Sunday, March 29, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
House Republicans pass DHS funding bill that Dems call "dead on arrival"
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-johnson-dhs-house-rebels-senate-bill-ice-cbp-rcna265507?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
WASHINGTON — House Republicans voted Friday evening to pass a short-term funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that has no viable path in the Senate and is likely to extend the shutdown stalemate on Capitol Hill.
The vote of 213-203 came after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., rejected the Senate-passed bill, which would fund all of DHS except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Funding for DHS lapsed in mid-February.
He called the Senate measure “a joke,” placing full blame for it on Democrats, even though Republicans control the Senate and the bill passed by unanimous consent early Friday morning.
Friday, March 27, 2026
My friends often ask me--What is Demonetization? They had never heard of it. Copied and pasted.
Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar)
Demonetization
https://hist_burma.en-academic.com/186/Demonetization
Demonetization
(1964, 1985, 1987)
An order of the government that revokes the legal tender status of currency notes, rendering them worthless. Burma under General Ne Win experienced three demonetizations: in May 1964, November 1985, and September 1987. They were designed to cripple "economic insurgency" (the black market), but the first two demonetizations offered limited compensation to persons who surrendered old banknotes. The 1987 order did not, wiping out as much as 80 percent of the country's savings because most people hoarded cash, reluctant to put their funds in the unreliable state banking system. The government replaced currency notes in denominations of 25, 35, and 75 kyats with oddly numbered notes of 45 and 90 kyats, reflecting Ne Win's preference for the auspicious number nine. In response, student demonstrations broke out, the first since the mid-1970s. Most observers believe the 1987 demonetization contributed substantially to the transformation of antigovernment sentiment into a nationwide opposition movement in 1988. Since the establishment of the State Law and Order Restoration Council, periodic fears of a new demonetization have added uncertainty to unsettled economic conditions. Those who can afford it keep their wealth in gold, jewelry, U.S. dollars, or capital-generating possessions such as automobiles.
See also Economy and Economic Policy, Burma Socialist Programme Party Era; Economy and Economic Policy, State Law and Order Restoration Council / State Peace and Development Council Era; Numerology.
Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar). Donald M. Seekins . 2014.
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Demonetization — is the act of stripping a currency unit of its status as legal tender. Demonetization is necessary whenever there is a change of national currency. The old unit of currency must be retired and replaced with a new currency unit. A recent example… … Investment dictionary
demonetization — de*mon e*ti*za tion, n. The act of demonetizing, or the condition of being demonetized; specificially, the declaration by a government that something (e.g. gold or silver) is no longer the legal tender of a country; as, the demonetization of gold … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
demonetization — 1852, from Fr. démonétisation, from démonetiser (see DEMONETIZE (Cf. demonetize)) … Etymology dictionary
demonetization — (Amer.) de·mon·e·ti·za·tion || diË‚mÊŒnɪtaɪ zeɪʃn n. act of removing money from circulation (also demonetisation) … English contemporary dictionary
demonetization — demonetize de‧mon‧e‧tize [ˌdiːˈmʌntaɪz ǁ ˈmɑːn ] also demonetise verb [transitive] FINANCE to no longer allow the use of a particular coin or banknote as money: • The Philippines central bank demonetized the paper money printed during Ferdinand… … Financial and business terms demonetization — demonetize (also demonetise) ► VERB ▪ deprive (a coin or precious metal) of its status as money. DERIVATIVES demonetization noun. ORIGIN French démonétiser, from Latin moneta money … English terms dictionary demonetization — noun see demonetize … New Collegiate Dictionary demonetization — See demonetize. * * * … Universalium demonetization — noun The act or process of demonetizing … Wiktionary demonetization — de·monetization … English syllables 18+ © Academic, 2000-2026 Contact us: Technical Support, Advertising Dictionaries export, created on PHP, Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, MODx.
Thursday, March 26, 2026
Books and People: Only some of movies based on John Le Carre's novels are on Amazon Prime
Russia House--Yes.
The Night Manager- Yes
Our Kind of Traitor--Yes
The Constant Gardener--rent or buy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy--rent or buy.
I don't really like to rent or buy movies online--
I'm already reading The Constant Gardener--which is very good, set in Kenya.
I prefer to buy used books so I can keep the book, refer to it and re-read it if I wish.
Some books I gave away to grandkid--but regret it.
Some I sold at yard sales.
Some I consider mistaken purchases, or that don't appeal to me that much,I gave to local library. Some I took as gifts when traveling places--
But now I don't travel, and local library only wants new books, so I just collect those I don't wish to keep, as have too many and sometimes I buy 2 copies by mistake--so I gave one copy of Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, about a bull fighter, to a waiter who said he had a motor-cycle accident-
And I gave a copy of Conn Iggulden's Genghis series,City of Silver, to a former colleague from Rangoon Eco Inst,later in MD who gave me about $300 for a book cover (Rider of Crocodiles) as he liked the present cover which was custom made for me--
and didn't want the generic cover I was thinking of to save money,
Roland was from the Commerce Dept--and I saw him only once in America at a mutual friend's wedding.
Sadly, he died from injuries after a fall in his garage.
When our mutual close friend Yasmeen (name changed) died in Burma, R. wanted to call me, but I was about to go to Berlin or Helsinki, one or the other, and I said, "You can email me anything," and so he did.
This is getting to be quite the usual thing, and it makes me feel like the Russian Exiles in Nabokov's short story collection, A Baker's Dozen, which I read in Burma.
Books were very scarce in Burma, so the RFA, VP, DS's remark--egged on by jerk boss junta goats' balls, "Just review the books (don't dramatize them) "made no sense whatsoever.
I got to read some books like Ragtime and Godfather bc my husband's boss liked to read, and had a long-standing Danish connection (he had saved a Danish trader from the Japanese during WW II) and so I got to read Uncle MK's books after he had read them.
I read them fast and promptly returned them.
Thank you, Uncle, so many years ago.
Aunty Chit Chit "Love Love" was a superb chef
who cooked dressed as if she was going to a wedding, so Aunty Chit Chit told me stories, and I could discuss politics with Uncle.
Also, added bonus, Chief Justice U Myint Thein,trained at the Inner Temple in London, was their permanent house guest, after he was widowered, and was always there at dinner time.
I can't say I like business people. They are boring as hell and don't know a thing.
Aunty's house and garden were also beautiful, and Chief Justice (of the democractically-elected governmen t of U Nu) had been Burmese Ambassador to Peking in the 1950s, but he did notlike to talk about those times.
He just said cryptically, "Yes,those were interesting times."
He gave me back a B and W photo of my father, but silver fish got it while it was in a drawer in my husband's wardrobe.
So it goes in Burma.
Kyi May Kaung
3-26-2026
Genghis and Sons.
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
AI overview from Google--it took me 20 years--to read book 1--and now working my way toward end of book1. Ah well--when the used book price falls lower.
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Amazing Analyst--and beautiful too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoYNTSeHBes
She makes me think of J.M.Keynes marriage--
Was there ever such a marriage of beauty and brains
As the fair Lupakova and John Maynard Keynes.
Lupakova was a leading ballerina, who aired her clothes, my friends and mentors Gordon H.Luce and Daw Tee Tee Luce told my brother, outside the front door on the lawn.
Luce was the leading historian of Old Burma (Bagan) and Daw Tee Tee won the Magsaysay Award for her social work and her Home for Waifs and Strays.
In this case, see video, beauty and brains are in one being.
Must follow her on LinkedIn.
Kaung
3-25-2027.
Presdt T. cast another mail in ballot while deriding--
President Donald Trump has cast another mail ballot in Florida as he continues to publicly bash the voting method as a source of fraud and push Congress to curtail the practice.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-vote-by-mail-bd52fd205f4484237d5b77d2e7319350?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Palm Beach County voter records show the president voted by mail in a Tuesday special election for state legislative seats and that his ballot has been counted. Early in-person voting in the contest ran through Sunday, when Trump was still at his south Florida estate.
The White House said Tuesday that Trump’s ire is at states using universal mail-in voting, not individual instances of voters needing accommodations to vote by mail. A spokeswoman pushed back specifically at the idea that his voting practice contradicts his push for new federal voting rules.
Lastpara usual Leavitt mumbo jumbo cover up--
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Wow--how flatworm caccoon embryos survive deep sea conditions,
What was inside? The secret of the black cocoons
Although the structures were about 3 millimetres in diameter, they were not actually eggs, but leathery egg capsules (known as cocoons). When Dr Keiichi Kakui from Hokkaido University opened the cocoons using a microscope, each cocoon produced a milky liquid (later identified as yolk) that leaked out. Each egg capsule contained between three and seven flatworm embryos, with some of the embryos already showing signs of developed internal organs, according to the research archived by the Royal Society Publishing.
ICE "officers" skipping masks at airports--They are not "police"and "federal officers"
they are DJT's mafiosi--on taxpayer money.
What about their names??
T. "deployed them"bc Musk offered to pay TSA salaries.
What do they do but swagger around and arrest innocent people?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/23/ice-tsa-airports-masks-debate/89289661007/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Monday, March 23, 2026
Zin Zhang made a very brief "return" for a few minutes near the end of Fireworks of My Heart--
Burn scar on his right cheek was healed and the same color as the rest of his face.
His friend wanted to share the moment of the Award they received on Zoom.
Thought you would want to know--my post about his cameo role got the most blog hits--66.
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