If u don't like Obama, it's about time then u tune up ur brain and learn to think "outside the box." Seriously, anyone who still have doubts about Obama's ability to transform America and bring new hope of political stability on the rest of the World then u must be suffering from a brain stagnation. If u cannot think "outside of the box" then do not support Obama!

I do chew, and unlike JB's denial chewing with ur significant other is not only a pleasurable moment but a bonding too. It raises ur temperature and makes both of u to open up and try to discover new ways to spice up the relationship. Unlike non chewing and sleepy folks, chewers stay up longer for the challenge. Now let the wives of responsible chewers speakout and defend the practice. Let's not confuse between those who do it responsibly and those who neglect their families by going to men's sessions.

KK u always seem to me an upbeat and entertaining. Don't lose ur coolness and generalize a whole group 'cause of few of us are doing so. There are more from the other side who are behaving similar if not worse!

My vote is as follows: Ibti & Ngonge for the Presidential post. -for their credentials and impartiality. Let them choose then their cabinet. Of course, her excellency will retain me as an adviser to keep an eye on Ngonge for staying on course!

It doesn't make any sense for ur claim that u support Somaliland while at the same time ure supporting an extremist group that wants to destroy it. Unless ur the enemy within, u cannot claim that u support the group that killed 22 innocent Landers in Hargeisa, and still want to kill more.

Brain injury gives local mom a "foreign" accent By Marc Ramirez Seattle Times staff reporter At the hospital, all the doctors and nurses asked her the same questions: Where are you from? Port Angeles, she said. No — we mean, where were you born? Well — Crescent City, California. But you have an accent. That's why I'm here. After a serious accident in 1981, life had become fairly normal for CindyLou Romberg, a caregiver and motorcycle enthusiast living in Washington's Olympic Peninsula. All that changed last year, when out of nowhere, she began talking like someone who'd grown up on the European continent. Ever since, Romberg, 51, who has never studied a foreign language or been to any other country but Canada, has spoken in markedly accented English that sounds to some like German, French or Russian. On the phone, she's had to convince family and friends of her identity; in person, she's stopped trying to convince strangers who find her accent adorable that she's not from elsewhere. source

This is one of the situations that I wish the word "but" would completely disappear from the vocabulary and refuse to be used.

"What was mine might never be passed on to my family and what they might become I might never understand." JB, that one is something u don't have to worry bro, but it's in the minds of most families living overseas. "It was also the first time I saw a white person. It was a Russian man. I observed him from different angles, believing if I touched him he would bleed." You probably heard similar stories, but still this one is priceless. On the other hand, if u were writing an assay, Eng. 101, this sentence will give u A+. It's simple, yet very imaginative and puts u in the spot.

Here it's

^^We're not talking about what if! Just to remind u again, here's what we're talking about: "A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants."

I resisted from highlighting few sentences that made me say hahaha! Now, read the whole story. Hassan Aden (Ali Yare) Hassan Aden was born into a nomadic life in Kismaya, South Somalia. Hassan tells of how he came to New Zealand with his wife and children, and the difficulties he has experienced integrating into the society while trying to retain his own cultural identity. In Somalia we lived a nomadic life with no pen or paper, so we didn’t know about dates of birth or birth certificates. I was born in the year of the big rain, counting since then but celebrating no birthdays. Our assets were a camel, goats, cattle and some horses. Nothing else. We did not buy in markets, just used our own resources: milk from camels and goats, camels and horses for transport, and fruit and roots from trees that we found in the bush. Sometimes nomadic people fight one another, and the animals would be used for war. Work started for me at six years old when my duty was to take care of the camels. My mother, who had 14 kids, died when I was only eight years old. My father served in the British army. At age 12, I took the decision of going to a town, and left the nomadic life. There for the first time I saw an electric light, cars, bicycles and houses . It was also the first time I saw a white person. It was a Russian man. I observed him from different angles, believing if I touched him he would bleed. That day my relationship with New Zealand also started. On a small tin of shoe polish I saw a picture of a Kiwi, which I came to see again many years later. At age 14, I was placed in an institution for abandoned kids. There I attended school and in a class of geography learnt where New Zealand was. Later, I learned about telecommunications, telegraphing systems and worked as radio operator on a ship. African life is a good way of life. There is plenty of happiness beyond the hard circumstances. There are no power or telephone bills, and sometimes no food at all, but you know that food will be in the bush or in a tree, and that might be enough for the day. We learned to take care of each other, there are no nannies around because everybody is too busy with their daily duties. By age 25 I met my father for the first time. I went to Kenya and started a small business as a livestock trader. After the Somalian war, my sister who was living in New Zealand told me how wonderful this country was and offered to sponsor me. By this time I was married with seven kids, and we decided to start another adventure. It was not easy to adapt to life in New Zealand. My sister never told me the reality of this part of the world. New Zealand is the best place to be in the Western world and it is full of friendly people. But I never found the happiness I had in a small African village. I grew up in a place where I knew everybody, It is difficult to meet your neighbours here. Everything is fine, but the loneliness is hard. Now I am part of this society and promote New Zealand and African culture everyday at Cathedral Square by selling Maori and African crafts. My kids are Kiwis now, and I am divided, trying to preserve my culture while passing it on to them. That is my dilemma and my sadness. What was mine might never be passed on to my family and what they might become I might never understand. Story contributed by Hassan Aden Interviewed and transcribed by Cecilia Guridi, Ethnic Advisor, Christchurch Photography by Cecilia Guridi, Ethnic Advisor, Christchurch

Sad story. May Allah bless her. No doubt those who were responsible for this cruel act will rot in hell.

Somalilanders were also part of this plot. The majority of the Southern people that ur talking about are people who lost their loved ones due to such violence, and in no way are supporting this cruel act. So, target ur anger where it belongs to. Talk about al shabab and their supporters who are among us, Somalilanders.

^That's not a good excuse bro. Those of us who suffered or lost family members during the civil war must strongly condemn any indiscriminate killings of the civilians, wherever they're.

^^Lets all understand that everything is not "black and white" as they say it. Or "You're either with us(Fundamentalist group) or against Islam." The Islamic World of today contains many different forms of governance-monarchies,totalitarians,fundamentalists and secular regimes. Both monarchies and fundametalist regimes claim are ruling under the Sharia law. Under this law, Saudi Arabian women are not allowed to drive while Taliban in Afghanistan girls were not allowed to go to school. Of course, such affairs are not from the Islamic teachings. Nor does the killing of the thirteen years old girl who was raped and then stoned to death in Kismayo. Spokesperson for the Kismayo wadaads, Sh. Hassan Yacqub, told the World that they followed the Sharia for the girl's execution. He said that "she looked mature enough" to him and to the rest of his group to be executed. Now we know the rest of the story. That's the misuse and misinterpretations of the Sharia that I was refering to. Question: Can we have a form of government that is compatible with our own cultural, historical and religious traditions such as Sufism?

^One of the reasons of their failure may have to do with the lack of Constitution and democracy. I believe that Islam and democracy can go hand-in-hand. We can learn a lot from the American Constitution, especially, the Bill of Rights. Even, the influence of Islam could be traced back to the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776. One of the forefathers and the 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, read and had a copy of the Quran. The Quran and the Sunnah have laid down broud principles and could be used as a guidance for new ideas, concepts, and rulings for an Islamic Constitution.

Get a couple of candy bags yaa ThePoint so u don't have to stay dark all night!

I am just observing, if that's allowed here. But this corner is HOT! I hope u don't mind for the intrusion, but seeing girl's skirt off accidently does not sound too bad though u may find it embarrassment.

Brother, if ur suggestion is that Southern people who live in Hargeisa will pay the price for this shameful act, then you are wrong. We all know this was from a group with an agenda. Most, if not all of the Southern people who relocated in to Somaliland are merely civilians and are in shock of what has happened there. But I wont be surprised if few Southern people plus Somalilanders will be hauled to the courts soon.

Father of the deceased girl told voa that wadaads never spoke with him to verify about the girl's age. She was raped by militia associated with the wadaads. When she reported the incident, they told her to admit if there was a sexual intercourse even though she was forced to. The spokesperson for the Kismayo Colt, sh. Hassan Yacqub, told voa that "she looked mature enough." However, her father says she was only fourteen and was raped by the court's militia. And that he was never consulted. Where's the moral outrage? How come we haven't heard from any of the trumpets for the Colt?

^how will u not be affected? Do u live under a different atmosphere?

The Quran and Sunnah is what I'm going to keep saaxiib. I'll be naive not to question different enterpretations of the Quran and Sunnah to see if it contradicts the Quran and Haddith.

Fourteen shameful responses to a post dedicated to a current Somali tragedy: 1. "Allowing Ethiopia to unload it's military hardware off the port of Berbera doesn't necessarily make the somaliland regime innocent of the confilct in southern somalia." -they deserve this. 2. "There is a saying, "You reap what you sow"." -let them die. 3. "If those in these pockets of stability thought they could sit idly and be indifferent to the situation in the south, and more sadly callobrate with Ethiopia, they were wrong." -let them burn too. 4. "...There is price to pay for disloyalty and more importanly watching the suffering of your fellow Muslims while not lifting a finger." -they deserve it. 5. "The administrations of PL & SL should weigh carefully their actions or lack thereof with regards to supporting the tigre regime and their lackeys in baydhabo." -or else this is what happens. 6. "Hundreds are dying in Mogdisho's Bakaara market on a daily basis." -so what? mine are also dying. 7. "For how long, will trade in innocent people be allowed to continue?" -they deserve this. 8. "it was only a matter of time chaos was gonna reach the North." -let the chaos spread. 9. "I am sorry to say but this did not come as a surprise! I always viewed Somalia as a one single house..." -if one burns the other should too. 10. "It was the master bedroom that has been engulfed with fire for the last years. That the other rooms would at one point catch the fire was inevitable in my mind..." -sarcastic. 11. "Anyone who thought prior to this morning that SL would not be a target at some time is naive." -we all together. let the tragedy spread. 12. "Markaad cadow kal-kaal tahay wax kasto diyaar u noqo." -they deserved. 13. "Killing one another is some thing common in the Somalis but what is not common is the new phase of politically induced human trade in these two areas ( qoodh-xidhka dadka la qoor xidhayo gacanta loo galaniyo cadawga." -what's the big deal about it. 14. "What I am saying is very simple: unless the core conflict gets resolved, talking about an explossion here and there waa garaad yari adeer!" -as i said before, it is not a big issue. And the winner is- sound mind: "I mean look at this - 6 pages long and I can barely recall a single condemnation of an act carried out in the name of a religion we all share. What are you people all thinking? We had more ppl snidely proclaim that the North cannot be immune to the conflict etc. Really striking and I'm not even a Somaliland partisan or Puntland either." ^thank you(and the others)who showed sound mind debating on this tragedy.

Following is what Calif Abu Bakr, radiyalaahu canhu, ordered his army before a war: "You must not mutilate dead bodies. Neither kill a child, nor a woman, nor an aged man. Bring no harm to the trees , nor burn them with fire, especially those which are fruitful." He must be a tree hugger, ah? Subhaanalaah! So everything non-Muslims care about must be rubbish?

Blessed, I'm not saying that wrong interpretations of Islam is okay but we can co-exist with them as long as they do not act upon it. Extremism is not unique to Islam, but there are extremists in other major religions such as Christianity. However, such extremists in the West do not or could not act on their beliefs on the rest of the society. So, as long as Muslim extremists refrain from taking the law into their own hands, that's fine with me. I'll leave the judgement to Allah on that LAST DAY. But we should not let them destroy our society and paint our religion as barbaric.