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19 Nov 2017: Heather’s Homily (What About the Women) and Tweets
This tweets post should be about the All Blacks winning against Scotland. But I forgot to watch the game. Looking at the score line, I suspect that, as expected, the Scots put up a fantastic fight. The ongoing saga of Roy Moore being an a$$hole is, as someone who is a...
17 Nov 2017: Heather’s Homily (Roy Moore Again) and Tweets
There are two things dominating the tweets today when it comes to politics, and it's easy to guess what they are. One is the ongoing saga of the Mueller investigation. The latest news is that papers relating to Trump real estate deals and Russia have been subpoenaed....
15 Nov 2017: Heather’s Homily (Marriage Equality in Oz) and Tweets
The fantastic news in this part of the world, seen in multiple tweets, is that the Aussies have come out in support of marriage equality. Anyone who thought that the result would be otherwise was dreaming of course. It's been obvious for years that the majority of...
14 Nov 2017: Heather’s Homily and Tweets
Shock, horror! When I did my tweets post on Sunday, I missed the fact that the All Blacks had beaten the French in a test match that morning! In fact, I was so ill that day I forgot the match was even on. There were also a couple of bad losses for NZ sports teams over...
12 Nov: Homily (Sick Leave) and Tweets
I got these tweets yesterday, but the post never got completed because I'm unwell. I'm still a bit of a wreck, but there are some good tweets and I didn't want them to go to waste. I don't have much to bore you with today as the ole brain isn't up to much. The New...
10 Nov: Homily (Winston Peters Again) and Tweets
I don't know if there are any tweets about it because I haven't looked, but a story in the Washington Post is causing a bit of a furore here. A USian living in NZ, Ben Mack, wrote a story for them called 'How the far right is poisoning New Zealand'. It's incredibly...
5 Nov: Daily Homily and Tweets
The All Blacks New Zealand has had five big wins in the sporting arena in the last 24 hours, so that's what a large proportion of the tweets in this country are about. The biggest was the All Blacks vs the Barbarians (basically All Blacks "B") at Twickenham in London....
3 Nov: Daily Homily (Trump’s Lies) and Tweets
Whatever you think of President Trump's policies, you can't pretend that he's presidential. His daily tweets alone are enough to condemn him in the behaviour stakes. He seems to have no appreciation whatsoever of the dignity of the office he holds. And we all know...
2 Nov: Daily Homily and Tweets
I'm sure you can all guess what sort of tweets dominate the Twitter-verse today. It is, of course, yesterday's terror attack in Manhattan. Yes, I know this post says 2 November. But though the attack was the 31st in NY, it was the 1st in NZ. Going one more letter down...
Deedra Abboud: A Feminist Muslim?
Now This has a new video up today about Deedra Abboud. Abboud is a Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Arizona. If successful, she will be their first Muslim senator, and that would be great. A wider diversity of viewpoints is nearly always better when it comes...
31 Oct: Daily Homily (#MuellerTime) and Tweets
As you can imagine the Twitterverse is full of tweets about two things today: Halloween and the arrests resulting from the Mueller investigation. I predicted a couple of days ago that Paul Manafort would be the first arrest. Yesterday, though I didn't say it anywhere...
29 Oct: Daily Homily (Catalonia) and Tweets
There aren't many tweets about the situation unfolding in Spain regarding Catalonia. So, I put up a few myself. I find the whole thing extremely worrying as it's hard to see how there can be a peaceful resolution at this point. Personally, I oppose the calls for...