I'm gonna do alot of blogging this weekend 'cos I'll be MIA through out next week...Hopefully, the posts will keep you busy till I return...
Enjoy!
The Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 2008
18year old Adaeze Igwe, representing Anambra State is the new MBGN. She was crowned tonight Friday March 28th 2008.
She's kinda cute...what do you think?
Moving on, I saw this story on Paris's blog here http://flash-4ward.blogspot.com/ and I just had to steal take it for y'all to see. This is totally insane...!
African Woman Sets Herself on Fire To Protest Racism
The horrifying sight which traumatized shoppers and office workers in the centre of Luxembourg City last week has now been labeled as a protest against racism. The Belgian woman of Congolese origin who set herself alight in the middle of Place d’Armes told witnesses that she was! doing it to protest against racism, moments before she carried out th e desperate act which has left her in hospital fighting for her life.Maggy Delvaux-Mufu, a mother of three in her forties, alerted several national newspapers late on Tuesday morning last week that she would be burning herself alive on place des Martyrs at 12.45 am, before setting out accompanied by her husband to walk through the centre of town to her macabre rendezvous. The police were alerted and officers were deployed to the Rousegärtchen.
But the woman changed her plan when she came across a group of journalists gathered to cover an event organized by the ‘Movement écologique’ on Place d’Armes, opposite the Cercle municipal. She soaked herself in petrol before confronting the members of the press, announcing that she was about to sacrifice her life to protest against racism. Moments later, she struck a match, turning herself into a human torch in front of hundreds of people.
Delvaux-Mufu’ s husband and passers-by jumped on the burning body, attempting to stifle the flames with coats and jackets. The scene made several people feel unwell and many witnesses who filled the square at lunchtime were traumatized by the woman’s shrieking screams of unimaginable pain. The flames were already extinguished when police, rescue services and the fire brigade arrived at the scene. One person is reported to have vomitted after seeing the woman being transported into an ambulance. The events in Place d’Armes have also started a controversy regarding the authorities’ lack of psychological support for witnesses.
Delvaux-Mufu was taken to the Bon Secours hospital in Metz , where she is being treated in a specialized ward for burns and is fighting for her life. Grand Duchess Maria Teresa visited the woman and her family at the hospital last week.RTL television was the first to run a news flash about the incident on its website on Tuesday afternoon last week. 352 reported the bulletin in its news in brief section, shortly before going to print. Events preceding the incident only came to light later on in the week.
The 42-year-old Belgian citizen and her husband had been facing financial difficulties. They had recently indebted themselves by buying a Citroën garage in Oberwampach, before realizing they were missing the documents that would allow them to set up a business. Delvaux-Mufu wrote a letter to Le Jeudi recounting her story of bureaucratic difficulties and economic despair. “I’m against all forms of violence, but day after day, my family and I have to endure moral violence, discrimination, insults and much more from Mr Juncker’s administration” , she said in the letter published last week.
Money problems had driven the woman to desperately plead her case at the Prime minister’s office early on the same day of the incident. Her threat to burn herself alive on Place des Martyrs after being turned away by the authorities caused government officials to contact the police. A city-wide search was organized, but nobody could foresee the woman would change her plans.'
This is what I think. There are so many things that are here to stay in our world. One of them is racism. And this is no way to fight racism. If we must fight it, let's fight it sensibly like Martin Luther King did and if we must die, let's die honourably. Racism started long before this woman was born and it will continue long after she's gone. I understand her anger...who isn't angry about racism? But to do this to yourself instead of peaceful demonstrations, lobbying and preaching against it? I don't think setting yourself on fire is the best way to go about it! And she has three kids?
What do you guys think?
On a lighter note...
Why did the chicken cross the Road? Let the experts explain it
DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT' problems before adding 'NEW' problems.
OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and not live his life like the rest of the chickens.
GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not. The chicken is either against us, or for us. There is no middle ground here.
COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road...
ANDERSON COOPER- CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of the road.
JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it! It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American.
MARTHA STEWART:
No one called me to warn me which way that chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird gave me any insider information.
JERRY FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth?' That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken is gay. And if you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the liberal media white washes with seemingly harmless phras es like 'the other side. That chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as that.
GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road.. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.
BARBARA WALTERS:
Isn't that interesting? In a few moments, we will be listening to the chicken tell, for the first time, the heart warming story of how it experienced a serious case of molting, and went on to accomplish its life long dream of crossing the road.
ARISTOTLE:
It is the nature of chickens to cross the road.
JOHN LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. This new platform is much more stable and will never reboot.
BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of chicken?
AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!
COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?
DICK CHENEY:
Where's my gun?
AL SHARPTON:
Why are all the chickens white? We need some black chickens.
Foreign Entertainment News
Mariah Carey looks flawless in this picture. I'm copying this pose for my Ttop Model Search awareness posters...lol! Damn HOT!
Tyra Banks and Jay Manuel are about to get their brawl on:
“Tyra Banks is not getting along with Jay Manuel. She thinks he has become a diva and is ungrateful to her for making him a star. The way she sees it, it’s thanks to her that he now has a makeup line, a show on Style Network and hosts Canada’s version of Top Model.”
Cameron Diaz and P.Diddy have been going out on some secret dates lately. The two were spotted dining at Osteria Mozza restaurant on March 15. They arrived at the restaurant separately but left together through the back. Cameron was already seated when Diddy arrived wearing a brown Jump Suit and brought his own bottle of red wine wrapped in a ghetto Ralph’s plastic bag. It was obvious they were on a date as the couple giggled and flirted with each other during dinner.”
Diddy, who has been linked to actresses Sienna Miller and Penelope Cruz, spit the following verse on the ‘We Fly High’ remix while he was with Kim Porter:
“Pick an actress, which one I ain’t swim in”
DICK!
“Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin could save her house, if she promises to never wear fur again. The singer reportedly now owes a total of $19,192 in back taxes…But now PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have offered to help her out. The animal rights group has written a letter to Franklin offering to pay her $19,000 tax bill if she promises to never wear fur again.”
Smart people!
“A married man who used to be a woman says that he is pregnant and will give birth to a baby girl in July.”
When asked how it feels to be a pregnant man, Thomas Beatie replied:
“Despite the fact that my belly is growing with a new life inside me, I am stable and confident being the man that I am.” Mr. Beatie was born female, named Tracy Lagondino, but had gender reassignment surgery and is now legally male and married to a woman.
Here is what Vivica Fox has to say about her knifed up appearance in Upscale magazine:
Will you ever address the rumors of plastic surgery?I feel like I have already addressed that back in the day. I just hate that I admitted to it and people will say on the Internet that I don’t look the same, “Oh, she is so plastic surgeried.” I don’t look like some freak. I still look like Vivica Fox. Stop it with that! I am in a business where I get paid to look good, but I’m very proud to have African-American features. I have not changed my nose! Yeah, I have experimented with it, but no, I’m not doing any more of that plastic surgery crap. I’m not the first or the only one, but I’m the idiot that admitted to it. Now everyone says, “That is her whole look.” I take care of myself." 
Mary J's new home. Cost a whopping $12.3 million, in Saddle River, N.J.
Mario was spotted being all smoochie with his Dancing With the Stars partner:
“Dancing with the Stars” hottie Karina Smirnoff might have two partners off the dance floor. The shapely brunette has stepped out publicly with her former dance partner, Mario Lopez, but was also recently spotted kissing her current one, R&B singer Mario, at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles. “They were making out by the valet with their hands all over each other, and he was whispering in her ear. It was around midnight, so there weren’t many people around.” The two then got in the same car and drove off together with Mario at the wheel.
X-factor winner: Leona Lewis recently became the first British female artist to hit number 1 in the US in over 20 years.
Chase Tatum, a former pro-wrestler battling an addiction to painkillers, was found dead in his home on Sunday after suffering an apparent accidental drug overdose, according to his father, Roy Tatum.
"He was in the process of getting his life back together," the elder Tatum said Monday. "He was confident he was going to turn things around, to live a normal life again without those painkillers."
Chase Tatum's wrestling career was unplanned and short-lived. He made his debut in 1999.
But his father advised his son against becoming a pro wrestler.
"How long can you last in that field. They go in with their eyes closed, think they'll make some quick money and then get out."
Chase Tatum retired from wrestling after about 2 1/2 years. His brief wrestling career left him with severe back problems but WITHOUT health insurance to pay for the surgery.
Here’s what a right wing Christian website had to say about Oprah:
“In America’s celebrity-driven culture, perhaps the most harmful ‘Pied Piper’ of heresies leading millions astray is Oprah Winfrey. Her adoption of anti-biblical doctrine is on display every day this year through her satellite radio network channel ‘Oprah & Friends.’ It’s time for Christians to ‘just say no’ to the big ‘O.’…”
Beyonce featured in the April 2008 issue of Jack magazine. Always on point!
That's it!
Freak Accidents and Injuries
1. A Pennsylvania man was killed when a drive shaft from a dump truck traveling in the opposite direction dislodged, crossed the jersey barrier, then flew through Zeglin's windshield and struck him in the head.
2. In Donegal Town, Ireland, a woman was injured when a car fell on her from the second story of a parking garage.
3. A Country and Western singer from Newcastle, shot by a canon, during her performance last year incurring an arm injury due to shrapnel.
4. A woman's boyfriend, tossing sticks to his dog decided to toss a knife instead which caught on his finger, looped back and stuck his girlfriend in the throat.
5. A 19-year-old Michigan man planned to stab himself lightly in the chest, then blame the attack on a neighbor with which he had been feuding. Unfortunately, the man bled to death in the attempt.
6. A 42-year-old Texas man died of a brain hemorrhage when he was trying to steal a statue of the Virgin Mary from a local nursery
7. Owner said her car started and drove off, unattended and crashed into her neighbor's home. Police concluded that the culprit was the owner's remote starter, which had been installed by the previous owner.
8. A one-legged man picked up his gun and started to hop around to check out a suspicious noise and accidentally shot himself. He had declined to put on his prosthesis, which would have stabilized him.
9. Traders turned on Greenpeace protesters at the International Petroleum Exchange, punching and kicking them until they ran for their lives.
10. In Houston, 16-year-old boy was charged with shooting his father because he mistakenly believed Dad was beating up Mom when it was actually a case of robust marital intercourse that was happening.
Funny Accident Pictures.
What an accident! lol!
Man jailed for microwaving baby
A jury in Texas has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for severely burning his two-month-old daughter in a microwave oven last year.
The jury rejected Joshua Mauldin's defence that he was insane when he placed his daughter Ana in the oven.
Prosecutors said Mauldin had a history of violence, lying about being mentally ill and was angry about his marriage.
Ana, now aged one, suffered second and third-degree burns to her face and left side and required two skin grafts.
Part of her left ear had to be amputated.
Her foster mother, Heather Croxton, told the court of the painful daily treatments Ana has had to undergo since being left in the microwave for up to 20 seconds.
"There is no excuse for your actions and I hate that one day you will be set free and allowed to move on with your life while Ana continues to pay for your actions," she said.
Mauldin's lawyer, Sam Cammack, said his client would not get the treatment he needs for mental illness in prison.
Hydropolis Underwater Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Currently under construction in Dubai, Hydropolis is the world's first luxury underwater hotel. It will include three elements: the land station, where guests will be welcomed, the connecting tunnel, which will transport people by train to the main area of the hotel, and the 220 suites within the submarine leisure complex. It is one of the largest contemporary construction projects in the world, covering an area of 260 hectares, about the size of London's Hyde Park.
Hydropolis in Dubai is the world's first luxury underwater hotel.
In order to enter this surreal space, visitors will begin at the land station. This 120m woven, semicircular cylinder will arch over a multi-storey building.
The upper storeys of the land station house a variety of facilities, including a cosmetic surgical clinic, a marine biological research laboratory and conference facilities.
Hydropolis is about to take shape 20m below the surface of the Arabian Gulf, just off the Jumeirah Beach. The land belongs to His Highness General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and was his last free beach property on this stretch of coast.
Hauser plans to incorporate many different elements associated with the sea. He views his creation as a place where those who do not dive - or do not even swim - can experience the tranquillity and inspiration of the underwater world.
The top 10 most romantic cities in the world There's nothing like spending time in a foreign city to stir that loving feeling. Here are the world's most romantic cities...
Edinburgh: Literary capital of the world
Edinburgh Castle provides an impressive backdrop to a vibrant city that's jam packed with romantic retreats.
From enjoying the stunning architecture to having romantic candlelit dinners on Las Ramblas, Barcelona is made for romance.
NYC is one of the ultimate destinations for a romantic break. From Tiffany's to the Empire State Building, the choice is yours.
Lisbon: Picturesque port city
With horse-drawn carriages, cobbled streets and breathtaking scenery, Lisbon is a great choice for lovers.
An art lover's paradise and one of the most beautiful of cities, Florence ticks all the boxes for some city loving.
Stylish, sensual and sizzling with energy, it's no surprise that Paris has topped every list ever compiled for romantic cities.
From the Tiber River to the impressive Colosseum, there is surely none more romantic than the ancient city of Rome.
Venice: The city of canals
Famous for its canals and, of course, romantic serenades on gondolas, Venice is in fact comprised of more than 100 islands.
This beautiful Spanish city has such fine examples of its Moorish roots that it's become a firm favourite with couples.
Prague: The city of 100 spires
One of the most romantic cities in the world, with its ancient spires and cobbled streets, Prague is a lovers' city.
Ok, I'm tired..will continue tomorrow.
Kisses!
