Congratulations to the Penguins!!

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2009

Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not.

Don't mess with Satan!

Look at the smile on his face! Not to condone physical violence, but that's proof of the power of a positive attitude...

Excited about the White House Visit Today

Today, Bunny and I are taking the train to Washington, DC, to meet with Barack Obama as part of the delegation representing the Superbowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. As I have stated before in this blog, I am excited to be able to chat briefly with him about Panda rights in China. I also have an appointment to meet with Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to discuss Chinese/US relations and Panda diplomacy. This will be a good day for human-panda relations.



While I am at the White House, Bunny has an appointment with congressman Barney Frank (who can often be seen on Real Time with Bill Maher). Rep. Frank recently introduced HR5843, a bill to federally decriminalize marijuana (co-sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul) and HR 5842, a second bill to allow medical prescription of marijuana. As Bunny is very interested in these issues, he and Rep. Frank are going to discuss how to further the campaign and gain support for marijuana law reform in Philadelphia/Pennsylvania and New Jersey areas.



I will try to blog about these important issues and let you know how these meetings went either tomorrow or later this weekend.

White House Visit

The Steelers will visit the White House Thursday at the request of President Barack Obama. The traditional visit by the Super Bowl champions will take place at some point in the afternoon. The Steelers last visited the White House as Super Bowl champions in 2006, when George W. Bush was president.

I have been invited by Mike Tomlin to go with the Steelers, as he feels my consulting work with the team was invaluable to their success. I have accepted his offer, and will take the train to Washington DC on Thursday afternoon. I am excited to be able to finally meet Mr. Obama and to talk with him about the human rights crimes going on against Pandas in China.

Karla is Awesome

I talked to Rob today, and he told me that Karla gave an excellent talk today at Cell Biology and Physiology Graduate sub-group meeting. He said that there were interesting graphs and pictures of fat mice. I'm sure that the editors of Cell Metabolism will find her work extraordinary. I was certain that she would do excellently, as she is a positively-focused individual. I am glad that I scented her last night, so that other Pandas in attendance who heard her awesome talk would not want to try to claim her.

magnetic pockets and metal heads shouldn't mix

Bunny and I have agreed that Destro's metal headpiece would have been a serious disadvantage for him had he been involved with the drilling into the pocket of magnetic energy shown on last night's episode of "Lost." We're kind of glad that we are made of polyester and similar non-magnetic materials.

Lost Season Finale

Bunny and I were very excited for the "Lost" season finale, and Man-E-Faces, Duke, Cobra Commander, and Destro all came over to watch it.

MEF, Duke, CC, and Destro were all very relieved that Richard does not appear to be a bad guy (for some reason Richard is their favorite character).

Bunny is glad that Juliette is gone. He still hasn't forgiven her for last season's "Why do you want to know about Richard??" He also said that if he were Pierre Chang, he would go "use his good hand to pick up a 9 and cap Radzinki's ass..."

Bunny and I were both kind of sad that Locke (our favorite character) is dead and that their is a fake (pseudo) Locke who has been fooling us (and Ben) for the entire season.

My friend Rob believes that the pseudo-Locke is the smoke monster. Think about this: Pseudo-Locke disappeared (to "get a rope") before Ben was confronted by the Smoker Monster under the Temple wall, who shape-shifted into Alex (just like he did with Ecko's brother), and then after the smoke monster went away, pseudo-Locke came back. The heiroglyph above the vent/grate/stone with holes that the smoke monster came out of shows a pharaoh-esque guy (that looks like the statue under which Jacob lives) facing the smoke monster. It is possible that the smoker monster is pseudo-Locke and the other guy is Jacob.

Now, what doesn't make much sense to me (with that theory) is why Ben can summon the smoke monster, but we do know that when he does summon the smoke monster, he can't control it (or at least that's what he says).

Regardless, we know that pseudo-Locke is not just "possessing" Locke's body as Locke has a separate body that was in the box, so pseudo-Locke has some weird ability to look like someone else....a power that the smoke monster apparently also has. Also, the smoke monster should have known that Locke was really pseudo-Locke, and it is tough to believe that the smoke monster would tell Ben to obey Locke unless the smoke monster works for pseudo-Locke or IS pseudo-Locke...

Karla also had some good ideas about what Jacob meant when he said "They're coming" to pseudo-Locke, who seemed to get more scared than he should have (if "they" were the passengers) considering he didn't seem frightened of the other passengers in the previous scene when he told Richard they had to "take care" of them. Karla thinks the "They" who are coming are the Oceanic 6, and it is possible that the white flash at the end of the episode (when the bomb goes off) means they are going to time flash again. I have a feeling that since the bomb is way down in the core of the magnetic pocket, they're going to come up with some way that it isn't going to destroy the island but rather disturb/alter something that sends them through time to join up with the other people in the present day where Jacob was just stabbed....

Yay, Penguins!!

After the loss of game 6, I spent extensive time consulting with the Penguins organization to improve their meditation and visualization techniques. I am also happy to say that, thanks to ancient Panda acupuncture techniques, Sergei Gonchar returned to the ice and set up Crosby for the critical 1st goal of the game.