Picture(s) of the day.

President Obama attending the 21st Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Cambodia.

Great picture don't you think? However the last few days have been filled with great opportunities for photos.

The President also stopped by Myanmar to visit with activist Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Mayanmar people were, to say the least, VERY excited by his visit.

It appears that while the President is still experiencing angry blowback from the defeated Republicans in THIS country, in other parts of the world he is a virtually rock star.

(Most of these pictures are courtesy of the Obama Diary.)

Buddhists monks stripped of their identities and brutalized. "You are no longer monks"

"At the beginning it was very, very bad," one recently released monk told Reuters, requesting anonymity because of the threat of repercussions against those who speak out against the regime, the latest face of 45 years of unbroken military rule.

Caged for more than a week at a former Government Technical Institute compound in north Yangon, the monks -- revered figures in the devoutly Buddhist nation -- were stripped of their maroon monastic robes and treated like common criminals.

"When one of us used a pronoun referring to himself as a monk, he was slapped," the monk said. "Then an interrogator said: 'You are no longer a monk. You are just an ordinary man with a shaven head."'

The monks, mostly young men whom the army sees as the biggest threat to its iron grip on power because of their moral authority, were packed into rooms so tightly they could not lie down, let alone sleep, in the sweltering monsoon season heat.

For days, they had no toilet, nowhere to wash their hands, and were forced to scoop up slops of barely cooked rice with their bare hands.

How cowardly must a regime be to treat the keepers of their religion in this fashion?

These monks are a peaceful people.

Allowing Comics to depict a horrible situation that in no way lends itself to humor.

Hundreds of Budddhist monks killed and their bodies dumped in Myanmar jungles.

Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.

The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more people have been killed in recent days than you've heard about. The bodies can be counted in several thousand."

We are so caught up in our own crisis's in this country that it is easy to forget the horrible atrocities being visited on our fellow humans in other parts of the world.

But this thing in Myanmar is absolutely horrendous!

Buddhists may be the most peaceful people on the planet, and to see them brutalized this way is heartbreaking.

The US and the other nations need to apply pressure to stop the government from this wholesale slaughter. It is fucking barbaric!