by Heather Hastie | Jul 22, 2018 | International Politics, Russia, Sport, Tweets, US Politics
Hopefully, this is the last of these just-to-keep-things-ticking-over-with-some-tweets posts. Last week, I had a Needs Assessment by an Occupational Therapist. As a result, I’m expecting a new chair within the next week or so. Otherwise things are pretty much...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 19, 2018 | Human Rights, South and Central America, US Politics, USA
The latest tactic of the Trump administration to stop illegal crossings of their southern border is horrific. It is child abuse, pure and simple. As most of you probably already know, the US is now separating all parents and children when they SUSPECT the parents...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 10, 2018 | Russia, Tweets, US Politics
I was about to go back to work on a Proper Post. Then I remembered I wanted to change my Pinned Tweet (see below in Cat Tweets). On opening Twitter I found some pretty cool tweets and decided I’d like to share them with you. We’ve been discussing...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 9, 2018 | Democracy, Russia, US Politics, USA
I hope everyone reading this knows, or at least suspects, that President Trump’s talking point that the FBI put a spy in his campaign is a lie. There is no Spygate. Spygate is lie-gate (as someone else said, but I can’t remember who). Spygate is a...
by Heather Hastie | Jun 4, 2018 | Guest Posts, US Politics
Winning Elections by Linda Calhoun A few months ago I went back and reread the GOPAC memo, written in 1993 by then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. It addressed “the way to win elections”. In a nutshell, it advised candidates and their handlers to use pejorative...
by Heather Hastie | May 31, 2018 | Freedom of Speech, Tweets, USA
I wasn’t going to write about this. But, there are heaps of cool tweets today and I need a topic. The stuff I’m writing already is too long to head a Tweets Post, so Roseanne Barr it is. I didn’t watch her show way back when. It didn’t appeal....