lol@ maalinta ciin daaqdo ayaa laguu yaaba,

By Laurence Leamer @huffingtonpost Bernard Madoff is a member in good standing of the Palm Beach Country Club, the exclusive Jewish club on the North End of the island. When I would talk to friends and acquaintances who were members, they often chatted about good old Bernie. The 70-year-old Madoff had been the chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. He was a brilliantly successful money manager who may well have handled the assets of a majority of the 300 members as well as that of those of a largely Jewish clientele across the eastern United States and a number of wealthy WASPS. Bernard and Ruth Madoff bought their home on North Lake Way in 1967, and are among the most long standing members of the club. The Palm Beach Country Club is the ultimate symbol of the Jewish ascendency. Unlike the WASP clubs, to join you have to have made major charitable contributions. You also have to have made your fortune in clean ways. There are no garbage magnates, no slum lords. You have to be a person of character. And there was no one more revered and honored than Bernard Madoff. Earlier this year I gave a talk at the club about my forthcoming book, Madness Under the Royal Palms. There were people in the room who are in my book and I avoided talking about them or anything that I thought might irritate or offend. I've been doing this sort of thing for years and I can take a few amusing anecdotes and strung them together into something that's not too painful and generally brings smiles if not laughter. But this afternoon there was dead silence. Nobody found anything I said amusing. In retrospect, I realize that these people had come to a bastion of anti-Semitism where Jews could not even enter the Breakers Hotel until 1965, and they had made the island theirs. And here I was to their minds mocking this world they had made their own. They found it profoundly unsettling. People in Palm Beach sort themselves out into the group in which they belong based largely on how much money they have. Even the poorest of the islanders seem to have everything yet joy proves elusive, even for the country club members, because there is always someone richer or better socially connected. Joy is driving out of your 35,000-square-foot mansion in your Bentley and tooling up to the entrance of Mar-a-Lago for your fifteenth ball of the season, the valet parkers salivating at the chance to take your car and the prospect of a twenty-dollar tip. Joy is having a wife younger and thinner than any of the other wives at your table. Joy is subtly announced during dinner that your hedge fund scored 33 percent last year, while that of the arrogant son of a ***** across the table with the fat wife scored only 17 percent. Those with the biggest financial gains generally had their money managed by Madoff. It was an honor having him handle your fortune. He didn't take just anybody. He turned down all kinds of people, and that made you want to give the man even more of your money. When he took your fortune, he told you that he would tell you nothing about how he achieved his returns. He was a god. He had the Midas touch. Yesterday Madoff was arrested and accused of running what probably will prove the greatest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world. He may have dissipated as much as fifty billion dollars into nothing. For the elite Jewish world, it is a curse of almost biblical proportion. I was at a dinner party last night and one of the guests called on his cell phone a man whose money Madoff had managed. I know the man and he is a generous, kind person who recently gave away over a hundred million dollars. He said that both his company's retirement plan and his charitable foundation had been handled by Madoff. He was preparing to fly back to his Boston home to walk among the ruins. It's a story told scores of times yesterday. Bankruptcy. Despair. There was one largely Jewish charity event last evening. "It was like the Titanic," one attendee said. "The ship was sinking, and people were crying, 'I lost this and that.' And everybody was drunk. The Titanic was going down and we might as well carry on." There is a feeling of incredible shame, embarrassment, of exposure, as if their whole world has been exposed as jerry built. This evening the synagogues in Palm Beach will be full. And there will be men and women listening to the truths of a great and ancient faith as they have never listened before.

Libax, Yey rag iska dhicis buu ku jiraa awoowe! I blve he will, as Duke hinted, try another tactic to get even with Madoobe and Nur! The ultimate question is whether the powers that be want to preserve the TFG and move forward, or whether they want to start anew. If first, then they will probably have to appease Yey in some form. If they do indeed want to start anew, then they will humiliate him and drag him out of office. That strategy of beating Yey in his own game, though politically and personally satisfying for some, will not do much to meet the peace deliverables that most Somalis need. An ideal compromise would have been to let Yey appoint whomever he wants as long he abides with the Jabbuuti deal. Lets wait and see! Having said that I can barely contain my sense of vindication on the approach some of us chose to support, that peaceful approach, and not mindless wars, is the way to solve our family feud and political dispute! See how not even one single shot is fired despite the clausal shift of allegiances happening in Baydhabo! Politics is indeed the affaris of organized societies.

SHIIKH SHARIIF: “C/llaahi Yuusuf Dadka wanaag ayuu ku metelaa ee xumaan kuma metelo, awoodna uma lahan in uu burburiyo Heshiiskii Jibouti” Khamiis, November 20, 2008(HOL): Guddoomiyaha Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta Soomaaliya Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed oo shalay soo gaaray magaalada Muqdisho ayaa maanta wuxuu shir jar’aaid ku qabtay Hotelka Laf-weyn oo uu degan yahay, wuxuuna shirkiisa jaraa’id uga hadlay arrimo dhowr ah oo kala ah ujeedada socdaalkiisa Muqdisho, Heshiiskii Jibouti iyo sida uu u arkayo hadal uu ku mucaaraday Madaxweyne C/llaahi Yuusuf, Bixitaanka Ciidamada Itoobiya iyo Arrinta Burcad Badeedka iyo dhaqamada soo galootiga ku ah dadka Soomaaliyeed ee ay dilalka iyo Af-diuubka. Waxaa uu ka hadlay ujeedka socdaalkooda Muqdisho, wuxuuna sheegay in ay ugu horeyso in ay la kulmaan dadka Muqdisho oo ay ugu horeeyaa sida uu hadalka u yiri Muqaawamada, sidoo kalena waxaa uu sheegay in waxyaabaha ay u yimaadeen ay qeyb ka tahay in la dhaqangeliyo heshiiskii Jibouti oo ay qodobadiisa ka mid ahaayeen in xabadda la joojiyo iyo in laga shaqeeyo sidii ay Ciidamada Itoobiyaanka u bixi lahaayeen. Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed waxaa uu sheegay in ay dadaal iyo juhdi ku bixinayaan sidii dagaallada loo joojin lahaa, wuxuuna sheegay in ay dadka Soomaaliyeed ka daaleen dagaallo, wuxuuna carrabka ku dhuftay in loo baahan yahay in wax kasta laga wada hadlo. Waxaa uu intaas ku daray Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed in ay soo dhaweynayaan oo ay la hadlayaan cid kasta oo mas’alo diineed wadata, cid kasta oo danta dalka ka hadleysa, iyo cid kasta oo dan gaar ah wadata ay soo dhaweynayaan, gacmahoodana ay furan yihiin, wuxuuna caddeeyay in ay diyaar u yihiin in ay ka haraan haddii waxa ay wadaan ay noqdaan wax ka soo horjeeda Diinta Islaamka. Waxaa uu sheegay in dadka Soomaaliyeed oo walaalo ah ay dhibaatooyin soo dhexmareen, wuxuuna carrabka ku dhuftay in ay u taagan yihiin sidii dadkaas loogu cadaalad fali lahaa. Halkan ka dhegeyso Shirka Jaraa'id Wuxuu ka hadlay Burcad Badeedka, dilalka gaadmada ah iyo af-duubka, wuxuuna sheegay in arrimahaas wax u dhimayaan Qarannimada Soomaaliyeed, wuxuuna ku baaqay in shacabka Soomaaliyeed oo aan arrimahaas looga baran ay la gudboon tahay in uu ka hortago falalkaas. Sidoo kale waxaa uu ka hadlay hadal uu dhawaan sii daayay Madaxweyne C/llaahi Yuusuf oo ahaa in heshiiskaas ay beel gaar ah gaartay, wuxuuna carrabka ku dhuftay in heshiiska Jibouti ay wada galeen Dowladda Federaalka iyo Isbaheysiga Dib u xoreynta, Dowladda Federaalkana ay u saxiixeen dadkii ay soo dirsatay. “C/llaahi haddii uu soo dirsanayo nin ay isku beel yihiin annaga ma diidin, laakin isaga ayaa soo dirsaday Axmed C/salaan, marka markii uu heshiiska saxiixay in uu yiraahdo Axmed C/salaan waa beel kale, waxay ila tahay arrin ku haboon ma ahan madaxweynaha, arrin sax ahna ma ahan, arrinta labaadna heshiiskan ma ahan heshiis C/llaahi Yuusuf iyo qof kale u dhaxeeyo, waxaa uu u dhaxeeyaa Umadda Soomaaliyeed, Adduunkana goob-joog ayuu ka yahay, xil ayaana ka saaran, marka haddii uu u maleynayo in uu heshiiska burburin karo, ma burburin karo, arrinta kale waxay tahay C/llaahi Yuusuf dadka wanaag ayuu ku metelaa ee xumaan kuma metelo”ayuu yiri Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed oo sheegay in Reer Puntland aysan fikirkaas la qabin Madaxweyne Yuusuf. Waxaa uu ka hadlay bixitaanka Ciidamada Itoobiya ee dalka Soomaaliya, waxaana uu sheegay in Ciidamada Itoobiya bixitaankooda heshiis lagu gaaray, heshiiskaasna loo baahan yahay in la fuliyo, “arrintaas waxyaabaha aan u nimid ayay qeyb ka tahay waxaana shacabka Soomaaliyeed u sheegeynaa in ay Itoobiyaanka baxayaan Haddii Alle idmo”ayuu yiri Shiikh Shariif Shiikh Axmed oo sheegay in uu ka xun yahay in sida uu u yiri lugaha lagu dhego Ciidamada Itoobiya iyagoo doonaya in ay baxaan. Salaad Iidow Xasan (Xiis), Hiiraan Online sxiis@hiiraan.com Mogadishu, Somalia

Thierry gets the big picture. Juje on the other hand misses it. As good leaders do, Sharif is taking a risk. He’s keeping his eye on the big price that’s peace. What number of pms tfg should have is a mere detail. A workable compromise is what’s needed here. If the need be the details can be revisited. What’s not reversible is the approach Sh. Sharif spearheaded. Caravankkii wuu dhaqaaqay walle..

Suluxa culamadu wadaan waa wax fiican. Allaha ku guuleeyyo. As for the peace caravan, one can critique its faults as much as one wants. Talking to the tfg and other parties involved is the correct approach however. Ethiopia’s withdrawal is the goal, and she will insha Allah withdraw in due time. Sh. Sharif is right on the money on this.

^^correct@dee sharaf baanu lahayn inkastow ay dawlad macangag ah ahayd laakin sharaf baanu dunnida ku dhex marreyney. Whoever said that Xaaji Xanduf is ineligible for borrowing some wisdom was wrong. Look how he makes the case for some form of unity in the south. Look how he reminisces the old days of Somali republic and remembers how he played under the lofty shade of Somali flag that protected him from the pointed rays of the simmering sun! Keep the wrap of the Somaliland flag under your armpit if you must, but don’t let the value of Somali unity escape you adeer!

Peace Caravan camps at Xamar!

The peace caravan has reached another important milestone! Way to go yaa Sh. Sharif! Ninkii ragahoo wax riixan kariyo Rigada mala geeyey reer Xamar!

^^Certianly sh. Godane feels he has a moral obligation to liberate SL! Maalintaa aan waraysanno red sea...

Haddey duuli layd waa horaa layku dili laaye Dusha waxa u baxay iyo xidigga dananayyee buubay Dubaabkii marqaankaa mala daafahaa tegeyye'e Ha dallacin bahasha yeysan aad usii didine'e Intaasi waa intii Ayyoub iyo Suldan , Illeen Jacayli ma yaqaane

^^anigu dadka dhulka ku nool baan ku jiraa, wax duulay oo aan soo degeyn waa mushkilah cathiimah awoowe

^loooooooool Ma habaarba mise duco hadaba ?

^^Allow duushay'e, yeysan soo degin Adoo lehna waa la sheegay, Jacaylow !

^^XT=school Xaawo Taako,maaha? The one close to Shinnemo Hodan! Baashi, Xassan Qirindi some times come up in the news even these days which tells me unlike many other schools in Xamar, that Elementary school is still functioning.Cajiib!

Originally posted by Baashi: Anyone from Sakhawadiin Secondary School in Shibis? ^^Kuwaas adaa ka nool awoowe !

NG, Baashi, and Sophist here you may find the faces of some of your old friends in MN!

^^Waraa adiga elite girl aa ahayd ciyaal waxma ka kasaysid ee nadaa Geelle: yes we did, laakin when we did may interest you in mid 1980s!

^^ok Sophist! Baashi will do IA (i have just been quite lazy on that one)!

^^Waxaanan ahayn miyaa la arkaa adeer! You could not grow up in Xamar, and not be ciyaal banooni! Here are other ciyaal stuff we used to do: ciyaal Baliil, ciyaal guluus, ciyaal shineemo, and early early in my age, in my third grade, ciyaal qooleey... hayye, xaggee ku ciyaari jirtey Geelle...

Originally posted by Gheelle.T: As for the lifts, if am not mistaking isbitaal Digfeer and Bangiga dhexe also had lifts.. ^^JiiroMiskiin.com

^^insha Allaah brother!

^^Actually it's about time to update my Linkedin profile, Baashi! But I thought Sophist is in UK, no? Never mind i missed this part: Location The position will be a permanent position located in Dubai. Sophist waa ku salaamay saaxiib!

more coverage on this matter....

^^Wiilkii ina Turki ahaa noo soo warayso. Weydii sida aabihi iyo Roobow isku yihiin!