Gladiators and shitbags
11:16 am - May 14th 2008
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Freakonomics – Why charitable donations to help those in Myanmar Burma will be meagre compared to Katrina and the Asian tsunami.
Mike Power – On the “All round shitbag and Lib Dem MP for Birmingham Yardley, John Hemming”.
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Aaron Murin-Heath is an occasional contributor. He is a writer based in Newark-on-Trent and Tallinn, Estonia. He is both socially and economically liberal. Aaron blogs at tygerland.net.
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*cough*Burma*cough*
The UK (rightly) doesnt recognise the junta’s name change, and the elected President of Burma doesn’t support it either. What USians do is up to them…
Mmm.. yeah I think its Burma that is the politically correct name… especially since the pro-democracy activists use it 
Ok. But, as regular attendee in pedant’s corner, I’ll point out that the UN recognises the name Myanmar.
BTW. Do we know if Burma was the colonial name, or the indigenous one?
From Wiki: In the Burmese language, Burma is known as either Myanma ( ) or Bama ( ). Myanma is the written, literary name of the country, while Bama is the oral, colloquial name of the country
After independence in 1948 Burma was chosen, only renamed Myanmar by the SLORC in 1989. UN recognises it, UK and US doesn’t.
Sunny—nowt t’do with PC, everything to do with the preferences of those that live under the evil bastards.
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