October 7, 2011: What happened on this day in History

Egypt
1985 Egypt Achille Lauro

7th October, 1985: Four Palestinian terrorists members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), the terrorist wing of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in order to hijack the luxury liner and it's passengers.

Netherlands
1919 Netherlands KLM Founded

7th October, 1919: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines of the Netherlands is founded, it's first flight is the following year from London Croydon to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport for journalists, and it begins scheduled flights in 1921. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

U.S.
1921 U.S.A. Ku Klux Klan

7th October, 1921: State officials in Texas are considering a ban on parades by the Ku Klux Klan because of the clans incitement of violence against any non Americans including Jews and Negroes.

 

51st NIGERIA INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION IN NYC: October 6 – 8, 2011

It’s that time of year again- Nigeria celebrates its independence and cities all around will host celebrations in honor of our beloved country.  From October 6-8, 2011, New York will host its annual Nigerian Independence Day weekend festivities, this year celebrating 51 years of Nigeria’s independence.

Thursday, October 6, 2011 – Welcome Party - New York welcomes Young Nigerians from all around the globe to participate in this year’s Independence Day celebration.  The event will be held at FESTAC Ultra Lounge located at 263 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn, NY. Time – 10 PM. Admission is free.

Friday, October 7, 2010 – Cultural Night – Consisting of a fashion show, live entertainment, and the annual Miss Nigeria Independence Day Pageant, Cultural Night will take place at Brooklyn College located at 2901 Campus Road, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Time: 7 PM – 12 midnight.  Admission: $20 per adult, $10 per child under 14.

Saturday, October 8, 2010 – 12 Noon – Parade & Festival – The parade will begin on 54^th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan, and end at the Nigeria House on 44^th Street and Second Avenue.  This annual parade with its now famous colorful floats and moving live music attracts public officials, tens of thousands of people in their traditional attires, various organizations and cultural groups proudly carrying their banners, and marching bands.

Kim Kardashian admits she and her sisters are “trannies” (about makeup)

I’ve spent way too much looking at photos of Kim Kardashian’s crazy face. Often I just stare at photos of her, trying to pinpoint exactly what is happening, plastic-surgery-wise. There’s a nose job, some eye work, lip injections, Electrolysis to remove facial hair and change her hairline, and, of course, regular Botox injections, but those are the only things that I can really identify using older photos of Kim as a reference. But it’s only in the last year or so that I’ve begun to understand why Kim looks to alien-like most of the time - she wears a crapload of makeup. In particular, eye-makeup, and she must wear the biggest, most drag-queeny fake eyelashes out there, because they look scary. Now Kim (and her sisters) are admitting something that we’ve known for a long time: they’re “trannies” - about makeup, at least.

Liz Hurley & Shane Warne are engaged, he proposed on Friday

YAY!!!!!! As I’ve been discussing for more than a month now, Shane Warne and Liz Hurley are absolutely perfect for each other, and they have decided to make each other the happiest cat-faces in the world! Liz tweeted the above photo, of Liz being lit from the dazzling glare coming off of Shane’s new teeth, with the message, “Thanks for all your congratulations.” What were people congratulating her about? Well, it seems that Friday night, Shane proposed to Liz in St. Andrews, Scotland, where they went on a golfing holiday. Huzzah! Liz and Shane have been together at least ten months (that we know of), including the time they spent having an affair whil Liz was still married to Arun Nayar. Sometimes, when two cat-faces click, they just click:

Happy news for Elizabeth Hurley! The Gossip Girl actress and model, 46, is engaged to her boyfriend of 10 months, Australian cricketer Shane Warne.
Reportedly getting down on bended knee at the Old Course Hotel in Scotland Friday, Warne, 42, is said to have proposed during dinner at the hotel’s Road Hole Restaurant.
Though a hotel source declined to comment on the couple’s dinner, a source confirmed the happy news to Us Weekly.
“They are engaged!” reports the insider.
Flashing a giant sapphire and diamond engagement sparkler Saturday, Hurley Tweeted a photo of the pair prior to their dinner, along with the message “Thanks for all your congratulations.” Warne then copied the message onto his own Twitter page and circulated it to his followers.
It will be the second marriage for both Warne and Hurley, who finalized her divorce from hubby of four years Arun Nayar in June.

Megan Fox’s cat-faced Christmas ads for Armani: not terrible, or still bad?

As you may remember, Rihanna was just named as the replacement-crotch for Armani, taking over from Megan Fox. I welcomed Rihanna because she 1) eats and 2) doesn’t have a cat-face that changes month after month, year after year because of so much surgical and Botox intervention. However, once I got sight of the Rihanna-Armani ads, I was disappointed. They put her in a dumb blonde wiglet, and she looked like crap, which proves to me that whoever is in charge of Armani’s ad campaigns is a total moron. So…with that in mind, check out Armani’s new Beauty 2011 Christmas Collection ads, with Megan Fox. Yes, while Megan was replaced at the spokes crotch of Armani’s underwear and jeans lines, she’s still the official cat-face of Armani beauty products, so these ads are designed to get you to buy Armani makeup for your lady friends for Christmas.