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A little Obamamania in Berlin today. 200K showed up! Uchstad Feistenhem Sietgetz

I was sort of startled today when I found out who this new model for Vogue and Allure is. Small world.

Originally posted by Kool_Kat: Somebody, and I don't want to name any names (waves at Libaax), just someboday needs to start a new section dedicated to newbies... Salaams Inadeer.

Blame Schumer. The short squeeze seems to have eased a little in the last couple of days. Wells Fargo earnings report helped fuel the lastest surge as the hardest hit stocks (financials) gained modest jumps. I expect a pullback in few days as investors are still uneasy about this bear market. It is the nature of the beast.

Welcome back Abume.

Welcome G.

Ilaahay ha garab qabto nimankaan wada dhismaha. Waa wax ummaddu ku aflaxi doonto Insha Allah.

Originally posted by Castro: The people of Awdal may not be unanimous over Somaliland but they're certainly unanimous in rejecting the collaborator gangland you lovingly refer to as Pirateland, I mean Punt land. Is Castro trying to outdo Duke nowadays? Old man, don't let Dukey cloud your judgement and take away your sanity. Meesha u odayee Awoowe.

"no release until meles gives you the thumbs up?" Who is the "you" directed at??? Xiin?

I am getting feeds that Yeey is pushing to get all the MPs show up in Baidoa. There is a "massive" plot underway against Cadde ala Gheedi style. We wait and see ...

Big Brother Speech David Icke of Britain speaks to the constituents of Haltemprice and Howden and warns that there is a growing danger of Stasi-style snooping by western goverments controlled by the same shadow elites most of whom having a "global centralized fascist dictatorship" agenda to take away individual freedom and create a surveillance society.

The Week That Should Have Ended McCain's Presidential Hopes Let's unpack McCain's week in a little more detail. 1. McCain unambiguously called Social Security "an absolute disgrace." This is not a quote taken out of context. John McCain called one of the most successful and popular government programs, which uses the tax revenues of current workers to support retirement benefits for the elderly "an absolute disgrace." This is shocking - and if uttered from Obama's mouth would dominate the news coverage and the Sunday shows, as pundits would speculate about the massive damage the statement would cause him among retirees in Florida. 2. McCain's top economic policy adviser calls Americans a bunch of "whiners" for being worried about the slumping economy. Words cannot fully explain how devastating this statement should be from Phil Gramm. You would think it would be enough to sink McCain's campaign. Of course McCain only thinks that the economic problems are psychological. 3. Iraqi leaders call for a timetable for U.S. withdrawal, McCain gets caught in a bizarre denial and flip flop. The Iraqis now want us to begin planning our withdrawal - McCain however wants to stay foooorrreeevvveerrrr. So what does McCain say - First, he refuses to accept Maliki's statement as being true. Then he concedes that it was an accurate statement, but was probably just a political ploy to curry favor with his own people and WOULD NOT influence his determination to keep US troops in Iraq indefinitely. Yet, McCain in 2004 at the Council on Foreign Relations said that if the Iraqis asked us to leave, we would have to go. No matter what. But that was apparently a younger and less experienced John McCain. But let's just look at his comment that Maliki's statement is "just politics." If that is true, then it must also be true that the American military presence in Iraq is so unpopular with Iraqis that the government is forced to push for a timetable in order to survive at the ballot box. That's a reason to stay for 100 years. 4. McCain's economic plan to cut the deficit has no details and is simply not believable. There are so many things here. McCain pledges he would eliminate the deficit by the end of his first term (the campaign latter flip flop flipped about whether it was four years or eight years), but does not provide any details about how he would do it. Economists on both sides of the political aisle said that this was simply not believable, especially given McCain's other proposals to a) cut individual and corporate taxes even further, b) extend the Bush tax cuts and c) massively increase defense spending on manpower (200,000 more troops) and d) maintain a long-term sizable military presence in Iraq. 5. McCain's deficit plan includes bringing the troops home represents a major Iraq flip-flop. Speaking of the long-term military presence - a story that has gotten absolutely no attention is that McCain now believes the war will be over soon. The economic forecasts made by his crack team of economists predict that there will be significant savings during McCain's first term because we will have achieved "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan. The savings from victory (ie the savings from not having our troops there) will then be used to pay down the deficit. The only way this could have any impact on the deficit in McCain's first time is if troop withdrawals start very soon. So McCain believes victory is in our grasps and we can begin withdraw troops from Iraq pretty much right away -- doesn't sound that different from Obama's plan does it. Someone should at least ask McCain HOW HE DEFINES VICTORY - and why he thinks we will achieve it in the next couple of years. 6. McCain campaign misled about economists support. In the major press release the McCain campaign issued to tout its Jobs for America economic plan that would balance the budget in 4 years, it included the signatures of more than 300 economists who the campaign claimed to support the plan. Only problem is that the economists were actually asked to sign up to SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. Um, hello? 7. McCain makes a joke about killing Iranians. Haha... that's just McCain being McCain. I am sure that is exactly how it is being reported in Tehran. This guy is running for President not to become a talk radio pundit. Yet according to the AP this was just a humanizing moment between candidate and spouse - I am not sure when joking about the deaths of civilians became humanizing. 8. McCain denies, flatly, that he ever said that he is not an expert in economics. Are you kidding? 9). McCain distorts his record on veterans benefits in response to a question from Vietnam Veteran, who then proceeds to call McCain out on it. 10.) McCain demonstrates he knows nothing about Afghanistan and Pakistan. McCain said "I think if there is some good news, I think that there is a glimmer of improving relationship between Karzai and the Pakistanis." Pat Barry notes how crazy this comment is..."Just what "glimmer" is McCain talking about?? Maybe he's referring to President Karzai's remarks last month, which threatened military action in Pakistan if cross-border attacks persisted? Or maybe McCain is talking about Afghanistan's allegations that Pakistan's ISI was involved in a recent assassination attempt on Karzai? Maybe in McCain's world you could call that a silver-lining, but in reality-land I'd call it something else." Any one of these incidents and comments would dominate the news cycle if they came from the Obama campaign. Yet McCain barely gets a mention. The press like to see themselves as political referees - neutral observers that call them like they see em'. But they want this to be a horse race and so all the calls right now are going one way. How else can you explain the furor last week over the Obama "refine" comment - which represented zero change in Obama's position on Iraq - and the "swift boat" mania over Wesley Clark's uncontroversial comments (psss... by the way McCain exploits his POW experience in just about every ad - yet he says he doesn't like to talk about it). This Sunday expect the ten incidents above to get short shrift from pundit after pundit, because after all Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-bergmann/the-week-that-should-have_b_111983.html

New Yorker Magazine Cover Obama Camp calls it "Tasteless And Offensive"

Xaq ma aha indeed. Hunguri, they need to do something as soon as possible. Inform the Badhan folks to take care of the mother's grave.

^^

I do. Macawis is cool. It lets you relax quite well. The experience is similar to that "Are you Gellin'" commercial from Dr. Scholls. White t-shirt and macawis are the dress code requirements for my home office.

"But now they see that I have done it. If I can do it, they can do it. Most of my community do taxi driving and things like that," With this kind of comment from Mr. Farah, it is natural to see a backlash from the nomads. This is Somalia Online folks. Nomads will "give it to ya" if you seem to be stepping out of bounds specially when talking to western media. As for me, I am kind of surprised a dude who left Somalia six years ago would choose the army as a profession let alone belittle the career choices of his fellow Somalis (taxi drivers). You would think that the trauma of war is still fresh in his memory. Good luck to the brother and to the many out there trying to make it.

Yeey is a known pro-death activist.

Duke miyaa la ogaaday nimankii diley marxuumka, mise sheekada in nimankani ay ka yimaadeen Guriceel weli waa "tuhun"? Ilaahay ha u naxariisto Biixi, eheladiisiina samir haka siiyo.

Maxaa la yidhi? Somaliland waa ugu jirtaa beryahan. Dhuusada Somaliland waa foox maaha?. Wixii ay arkaanba dhegaha ayay ka jafayaan beryahan dambe. Sidaasaa la rabaa.

Still waiting ... Get the salad ready. It is lunch time!

I guess we can conclude that Garowe is the best built city in Puntland. Layout is good.

He looks like Ina-Fartaag.

Congrats to Nuune for his win of the much coveted Calaacal Award Well done!!