by Heather Hastie | Oct 17, 2017 | NZ Politics, Tweets
It’s been a couple of days, so I thought it was about time I did a tweets post. I’ve been partly writing a “proper” post, and partly taking time off. Spoiler Alert: the “proper” post is about the Iran Nuclear deal, which I support....
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 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...