11 Comments

  1. disbelief
    May 28, 2008,

    How about dictatorial governments where elected officials get unbelievably lucrative governemt contracts where they make literally billions from marketing a fake war?

  3. RSmitty
    May 28, 2008,

    Oh yeah? If it’s so great, why do they still order their beer in pints on the other side of the pond?

    I’ll walk a hundred km for a PINT! OK, not really, but I would walk one.

  4. liberalgeek
    May 28, 2008,

    Actually, the pints are set to go away…

    Oh, and we both are really crappy about getting aid to flood-ravaged poor people.

  6. Brian
    May 28, 2008,

    Let’s not forget making political prisoners out of democracy activists. That and the inability to resuce people after a huge hurricane.

  7. Brian
    May 28, 2008,

    Oh I almost forget, both dispatched paramilitaries to the disaster area that are accountable to no one. With Katrina it was Blackwater and in Myanmar it was the regime’s mercenary force.

  8. Dorian Gray
    May 29, 2008,

    I think counted by tens is too hard! We should go back to biblical means of measurement – like the cubit.

  9. Dorian Gray
    May 29, 2008,

    Oh and shouldn’t we be calling the country Burma in protest. Every other news agency I watch. heard or read based outside the US says “Burma” (the BBC, Al Jeezera, the CBC, Reuters, etc.)

  10. jason330
    May 29, 2008,

    Siam, Burma, French Indo-China, Bengalen …what’s the dif?

  11. Dorian Gray
    May 29, 2008,

    I guess every other news agency outside the US refuses to recognize the name that some military junta uses for the country. I do notice that every ex-pat I’ve heard on TV or radio in the US, like college professors from there, say Burma. My dentist is also Burmese and says Burma. I’ll have to ask him the next time I’m in for a cleaning.

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