

Obama 303, Romney 203, Florida and Alaska undecided. And Obama is edging Romney in the popular vote as well, but not by much.

Fox calls election for Obama. Still not sure I trust the Wisconsin call. It looks like Romney may very well win the popular vote. Even so, I still don’t believe in abolishing the electoral college.

Fox calls Ohio for Obama. That may be all she wrote.

All annoying local news now.

PBS calls Iowa for Obama.

Obama still up .5% in Florida with 94% of the vote in.

Florida, Florida, Florida.

Any way this turns out, this is 1% difference election.

No, Romney playing the bio film at the GOP convention wouldn’t have made any difference.

AP RACE CALL: Romney wins North Carolina.

Maybe we should have nominated #Hypnotoad.

David Brooks (click) Elizabeth Warren (click) Crowd interview (click) Grrrrr

Whether Obama wins or not, GOP house should refuse to pass a debt limit increase, and force government to live within it’s means.

Hit my tweet limit!

[Swing state name here] Too close to call. Repeat as necessary.

Looks like it’s going to be a long night before this thing is decided.

7:23 Romney up in VA, FL too close to call, but Panhandle polls close late, and that’s Romney territory.

Everything in the battleground states is too close to call.

6:50 PM
ROMNEY: Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, South Carolina
OBAMA:Vermont

#ElectionNightSurprises: Fox News calls race for Obama, ABC for Romney, CBS for Gary Johnson, CNN for Jill Stein, and MSNBC for the reanimated corpse of Howard Taft

Please note that I will be live-blogging and live-tweeting the election tonight as the returns roll in starting around 7 PM CST. Judging from my live-tweeting of the debates, there’s a good chance I’ll “exceed the tweet limit”, so you’ll want to check both places for pithy insight and wily snark.

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“You are over the daily limit for sending Tweets.”

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

I didn’t even know Twitter had a daily limit for sending tweets, but evidently I exceeded it livetweeting the Presidential debate. Fortunately that didn’t kick in until the very end.

Anyway, if you follow me on Twitter, you might sned out a note to that effect, just in case people wonder where I went…

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I Will Be Live-Tweeting Tonight’s Presidnetial Debate

Tuesday, October 16th, 2012

Attention the Internets: I will be live-tweeting tonight’s debate between Romney and Obama. Tune in or follow me if you are so inclined.

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Liberals Continue Their Twitter Losing Streak

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012

On Twitter, you can mark any word (or combination of words) you want with a hashtag (#) #likethis. Naturally, as part of the current election season, liberals have been trying to create various Twitter tags (#ows for Occupy Wall Street, #P2 for Progressive on Twitter, etc.) Anyone on Twitter can use any hashtag for anything.

The problem for them is that there’s no hashtag they can create that conservatives can’t hijack. Frankly, I’ve never seen the right lose a serious Twitter war yet.

Today’s example of hijinks ensuing: #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone. Some samples:

  • The People’s Cube ‏@ThePeoplesCube #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone lost America’s AAA credit rating
  • Leah ‏@gopfirecracker #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone implied that minorities are too stupid to obtain a photo ID
  • BattleSwarm ‏@BattleSwarmBlog #ThingsMittRomneyHasNeverDone Launched a political career in the home of an admitted terrorist

    • Yep, the last one is me. I had a lot of fun with that tag.

    You can see more examples of this #liberalfail on Twitchy.

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    I’ll Be LiveTweeting The Cruz/Dewhurst Debate Tonight

    Tuesday, July 17th, 2012

    Tonight is the last Ted Cruz/David Dewhurst debate before the election. (Hey Dewhurst, what happened to all those other debates you said you were up for?)

    Baring unforeseen technical difficulties, I will be LiveTweeting the debate from Cruz headquarters in Austin. I’m guessing the hashtag will probably be #belodebate again. Drop in if you’re so inclined.

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    Posted in Austin, Elections, Republicans, Texas | No Comments »

    Celebrating #Julia’s Circle of Life

    Saturday, May 5th, 2012

    You may have heard of the Obama campaign’s attempt to use an imaginary woman named Julia to convince women to embrace a cradle-to-grave welfare state. (And looking at European demographics, we can only assume that’s more grave than cradle.)

    Naturally, conservatives have had fun on Twitter with #Julia, including the observation that her male counterpart would naturally be named “Winston.” Also: “#Julia died at age 78. She voted Democrat until age 92.”

    But, as usual, IowaHawk nails it.

    Some other Julia tidbits:

  • What was left out of Julia’s story: She’s not a taxpayer, she’s not married, and she’s not religious.
  • The Heritage Foundation reimagines her life.
  • Paul Ryan calls it creepy and demeaning.
  • Ad “Twitter” to the list of things The New York Times doesn’t understand. (I know, it’s a long list.) Hey NYT, it isn’t the “Republican Response Machine,” it’s the swarm. The reason I named this blog “BattleSwarm” was after the Rand Corporation’s Swarming and the Future of Conflict: Dispersed, autonomous units come together at a point to concentrate their firepower. It’s the army of Davids. It’s the future of media. It means that the MSM has lost control of the narrative and there’s nothing you can do to get it back.

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    Posted in Media Watch, Welfare State | 2 Comments »

    I Now Have a Twitter Account for BattleSwarm

    Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

    Go to https://twitter.com/#!/BattleSwarmBlog if you want to follow me there. Expect a lot of #txsen posts. I’ll probably also tweet more stuff that’s not worthy of an entire post…

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    Texas Senate Race Update for January 11, 2012

    Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

    I expect the campaigns to start announcing Q4 fundraising results any day now, and I just sent off a list of interview questions to the Craig James campaign today. So here’s one final news roundup of the senate race before an expected avalanche of news.

  • Young Conservative of Texas endorse Ted Cruz.
  • Though tickets are gone, you can catch Thursday’s Texas Public Policy Foundation candidate debate the live webcast.
  • A brief overview of the candidates in that debate.
  • The Statesman notes the absence of Lt. Governor Chupacabra at that Williamson County candidate forum.
  • Craig James unveils his first ad, talking about how awesome…Rick Perry is. Hmmm. Rick Perry + Craig James = Rick James???

  • And speaking of James (Craig, not Rick), heh. It was still up as of this posting…
  • James also appeared on the Joe Pagliarulo show on KPRC-AM 950 in Houston:

    Looking at James’ Twitter feed, he seems to have done a number of radio shows.

  • Ross Ramsey wonders why James is running.
  • Cruz, Dewhurst, Tom Leppert and James will all be appearing at a March 2 debate sponsored by The Dallas Morning News.
  • An interesting piece on a David Dewhurst proposal (or maybe just a trial balloon idea) for, not an illegal alien amnesty “path to citizenship,” but a path to a work visa, in which “if an undocumented/Illegal resident paid for thumb prints, criminal background checks, and verification of residence, we could grant them a two year Visa…renewable only if they have not been convicted of a felony and have paid their taxes.” I’m not sure if this is the right place to mention it. I’m not in complete agreement with the writer, but I will say that Dewhurst’s proposal is far from the worst illegal alien proposal I’ve read.
  • Back on October 11, I noted that Cruz had picked up the endorsements of “over 115 leaders of the Texas Federation of Republican Women.” The Cruz campaign has now upped that count to over 200 leader Republican women.
  • Still waiting for Democrats Paul Sadler to put up a campaign website, and Jason Gibson to put up one that’s more than a placeholder. Come on people, putting up a page with a brief bio and a donation link is not that freaking hard. With Daniel Boone not having updated his pages in over a month, maybe Sean Hubbard will capture the Democratic nomination simply because he can update his Facebook and Twitter feeds.

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    Obama Jobs Speech Bingo

    Thursday, September 8th, 2011

    Pity the pundit forced by duty to watch an Obama speech. Barring a Teleprompter malfunction, there are few events more tedious and predictable. When even uber-Democrat James Carville says that between an Obama speech and a Republican debate, “I would have watched the debate and I’m not even a Republican or even close to being a Republican,” you know you’re in store for some deep hurting.

    So how can we assuage the agony of those poor, dedicated souls who will be watching Obama’s jobs speech tonight? Barring an announcement that he’s abandoning Big Government liberalism for budget and tax cuts, the chances for another Obama snoozefest are vast, while the possibility of anything new and substantive are slim. How can we keep their attention focused on the POTUS, and not on the desperate need for another highball or passing a sanity roll?

    Simple: With my handy Obama Jobs Speech Bingo chart below! Just print out and place a marker every time Obama trots out one of his stock job speech phrases. Which I’m confident will be pretty darn often.

    Which dedicated pundit will be the first to post “Bingo! #ObamaBingo” to Twitter tonight?

    Click to embiggen

    Edited to add: Welcome Powerline readers! As you can tell from the blogroll on the right, Powerline has long been one of my favorite blogs, so feel free to look around for news from the hot, dusty heart of Texas.

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