Tweets from @LeavittDC

  • It's too bad. Nothing compared to her. RT @starpulse: Sinead O'Connor Quits Twitter.
  • NFL road teams are 9-2 so far this week. Maybe teams have started staying at Holiday Inn Express.
  • Great response to Bachmann's assertion that the ACLU is running the CIA. RT @ACLUofIL: We've been trying to keep it on the DL. #cbsnjdebate
  • Rick Perry says he'd defend the use of torture to his death. Maybe, but I'll bet we could waterboard a reversal out if him. #CBSNJdebate
  • Were they chanting a list of people who didn't protect children? RT @PeteThamelNYT: Crowd here chanting "Joe Paterno" as second half starts.
  • No girlfriend? He's had a rough week. RT @Marfamata: Wilson Ramos: "Pienso disfrutar de mi familia, béisbol y mi soltería. No tengo novia."
  • Wow. RT @ESPN_BigTen: First Penn State game without Joe Paterno on staff since October 1949. (via @JoeDRobinson4)
  • Or Energy. Or Commerce. RT @neiltyson: Odd that people focused on Perry's memory lapse and not that Education was an agency he wants to cut.
  • Healthy. RT @OMGFacts: McDonald's oatmeal has more sugar than a Snickers and 10 fewer calories than a cheeseburger. http://ow.ly/7pQGi
  • Stupid, stupid, stupid. RT @LucyKafanov: #OccupyOakland Vandalize Whole Foods and Banks: (video) http://goo.gl/EGAZv #OWS
  • Probably a good idea. RT @normative: Amazon Supports a Bill Forcing Online Shoppers to Pay Sales Tax http://j.mp/rGzwoR
  • What a great victory lap for the USS Carl Vinson after burying bin Laden at sea. #CarrierClassic #MSU #UNC
  • From now on, all college basketball games should be held on aircraft carriers. #CarrierClassic #MSU #UNC
  • RT Herman Cain's hilarious 404 page: "Like an Obama policy, this 404 page gets you nowhere." http://read.bi/tlua9R h/t @igorbobic
  • New explanation for the Rick Perry flub: "We’re asking more of our brains than evolution ever prepared us to handle." wapo.st/vl0e09
  • The original DA who investigated the Penn State incident in 1998 went missing and his hard drive was found in a river: http://bit.ly/tG84vb
  • Penn State students protested the Paterno firing by blowing vuvuzelas. Vuvuzelas? Did the whole student body study abroad in South Africa?
  • White House says there is no evidence of space aliens. http://zite.to/s1XngN I can't wait to hear the Republican rebuttal.

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