It's the caffeine, the nicotine, the miligrams of tar It's my habitat, it needs to be clean, it's my car It's the fast talk they use to abuse and feed my brain It's the cat box it needs to be changed, it's the pain It's women, it's the plight for power it's government The way your giving knowledge slow and throwing in subtle hints It's rubbing it, It's itching it, It's applying cream It's the foreigners sight seeing with high beams, It's in my dreams It's the monsters that I conjure, It's the marijuana It's emberassment, displacement, It's where I wander It's my genre, It's Madonna's videos It's game shows,cheap liquor,blunts, and bumper stickers with rainbows It's angels, demons, gods, it's the white devils It's the monitors, the soundman, it's the ******* mic levels It's gas fumes, fast food, Tommy Hil, the date rap pill (?) Columbia House music club, designer drugs and rhyming thugs It's bloods and crips, five and six, It's stick up kids, It's christian conservative, it's the terrorists, it's porno flicks It's the east coast, no it's the west coast It's public schools, it's asbestos It's mentholated, It's techno It's sleep, life, and death It's speed, coke, and meth It's hay fever, pain relievers, oral sex, and smokers breath It stretches for as far as the eye can see It's reality, **** it , it's everything but me On and on and on and on The list goes on and on and on and on It's in the air, in the water, it's in the meat It's indirect, indiscrete, inconsistent, and incomplete It's on the street, every city and everywhere you go In every man it's the insanity, the fantasy, the casualties It's the health care system, it's welfare victims It's assault weapons, it's television religion, and it's false lessons It's cops, pigs with badges guns and sticks It's harassment and a complex you carry when you're running shit It's wondering if you get to eat, its the heat It's the winter , the weather It's herpes, and it's forever It's the virus that takes the lives of the weak and the strong It's the drama that keeps on between me and my seed's mom It's that need to speek long, It's my hunger for attention It's the wack , who attack songs of redemption It's prevention, It's the first solution It's loosing the retribution(?), it's mental pollution, and public execution It's the nails that keep my hands and feet to these boards It's the part time job that governs what you can afford It's the fear, It's the fake It's clear it can make time stop and leave you stranded in the year of the snake It's the dollar, yen, pound, it's all denomination It's hourly wages for your professional observations It's on your face and it's in your eyes It's everything you be But it ain't me mother ****** , it ain't me it's everywhere. It is all around us, even now in this very room. it's out your window it's whats on tv

This is a really bad situation. The drought by the way is not just affecting Somali area (although Somali area's are the hardest hit). It is affecting a large part of East Africa. I think there is a general lack of awareness about this issue. A while back I posted about this drought and asked the Admin to put up a link or notice on the forum informing patrons about this drought but it didn’t happen. As MMA pointed out, these prolonged food shortages and frequent droughts have a clear relationship to the general condition of the natural environment. I think by drawing the attention of more people to this current drought, there will be a greater general awareness of the environmental degradation that's going on and the general lack of food security in the Somali areas. The world is not a good place right now... but maybe we can change that.

Rape and abuse by the authorities... sadly, a Muslim country IS the place I would expect this kind of thing to happen.

That's a great question. I think I might be able to help you. drop me a line.

Sounds entertaining... crime makes such great tv viewing unless you are the guy in the passport photo

Feline placenta smells like you would expect it to smell like

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong, And I am Marie of Roumania. Dorothy Parker

what really gets me are people who head colors... I know that might sound cyan but there really are people that hear colors!

The problem of naming a smell, or a color or anything else our senses perceive is interesting. Tank: Here you go, buddy; "Breakfast of Champions." Mouse: If you close your eyes, it almost feels like you're eating runny eggs. Apoc: Yeah, or a bowl of snot. Mouse: Do you know what it really reminds me of? Tasty Wheat. Did you ever eat Tasty Wheat? Switch: No, but technically, neither did you. Mouse: That's exactly my point. Exactly. Because you have to wonder: how do the machines know what Tasty Wheat tasted like? Maybe they got it wrong. Maybe what I think Tasty Wheat tasted like actually tasted like oatmeal, or tuna fish. That makes you wonder about a lot of things. You take chicken, for example: maybe they couldn't figure out what to make chicken taste like, which is why chicken tastes like everything. Maybe "THE LONDON UNDERGROUND SMELL" is like the smell of this paper am holding here... which is ... sniff sniff ... kind of woody

this has nothing to do with family guy but I was watching Malcolm in the Middle last night. it was a rerun. The episode where the boys have to take care of Jamie because Lois is too tried to do it (she's been up with Jamie for 4 days without sleep). Reese and Malcolm leave with some girls and Dewey is left home alone with Jamie. to keep the baby Jamie from crying he tells him a story about how in their parents closet there is a trap door that leads to a hidden "nice house" where Hal and Lois live a life of wealth and luxury. In this nice house Hal and Lois set watching a 99†LCD TV, wear fancy cloths and sip martinis. Lois comments that today Dewey asked for some ice cream and she told him they had no money for it, then she says "i hope he doesn't find out about our helicopter made of ice cream!" when she said that i couldn't stop laughing. a helicopter made of ice cream! I use to dream of stuff like that when i was a kid. Cars made of cookies and homes made of candy.

Do you know what today is? It’s a new day, a new week, a new year. A wise person once said We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood-it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect. Omar Khayyam is right: "The moving finger writes, and having writ moves on." Take advantage of the time and do not postpone your good actions. "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"

S/C, Is what has happened to the Somali people (famine, civil strife, and exile) the punishment of Allah? What should Somali people change to gain the favor of Allah and mercy?

Kashanre, thanks. I didn't know Somaliland wasn't a whole entity. to tell you the truth, I don't even know what somaliland is. but i do know that some people calling themselfs somaliland want to be independent from somalia, and am trying to figure out why they would want to do such a thing. at first i thought they just didn't want to be ruled by other then their own qabiil. it seems every somali qabiil wants to be the rules so i thought why don't these guys try to take over all of somali instead of trying to break off. it seems to me now that what they want isn't to rule somalia, but to separate from Somalia. What I want to know is why they want to do that? Why do they want to become independ from somalia?

...it seems there are those that wish they were ruled by a gaal then to be united with there countrymen.

Why should Somaliland have Independence? Why Shouldn’t Somaliland have independence?