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 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 1, 2017 | Tweets
This will be my last Sunday post of tweets for a while. I’m finding it very difficult to keep up with this every day, so I’m going to take 2-3 days off each week. I’m not quite sure which days I’ll do yet, but, of course, I’ll let you...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 30, 2017 | Tweets
The thing I’ve been keeping an eye on is the eruption of the volcano on Ambae Island in Vanuatu. (I’ve put in a few tweets about it below.) It was triggered by a 6.4 earthquake on 21 September. Initially 70% of the population was going to have to leave,...
by Heather Hastie | Sep 29, 2017 | Tweets
The homily in today’s tweets post was going to be about the fate of New Zealand political party, the Maori party, in our recent election. However, as usual I went on a bit, and the homily became a “proper” post. So there’s not much here today....