burma still reeling from hurricane

[screwballl]

but the main problem is that their government has turned it into some political brainwashing event....

Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names - Yahoo! News

State-run television continuously ran images of top generals — including the junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe — handing out boxes of aid to survivors at elaborate ceremonies.
One box bore the name of Lt. Gen. Myint Swe, a rising star in the government hierarchy, in bold letters that overshadowed a smaller label reading: "Aid from the Kingdom of Thailand."

It is very hard for me to grasp that in this day and age that there are still a$$holes around that pull this crap...