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    The Pandas everybody ‘hates’ to ‘love’; Panda-rama’ & Panda-monium!

    I just saw on the National news, that Pandas from China have been sent to the Smithsonian Zoo in Washington, DC for the first time in 24 years. The original pair (and eventually their cub) in the Smithsonian Zoo was transferred back to China. Chinese and American diplomats and bureaucrats call this “Panda Diplomacy”. The Chinese are very guarded with Pandas and their descendants. It seems they want to own the entire Panda trade, and even control the proliferation of Panda descendants. That being said, it seems to function in practice as a kind of lend/lease agreement, but I do…

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    Grandma was a 70’s Porn Star

    I love stories you can’t make up. People either wouldn’t believe you or would question your motives for citing such an outlandish story. But alas it is true. One of my ‘jobs’ that my bachelors in Political Science and my Masters have proffered me as a Black man with a felonious weed sales conviction is I do general labor cleaning out houses after an investor that I work for purchases the property. I was just able to vote in 2010 when my 10 years of being ‘on paper’, my fines and my 60-90 days in the County/Regional Detention Facility aka…