[Buddha-l] Burma or Myanmar

[Chan Fu]

On 9/28/07, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> The Canadian Broadcast Corporation has an informative background piece on the
> political ramifications of referring to the country so much in the news
> recently as Burma or Myanmar. (Short version for those with limited time: the
> two names are phonetic variants of the same word, but the variant one chooses
> to use speaks volumes about one's political allegiances.)
>
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/un/burma-myanmar.html

Yeah...

Dear friends in the dharma,
If you are able to, please consider participating in this:
Impeach Cheney and Bush, get out of the middle east
and take care of your own people. Then, when your infinitely
compassionate being has enough diplomatic credibility,
try to convince the governmental powers (read "military")
of Myanmar and China that they shouldn't beat people up
and hang or shoot them for doing things that they don't
think are right. When you're done, please take on the Islamic
and Christian fundamentalists, the Catholic Church, and the
rest of these %#%$&* primitive tribes and convince them to
mind their own goddam business. Good luck.
And stop watching television.
Thank you,
Buddha