{"id":1597,"date":"2008-03-18T14:26:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T06:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2009-03-09T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T11:42:11","slug":"1591-of-good-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"[1591] Of good and bad ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These are ministers that I have reserved some respect for (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mohd Zaid Ibrahim (for being a liberal)<\/li>\n<li>Amirsham A. Aziz (for his professional experience)<\/li>\n<li>L. Devamany (for having a conscience)<\/li>\n<li>Nor Mohamed Yakcop (for economic-literacy)<\/li>\n<li>Syed Hamid Albar (I seem to like him for some unidentifiable reason)<\/li>\n<li>Rais Yatim (for his academic qualification)<\/li>\n<li>Maximus Ongkili (for daring to speak up)<\/li>\n<li>Khaled Nordin (for just being a nice guy)<\/li>\n<li>Shahrir Samad (for having a conscience)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I hope these individuals will bring sense to the new Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>The following should however resign immediately before they embarrass the country:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (for inconsistency and incompetence)<\/li>\n<li>Nazri Aziz (for un-parliamentarian behavior)<\/li>\n<li>Johari Baharom (for possibly being corrupt and blatant abuse of the OSA)<\/li>\n<li>Nor Omar (for issuing stupid statements)<\/li>\n<li>Muhammad Muhd Taib (for corruption as well as for frivolous police reports)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are ministers that I have reserved some respect for (in no particular order): Mohd Zaid Ibrahim (for being a liberal) Amirsham A. Aziz (for his professional experience) L. Devamany (for having a conscience) Nor Mohamed Yakcop (for economic-literacy) Syed Hamid Albar (I seem to like him for some unidentifiable reason) Rais Yatim (for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","tag-cabinet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2834,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions\/2834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}