^^ a reasonable request! We'll do IA.

NG ma seexday? I blve Aw Tusbaxle korontadii baa ka tagtay. Where is nuune? soo bax waryaa, dont you know this is sharul sarf.

Heart surgery igusoo orod maaha. Allow u sahal.

Sipho wax la quuri karo maaha! Markay dacwoodaan baan ugu jeclahay. That attitude of hers has a name in my circles: Suuro murabac!

Had Somali women uniformly considered good looks as a critical quality, they would’ve crossed the red sea to marry gorgeous Yemens on the other side of the divide. Consequently, the product would’ve eliminated the formation of ugly faraxs. I do not believe Somali women would’ve gone to Abyssinian mountains in search of good-looking men.

lol@ Kismayo being fortified for Ethiopians! How about this yaa Xaji NG: I will change my mind about the viability of this peace effort if the things I hold to be basic truths about Somalia change. Namely, if Somali republics territorial integrity violated in any form or shape (by secession or annexation)! You could see where I am going with this old man .

^^Ma banjarin caravanka nabbadu. Waxaa banjaray waa caqliga dadka qaarki. And there is no making up for some people's caqli deficit adeer!

Serenity, Aw Tusbaxle is just like the proverbial man with hal-hays xun! I could talk to him out of his bad habits today, but he will be back at it tomorrow. I didn’t read the story. But I trust good Vals assessment of it . Matatayaashii bacaa wehliyya, she reporteed .

Waa markiisii!

nice beach.

The caravan moves on....

^^I have met a man who was stopped and almost detained by a border guard after he sleepwalked, and apparently traveled a distance...

Nevins is "truly passionate" about her job, but after seven years, she's about to leave it. When the baby arrives, she will take off at least a year, maybe two, maybe five. "It's hard. I'm giving up a great job that pays well, and I have a lot of respect and authority," she says. The decision to stay home was a tough one, but most of her working-mom friends have made the same choice. She concludes, "I know it's the right thing." Ten, 15 years ago, it all seemed so doable. Bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, split the second shift with some sensitive New Age man. But slowly the snappy, upbeat work-life rhythm has changed for women in high-powered posts like Nevins. The U.S. workweek still averages around 34 hours, thanks in part to a sluggish manufacturing sector. But for those in financial services, it's 55 hours; for top executives in big corporations, it's 60 to 70, says Catalyst, a research and consulting group that focuses on women in business. For dual-career couples with kids under 18, the combined work hours have grown from 81 a week in 1977 to 91 in 2002, according to the Families and Work Institute. Email, pagers and cell phones promised to allow execs to work from home. Who knew that would mean that home was no longer a sanctuary? Today BlackBerrys sprout on the sidelines of Little League games. Cell phones vibrate at the school play. And it's back to the e-mail after Goodnight Moon. "We are now the workaholism capital of the world, surpassing the Japanese," laments sociologist Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. Meanwhile, the pace has quickened on the home front, where a mother's job has expanded to include managing a packed schedule of child-enhancement activities. In their new book The Mommy Myth, Susan Douglas, a professor of communication studies at the University of Michigan, and Meredith Michaels, who teaches philosophy at Smith College, label the phenomenon the New Momism. Nowadays, they write, our culture insists that "to be a remotely decent mother, a woman has to devote her entire physical, psychological, emotional, and intellectual being, 24/7, to her children." It's a standard of success that's "impossible to meet," they argue. But that sure doesn't stop women from trying. .............. Despite such misgivings, most women who step out of their careers find expected delights on the home front, not to mention the enormous relief of no longer worrying about shortchanging their kids. Annik Miller, 32, of Minneapolis, Minn., decided not to return to her job as a business-systems consultant at Wells Fargo Bank after she checked out day-care options for her son Alex, now 11 months. "I had one woman look at me honestly and say she could promise that my son would get undivided attention eight times each day--four bottles and four diaper changes," says Miller. "I appreciated her honesty, but I knew I couldn't leave him." read on: The Case For Staying Home

Nuune Koofiyad-weynow, Hadduu aw Tusbaxle taraaraxo adiga iyo xaji NG baa loo haystaa. The man does not know when to stop. Just like a spoilt child, he would construe your niyad-dhisid shouts as a sign of agreement. Aniga I weydii…anaa saaxiibkii ah

Nuune, marna makugu dhacday arrintani?

Bisinka. That you read Quran afterwards was prudent though!

^^Waraaa xaggaad ka dhacday ninyahow! Intaad baqshad maran soo dirtay baad albaabkiina xiratay ! As for Aw Tusbaxle's stories, bal tan noo aqri ninyow and alert me if you see matatayaal dhex daadsan...

This is one reason as to why my insistence on hope in finding a final, and peaceful closure to Somali civil war is sound. Sh. Hassan, after disappointing many of us in his mulish opposition to the Jabbuuti efforts, begun to object the decision to close Mogadishu airport on humanitarian basis. He granted that the ‘enemy’ uses this facility for military purposes. He conceded that those whom he termed as the ‘friends of Somali enemy’ utilize this facility as well. Yet the good Sheekh reasoned as to why it’s not prudent to besiege Mogadishu’s airport. It has an adverse impact on the innocent shacab. And for that reason this decision must be reversed. I like the reasoning, and the rationalization, of the Sheekh. I welcome the departure. I think the day when this man accepts the notion of sitting down with the enemy is near. Kudos yaa Sheekhii… read Aw Hassan's rationalizing as to why the closure of the Xamar's airport is incosiderate, and must be reversed

She is a drag to Mcains ticket. She really is! Kamase xumin!

I didn't read the story. But i must admit Ugbaad is a btfl name! Aw Tusbaxle, nice title. Allow yaa ogaadase kastuumooyin baa ka buuxa sheekada...

Folks heed to good Malika and Aliyah! CL soonkii baa ka tanbadiyey, and so is Ibti!

Alaskan Tropic by Steven Kurutz October 6, 2008 Of the many things revealed about the Alaska governor Sarah Palin since she became John McCain’s running mate last month, one of the most curious is the fact, reported two weeks ago, that she had a tanning bed installed in the state mansion in Juneau. Obama supporters seized on the news, arguing that private tanning-bed ownership is evidence that Palin isn’t the folksy hockey mom she claims to be, while Republican partisans pointed out that she bought the bed secondhand from an athletic club, and, moreover, that tanning is a reasonable activity, given Alaska’s sun-deprived winters. Taking a charitable view of the revelation was the Indoor Tanning Association, a trade lobbying group based in Washington, D.C. The organization quickly issued a press release extolling tanning as a source of Vitamin D and gave “kudos” to Palin for standing up to those “trying to frighten Americans away from UV light.” Palin hasn’t commented publicly on her bronzing habits, but tanning professionals are nevertheless excited that an avowed tanner is so prominent on the national stage. “Word flew through our industry,” Dan Humiston, the association’s president, said the other day by phone. “They’re all saying, ‘Good news about Sarah Palin.’ ” Humiston was speaking from Nashville, where he was attending the association’s annual trade show. The three-day expo features workshops (“Total Salon Makeover: Saving and Rebuilding a Tanning Business on the Brink”), new products (the CosmoLux 9K90 low-pressure sunlamp), and, occasionally, themed entertainment. “Most tanning salons are owned by females,” Humiston said. “If we have a band, we’ll bring in someone for them to get up and dance. The Beach Boys gave a concert once.” In 1985, Humiston borrowed four thousand dollars from his grandparents, bought two tanning beds, and opened a salon in the basement of an office building in a Buffalo suburb. Now, at forty-five, he’s the president of Tanning Bed, Inc., a chain with thirty-four locations across upstate New York. Humiston, who appears two shades darker than everyone else in photographs, normally adheres to a regimen of fifteen minutes a week under the lights, but lately he’s been too busy to bronze—he’s running for Congress as an independent in the Twenty-seventh Congressional District. “We were at the pool the other day, and my kids were like, ‘Dad, you got a farmer tan,’ ” Humiston said. “I call it the parade tan—my head and arms were tan but my legs were pale.” He added, solemnly, “I’m as fair-skinned as I’ve been in a long time.” There’s something of a history of tanned politicians—think of Ronald Reagan on his California ranch, his skin as singed-looking as the needle grass, or, more recently, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, like Palin, has been known to stay artificially golden. “I thought she had a healthy glow, even before I knew she was a tanner,” Humiston said. “What I love about it is she’s like a normal person. There’s nothing fancy about it. She bought an old tanning bed and put it in her house in Alaska because they don’t get any sun. She’s probably stressed out, goes and lies in a tanning bed for twenty minutes, and relaxes.” Humiston added, “When you’re governor, it’s probably tough to go wandering into a tanning salon in sweatpants and a T-shirt.” Much of the I.T.A.’s energy is spent clearing up misconceptions about indoor tanning perpetuated by what I.T.A. officials call “the sun-scare industry.” Last year, a bill was introduced in California that would, among other things, ban anyone under sixteen from using a tanning bed. “The sun doesn’t have a P.R. firm to say, ‘Hang on a minute, they’re misleading you,’ ” Humiston said. Of McCain’s melanomas, he said, “I suspect during the time he was held captive in Southeast Asia there were occasions when he was exposed to intense sun.” One wonders if a Palin Vice-Presidency would result in an indoor-tanning renaissance, or mark a period of industry deregulation. Humiston says he wouldn’t lobby Palin on his colleagues’ behalf (“That would be below her pay grade”). Nor does he plan to introduce pro-tanning legislation if he’s elected to Congress this fall, although, he said, “If there was ever a question in the legislative body about indoor tanning or UV light, I’m sure I’d be the person that would be called upon.”

lol@waa rag! Sheh waa Sheh!

^^Waraa baxar ha i gelin! Doncha think ku lahaa .

^^War gabadha hargabsan iska daaya!