Wah, marahnye DS Nazri. NST puts in bigggg letters:
“I don’t give a damn. The Kubang Pasu Umno Youth members who made the call to have me sacked from Umno and Cabinet are confused, stupid, ignorant and have no guts.
Sigh, a bit kasar right? But we can’t be surprised, coming from this man.
DPM DS Najib comes to his defence, somewhat disappointingly. DPM defends the man who defends one-eye Jasin (MP YB Mohd Said). A little too many loyalties at the expense of a little too many principles.
TDM has something to say too:
When asked about Kubang Pasu Umno Youth, which passed a resolution calling for his biggest critic —Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Aziz to be sacked from the party and Cabinet — Dr Mahathir said he did not care either way what happened to Nazri.
Ouch :)
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Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar weighs in on ethnic relations. He takes the foreign press to task because:
“They show clips of Chinese only mixing with Chinese, Malays hanging out with Malays, and Indians with Indians. It is as if our races do not mix together or get along,”
DS Syed Hamid very angry with these foreign bogeymen. But that’s maybe because he hasn’t stopped by at our local universities, schools, etc.
Nothing makes me happier than to see multi-ethnic mingling. Sadly, part of the reason it makes me so happy is that I really don’t see that much of it. And if we already mingle so much (and I meanmeaningful mingling and relationship building, not the festivities, poster-perfect smiling, etc), why do we need ethnocentric political parties like DS Syed Hamid’s anyway?
He also says:
“We started to lead our own country in 1955. Only after they (the British) saw that we could lead and live together peacefully did they grant independence to us,”
Err.. I think the British ‘granted’ independence to us because – among other reasons – that was their policy worldwide at the time, because we weren’t super duper important to the Empire, and because we wanted it pretty bad.
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Just a quick point to DS Hishammuddin’s defence (covered everywhere really) of his keris rattling. Brushing off interpretations that it’s promoting Ketuanan Melayu in a belligerent fashion, he says he would rattle a kungfu sword just as readily.
But but… isn’t brandishing weapons of any sort promoting a somewhat violent imagery? :( Tak kan that is the kind of culture we want to promote?
Tian Chua has a somewhat amusing analysis of the episode.
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I didn’t really have anywhere better to slot this in today:
Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu announces that 10% of all building and infrastructure works will be awarded to Class F contractors, which I’m sure Umno will be happy with. It was also reported that:
There are 36,000 Class F contractors, of whom only 7,000 are active. Bumiputras make up 90% of the total number of Class F contractors.
Umm.. What do those 29,000 (about 80%) contractors do? Can anybody enlighten me as to what ‘inactive’ means?
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