How To Get Away With Murder is co-produced by Peter Nowalk and Shonda Rhimes and it features Broadway's famed Viola Davis. The ABC drama is a go for second season.
HTGAWM for short is one highly praised drama. I'm a fan of the series.
Viola plays the role of Annalise Keating as a law professor at a prestigious Philadelphia university who, with four of her students, becomes entwined in a murder plot.
One of the most famous scenes was Annalise taking off her wig, her eyelashes and wiping off the makeup and showing the natural side of her. It was ad lib and it was Viola's idea.
Kerry Washington, Viola Davis and Ellen Pompeo.
She wanted to do this as a reminder to women that beauty is inner deep.
There was something for me that I didn’t buy about Annalise in private. It felt like who she was in private had to be diametrically opposed to who she was in public. And so in order to do that, I felt like I had to physically take the wig off. I mean, I have no eyebrows. I have eyelashes that I put on, and there was something extremely vulnerable about that act -- and I know it seems like a very simple act at the end of the day -- but for me, that simple act really surmounted to something very powerful in the end, because what it was was someone being very, very private in public, which is absolutely the cornerstone of what we do as artists.
That episode was epic.
Rhimes have gotten fans talking about controversial seasons of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal.
She promises fans that they will be even better.
A lot of talk coming from the killing of Meredith Grey's husband Derrick Shepard (played by Patrick Dempsey). Fans weren't happy about the decision to write off Dempsey's character.
Reality star Kim Kardashian-West told of a bump in her belly.
The junk food media reports that controversial celebrity agitator Kim Kardashian West is expecting another one. Kanye West is going to be a proud papa again. The rap star/producer/celebrity agitator is the husband of the socialite.
The couple celebrates their first year anniversary with their daughter when the news broke from Entertainment Tonight and AP.
"I'm hoping so. You know I kind of wish I was pregnant at the same time Kourtney is. She's like more than half way in, so you know, we're trying," Kardashian told "Entertainment Tonight" in August, when asked if she sees another baby in the near future. "It would be fun. There's a lot of craziness in the house, so why not add pregnancy hormones to the craziness? It would be like a partner in crime. Someone to know those cravings that you're really going through."
Round two.
A month later, Kardashian again spoke of her desire to get pregnant, telling Australia's "Today" show, "We’re trying. I guess, it’s all in God’s hands."
Getting pregnant the second time around was no easy task for the couple.
"I've been having sex 500 times a day," Kardashian told Khloe on a preview for the reality show's tenth season. "I was like, 'I'm ovulating today!' So I made [Kanye] come to my photo shoot. You know what, I don't feel bad about that for one second. You gotta get it in where you can get it in."
West is producing his eighth album and it's going to be released on Def Jam this year.
Reality television sucks. I know Kim and her family are probably one of the main reasons.
Nonetheless, well wishes to Kanye and Kim Kardashian-West on their second round.
While I do agree that the Patriot Act is an overreach by the federal government, I think that presidential candidate and Stallmigo Rand Paul (R-KY) is throwing his hypocrisy into this.
The very same Paul rather meddle between a woman's legs, a Black man's firearms, a poor family's safety net and a family's Obamacare subsidies. Paul wants the big old bad gubmint stop looking into your cell phone.
After all his stupid son probably was incriminating himself with pictures of him smoking a bong while playing with snow lines.
Paul is already not making friends in the Republican race for the red nose. Paul put on his makeup and juggling his balls hoping he can pick off young minds with legal weed and low incarceration.
On a rare Sunday night, the U.S. Senate is in session. His fellow senator, Majority Leader Mitch The Turtle (R-KY) called for a vote on the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act." For the smart people this is called the USA Freedom Act.
This bill is sponsored by Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), the creator of the Patriot Act.
He also sponsored this bill a few years back and it didn't get traction. In October 2013, he introduced the USA Freedom Act in the House, a bill designed to curtail the powers of the NSA and end the NSA's dragnet phone data collection program. The bill is supported by civil liberties advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union.
Even he's skeptical of his own law. Did he even read this shit?
NOPE.
The USA Freedom Act was not passed by the U.S. Senate on May 22, 2015. By a vote of 57-42, the Senate did not pass the bill that would have required 60 votes to move forward, which means that the NSA must start winding down its domestic mass surveillance program this week. The Senate also rejected, by 54-45, also short of the necessary 60 votes, a two-month extension for the key provision in the Patriot Act that has been used to justify NSA spying, which is set to expire on June 1, 2015.
I don't want to jeopardize the lives of Americans because of a handful of lawmakers standing on principles that are wrong.
However, on May 31, 2015, the Senate voted 77-17 to limit debate on the act. Senate rules will allow it to be passed after the mass surveillance programs have expired.
The Republican majority promised transparency. They promised jobs. They promised to deny President Barack Obama a victory. So far, they are destroying themselves to defeat Obama.
They are wasting time trying to pass symbolic votes on restricting abortions, gutting the safety net, passing that stupid Keystone XL pipeline, restricting the president's executive powers on education, immigration, and raising the minimum wage. They are not working on passing reasonable gun control, refusing to work on peace deals with Cuba and Iran. They are pushing for troops in the battle against the Islamic State and Boko Haram. They want to waste time on Benghazi hearings, IRS emails, Hillary Clinton's missing emails, and dragging Attorney General Loretta Lynch into committee hearings about Fast & Furious.
With Paul's temper tantrum and some of his fellow Republicans and even Democratic allies calling upon the end of bulk collection done by the NSA, it seems like the bill is possibly on its way to defeat.
Here's the filibuster. Paul runs 11 hours of whine.
Again, this lawmaker has no legislative accomplishments and they act like he's a god.
The conservative Craigslist have been hyping up this guy for some time now. Yesterday, the former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley decided to put on the makeup and jump into the clown car.
The Aristocat himself, 52 year old Martin O'Malley hopes he can defeat a literally untouchable candidate.
He is the father of four. He is married to his wife Katie for over 25 years. He is an American politician who served as the 61st Governor of Maryland, from 2007 to 2015. Prior to being elected as Governor, he served as the Mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007, having previously served as a Baltimore City Councilor from 1991 to 1999. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the Chair of the Democratic Governors Association from 2011 to 2013. Following his departure from public office in early 2015, he was appointed to the Johns Hopkins University's Carey Business School as a visiting professor focusing on government, business and urban issues.
As Governor, in 2011 he signed a law that would make certain undocumented immigrants eligible for in-state college tuition on condition; and in 2012, he signed a law to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. Each law was challenged to a voter referendum in the 2012 general election and upheld by a majority of the voting public.
O'Malley stood in for 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a Democratic campaign event on June 2, 2007, in New Hampshire, Delegate Tony O'Donnell said in response, "It's the worst-kept secret in Maryland that the governor has national ambitions."
State Senator Thomas V. Miller, Jr. said O'Malley's political future "comes into play in everything he does", adding O'Malley is "very much like Bill Clinton in being slow and deliberative and calculating in everything he does."
The conservative agitators are hoping that O'Malley win the nomination. They are planning on giving him the Michael Dukakis treatment.
In order to make Clinton and the crop of Democrats running uninspiring, the conservative agitators will continue to bitch about Obama, Iraq, Syria, ISIS, Benghazi, missing emails, Monica, Paula, Kathleen, Juanita,Vince, Whitewater, the missing server, accomplishments, age, being a woman, and everything else they can pull out their asses.
Jam session with Martin O'Malley.
They want to muddy up the waters with tales of Bill Clinton and the past in order to ruin the potential nomination of perennial candidate Hillary Clinton.
He wants to be the alternative to Clinton. He wants to be the voice of the progressives.
He made his decision in Baltimore. The place where Freddie Gray lost his life to six reckless officers and riots broke out in April. These officers will have a day in court. They are innocent until proven guilty.
CNN reminds the readers that his decision to launch in Baltimore could be proven a "challenge".
The treatment of Freddie Gray, which sparked a national dialogue about police conduct toward racial minorities, drew renewed scrutiny to the controversial zero-tolerance policing strategy that O'Malley advocated for as mayor -- part of an aggressive strategy to crack down on crime.
Speaking in rolled-up sleeves at Federal Hill Park, O'Malley began with a call for economic fairness and closing the gap between rich and poor in America.
Martin and his wife Katie hope 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue will be their new residence. It's only 40 miles from Baltimore.
"This is the urgent work calling us forward today: to rebuild the truth of the American Dream for all Americans," O'Malley said. "And to begin right now."
He touched upon last month's unrest in Baltimore, saying the aftermath of Freddie Gray's death was about more than race or policing in America, but about "the scourge of hopelessness" in the nation's cities.
"There is something to be learned from that night, and there is something to be offered to our country from those flames," he said.
A small group of protesters tried to interrupt his speech, shouting remarks like "black lives matter" and blowing on whistles. As O'Malley discussed the problem of income inequality and concentration of wealth, one protester angrily yelled out: "You did that! It was you!"
But the protesters largely failed to be a disruptive presence at the launch event, where O'Malley's supporters, numbering in the hundreds, reacted enthusiastically to his speech.
O'Malley also took a shot at Clinton and Republican Jeb Bush, using an attack on Goldman Sachs to suggest they were too close to Wall Street to be advocates for the less fortunate in America.
"Recently, the CEO of Goldman Saches let his employees know that he'd be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would," O'Malley said. "Well, I've got news for the bullies of Wall Street: The presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families. It is a sacred trust to be earned from the people of the United States, and exercised on behalf of the people of the United States."
Frenemies.
Perhaps O'Malley's biggest challenge is finding a way to dent the Clinton political machine while also proving that he's a competitive candidate in his own right -- not just a backup for progressives who would rather see "a not running" Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the White House. A Quinnipiac University poll released this week places Clinton 56 percentage points ahead of O'Malley.
It makes three. Three candidates running for the Democratic nomination. A perennial candidate, a Socialist and a nobody ever heard of.
Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and O'Malley have declared their intentions to run for the blue nose while a handful of Republicans and insurgents run for the red nose.
These clowns are uninspiring.
But if you're interested in one of them, could Martin O'Malley be the one you prefer?
The media broke this last night. Vice President Joe Biden's oldest son Beau had passed away.
The White House has confirmed that 46 year old Beau had terminal brain cancer.
World News Today send our condolences to the Vice President Biden and his family.
Earlier this month, Beau, a former Delaware attorney general, was reported to be undergoing treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center outside Washington.
After eight years as attorney general, Beau Biden joined the investor law firm Grant & Eisenhofer in 2015.
He served a yearlong tour in Iraq as a captain in the Delaware Army National Guard and underwent surgery at a cancer center in Texas last year. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010.
“The entire Biden family is saddened beyond words. We know that Beau’s spirit will live on in all of us, especially through his brave wife, Hallie, and two remarkable children, Natalie and Hunter,” a statement released by the White House said.
The vice president was then a senate candidate. He ran for the U.S. Senate in Delaware. When he won his election, he lost his first wife and daughter to a car accident. A week before Christmas, Biden was informed about his first wife and his children were injured.
Beau, Hunter, Naomi and wife Nellia were hurt. Nellia and Naomi died of their injuries.
Joseph Robinette Biden III (Beau) was an officer in the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG), and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. He served as the Attorney General of Delaware and was a Major in the Delaware Army National Guard. He was a member of the Democratic Party and the older son of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and older step-son of Second Lady of the United States Dr. Jill Biden.
Beau leaves behind his wife Hallie and two children Natalie and Hunter.
Beau was tempted to run for Delaware governor in 2016.
Last time I've checked, anyone being a proud Muslim American is form of patriotism.
Pam Geller denies hosting this event, but she had her hand in it. Over in Phoenix, a group of armed White extremists were protesting against Islam.
You notice that the junk food media calls them protesters.
Why aren't they called terrorist?
They're terrorizing innocent Americans with threats and openly showing discrimination against a religion.
These extremists were greeting peaceful Muslim parishioners at The Islamic Community Center.
Jon Ritzheimer is a white extremist who sponsored the event. He wore the "fuck" Islam t-shirt. The cameras blocked the offensive shirt.
The mosque was the center of controversy when two men traveled to Texas in their failed attempt to assassinate Geller and those who were responsible for the "Draw Mohammad' contest. They were attendees at that mosque. They were killed by Garland police after they had a brief shoot out.
Jon Ritzheimer was the extremist who promote this. He wore a Fuck Islam shirt and carried an AR15 on his side.
Many others came to protest and use the hashtag #NotMyAmerica.
The junk food media talking on an on about the crisis in Iraq and Syria, and giving credence to a group of extremists overseas. The junk food media and the agitators give the Islamic State more props than al Qaeda.
White extremist shakes hands with counter-protester.
They are "concern trolling" yet again about the crisis over in Iraq. The agitators claim that President Barack Obama's rush to leaving Iraq led to the rise of the Islamic State and the Lavent.
The extremist group has shown on social media beheadings of Westerners Muslim and non-Muslim captives they've claimed as "spies". They have also pillaged destroyed historical artifacts and treasures.
The group is notorious for promoting itself on social media. The junk food media continues to give it attention.
Here in the United States, conservatives are concern trolling about how radical Islam has came into our borders. They seriously believe the Mexican government is willingly allowing a foreign terrorist organization to build a base camp a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border.
Okay, who are the real radicals here in the United States?
