i hate my blog

I recently got in contact with an my old RD from my first year at CBC. He works for an organization called Partners who work with internally displaced peoples in burma and thailand. I got in contact with them and started reading about Burma. I hadn't really heard much about the country, except for the brief news coverage of the Buddhist Monk protest a little while ago. But the more i read the more i realized the horror of the situation there. Its shocking the atrocities that are happening in that country. Even more shocking is the lack of media coverage in the West. I started looking into things and found some interesting news articles about corporations profiting from the oppressive dictatorship...most notably Chevron. Chevron, who has Condaliza Rice as one of the board members, is making it big by partnering with the Burmese government in the oil trade. But don't take my word for it, check it out.



About the situation in Burma, a report from the Free Burma Rangers
http://www.freeburmarangers.org/Features/20070315_NorthernKarenState.pdf


About Chevrons involvement
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/04/MNNBSIK4D.DTL

Chevrons statement, sounds chill but they don't intend to withdrawl their programs
http://www.chevron.com/news/press/Release/?id=2007-10-02

Other corporations profiting from Burmas oppressive regime
http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/pm/weblog.php?id=P193

Well its that time of year again. The time when everyone dresses up in their Sunday best and gets together for boring-old-horrible-rather-get-kicked-in-the-teeth family photos...right?

wrong. dead wrong. nothing could be further from the truth.

This is the family. We have the two daughters in the front, mom wearing the classic early 19th Century Quaker outfit, the weird awkward uncle in the back (whose obviously gay but the topic is never brought up) and me, the dad with the perv stash...

...just like most families



Of course the awkward uncle wanted a picture of him with the girls...little strange



After all the hassle of getting people dressed, finding a time to do it, drawing a perv stash on my face and getting everyone settled down, it was all worth it. This is what christmas is all about. Fake family.



We took a few shots to see which was the most family like...started getting a little sick of it


And then i got fed up with those stinking kids and we had a fight...perfectly captured on film...


...all in all i'd say its not inappropriate to call the day a christmas miracle