raula;975397 wrote: Alpha walaalo, sorry if that's how it came across. No they aren't ignorant....I meant print materials in English (can't read or write that) as they would be fine to getting along w/their daily life in Arizona if that was the case. Not Somali. I was merely asking for any SOMALI resources in ARIZONA, specifically any if, in MESA, for this family. (I Have informed them to check out the local libraries,bookstores-discounted or not for materials, but wondering if any other resources)-such as daycare services so that they can attend school. **Thx for the Headway -I have checked out, but i think it could be dialect issues as the ones i have looked up on GOOGLE are of british Accent, hence can cause cross-cultural misunderstandings-makes sense? good luck walaalo. don't feel compelled to explain yourself to me. i was being silly. inshallah kheyr and best of luck with your endeavours. **Headway is ok but maybe not appropriate for Americans. :cool:

it seems i was mistaken. i'm watching SLNTV right now and it seems the President has indeed been busy engaging with the citizens and leaders of Borama and Awdal region. according to the Government's channel, the President....... 1. opened a new Health department to Amoud University, 2. cut the ribbon to a new road that'll link the University to the city centre 3. held meetings with the Borama mayor and Awdal Governor 4. held a meeting to encourage private sector development in the city good stuff.

there's an excellent programme on SLNTV. it's a round-table discussion with an excellent panel including the former mayor Hargeisa. they're discussing the conflict or rather the discrepancies in power, scope and structures between the local municipalities and the Government. this is interesting. very impressive stuff walahi.

i was watching the highlight from yesterday's events earlier. i wasn't at ALL impressed with Big Silaanyo and his cult of personality, to say the least. his public sermons before the graduation were staged managed and carefully choreographed, by the looks of it. it was almost, as though, reer Borama were pledging allegiance to this tin-pot despot with no vision and no agenda, save for self-perpetuation in power. the man and his entourage hijacked these events for their own purposes. it was supposed to be the greatest day of the graduating students, you know. instead Silaanyo, not only hijacked proceedings for the purposes of appearing 'magnificent' but also wasted a great opportunity to win the hearts and minds of the locals. he should have listened to their concerns but instead preached the Kulmiye Gospel. reer Borama must be given more inducements and a higher share of the budget. this is crucial for SL's long-term sustainability. balse, it was great the President attended the graduation. this shows his dedication to education and his government's dedications to improving education across the country. cala kuli xaal good stuff.

;) this sounds like a gimmick. perhaps, you've been a little too hasty, in condemning these folks to IGNORANCE. kulaha.....''I am guessing they won't be able to read or write''. these people need their own curriculum by the sounds of it, ma istidhi? i've got headway 3rd edition (4 different levels + student books + teacher's book)....would this help?

Coofle;975221 wrote: Waaryee ina blondy. ...inaar maxaa la sheegay....Trolling-kii iyo walxihii xageed marinaysaa. hi inaar, it was at the end of a troll session, i suddenly realised, i was going too much into the details my life. this is not good. abti, i've been thinking about this, ma garatay? i'll be back soon. i just don't know when, dee.

Safferz;975218 wrote: dhoocil "bull camel; naughty boy/girl" that's funny. ;) imagine calling your awr a 'dhoocil'? also what's the masculine term for a naughty male awr? dhoocile? Saffz, let's not confuse things. call a spade a spade, ma garatay?

Alpha Blondy;975323 wrote: one should bare in mind NOT all Somalis are the same. there are Somalis. Alpha Blondy;876855 wrote: the difference between north and south korea has become very stark according to this article i was reading recently. to an outsider its fairly obvious these day of how to differentiate between the the 'peoples' of korea. the north, according to the findings of this article still maintain a more formal korean language set. the school curriculum is based on formal korean, they're taught korean in a regimental way including reciting traditional korean poetry by memory. off course, this is infused with the current dictatorship's political sentiments but its also become a desired ideal particularly from older south koreans. the south due to its 'developed' economy speaks a more modern form of korean which the media encourages and the north claims has become diluted and can no longer be deemed 'korean'. some south.koreas also expressed dissatisfaction with the loss of identity and loss of culture, particularly of young people. similarly, the physical shapes of the two koreas is another big change. the north is said to be gaunt (due to food shortages), fitter (conscription) and 'agile', where the south is developing a taller stature, changes in facial looks (more paler and the desired Caucasian look has seen the increase in plastic surgery). the proximity towards warmer climates at the lower end of the peninsula has also seen toning increase in south korea. with the change in physique and the social fabric, the two koreas have become more and more different in a few generations. the also added the two koreas may experience a change in their ethnic compositions too and this may further lead to 'new ethnic' groups of koreans. change is certainly inevitable but with such major changes occurring within 100 years is largely unheard off. i feel the changes in our recent history, particularly the trouble and strife years (1977-2012), may have serious ramification of our own culture. interesting, maha? your thoughts are welcome.

the whites will leave no stone under-turned, and no taboo, any less explored, in their heinous attempts to project these disgusting opinions. i'm surprised there's nothing about FGM on this article. when was the last time a Somali wrote about Somali affairs? this is a problem. i wrote one of my 7 dissertations on these same issues and despite fiddling about with the data, it wasn't bad, you know. white researchers are digging deeper and deeper into our social underbelly, in the hope of dishing out further nonsensical propaganda against British Somalis. we shouldn't befriend them because it's quite obvious they cannot be trusted. they are not interested in portraying anything positive. only bad. balse, for the most part, Somalis in Britain are doing terrible. we ALL know this. it's no wonder i left that pathetic little island as soon as I could. Somalis are disgusting. ruunti, they ought to go back to their countries. they are all prone to criminality, smell funny and have no loyalty to the culture of Britain nor understand British values. you have old pathetic islaamo, who despite being in the UK for 30+ years, cannot understand nor speak a single word of English. you have an entire generation of youth, whose insatiable appetite for violence, has left tax-paying British citizens unable to walk 5m outside of their houses. this is disgusting. they are obsessed with the affairs back 'home' because they are not interested in contributing back to the same economy they shamefully steal from and depend on for survival. this mindset, this vacant attitude, their incapacities, their deficiencies and socio-economic settings will forever make them failures. this is because they all live in poor areas with poor public services and very little prospects. UK Somalis were once one of the most successful ethnic communities in Britian but thanks to the problems in Southern Somalia and the huge influx of Eurotrash Somalis, we are done for, now. in those early days, a sense of community pride existed and we were very much part and parcel of Britain's diverse and multicultural society. we were British and appreciated in its entirety what it meant to have passport-kii weyne but now it's a free-for-all. our community has been infiltrated by violent folks with strange practices and customs, customs and practices completely alien to our way of things. but that was before 2002. now it's 2013. Somalis have made no intention to acclimatise themselves to their settings nor have they integrated because they are in a state of limbo. the sooner these people acknowledge their situation, the better for our collective will. one should bare in mind NOT all Somalis are the same. there are Somalis. i'm afraid, if these trends continue, it won't be long before Somalis are............ '' ..........among the poorest, worst-educated and least-employed in Britain. In a country where other refugees have flourished, why do Somalis do so badly?''. waa bila towfiq.

sounds great, abti. i wish you all the best with this mashruuc. inshallah kheyr.

^ Rudy many people say you're occupationally demented but i generally tend to disagree. abti, don't hate the player, hate the game, ma garatay? your anti-SL senitments are obviously beyond disgusting and show your complete lack of awareness and overall comprehension. akhas, saqajaan waxid baad tahay. sida isku dhaan.

popcaan y'all. Jah Bless

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatu Allah wa barakatuh, y'all. i'll be back to the trolling soon ee sida uula soco. hi to SPooow and D.O.C. madax sare! salute.

Somalia;975163 wrote: The World Food Programme has received donations of foods for use in southern Africa, some of which contain GMOs. Several governments in southern Africa have accepted these donated foods without reservation and GM maize varieties are grown in the region. However, other Governments have expressed reservations on receiving food aid containing GMOs and have sought advice from the United Nations. abti, taa nagaa daa, yo. was Hassan's recent raashin for PL, GM? is that why y'all refused it?

this thread is 'back-biting' reer burao. it is said back-biting is like eating the flesh of your dead brother's body. balse, halkaa ka si wada because some segments of reer burao are already killing their brothers. just last week, beesha haradaan militia ransacked, maimed and killed many habar qalooc folks in Erigavo in yet another land-grab attempt...........for no other reason than Big SILaanyo being on the throne. caajib.

^ i see you'd rather use 'biotechnology' produced GM foods than maintain your integrity and sharaf as a human of equal proportions? until now we've REFUSED these scientific creations of the gaal but you're an ''il yare geelbeed'' and we know many of your ''ibaax'' folks were ''objects of desire'' for the colonial masters in and around the State House iyo Hindiya Laynka area of Hargeisa before the 1960s........ so your thinking doesn't come as a surprise, abti. for centuries now, the whites and their proxies, in their haste to further sow the seeds of population control measures, have been looking to test their ''inorganic'' and ''cell in a petri-dish'' manipulated generic foods on Africans as though we're like mice, mouses or other rodent-like creatures.......can you believe that? :confused: around the early 2000s Robert Mugabe refused GM foods because ''apparently'' his 'people are not mice in a laboratory to be experimented on', ma garatay? also...... why is WFP and other tentacle-like agencies of the 'Global World Order' dumping cheap produces on African Markets, abti? Africans can produce their own produces, you know. abti, let's bring back the US-listed terrorist group Al-Shaabab because it's quite obvious they know how to plough the fields and harvest the crops better than INGO field officers on the ground.

^ in other words, you've failed miserably and use abstract maahmaahs to compensate for such failures, maha?

^^ aar bal tan eega. it's seems your logics are illogical. abti, we all know you're a historical revisionist and a closet siyaadist. marka maxaad sheegaysa? i reckon, all things being considered, we're able to infer from your musings above that the sister is indeed a mujahidad because she's a western-backed islamist rebel fighting western-back nationalist rebels. what's your point?

nuune;974951 wrote: “carried out dirty work deserved such a fate”. Source this requires further interpretation, maha? dirty work in what sense? in beating her or for being a support of the late Qaddifi (A.U.N)?

at least their universities are serious. here, in the abyss, i could open a university but more importantly wa in aan la saidoo the students.

this is a BIG lie. :mad: it's like they NEVER tire of scapegoating, maha?.....telling every passer-by, particularly those willing to listen, their fictitious claims of being subjugated and being discriminated against. these minorities are doing rather well but it's really a shame to see they've also jumped on the bandwagon of the 'emancipators'. it's their fault! they're plighted by a disgusting and residual inferiority complex left behind by their forefather Mr. Bucur Bacayr. (e.g - father opens a barber shop, sons replicate this trend until they're all barbers, metalsmiths or singers ....why can't they diversify and enter other industries. what's holding them back? whose holding them back? :mad:) i have a few friends from 'these' people and they're smart, savvy and seemingly intelligible but i abhor their 'pet-like obedience' to any member of the so-called 'noble' clans. as for the Ethiopians, they ought to be restricted. the borders of this young democracy are pathetically porous and they come in cheap by the dozens, importing illicit alcohol beverages and HIV-AIDs. :mad:

GM Food? abti, isku xishood. :mad:

Ina lillaahi waina ileyhi rajicuun. AUN. i was an avid follower of this guy. AUN.

Wiil Cusub;974910 wrote: Haatu not every thing need to make tribal decision. Berbera waa magaalo ka ilbaxsan Hargeisa before monkeys came from mountains. explain baal. :mad:

nuune;974909 wrote: she is not someone who will undergo a second knife in a lifetime only to end up in a nightclub! :D what about a third knife? ta ka waraan, inaar? p.s - i was hearing somewhere restorations are freely available on the Belgium Health Service.