{"id":793,"date":"2005-10-24T21:52:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T00:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=793"},"modified":"2005-10-24T21:52:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T00:52:06","slug":"wilma-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Wilma and other news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>he third <a href=\"http:\/\/weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/ns-25_metric_e.html\">weather warning<\/a> issued this year for Nova Scotia: Wilma (now a &#8216;extra-tropical&#8217; storm) is slowly going northbound, disrupting existing cold fronts in the Northern part of the Atlantic. All media cautiously issued warnings: effects will start to become noticable tomorrow afternoon. From the path, I can only tell, Wilma is supposed to pass to the east of us. Hopefully, the ocean&#8217;s getting colder, thereby diminishing the effects. We had <em>plenty<\/em> of rain already.\n<\/p>\n<p>Another item I was following: the lady who was <em>sexually harrassed<\/em> by former Dutch prime minister Lubbers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/10\/19\/AR2005101901908.html\">is filing retaliation claims and intends to sue both Annan and Lubbers<\/a>.  More about ms Brzak (and video) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,172753,00.html\">Fox<\/a> [no wonder about The! Video! Ha!]. It&#8217;s a kind of hard to tell what the Dutch media makes out of it, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/614141\/11\/Lubbers_noemt_Cynthia_Brzak_beklagenswaardig.html\">there&#8217;s an item here [DUTCH]<\/a>). The former prime minister calls the whole situation:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;It was nothing but an extremely friendly gesture&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Brzak called it something completely differently (and apparently an internal UN report confirmed her&#8217;s): <\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8216;mr. Lubbers grabbed her from behind by her waist and pushed his groin against her back for 5 seconds&#8217;.\n<\/p>\n<p>Why do I keep thinking of other <em>conservatives<\/em>, like <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/2286008.stm\">John Major<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third weather warning issued this year for Nova Scotia: Wilma (now a &#8216;extra-tropical&#8217; storm) is slowly going northbound, disrupting existing cold fronts in the Northern part of the Atlantic. All media cautiously issued warnings: effects will start to become &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}