What? Even the panda cams? Government shutdown would hit National Zoo

CNN ^ | Jan. 18, 2018 | Veronica Stracqualursi

[bgill]

Expect pandemonium. If Congress fails to avert a government shutdown by its Friday deadline, the popular panda cameras at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington will be turned off, according to a statement from the Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian's lion and elephant cameras will also go dark if the federal government is shut down, the statement read... "A shutdown will not affect the Zoo's commitment to the safety of staff and the standard excellence in animal care," the statement read.

[madison10]

So what.

[blueunicorn6]

“Born Free and beauty surrounds you
The world still astounds you each time you look at a star”

Run free Pandas! Run free!

Live with your friends the Eskimos!

[I Drive Too Fast]

Women, children and pandas hardest hit.

[Yo-Yo]

I'll tell you one thing, Trump isn't going to close the National Mall and post armed guards to chase off veterans trying to visit their outdoor memorials, the way Obama did.

[Luke21]

CNN going to blame Congress, not Democrats.

[rawcatslyentist]

Congress failed to perform it's job.

Congress deserves to pay the penalties!

[AndyJackson]

The pandas might escape and stalk the streets of DC, slaughtering and devouring liberals right and left.

I keep predicting that our love of our nuisance deer sooner or later is going to draw some cougars into Rock Creek Park. There are not THAT many deer and sooner or later the cougars will have to wander farther afield with the same effect. I would oppose any government program to shoot cougar at that point on the grounds that this was their planet long before we took it over and ruined it.

[Sooth2222]

I'm guessing the Panda Cam audience demographic is similar to the late-night TV talk show audience demographic.

People with waaaaaaay too much time on their hands, and that don't need get up to go to work in the morning.

[Jeff Chandler]

Please say Trump is not going to grandstand on this as Uhbama did.

HE won't, but the Leftist, Deep State, bureaucrats will.

[blueunicorn6]

For those of you who are really missing this bear camera, here is a look at the Polar Bear camera.

There’s a blizzard going on.

[GreyFriar]

congress has mangy beasts, not animals.

[Don Corleone]

Do they have to feed these cameras cash or something?

Are they like the telescopes on the Empire State Building?

[skr]

An elephant heist would be quite a challenge even with the cams offline.

[bgill]

Smithsonian animals painting. The sales of these masterpieces surely pay for their upkeep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8yBu92Y4UE

[blueunicorn6]

Animal abuse! Animal abuse! Animal abuse!

I’d like to take those filthy, stinking Armadillo abusers and dip their feet in red paint and make them run across some paper!

Poor little Armadillo! He was in shock!

Everyone knows Armadillos like green.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The panda-monium shall be un-bear-able.

[Flick Lives]

Federal Government: “Give us 20 Trillion dollars or the pandas die!”

[Verginius Rufus]

Good thing they weren’t doing this while Jackson Pollock was alive. The competition would have destroyed his career.

[Grampa Dave]

OMG! No panda closed circuit videos. Trump's fault!

[TLI]

currently on...

https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams/panda-cam

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