Sunday, April 30, 2017

Otzi reborn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUEJwKGM1DY

All my publications are available on Amazon, in print or Kindle e book form. Just google the titles and my name as on book covers and you can buy copies in either format, or as used books.

If you do, please write a review on Amazon.

If you have ever bought anything on Amazon (it need not be a book) you can review a (my) book or books.

Please do so.

Please read and support the reading habit in your children and grandchildren.

I do believe Mr T is supported by ill informed non-readers, by their own admission, and we should work against that by informing ourselves, even resisting and fighting (legally) some one who mongers hate, such as -- x y z T

Cheers

kmk
4-30-2017

My fiction books-my one time journalist room mate was so entranced by my stories, she spent almost 12 hours, in NY City! reading instead of sightseeing, even reading my books during intermission at a play and in the bus. You will be too. Buy one and see.



My novella The Lovers--about a woman from Chile

https://www.amazon.com/Lovers-story-America-Novellas-K-M-Kaung/dp/1499193726

Please read, go online on Amazon, and write a review.

Help and support writers who write the truth.

kmk
4-30-2017

Please follow me on Twitter

https://twitter.com/kyikaung?lang=en

controversial T aide--aren't they all, to leave--

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reports-sebastian-gorka-out-as-assistant-to-trump_us_590650d7e4b0bb2d086f6151

US Congress & budget and D T

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/30/congress-spending-deal-budget-shutdown-237818

Special post--Nova--Human Origins--Turkana Boy--Leakeys--Out of Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzmZjO1RDOQ

4-30-2017

Blood Falls in Antarctica

http://www.sfgate.com/outdoors/article/The-Mystery-of-Antarctica-s-Blood-Falls-has-been-11109037.php

Rachel Maddow interviews Sen. Elizabeth Warren

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svvIFQPiPis&index=12&list=PLDIVi-vBsOEyETRGoRP9y8zhyu6bHl6iK

In rural Pennsylvania, T does his brand of white extreme nationalism, still followers chanting Build the Wall and Lock her up. SAD.

It seems they will follow anything orange.

Meanwhile T continues to call his opponents what he
is.

As in kettle calls the pot orange.

DISGUSTED.

But keep following the real news and keep exercising your rights.

They are under threat from this T guy and his minions daily.

I note on this blog, it is in order

France
USA
Croatia
China

in largest # of blog hits per week.

AMAZING

PHENOMENAL

4-30-2017

cartoon from Dr Seuss, Internet.

White House Correspondents' Dinner

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/04/29/a-different-sort-of-white-house-correspondents-dinner/?utm_term=.91258da6fd0e

Saturday, April 29, 2017

Jade vine at NY Botanical Garden, seen by and photographed by me--





Jade vine--like the Ambapali (famous courtesan) of flowers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdVMN_iYZ84

Dale Chihuly at NY Botanical Garden--Chihuly's artwork of hand blown glass.






Daffodils


Cherries out 80% NY Botanical Garden--

Cherries near entrance, New York Botanical Garden,
the Bronx, NY.

Climate March draws 000s to DC

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/climate-march-expected-to-draw-massive-crowd-to-dc-in-sweltering-heat/2017/04/28/1bdf5e66-2c3a-11e7-b605-33413c691853_story.html?utm_term=.2fdcd0bb963c

One of comments said Duck a l'orange dares not face these crowds.

I might have gone out had I known, but instead spent indoors coughing.

Perhaps caught cold on windy Princeton Junction train platform at 5 AM.

Yes yes, know it's a virus.

kmk
4-29-2017

Commuters, Princeton Junction, NJ.  Copyright Kaung



Being spoiled--

Beng spoild reqd long expltn I'm going to eat waffle=white flour=carbs=sugar

theref no maple syrup  Hosts kept sayng, But they eat with it.

Japanese-American woman dies trying to protect walking companion--

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-killed-teen-suspect-20170428-story.html

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Russian-Soviet writer--Mikhail Sholokov--

1965 Nobel Laureate in Literature--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Sholokhov

I am reading his second book, The Don Flows to the Sea, which I bought for $2 in the Princeton Public Library on Nassau St, where I went with my friend.

It's more reasonable to read the more famous And Quiet Flows the Don first, but they can be read as free standing novels.

Here is the full ms. of And Quiet Flows the Don, but you should buy a book if you can.

On line you will have to read it sitting at a desk, which isn't the same at all as lying down and reading a novel in your own bed or on your own futon.

Also, the online transcript, maybe scanned, has quite a few errors and typos.

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
4-26-2017


volatile US Presdt and reckless N Korean make a volatile mix.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/north-korea-trump-china/524349/?google_editors_picks=true

Trevor Noah show--now the comedians can play T. better than T. himself.

http://www.businessinsider.com/president-trump-crashes-trevor-noah-daily-show-2017-4

brilliantly written and acted, down to the hand gestures and calling Trevor, "Travis."

This is god help us time.

I can't even laugh due to coughing so much I have a stomach ache.

God bless all of you out there just trying to make an honest living and doing no harm.

While in the White House--blip blip blip.

kmk
4-26-2017


T. attacks judges who stay his unreasonable orders--again.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/04/26/all-the-times-trump-personally-attacked-judges-and-why-his-tirades-are-worse-than-wrong/?utm_term=.1aa7bbf7582d

sustainability in practice--house wrapped in a greenhouse



Interesting house in a greenhouse in Stockholm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ghnDOFbNQ

This is almost like a house out of JRR Martin's fiction (that one on a warm spring.)

kmk



Own septic and urine/greywater tank, separate from black water.
As she says, it is not a perfect house, and they still need some supplemental heat for bedrooms, and maybe cooking?
But they manage to shorten the Northen winters from Sept to May
to Oct to –


Rachel Maddow--Russia, Calexit, Free California and Russia--

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

4-26-2017

Friday, April 21, 2017

Lisa Bloom, lawyer who got Bill O'Reilly fired in 18 days

Lisa Bloom lawyer who got Bill O'Reilly fired

Go to NYTs first not Fox News.  Good advice. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ONWyXkpnA

Sex harassers are usually serial offenders.

Women especially should watch this program to know how to protect yourself.

4-21-2017

My recent tweets--follow me on

Kyi Kaung@KyiKaung


  1. Excellent, Rachel Maddow on raid in Nigeria of spy chief's apt. 4-21-2017
  2. Of course, that's how the system is set up CHECKS & BALANCES, didn't you know Mr Sessions ??? See below.
  3. First Trump doesn't care N Korea can already hit Hawaii; now Sessions says it's just some "island in the Pacific."

Highly recommended--op ed by Charles M.Blow --A Fake and a Fraud

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/opinion/a-fake-and-a-fraud.html

exactly.

4-21-2017

Grab your wallet may be protect your p***y

Fears of Revolt by Consumers Felled O’Reilly https://nyti.ms/2p1k7Ch

ha!  T's kiss of fire

--impressive 2 weeks to get rid of O'Reilly with online protests.

how abt getting rid of Mr T??

4-21-2017

Thursday, April 20, 2017

Sad news from DC SE

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/04/20/tyshaun/?utm_term=.ca980dae9aa2
I had not even heard of Congress Heights and had never been E of the Anacostia River.

Even going to the National Arboretum is iffy.

I know "all about gunfire on the streets" because I lived in West Philadelphia 13 years and people still get shot.

kmk

Kyi May Kaung
Words Sounds and Images

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

14 year old reporter for Time for Kids, at Easter Egg Roll, gets some spicy interviews--

http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2017/Teen-Reporter-From-Bethesda-Gets-Melania-Trump-Easter-Bunny-to-Open-Up/

Rachel Maddow--where is the USS Carl Vinson?

compares to JFK and Cuban missile crisis, where JFK INSISTED he and generals knew exactly where all ships were, so Cuba/Russia would not think an accidental placement was starting a war.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

Michael Beschloss, Presidential Historian, said it is a good comparison.

4-19-2017  broadcast on 4-18-2017

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Interview of my sr. cousin, the late U Ba Aye--

http://www.andrewwhitehead.net/burma.html

Reviews of my upcoming novel Wolf, set in Burma and the world--

http://www.kmkaung.com/files/Graphics/Writings/Wolf_Reviews.pdf

My memoir--

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X

All from Internet--have a good day






Prof. predicts impeachment--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cBGBEcS1QQ

Prof Alan Lichtman's new book--Case for Impeachment--4-18-2017

Brilliant new artist--Jason Woodside

https://www.google.com/search?q=Jason+Woodside&safe=active&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWhrTuga_TAhUE_4MKHdWpDn8QsAQIQQ&biw=864&bih=392

What it's like to flee Cuba by sea--

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottbeyer/2016/03/01/what-is-it-like-to-escape-cuba-by-raft/#6149e3dc8a0e

At the University of Pennsylvania, I met a woman who did not know her parents, since they sent her as a child on the Pedro Pan Program.

I was almost as desperate when I tried to bring my own children out of Burma, but am glad I did not have to send them off with strangers or "friends."

4-18-2017

Sunday, April 16, 2017

Saturday Night Live comes up with more laughs--bitterly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/16/524190898/an-easter-message-from-melissa-mccarthys-spicey-on-snl

see earlier skit on same site--

of Bannon, Kushner and "T"

4-16-2017

Better pictures--giraffe live birth

This is giraffe live birth at Dallas Zoo in 2015--baby later died when ran into wall and broke her neck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P05BRjsAAkg

It looked like enclosure had too many hazards, after all giraffes live on grassy plains and are built to run.

kmk
4-16-2017

Saturday, April 15, 2017

Against whitewashing in movies and fiction--

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/09/the-guardian-view-on-whitewashing-in-the-movies-a-failure-of-imagination

4-15-2017

Nice comment from Washington Post--copied and pasted --on April the Giraffe

been watching April because I find it strangely soothing. April doesn't know jack about politics, she has no opinion on military strikes in Syria and she doesn't give a lame rat's rear end about how many times Trump has golfed in Florida. She's affectionate with her handlers, she likes to play with Oliver, she adores carrots and begs for them like a golden retriever. She's been a bright spot in my day and when I woke to see her finally in labor - I watched for hours until the baby was on the ground, then on its feet and then, wobbling the whole way, found its way to breakfast. Welcome to the world, little giraffe! May you never know hunger, never be homeless, never be a refugee... may the only humans you ever meet treat you kindly and may you someday be a part of helping your species return to abundance in the lands you were made for. Maybe one day we'll care as much for each other as we've cared about you....
charley3
best story that I have read since Nov 6, 2016.
WELL DONE APRIL.
RFrank6
11:26 AM EST [Edited]
The baby is thinking "To be honest, I was kinda expecting the Serengeti, not upstate New York." Wink 
maximonion
11:34 AM EST
That's ok. Mom and the little tyke don't have to worry about the lions or hyenas.
from4untilate
11:40 AM EST
or nature , or anything real !
RealityCheckPLS
11:45 AM EST
7.5 Billion humans don't live in ANYTHING close to what constitutes as a "natural" or real environment.  
Kestrelco
11:45 AM EST
I'm thinking, since as it was being born it was pooped on, then fell 6ft to the ground and after it was born all the rest of the bodily fluids were dumped on its head... it was probably thinking "WTH just happened to me!?"
Tobit
So happy, now hopefully this story will disappear from my Google News feed forever. It's a giraffe, for crying out loud!
Grateful Deadline
11:33 AM EST
Way better than a Trump!
maximonion
11:39 AM EST
Trump? What's that?
RealityCheckPLS
11:45 AM EST
There's always Heroin and the bottle...
charley3
11:46 AM EST
the nice thing about animals is that they don't steal, cheat, collude with Russians, take away people's health insurance, don't approve of of dumping waste in the drinking water and muchmuch more. Let's have more giraffes and fewer politicains.
Brenda Worden
This morning we learned that April is 15 years old, while her mate, Oliver, is only 5 years old. Shouldn't that qualify her to be a COUGAR, instead of a giraffe?
RealityCheckPLS
11:50 AM EST
If she were human, we would consider her a predator.

Strange how we never had a program called "Desperate Husbands" ogling all those beautiful, nubile young woman.

To be attracted to the most beautiful isn't shallow, it's Nature 101, and as natural as breathing. Somehow, we have criminalized a woman's choice of whom she wants to be with. Weird at best.

 

Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response....