salim

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    Do you guys watch the show "Real world" on MTV? What do u think of the show?. Personally, I like it, except that it is becoming a gay show. Let me hear from you guys?

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    Thanx everyone for the ideas and suggestions. OGMOTI your idea is a good idea but the problem is the somali organizations in the state that i live in are in bad terms with the local goverment due to their bad history of mismanagement and corruption, even if i try to set up one (orginization) ill have to clarify that i will be doing things different from the other existing somali organizations.Also i'm helping them with the basics like taking them to shopping, doctor appointment and filling job applications when ever i have a chance. All i'm saying lets try to help our bros and sisters. Adios

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    In the last few months, there were growing numbers of somali Bantus who were settled in a small city that i live in the USA. these new immigrants are facing the most difficult times in their lives. they came to a country where everything is foreign to them and most of them are struggling to master the basic stuff like turning on and off light, using public transport system, and using their food stamp cards to buy food. In addition, the ressetlement organizations did not have, nowadays,the enough resources to support these families in long term unlike in the past where they used to support families for at least one year, now they only support them for three months and they expect these poor people to support themselves after the end of the three months. And this is really tough on them since non of them are able to get a job in a city that is facing high unemployment rates and its even hard to find unskilled jobs and on top of that the state doest not allow refugees to apply welfare since the State is in finacial turmoil .Alhamdullahi, now there are some muslim orginizations and Charities that are helping these people pay their rents and help them with their basic neccesities. As a community of somali, I encourage everybody to take actions by either writting to your congressman( if this is going on in your city or state) or to your local Mayor. If we started tackling this issue now as community, we can find a solution to this problem.

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    I personally think that the timberwolves have a chance to win the western conferenece, cause they have all the weapons that they need this season.Kg is playing fantastcis ball,sam cassel is playing like an all star and Sprewel helping on the rebound. what other team has all these in the WC?......................

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    Forget Mars, just open the refrigerator

     

     

    I'm a pretty good housekeeper. Ask anybody.

     

    No, wait: Don't ask my wife. She and I disagree on certain housekeeping issues, such as whether it's OK for a house to contain dirt. Also smells. If NASA scientists really want to know about life on Mars, instead of sending up robots that keep finding rocks, they need to send my wife, and have her take a whiff of the Martian atmosphere. If there's a single one-celled organism anywhere on the planet, she'll smell it. And if the other astronauts don't stop her, she'll kill it with Lysol.

     

    Which is why her approach to leftovers baffles me. I am opposed to leftovers. I believe the only food that should be kept around is takeout Chinese, which contains a powerful preservative chemical called ''kung pao'' that enables it to remain edible for several football seasons.

     

    All other leftover foods should be thrown away immediately, for the same reason you should not go to your 40th high-school reunion. You go expecting to see people whom you vaguely remember as being attractive, and even though you know they've aged some -- Heck, even YOU have aged some -- you figure, hey, it's not as if you're OLD yet! You're middle-aged! Like Harrison Ford!

     

    So you go to the reunion, and suddenly you find yourself in a room full of unrecognizable fossils, lurching around the dance floor to the sounds of Herman's Hermits, and you realize to your horror that YOU ARE ONE OF THEM.

     

    You get the same kind of unpleasant shock with leftovers. Time and again, in my house, when we're cleaning up after dinner, there will be, say, a small clump of uneaten string beans, and I'll have it poised over the garbage, and my wife will lunge for it like a person rescuing a baby from a wood chipper, saying: ''Those will be good for leftovers!'' She'll carefully seal the string beans in a plastic container and put them in the refrigerator, as if she truly believes that sometime in the near future an actual human in our household will say: ``Dang! I could really chow down on some old string beans!''

     

    Now fast-forward about a month, when my wife, passing the refrigerator, detects an odor molecule. So she takes out the plastic container and discovers that EWWW the string beans have been replaced by alien space worms with inch-long blue fur. Which of course she hurls into the garbage, which as you may recall is exactly where I tried to throw them a month earlier. This is what happens to, I would estimate, 100 percent of our non-Chinese-takeout ``leftovers.''

     

    Speaking of refrigerator odors, here is a:

     

    PRACTICAL HOMEMAKER TIP -- Always keep an open box of baking soda in your refrigerator. That way, when people come to your house to visit, you can say: ''Would you care for some cold baking soda?'' Then they will leave.

     

    But I digress. My point -- and I know this because I'm using powerful point-detection software -- is that people have differing views about what constitutes good housekeeping. This is why I'm so interested in an article that appeared recently in the New York Times, concerning household cleanliness.

     

    The article, brought to my attention by alert reader Bill Ulrey, states that your kitchen -- yes, YOUR kitchen -- is basically a festering swarm of potentially deadly bacteria. The most interesting part of the article concerns a discovery by a University of Arizona microbiology professor named Dr. Chuck Gerba, who is an expert on household germs. I am familiar with Dr. Gerba, because some years ago I interviewed him on bathroom cleanliness, and he told me that the only sure way to kill all the bacteria on a toilet is -- I am not making this up -- to put laboratory alcohol on the bowl and set it on fire.

     

    LEGAL ADVISORY -- Dr. Gerba is a trained bathroom scientist. As a layperson, you must NEVER EVER set your toilet on fire, EVER. Also be advised that it looks much cooler with the lights out.

     

    So anyway, according to the New York Times, Dr. Gerba has found that 'people who had the cleanest-looking kitchens were often the dirtiest. Because `clean' people wipe up so much, they often end up spreading bacteria all over the place. The cleanest kitchens, he said, were in the homes of bachelors, who never wiped up and just put their dirty dishes in the sink.''

     

    That's right: You so-called ''good housekeepers'' with your so-called ''cleaning'' are in fact smearing bacteria around, while we so-called ''slobs'' are, by courageous inaction, making the world's kitchens safer for everybody.

     

    There's no need to thank us. All we ask is a little respect. Also, while you're sniffing those leftovers, please grab us a beer.