{"id":86,"date":"2005-05-18T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T14:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGirl\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/it-must-have-been-a-bit-of-a-shock-for-poor-old-norm\/"},"modified":"2005-05-18T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T14:35:21","slug":"it-must-have-been-a-bit-of-a-shock-for-poor-old-norm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/it-must-have-been-a-bit-of-a-shock-for-poor-old-norm\/","title":{"rendered":"It must have been a bit of a shock for poor old Norm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday George Galloway, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, roasted the US Senate committee investigating the &#8216;oil for food&#8217; scandal.  And he did it without notes too.  You can read more about his testimony at the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk_politics\/4556113.stm\">Beeb<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I have no opinion on Galloway&#8217;s participation in this scandal.  But I do find it suspicious that a leading opponent to the war in Iraq is on the US Senate&#8217;s hit list.  Perhaps the committee should turn it&#8217;s attention to people who we know have done deals with Saddam Hussein.  They might start with Donald Rumsfeld and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Disappointingly, only 2 US Senators bothered to turn up, which given that they&#8217;ve accused Mr Galloway of breaking the law, is rather disrespectful.  I suspect they realised they wouldn&#8217;t stand a chance and didn&#8217;t want to be shown up in public. <\/p>\n<p>If you get the chance you should listen to coverage of Prime Minister&#8217;s Questions from the British House of Commons.  It&#8217;s not for the meek and mild.  I suspect George Bush (shrub variety) wouldn&#8217;t last 10 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Current temperature 57F\/14C (Dewpoint 55F\/13C)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday George Galloway, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, roasted the US Senate committee investigating the &#8216;oil for food&#8217; scandal. And he did it without notes too. You can read more about his testimony at the Beeb. I have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/it-must-have-been-a-bit-of-a-shock-for-poor-old-norm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-the-heck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xZUC-1o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/WeatherGrrrl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}