^^ is that a church in the black/white pic?

Blame the politicians - they use ordinary people’s times of despair to entice them to accept irrational policies.

^^ I would agree with you on that note. the other files on qarxis are halarious too and somewhat racist too, like the paki jokes.

T you’re Somali is very difficult to read, was that a commentary or a diary entry? You call my entry soft! The point of the diary entery in its tradition is to express ones concerns.

I do understand that they’re able to fish instead of pirating – you must understand everything in xamar is run by warlords – when the gun governs - that can only lead to barbaric acts. I didn’t mean to legitimize those acts, I was merely presenting the options that are available to the people there. Again, I know there are other positive things that they can be doing.

I think they fight because they need to survive, the warlord offers the means, they've got families they have to feed. They are also encouraged to fight for the clan, if the tribe becomes weak, they will suffer at the hands of the superior tribe.

I think they just want to drain the middle east before they invade other nations with oil. You’re right thou, everybody has the technology nowadays, the trick is who has the fuel to move those tanks.

Paragon I’m interested in the stock market, I’m not ready yet to start, I’m trying to save up so that I can make a substantial investment – I’ll prolly start with penny stocks.

What about the guy who had his sons name put on a missile, and he regrets it in the end. I was glad he came to his senses towards the end.

I know, its a joke, i wasn't being serious, sorry yal

I'll check it out, although i'm not a big sci-fi fan, never have been other than futurama. What channel does it come on?

^^ you have to buy eight bottles of water? where do you live? last i checked water was free.

You need to be mature that is for sure, and also you need stability, and money - because it is the number one cause for divorce in north america.

^^ I’m talking about his earlier works, because his publisher tried to republish his earlier works, and because he had a connection with the regime he said some positive things about them – that is why he refused to republish his earlier works, because he was exiled afterwards, and yes you are right he hated the regime afterwards, I’m talking about his work before the exile.

Dear diary, I’ve become a drifter lately with a utopian ideology, I’ve become those people mentioned in my endnote.

I would agree with the nomads who mentioned poor parenting --- there are parents out there who know what their kids are doing, such as drug dealing and hustlin in other ways, and they actually act as their unofficial banks - they hold the money for them and take some of it too. We don't have enough rolemodels in our communities.

I think the line is where a charge is not permitted, you can't take a charge inside the line.

As codetalker mentioned, hand me down racism is everywhere, the white man has been the most successful brand we have yet to see, or should i say the concept of the light skin being better, 20/20 had a program while back on iq levels, and people voted by looking at pictures of light skin and dark skin characters, and the people who scored the highest were the ligh skin ones -- here's the catch thou, the pictures contained multiple photoshoped images of people who were rated as having low iq rates. Look at BET music videos, they always use ligh skin women, the artist is always trying to get the light skin female, while the dark skin female is always portrayed as the gold diggin hoodrat --- even ask yourselves why is god always a white man with a white beard, and lets not get to the concept of the white light, or the colour white as welcoming, transparent, and peaceful, while the colour black is associated with uncertainty and the unknown and unwelcoming --- we must look beyond the meaning of things, there are meanings and ideas that are embedded in languages --- arabs favour whites over blacks, and even somalis hate other somalis becuase of clannism. one thing about somalis is that we hate everyone equally

^^ Is that like a scifi tv show?

1. Some people may not speak English, so they might think they’re saying the wrong words, its an overloaded communication signal I get it, but sometimes a bit of semiotics is necessary to communicate with strangers. 2. Just don’t get up to look for the remote for them, and if you don’t like watching the same channel, get up and change it yourself. 3. Its an expression, its not literal. 4. Again its an expression, and if you haven’t noticed, when we lose things, its usual right in front of our eyes. 5. Maybe they missed something, perhaps they weren’t paying attention and they require a bit of assistance. 6. Its often used to redirect a conversation or switch subjects, it would be strange to switch topics randomly without notice. 7. iPods, need I say more. 8. That’s too philosophical pending on who is arguing against you on that one. 9. Maybe your not taking the same bus as them, often there are multiple buses that go by the same stop – they don’t ask for one, they ask for a particular bus, like did bus # x pass yet. I know all those scenarios you suggested can be annoying, however, we must be patient with humanity, because we are strange beings, some of us evolve faster than others.

^^^ Thanks for the source i plan on reading some of his work, the funny thing is that AIDS is no longer an african problem, its ravaging through Russia, China, India among other nations --- clearly this disease threatens humanity --- not to mention in the US, blacks have the highest numbers when it comes to AIDS.

Thanks for the link, the website is informative and has some good images --- its always good to see some images from our past, and that someone out there is concerned about our history.

Castro I downloaded it while back, you can get the bittorrent file still from Chomsky Torrents along with other great documentaries and informative content.

Nurudin Farah won’t republish his previous works, because he had close ties with the Barre regime and he wrote in their favour. Even so, I find his work inaccessible for many people, and many Somalis, because his work contains intense vocabulary – he writes for western academic elites, not for Somalis.

I know many of you are graduating soon, and I know finding a good job will be difficult, BA’s are now the new high diplomas, and I’m sure many of you are thinking about grad school. What I want to ask is this, are any of you interested in starting your own business. Or what about playing the stock market, does anyone on sol play the stock market.