Instead of doing housework the Panda Bear is sitting at her computer writing her blog. The Panda Bear would rather do almost anything rather than clean-see the post The Panda Bear on Housecleaning.
The human Panda Bear did not get to be an Internet TV. In the future, she will not announce outside projects until after they take place She now realizes the media can be tough. She apologizes if she inconvenienced any of her readers; she knows how valuable everyone's time is. Once at work the Panda Bear was on the telephone with someone from a foreign country. This person at the end thanked the Panda Bear for her "valued time". The Panda Bear was very impressed with this thought and wishes more people would be considerate of people's limited time.
However, there are plenty of opportunities to see Panda Bears on the web. The Panda Bear found this website http://www.perfectpandas.com/ which has the different web cams of the zoos which have Panda Bears. The Panda Bear likes the web cams of the San Diego Zoo and the Atlanta Zoo. The Pandas are so cute!!! They love to eat their vegetables. In fact, Panda Bears have a much better approach to birthday cakes then humans. Both the San Diego Zoo and the Atlanta Zoo have videos of Pandas and their birthday cakes. For their birthday, the Panda Bears will get an ice cake with bamboo shoots and other fruits and vegetables. The Pandas will eat the fruit and vegetables and instead of eating the cake they will play with their cake. Just think how much healthier human beings would be if on their birthday they would celebrate by eating fruits and vegetables and using their cake to get exercise!!!
The Panda Bear was reading a book review about the book The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal. The book deals with the Wests fascination with the Panda Bear. There is some speculation the that Westerners like Pandas because they seem a little human like and they have a reputation for gentleness. The Panda Bear agrees from what she has read about the Panda Bears and seen on the zoo web cameras that they seem for wild animals to be gentle creatures .They were once caniverous but now mostly like to eat plants. They seem to like to hang out in the forest eating bamboo. Furthermore, they have a short mating season(in other words these are not oversexed animals).
Therefore it bothers the Panda Bear when she goes to the grocery store she sees cereal bars being advertised by using the Panda Bears out from the movie Kung Fu Panda. These Pandas Bears look mean and tough. She feels it distorts the true nature of the gentle seeming Panda Bears. The Panda Bear wonders if Kung Fu Panda shows that we as a culture devalue gentleness(we want our Pandas tough not gentle).
The Kung Fu Panda on food packages in not the only image that the Panda Bear sees on food packages that bother her. There is a local store that carries alot of products aimed at the Russian immigrant community where there is a lot of food labels in Russian. Often the food products have pictures of former Tsars such as Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Elisabeth and the son of the last Tsar, Alexis. These images the Panda Bear can kind of understand(the old Tsars-Russian in its old glory days-Alexis died too young to have any impact on Russia). However, the Panda Bear is amazed to see food products with the picture of the last Tsar-Nicholas II. The Panda Bear does not like the last Tsar of Russia because she thinks he was a despot and he was behind many of the programs against the Jews of Russia. However, even if one was pro-Tsar wouldn't one see Nicholas II as the Tsar who lost it for the monarchy and brought on the communists? It is hard for the Panda Bear to imagine anyone liking him.
The Panda Bear is also surprised that in these politically correct times there are still on packages only African American Aunt Jemima's., Uncle Ben's and African American cooks on the Cream of Wheat and Cream of Rice cereal boxes. The Panda Bear feels to be politically correct these boxes either should either have no human image or the images should be multiracial(i.e a white Aunt Jemima, a Asian Aunt Jemima, a Hispanic Aunt Jemima). The Panda Bear believes the idea behind these pictures is skilled black domestic help waiting on white people. When she was a child, the Panda Bear remembers alot of anger about images of black servants(the Panda Bear remembers her mother taking away some paper dolls who were dolls black servants of a white nineteenth century family on the grounds of its being racist). To the Panda Bear it is surprising that black Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and the African American chief of the Cream of Wheat/Rice package have survived into the twenty-first century.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Panda Bear on TV, Modesty, and Being Busy
The Panda Bear is always surprised about how much time working people seem to spend on television. She would not think they had the time to watch so much television. The only time the Panda Bear watches television is on Friday night.
That said the Panda Bear(the human one) will be on Internet TV Friday September 23rd at 9:00 pm EST. She will be on http://www.realcoachingradio.net/ on the show Mind, Body and Soul.
She invites her readers to see her on the show. This week the Panda Bear was feeling envious of some other people's career success. In a later post, the Panda Bear will discuss how stupid it can be to be envious of others. However, one of the ways the Panda consoled herself was asking herself can any of these people that the Panda Bear envies write the Panda Bear Blog with subscribers in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland and viewers all over the world? She thinks in all honesty the answer is no.
The Panda Bear is normally sweet, modest and unassuming person. She believes that a person's good qualities should speak for themselves and it is rude to flaunt one's success. However, in blogging as in other endeavors such a marketing and political campaigns to be successful one has to create a "social profile" and make an effort to seem entrenched, popular, wealthy and sucessful. Especially in political campaigns, the Panda Bear has heard that political insiders want to pick the "winning" candidate so many campaign managers will try to convince people that their candidate is the bandwagon and that people should join the bandwagon. In the book Inside WikiLeaks My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman for Wiki Leaks, claims that Julian Assange tried to make the press think that Wikileaks was a much bigger organization than it was (see Panda Bear's book review). The successes of many brash and egotistical people is what gives rise to the saying "modesty is a virtue one goes further without".
On a personal level, the Panda Bear has learned that though these are not her values some people like people that have a "designer" label to them. To these people the Panda Bear has learned to unobtrusively, truthfully and quietly to notify them of her "designer" and "name brand" activites. Also when the Panda Bear feels that she has been unfairly put down or belittled she has learned to sweetly and factually show the offending party how wrong they are(this incidentally is very effective). The Panda Bear thinks women many have a harder time stating their accomplishments then men; women more than men have been taught not to brag.
My where has the time gone? The Panda Bear was hoping to do several posts today, clean the house and relax. She will be lucky if she does half of it. She is also tired and needs to rest. The Panda Bear wonders-why are we all so busy nowadays?
That said the Panda Bear(the human one) will be on Internet TV Friday September 23rd at 9:00 pm EST. She will be on http://www.realcoachingradio.net/ on the show Mind, Body and Soul.
She invites her readers to see her on the show. This week the Panda Bear was feeling envious of some other people's career success. In a later post, the Panda Bear will discuss how stupid it can be to be envious of others. However, one of the ways the Panda consoled herself was asking herself can any of these people that the Panda Bear envies write the Panda Bear Blog with subscribers in the US, UK, Germany and Switzerland and viewers all over the world? She thinks in all honesty the answer is no.
The Panda Bear is normally sweet, modest and unassuming person. She believes that a person's good qualities should speak for themselves and it is rude to flaunt one's success. However, in blogging as in other endeavors such a marketing and political campaigns to be successful one has to create a "social profile" and make an effort to seem entrenched, popular, wealthy and sucessful. Especially in political campaigns, the Panda Bear has heard that political insiders want to pick the "winning" candidate so many campaign managers will try to convince people that their candidate is the bandwagon and that people should join the bandwagon. In the book Inside WikiLeaks My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website by Daniel Domscheit-Berg, the former spokesman for Wiki Leaks, claims that Julian Assange tried to make the press think that Wikileaks was a much bigger organization than it was (see Panda Bear's book review). The successes of many brash and egotistical people is what gives rise to the saying "modesty is a virtue one goes further without".
On a personal level, the Panda Bear has learned that though these are not her values some people like people that have a "designer" label to them. To these people the Panda Bear has learned to unobtrusively, truthfully and quietly to notify them of her "designer" and "name brand" activites. Also when the Panda Bear feels that she has been unfairly put down or belittled she has learned to sweetly and factually show the offending party how wrong they are(this incidentally is very effective). The Panda Bear thinks women many have a harder time stating their accomplishments then men; women more than men have been taught not to brag.
My where has the time gone? The Panda Bear was hoping to do several posts today, clean the house and relax. She will be lucky if she does half of it. She is also tired and needs to rest. The Panda Bear wonders-why are we all so busy nowadays?
Monday, September 19, 2011
The Panda Bear on Hiring Americans
The Panda Bear no longer knows whether she is an economic liberal or conservative. She thinks the government does have a role in helping the unemployed and people in need but she is against the government directly helping business. A lot of the original economic stimulus package the Panda Bear believes was a political pay off to local politicians and the unions.
However, the Panda Bear thinks the private sector on its own will not create the needed jobs for the United States. September 11th changed some of this but the Panda Bear remembers that whenever there was a supposed shortage of workers, US industry would be able to get visas for foreign workers. Some of these positions were for jobs that the Panda Bear thought many Americans would want such as engineers, nurses, physicians and computer scientists. If Americans did not want these jobs, the Panda Bear thought it was because these organizations did not treat their workers the well. The Panda Bear thought there was some decision was made that it was cheaper to get foreign workers than train Americans for these jobs.
Since September 11, the US has become less open to admitting foreign workers to he US. However, now many jobs are now shipped overseas. Many administrative and technical positions once held by Americans are now done by office workers in Asia.
The Panda Bear thinks the US government should be doing more in protecting jobs for Americans. However, right now both political parties seems to be under the control of big business. She things US citizens need to put more pressure on both the government and industry to hire American workers in American companies.
However, the Panda Bear thinks the private sector on its own will not create the needed jobs for the United States. September 11th changed some of this but the Panda Bear remembers that whenever there was a supposed shortage of workers, US industry would be able to get visas for foreign workers. Some of these positions were for jobs that the Panda Bear thought many Americans would want such as engineers, nurses, physicians and computer scientists. If Americans did not want these jobs, the Panda Bear thought it was because these organizations did not treat their workers the well. The Panda Bear thought there was some decision was made that it was cheaper to get foreign workers than train Americans for these jobs.
Since September 11, the US has become less open to admitting foreign workers to he US. However, now many jobs are now shipped overseas. Many administrative and technical positions once held by Americans are now done by office workers in Asia.
The Panda Bear thinks the US government should be doing more in protecting jobs for Americans. However, right now both political parties seems to be under the control of big business. She things US citizens need to put more pressure on both the government and industry to hire American workers in American companies.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The Panda Bear on Father Panda Bear, Roosevelt, and Obama
The Panda Bear's father(Father Panda) who is 89 years old was sick and in the hospital this week and now has gone to the rehab for physical therapy. Therefore, the Panda Bear was unable to do a post on Thursday/Friday.
However, in the hosptial Father Panda Bear said Obama was no Franklin Roosevelt. Father Panda said his father worked on roads as part of the WPA(the Panda is to busy right now too look at what it stands for but it was greated by the Roosevelt adminstration to provide jobs for the unemployed). When World War Two began, Father Panda's father was able to get a regular job in the factories which got busy supporting the war effort.
When the Panda Bear was laid off in the early nineties and was unemployed for about a year during the first Bush adminstration, many older people told her how much Franklin Rooselvelt did to help the unemployed.
However, in the hosptial Father Panda Bear said Obama was no Franklin Roosevelt. Father Panda said his father worked on roads as part of the WPA(the Panda is to busy right now too look at what it stands for but it was greated by the Roosevelt adminstration to provide jobs for the unemployed). When World War Two began, Father Panda's father was able to get a regular job in the factories which got busy supporting the war effort.
When the Panda Bear was laid off in the early nineties and was unemployed for about a year during the first Bush adminstration, many older people told her how much Franklin Rooselvelt did to help the unemployed.
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