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thedailywhat:

Best Job Ever of the Day: A four-month-old panda cub is being trained for reintroducing into the wild by two Wolong National Nature Reserve researchers in panda suits.

For reintroduction to go smoothly, the cub’s environment must be free from human influence, which is why the researchers must don panda costumes before physically handling the baby bear.

[bwe.]

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ronworkman:

Kill Bill: Simplistic Crazy 88 - by Soopernoodles (via:herochan)

Note from Ron: Currently watching (yes, early on a Saturday morning)

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-serpentinthewoods:

It’s My Time by Clint Mansell.

From Black Swan directed by Darren Aronofsky.

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whitehousephotostream:

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President Barack Obama visits with a platoon of U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan that recently lost six members, Dec. 3, 2010. The President made an overnight trip to visit troops in Afghanistan.
(Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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thedailywhat:

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MY object is to defend Barack Obama against attacks on him by what has been his liberal constituency. Again and again he is accused of timidity and excessive caution for not fighting for their agenda. The assumption is that his agenda and theirs coincide, and that he lacks the courage and force to fight for its enactment. Could it be that he simply differs from his critics about policy and strategy and that it may even take a kind of courage to resist the pressure of his liberal base? It is the habit of his critics to invoke liberal heroes of the past—Lincoln, FDR, and even LBJ as models for what a bold presidency can achieve—and contrast their performances with the timorousness of Obama’s. (“Be afraid, be very afraid,” Paul Krugman mocks Obama when he takes a tack that does not conform to what Krugman believes should and can be done.) Anyone who has read the history of the Lincoln and Roosevelt administrations has to be struck with the unfairness of the contrast. Their presidencies proceeded through fits and starts, hesitations and uncertainties. Rarely did they avoid making compromises to achieve results. Either unread in that history or willfully ignoring it, Obama’s critics express dismay and disbelief at every failure, every inconsistency, apparent and real, in his performance.