Saalax;984978 wrote: Well done our fellow Somalilander. Safferz Adigu ciid ku diiday citizenship maleh laakin waxad aad uu jeceshay reer Koonfureedka ku hoos nool tangiiyaada Uganda iyo Burundi. Tasa laga diidaay. Qofkii jecel AMISOM, Xamar ha deego. I like all Somalis, wherever they live.

LayZie G.;984975 wrote: ^^lol http://youtu.be/y2hN8y9vD2k " frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> Thanks LayZie, Toronto Star hadn't posted it on YouTube yet when I posted the article

It's the gift that keeps on giving... wish I could embed it here, but the Toronto Star just posted a leaked video with Rob Ford talking about wanting to kill someone, although the context is unclear from the video. Rob Ford caught in video rant Rob Ford has been caught on a new video staggering around an unknown living room ranting gibberish and acting wildly. By: Kevin Donovan Investigations, David Bruser News Reporter, Jesse McLean Published on Thu Nov 07 2013 Rob Ford , the mayor of Canada’s largest city, has been caught on videotape staggering around an unknown living room ranting gibberish and gesticulating wildly. “I’m gonna kill that f**king guy. I’m telling you, it’s first-degree murder,” Mayor Rob Ford rages as someone in the room secretly uses a cellular phone to film the chief magistrate’s addled tirade. The target of the mayor’s anger is not in the room and is not known to the Star. “I’ll rip his ******* throat out. I’ll poke his eyes out. . . . I’ll make sure that mother******’s dead,” Ford says, then hitches up his pant legs as if bracing for action. His ire appears to be directed at someone who has called him, and brothers Doug and Randy, “liars, thieves.” Wednesday, Ford’s chief of staff Earl Provost said he could not speak to the Star about the video. “I am sorry I cannot talk to you about this,” Provost said. Also on Wednesday, the Star sent a transcript of the video, a description of the video’s contents and an offer to show it to the following people in the mayor’s circle: Ford, his brother Councillor Doug Ford, Provost, deputy chief of staff Sunny Petrujkic, spokesman Amin Massoudi, and to Ford’s lawyer Dennis Morris. The Star invited all of them to view the video, either at their office or the Star’s office, and provide an explanation for Ford’s behaviour. None of them took the Star up on its offer as of Thursday. Last week, Police Chief Bill Blair announced that investigators recovered two video clips relevant to extortion charges laid against the mayor's “close friend” Alexander “Sandro” Lisi. One of those videos is of the mayor smoking what appears to be crack, which two Star reporters viewed in May. There is no suggestion that this video is the second video Blair referred to in his press conference. The Star purchased this video.

Khayr;984970 wrote: Working out twice a day and sipping lattes and working on a 10 yr Thesis. That is a great life. I am so jealous. Are you being sarcastic Khayr? :mad: Working out is great for stress management and gives me time away from work, so it's something I try to do each day. Unfortunately I'm better at keeping to my work out schedule than following through on the other tasks I plan to do in a day lol. And I have 3ish years left, inshaAllah 10 year dissertations are now a thing of the past, most schools in the US try to have their students out by year 6.

Tallaabo;984960 wrote: It is good to satisfy your cravings once in a while. I do indulge in deep fried chicken take away sometimes Agreed, I did full body weights this morning and I'm doing an Insanity DVD later this afternoon. I deserve that piece of cake, dammit.

I don't even feel guilty about having that iced lemon cake with my coffee at Starbucks

A drop of caano geel in my tea is enough to make me throw up

Congrats to Nin-Yaaban. What's up next in the SOL court? And is it wong that I think of this less like a respectable supreme court and more like a TV show similar to Judge Judy or Divorce Court?

Miyir;984901 wrote: its time we start our own rebel group!! bring down the power, Im good cook will leave the fighting for you guys:cool: I think you're on to something here... there are certainly enough of us disenfranchised and disposessed half-breeds with enough resentment to fuel real opposition to the powers that be in Somaliland, if not overtake the government entirely. SL should watch out, waanu qabsanayna

Miyir;984897 wrote: lol i like that sounds better:cool: my ayeeyo from that side of Somalia, can I call my self? Women don't count dee, I'm half Somalilander-Canadian myself but we're not welcome lest we upset the clan makeup of the Afro-Hashemite republic by granting citizenship to those of us mixed with Somali blood (unless like Saalax, it's your mom who is from Somalia, but don't question it) It's a democracy when it's convenient though!

I'm interested to know more about what work was done to mobilize the Somali community in Minneapolis to go out and vote. In Toronto, we've had a number of Somalis go for positions in municipal and even provincial governments in heavily Somali wards/ridings, but it seems those demographic numbers don't quite translate into voting numbers. A successful campaign in Toronto would require a grassroots voter registration/education campaign for the Somali community as well, I believe.

^^ hey, introverts say things straight Che -Guevara;984882 wrote: What does this get to do with Somaliland? Congrats to both men, good start for Somali yanks. Because a lot of overzealous SL nationalists don't see themselves as part of the larger Somali community, and narrowly focus on the interests and accomplishments of their own. Take Saalax for instance, had he started this thread he likely would have coined the term Somalilander-American

Khayr;984735 wrote: So there is zero interest in this incident on here. If the shooter was a muslim, then all the nifaq would have come out and come down pouring with condemnation. Every twitter alim would have been tweeting about their condemnation. That's not necessarily true, I think there's less interest in this because it didn't turn out to be a mass shooting, but a spectacle by a man wanting to commit suicide. A friend of mine from New York was there at the mall and saw the gunman, and as terrifying as it was, no one was killed because the gunman did not intend to hurt anyone but himself. But you do have a point, had it been a white person committing mass slaughter (as they often have), the media response would be very different than if a Muslim had. The discussion would be about mental illness and alienation, not terrorism.

I'm at Panera, and my right contact lens felt weird so I blinked my eye a few times to fix it. I think the guy at the table facing mine thought I winkwd at him because he just winked at me. Um now I need to leave lol

Haatu;984781 wrote: Saf and Al, what a couple that'll be PS: Let me join in with the qarxis. When Alpha was going out with Safferz he messaged me just before it saying how nervous and excited he was Awwwww Alpha. More qarxis: when I told him SOL sucks recently, he said "no it doesn't, we met"

Why are you making fun of gender studies? :mad::mad: I'd be glad to hand copies of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault to anyone who thinks its a fluffy topic that you can coast through in college.

Hawdian;984776 wrote: i can see that Said Omar - al somali is a Saudi Citizen . Maybe you can find him by looking for him in Saudia Arabia or put this article in a Saudi newspaper. Larry Good luck finding your friend. The problem is the name on paper, even with Somali citizens of Saudi Arabia, are often fake as well and often those papers were passed to them by someone else. My relatives in SA are all citizens this way, initially getting citizenship through other Somalis claiming them as siblings when they weren't even related, so their legal names are different from their real ones. I forwarded this article to my mom, hopefully she knows something or can inquire next time she talks to her brother in SA.

Haatu;984696 wrote: These books are for recreation, not study. So go back to writing your thesis Yes, for recreation too! The "two click" checkout on Amazon is why I'm poor. I've even woken up before to order confirmation emails, only to realize I ordered books on my phone while half asleep.

Khayr;984744 wrote: Saff, You need to make a public apology to Alpha on here. He was publicly flogged by you and he has been injured. You have caused him Mental Anguish! Yes, I think you are right. Alpha huuno macaan, Isaamax, I didn't mean to injure you in this alleged qarxis, my intention was to point out how awesome and normal you are when you're not trolling on SOL Shame on the rest of these folks for taking a tongue in cheek post so seriously dee. Clearly they are just jealous that our introversion has enabled us to connect on a much deeper level as BFFs, and that we'll probably get married soon. Waa ceynkaas :cool:

Wonderful!!

An RSA animate based on excerpts from the TED talk...

Embarrassing is an understatement, we're headline news internationally...

Rob Ford: “I embarrassed everyone in the city’ but won’t resign Published on Tue Nov 05 2013 A somber and shaken Rob Ford apologized repeatedly for his behaviour but insisted Tuesday he will not resign. “I know I embarrassed everyone in the city. I know admitting my mistake was the right thing to do and I feel like a thousands pounds have been lifted off my shoulders,” he said four hours after admitting he smoked crack cocaine. “Admitting it was the most difficult and embarrassing thing I’ve ever had to do. Folks, I have nothing left to hide. Unlike the scheduled and controlled mid-afternoon news conference, the earlier one was impromptu, instigated by Ford when he came out unexpectedly to ask reporters to ask him their cocaine questions again. This time, he spoke from a podium and used a script for about five minutes, starting at 4:25 p.m. and after taking a deep breath. “I want to be clear. I want to be crystal clear to every single person. These mistakes will never ever happen again. I kept this from my family, especially my brother Doug, my staff, my council colleagues, because I was embarrassed and ashamed. “To the residents of Toronto I know I have to regain your trust, your confidence. I love my job, I love the city, I love saving taxpayers money and I love being your mayor. “For the sake of the taxpayers, we must get back to work immediately. I was elected to do a job and that’s exactly what I’m going to continue doing.” Earlier, Ford told reporters outside his office, “Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine.” “But no, do I, am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago,” he said at the earlier news conference. “I answered your question. You ask the question properly, I’ll answer it. Yes, I’ve made mistakes. All I can do now is apologize and move on.” Ford said he did not know the exact circumstances of his crack use. “I don’t even remember,” he said. “Some of the stuff that you guys have seen me, the state I’ve been in? It’s a problem.” Ford lawyer Dennis Morris told CP24 of that early news conference, “I don’t think he advised anyone” that he was going to confess. Ford’s not saying anything earlier “is his way of dealing with it,” Morris said. An apology for drunkenness on Sunday was the start of his admission, he said. Ford said in May that he does not smoke crack — using the present tense — but steadfastly refused to answer when asked repeatedly if he had ever smoked crack or done so while in office. “I wasn’t lying. You didn’t ask the correct questions,” he said. “No, I’m not an addict and no I do not do drugs. I made mistakes in the past and all I can do is apologize but it is what it is. And I can’t change the past and I can apologize to my family, my friends, my colleagues and the people of this great city.” In fact, Ford was asked repeatedly whether he has ever smoked crack. He dodged the question as recently as yesterday morning, saying simply that he is not an addict. Nor did the admission slow down the calls for him to take a leave or resign from city councilors to as far afield as Justice Minister Peter MacKay, who said Ford “needs to get help.” Evidence against Ford and pressure on him has escalated since last Thursday when Toronto police Chief Bill Blair dropped his own bombshell, announcing police had a video that showed Ford smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine. It was the Toronto Star’s reports of that video that led to Ford’s May denial of crack use and even of the video’s existence. Ford apologized on his Sunday radio show for drunken behaviour during Taste of the Danforth this summer and at city hall on St. Patrick’s Day 2012. But he went back on the offensive Monday, telling AM640 host John Oakley, “I do not use drugs. I drink. I’ll be running the ship even if it’s by myself.” On Monday and earlier Tuesday, Councillor Doug Ford launched a counter-attack on behalf of his younger brother Rob on radio programs and at a Ryerson University journalism class. Doug Ford demanded Blair step aside during the police investigation into Ford’s meetings with an alleged drug dealer. Ford said he was going to file a formal complaint against the chief. The police launched a months-long surveillance of Ford and alleged drug dealer Alexander “Sandro” Lisi after the Star’s disclosure of the video. Half the details of that investigation were released Thursday shortly before Blair’s news conference. Police uncovered “no evidence of illegality,” Ford lawyer Morris told CP24. More questions about the mayor remain unanswered from those police documents, one of them contained in a Star story Tuesday that questioned if Ford was paying the bills at 15 Windsor Rd., described as a crack house where it is believed the video of Ford was shot.

So not only is the fat b@stard not resigning after admitting he lied to the city for months and smokes crack, he's running for re-election in 2014! What a crock of sh!t.

Haatu;984626 wrote: I just spent £33 on books. Crazy. Amateur