by Heather Hastie | Oct 12, 2017 | Tweets
There are, naturally, a lot of tweets about the revolting activities of Harvey Weinstein at the moment. A lot of people are expressing their disgust in suitable terms, all trying to outdo each other with the words they can come up with. Most of them are a load of...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 10, 2017 | Tweets, US Politics
The United States is rightfully proud of it’s origins. There is an underlying premise in the tweets from that country that comes from the First Amendment of their constitution – that they have freedom of speech. It’s a premise that all of us who live...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 8, 2017 | New Zealand, NZ Politics, Sport, Tweets
I’m happy to report that the New Zealand All Blacks won again! They played the South African Springboks in the early hours of this morning. This was the last game of “The Investec Rugby Championship” competition for both teams for this year. The All...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 6, 2017 | Gun Control, Tweets
After I (finally) finished yesterday’s tweets post, I watched ‘The Five’ on Fox News. (I’d recorded it earlier.) Their first segment was about President Trump’s remarks during his visit to Las Vegas. They played his remarks, and they were...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 5, 2017 | Tweets
Naturally, there are still a lot of tweets about Las Vegas dominating Twitter. In New Zealand, it’s the ‘Breakfast’ news show topping the list. I have no idea why as I don’t watch TV in the mornings. One of our politicians, Winston Peters, is...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 4, 2017 | Tweets, USA
Twitter is still full of tweets about the massacre in Las Vegas. I’m still angry that so many people have to suffer and die because a small number of people want to make huge profits. They are death merchants. Making firearms is a legitimate business if you are...
