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Washington Says Goodbye to Pandas Amid Bitter US-China Backdrop
Channel News Asia ^
| 28 Sep 2023
Posted on 09/27/2023 7:17:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
No matter the distance or the weather, Jane Christensen was determined to see the giant pandas before they left Washington.
Now in her 60s, Christensen told AFP she had been captured by the species' magical cuteness over a half-century ago, when China first gifted two pandas to the United States.
"I've had 'panda-monium' ever since," she said under a chilly rain outside the Smithsonian National Zoo's panda exhibit, hundreds of miles from her home in Michigan. All three of the zoo's pandas are leaving for China by the end of the year, bringing at least a temporary end to a decades-old connection between the cuddly animal and the US capital.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; china; deported; diplomacy; nationalzoo; pandas; smithsonian
The pandas were drafted.
To: nickcarraway
So this thread is really about Jane Christensen?
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posted on
09/27/2023 7:20:47 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: nickcarraway
Really? Does anyone give a damn about the pandas?! Send ‘em back to China. Or anywhere else for that matter....
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posted on
09/27/2023 7:22:57 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man)
To: nickcarraway
BFD.
Get to a Balanced Budget.
Then grow cloned Pandas from leftover DNA.
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posted on
09/27/2023 7:26:06 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: nickcarraway
China doesn’t take back their illegal aliens but the pandas have to come back.
To: nickcarraway
I don’t get the fuss over pandas. They would be extinct if it weren’t for humans. Totally useless animals, just another example of stupid humans trying to play God.
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posted on
09/27/2023 7:37:42 PM PDT
by
rllngrk33
(The soap box and ballot box have failed, time for the bullet box is fast approaching.)
To: nickcarraway
Update: The pandas defected and are in a safe house in northern Virginia.
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posted on
09/27/2023 8:09:04 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
To: rllngrk33
Pandas are just giant raccoons. With a little genetic magic America can create giant raccoons to narrow the Panda gap.
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posted on
09/27/2023 8:09:22 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: nickcarraway
Get Fauci to clone them and do some gain of function research. Then we'll have the 2024 election lockdown for 12-foot tall saber tooth pandas wandering the cities hunting for human flesh.
12-foot tall pandas are much scarier than 12 foot-tall pandas.
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posted on
09/27/2023 8:19:49 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Red pandas are the raccoon-like creatures you are referring to-giant pandas are bears-not raccoons...
Either way they can probably be cloned...
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posted on
09/27/2023 9:09:45 PM PDT
by
Texan5
To: Texan5
Red pandas aren’t related to raccoons either, nor even giant pandas. They are closer to bears, but do different as to be in their own family, Ailuridae.
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posted on
09/27/2023 9:25:59 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: nickcarraway
Do they taste like chicken?
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posted on
09/28/2023 2:00:21 AM PDT
by
kickstart
("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane' )
To: nickcarraway
One of the Pandas was born here in the US so let’s make him a citizen LOL.
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posted on
09/28/2023 3:39:24 AM PDT
by
XRdsRev
(Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
To: XRdsRev
"One of the Pandas was born here in the US so let’s make him a citizen LOL."
Especially if one of the parents is from Kenya or Jamaica...
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posted on
09/28/2023 9:01:53 AM PDT
by
guest7
To: piasa
The ailuridae are interesting outliers-closest relatives are skunks, weasels-and to a lesser extent raccoons-but they are cuter in my opinion...
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posted on
09/28/2023 11:42:24 AM PDT
by
Texan5
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