http://news.cnet.com/national-zoos-panda-cam-falls-victim-to-government-shutdown/
The impacts of the US government shutdown have started to hit home with museums, national monuments, and zoos closing to the general public as a result of the stalemate within Congress. As people around the world are starting to come to grips with the implications of the shutdown President Obama has had to make the heart breaking announcement that the NSA run Xi Jinping cam website will be taken offline until the current crisis comes to an end. The popular online streaming video site allowed visitors the joy of observing the lovable Chinese leader in his natural habit 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
President Obama struggled to maintain his emotions as he broke the sad news that the popular NSA run Xi Jinping cam will be taken offline until further notice.
Visitors worldwide had been following the life of the playful and mischievous Chinese politician from his adorable first adventures in the Communist Youth League all the way through to his current position as President. The precocious little guy even had a twitter account that visitors could leave messages on which his handlers would monitor and respond to with humorous comments accompanied usually by a cute picture. The following is an example of some of the hilarious activity from his twitter account @TheRealJinping.
We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. LOL!! by @TheRealJinping
Dissapointed visitors will need to wait until the shutdown finally lifts to be able to continue following the antics of the huggable Xi Jinping and hopefully, for his many loyal followers, nothing too exciting happens to the little fellow during this time.
The Simian Monologues 
I never got around to joining my colleagues in watching PandaCam, but ever since the news broke that it would black out, I’ve been in Panda withdrawal. I’m sad.
The Panda cam issue itself almost became this post. Given a web cam takes very little if anything to run once setup I was wondering if the reason for the shutdown of the service was either the Pandas take a salary and are now all furloughed or the web cam was a major production with the likes of a Spielberg and his full film crew behind the cameras.
Shame – of all the impish Reds running China Comrade Jinping was my favourite – oh well – have to watch the Stallone boxset tonight.
You will need to close your eyes during the Rocky running up the steps scene given that it was filmed at the Museum of Art in Philadelphia. No escaping this damn shutdown!
Commie Bastard Tea Party
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Xi Jinping (which is just lovely with the black bean sauce) really should have regular donation appeals, just like they do on PBS [the Panda Broadcast System].
I need to see if PBS is available in Oz. It would be better than most of the tripe we have on during this non ratings period.