Day: October 3, 2013

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Entertainment Television

Scandal Season 3 Premiere: The Wait Is Finally Over

Well, it was starting to feel as if this day would never come, but the highly anticipated Scandal has returned!

I remained spoiler free for the debut episode of Season 3, so I went into tonight’s show with no idea what to expect for the Season Premiere.

I’m going to keep this one brief as I’m way too excited just to have the show back on my TV screen again.

But to make sure Scandal has returned back to its scandalous levels of drama, I made a list to see if the Season Premiere measures up to what we’ve come to expect from this over-the-top Scandalmania.

Let’s begin shall we:

  • WTF moments such as Daddy Dearest heading B613 and all 3 players in the love triangle (Olivia, President Grant, and Mellie) working together to resolve the affair for the media-hungry – Check
  • President Grant still in love/lusting over Olivia Pope – Check
  • Huck and Harrison coming to the rescue and being their regular Captain-Save-a-WHORE-Olivia selves – Check
  • The obligatory It’s been handled (hee!) – Check
  • Mellie’s ever plotting and running around the White House – Check
  • Olivia making an appearance on the Best Dressed List (She was rockin’ that white coat) – Check
  • Olitz still steaming up my TV screen up with their red hot chemistry- Cheeeeck
  • Cyrus and his wondrous one-liners, The Lord didn’t fill out his voter registration card!! Oh Cyrus, you devil you – Check
  • Discovering President Fitzgerald “Fitz” Grant III (yes, him) was the one to leak Olivia Pope’s name to the media??? – Double Whammy Check
  • And of course a cliff-hanger ending that only leads to more questions – What exactly is in that folder??? – %#$^% CHECK!

Oh, and I must give props to Daddy Pope. He was bringing it with the,

First Lady?? First Lady?? Do you have to be SO mediocre??

And let’s not forget,

You’ll get on that plane over hell or high water. And let me be clear that I am hell AND high water.

Daaang Daddy.

He was reading Olivia Pope all episode long. Now we know where she gets it from…. – Check

Sigh. Oh yes,

My show is back.

MY.SHOW.IS.BACK!! – CHECK.

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Politics

President Obama Cancels Planned Trip To Asia Because of Government Shutdown

President Obama’s already shortened trip to Asia was canceled Thursday, the White House calling it a casualty of the government shutdown.

Obama had been scheduled to leave Washington Saturday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Indonesia, and the East Asia Summit in Brunei.

“The President made this decision based on the difficulty in moving forward with foreign travel in the face of a shutdown, and his determination to continue pressing his case that Republicans should immediately allow a vote to reopen the government,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney in a statement. “Secretary [Of State John] Kerry will lead delegations to both countries in place of the President.”

The White House announced last month that Obama would take a four-nation, seven-day tour that also was to include stops in Malaysia and the Philippines. Earlier this week, the White House had canceled those two legs of the trip because of the shutdown of parts of the federal government, which began Tuesday morning.

The highlight of the trip was to have been Obama’s participation in the APEC meeting. But several published reports had said Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin also might use the trip for a one-on-one discussion on the situation in Syria.

The White House said Obama personally called the leaders of Indonesia and Brunei to deliver the news. Carney said Obama hoped to return to Southeast Asia “at a later date.”

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Politics

Republican Shut Down The Government, But “Ashamed” Parks Ranger Enforced Shutdown

It takes real balls to orchestrate a government shutdown, then blame the people who are implementing your shutdown. That was exactly the case on Wednesday, when a Texas Republican, Rep. Randy Neugebauer, appeared at The World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Neugebauer was shocked! Shocked I say, that a park service ranger did her job and tried to implement the shutdown at the Memorial. According the rules governing the shutdown, non-essential government employees must be furloughed, and some of these so-called non-essential workers are employed to keep the Memorial opened.

“You should be ashamed of yourself,” Neugebauer said, his face filled with scorn for the unsuspecting ranger. The ranger answered that she wasn’t ashamed, but Neugubauer insisted, she should be!

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Politics

President Obama Slams Republicans on Their Government Shutdown – Video

On Twitter, the Republicans are calling this “more campaigning.” But whatever they think it is, President Obama is darn good at it. Today in Maryland, the President took his show on the road and informed the American people of the recent Republican government shutdown, and the simple process Republicans should take to bring the government back.

Video

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Politics shooting White House

Miriam Carey – A Dental Hygienist From Connecticut Had Mental Health Issues

Miriam Carey

A dental hygienist from Connecticut was the female driver who tried to ram her car into a White House barricade and was shot dead near the US Capitol after a high-speed chase through Washington streets Thursday afternoon, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Sources said Miriam Carey, who formerly lived in Brooklyn, was licensed to practice in New York and Connecticut and had a permit to work as a hygienist in Connecticut prisons.

At least a dozen gunshots were fired when she tried to flee cops, who had trapped her two blocks from the Capitol. She was believed to have been hit several times.

A child believed to be a girl about 2 or 3 years old was found unhurt in her black Infiniti sedan, which had Connecticut license plates.

Authorities had no immediate explanation of the woman’s motive. But Capitol Police chief Kim Dine told reporters there was no reason to believe it was an act of terrorism “or anything other than an isolated incident.”

ABC News said the 34-year-old woman had a history of mental health issues. A task force of FBI and Secret Service agents was executing a search warrant at her Connecticut home, CNN said.

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Politics

Raw Video – Police Surrounds Capitol Hill Suspect

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Sports

Kobe Bryant Leaves The US for Surgery

No word yet on what the surgery is for.

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Politics

Shots Fired in Washington

The Capitol was locked down Thursday after shots were fired outside one of the House office buildings.

Some lawmakers said seven or eight shots were fired and that they seemed to be coming from the area of the Rayburn House Office Building.

It appeared at least one person was injured in the shooting.

Media reports suggested the incident began at the White House and ended on Capitol Hill.

ABC News issued an alert saying someone had tried to ram a barricade near the White House and then fled in a vehicle with police in pursuit.

NBC News reporter Pete Williams tweeted that the incident began at the White House and led to a car chase.
ABC News, citing police, shot and killed a woman who was driving the car.

The reports could be immediately confirmed.

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