Qurux , you mean Laas Caanood (What a beautiful name for a city by the way) has domesticated hyenas? Lol Anyway, I saw striped hyenas (The rarer hyena kind) on the road to Garowe. Never thought an animal could be so ugly. But overall damn you had a nice vacation. Don't want to be rude, but can you share some pictures with us? Aerosmith Why? Habartii dharbaaxo iga la dhaashay maad ka baqdey? Lol That was one crazy big mama.

I envy you. Like Aeronwen, haven't been nowhere. I remember when I went to Gaalkacyo. Most Maryooley go to Somalia to leave the stress. When I came to my hometown I was Mr Stress himself. Aunts and uncles demanding me to marry their daughter (If you say No you're a dead man, you have to act dumb than you might survive), beggars intimidating me (There was this beggar that asked for money, I gave her 500Ssh and she gave me the look; :rolleyes: ), I got diarrhea in Garoowe (Shitted my azz off) and I'm not even talking about my nasty experience with the Airline company in Boosaaso airport. We were all pushing each other to get a seat since it was overbooked and this old woman came from behind and gave me a slap that I can still feel to this day. Don't get me wrong I'm a tough guy, but I couldn't sleep. The hyenas were making noise. I thought they could bust into my hotelroom through the window and eat me up.

Follow your own advice. Than you can talk. Till then iska aamus, haa is ceebeenin damn.

Lol qumane you need to learn one or two things about the computer. Salaxuddiin, I know. :cool:

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Originally posted by 7 0f Nine: *Wishes Haddad joins the party* Haddad is in Guantanamo doing time. Haven't you heard?

Massage to the clannish nomads Too bad you're not referring to me. I could use a massage. OLOL are you going to use hot stones and special oil? :cool:

These lands are the true Somali lands in Ethiopia not what that blogger posted. I would say these are breathtaking as well. Babile along with Jinacsaney is one of the Somali districts shamelessly transferred to Oromia regional state. Hopefully they´ll be returned soon. Its said that clanleader/poet/warrior Garaad Wiilwaal roamed here. BABILE To reach the valley of marvels, you have to drive 40kms by pist and to pass by Babile village. Tissues are colorful, Somalia is very close.... This is the valley of marvels which consists of a specatacular stones alignment. on an approximately length of one kilometer.

Wise of the son to maintain the old look in a new jacket, instead of transforming it. The hotel can use its history as a unique selling point to enhance competitive advantage against the new hotels. Hope the famous hotels in Mogadishu will revive like the Oriental Hotel, Hargeisa.

Bismillahi Raxmaan , how can one resort to such low and deceiving tactics. Every other picture , mainly the ones where it looks green , and the one with the lake are pictures of the Ethiopian highlands. Isdeji sxb, nobody here used tactics or some kind of agenda. One blogger fooled hundreds of Somalis throughout the net. Just heard the epidemic spread to Somali-Life as well. Salaxuddiin, its the Awash, Lake Langano, Debre Zeit, Debre Berhane, Ambo etc. Lands of the Afars and Oromos and not the Somalis. Uchi, don't expect an answer soon. Those pictures were made by a French photographer years ago. He found the pictures from this website: http://www.ethiopie.50megs.com Click for the English version and scroll down for the respective regions. Before you do that, notice the warning : WARNING : PICTURES USED ON THIS SITE ARE COPYRIGHTED. IT IS FORBIDDEN TO USE IT WITHOUT THE ACCORDANCE OF HIS AUTHOR !!! So the best thing to do is to remove those pictures from Garowe Online.

Except for the photo with the kids, they're all from the Ethiopian Highlands. But the pictures are absolutely breathtaking. The Horn of Africa could with no doubt be considered one of the most stunning places in the world.

The Superhero Diet We use x-ray vision to identify secret foods that will give you powers beyond those of mortal men By: Tamar Haspel, Illustrations by: David Arky Posted on 06/27/2005 In this summer of the superhero, how do you stack up? Have abs like Christian Bale in Batman Begins? Relax--that's a rubber-coated Kevlar chest piece. Recognize any kindred spirits among the Fantastic Four? Who wouldn't want Mr. Fantastic's flexibility, the calorie-burning skills of the Human Torch, or boulder shoulders like the Thing's? (What if the Invisible Woman were in your bedroom right now, looking you over--would she like what she saw?) Back to reality. Unless North Korea starts acting peevish, our source of radiation to produce mutant powers remains limited. We derive our power from exercise and food--and that means real food, not that tub of yellow, greasy popcorn at the multiplex. A Marvel-ous physique and super health are well within reach--you just have to know what to reach for. Start now and you'll be ready in plenty of time for next summer's Superman. X-RAY VISION Superman squandered his x-rays peering through brick walls instead of Lois Lane's flimsy feminist veneer. To keep your perception sharp, you need two key things: lutein and zeaxanthin, which sound like villains but aren't. Macular tissue--the clump of photoreceptors on each retina--degenerates faster than the rest of the eye, and as it does, you no longer see clearly, so "you lose the ability to read and to drive," says Steve Pratt, M.D., author of SuperFoods Rx. "There's a big smudge in the center of everything." Researchers at Heinrich Heine University in Germany found that lutein and zeaxanthin help filter blue light, which may wreck macular tissue. "People with high levels of these two phytonutrients are at lower risk of both macular degeneration and cataracts," Dr. Pratt says. Your secret source: Dr. Pratt recommends 12 milligrams (mg) a day of the two nutrients combined, or ½ to ¾ cup of cooked spinach, one of the best sources. Cooking concentrates the greens and their powers; to get 12 mg from raw spinach, you'd be munching forever--and using too much dressing. SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH You can't build shoulders and biceps like the Hulk's unless you have a great special-effects department in your basement. But you can make the most of your workouts by eating at the right time. You probably already have the "guzzle a protein shake immediately after a workout" thing down. (And if you don't, start now; you have a 60-minute window for maximum protein uptake and glycogen restoration after exercise.) The rest of the day, make sure you take in the calories and protein you need for muscle growth. Your secret source: Bulk up on lean meat, nuts, and cheese. Researchers at the University of Connecticut found that cutting carbs can change body composition better than cutting fat can. In a 6-week study, normal-weight men who trimmed calories by following an old-school low-carb diet traded 7.4 pounds of fat mass for 2.4 pounds of lean muscle. Lead researcher Jeff Volek, Ph.D., R.D., an assistant professor of kinesiology, attributes the boosted burn to a reduction in insulin levels. "The effects are more pronounced when the diet is only slightly restricted in energy," he says. That means there's no need to be all crazy about cutting carb calories. Just be sensible: Skip the cookies before bedtime. MENTAL FIREPOWER What would Batman be without his deductive powers? Just a lonely, frustrated millionaire in a cape. You, on the other hand, can stay sharp (and maybe make your own millions) by getting enough niacin. A study at Chicago's Rush Institute for Healthy Aging found that people with diets high in niacin had a lower risk of both Alzheimer's and age-related cognitive decline. The study was done on people 65 and over, but lead researcher Martha Morris, Sc.D., says, "Some studies show that niacin is important for DNA synthesis and repair, as well as for normal brain functioning. One could surmise that people of all ages should make sure they eat a diet that includes niacin-rich foods." In the study, the top 20 percent of niacin consumers, who got 20 to 48 mg a day from food, had an 80 percent reduction in Alzheimer's risk. Your secret source: Look to fish and poultry. Four ounces of chicken breast has 15 mg; 4 ounces of swordfish has 13 mg. Oddly, foods high in tryptophan (the stuff that seems to shut down your brain after Thanksgiving dinner) can add to your niacin intake, too; the body uses tryptophan to make niacin when it needs a fresh supply. So even though turkey breast contains only 6 mg niacin per 3 ounces, it's another good source. INVISIBILITY Now you see him, now you . . . well, see less of him--no disfiguring accident required. George Fahey, Ph.D., a professor of animal sciences at the University of Illinois, studies pig stomachs for clues to men's stomachs. He has established that compounds called oligosaccharides and resistant starches aren't digested completely and so have fewer calories than we think. But are men pigs? Depends who you ask, but Fahey says our digestive systems are similar. If pigs don't digest it, men won't either. Your secret source: Smart dieting is easier than you think, Fahey says. Artichokes, onions, shallots, bananas, and beans have fewer absorbable calories than standard measures show--i.e., consequence-free food. Beans and peas are particularly high in resistant starches: "A conservative estimate is that people extract approximately a third fewer calories from beans than the label says," according to Fahey. Sadly, oligosaccharides and resistant starches haven't yet been found in prime rib or cheesecake. ETERNAL YOUTH Superheroes are on call 24-7, in perpetuity. No old age, no retirement, no condo in Florida. What's the secret? "Keep your biological age lower than your chronological age," Dr. Pratt says. One way to do that is by getting your astaxanthin, the potent carotenoid that gives salmon its orangey color. Astaxanthin acts as an antioxidant, neutralizing free radicals. Just as oxidation eats away at your car's quarter panels, free radicals age your cells. Astaxanthin is Rust-Oleum for your body. "While there aren't any clinical human studies yet," says Dr. Pratt, "astaxanthin is showing promise in the fight to slow biological aging." It may also help fight cancer and atherosclerosis, and have anti-inflammatory and UV-protective properties. Your secret source: Dr. Pratt recommends 3 ounces of salmon 4 days a week. Salmon caught in the wild has up to 80 percent more astaxanthin than the farmed kind. The wild variety should be easy to find now, because it's just coming off its peak season. (Other sources include shrimp, crab, and trout.) Besides astaxanthin, salmon contains omega-3 fatty acids, which lower your risk of heart disease--particularly helpful, because not dying is the ultimate superhero power.

Here sxb: The Manliness of Men By Harvey Mansfield Today the very word “manliness†seems obsolete. There are other words, such as “courage,†“frankness,†or “confidence,†that convey the good side of manliness without naming a sex. But to use them in place of “manliness†begs the question of whether moral or psychological qualities specific to each sex exist. Our society today denies that such differences are real, and seeks to abolish all signs of such qualities in our language. To the extent that feminism recognizes gender differences at all, it presents them as bad, and as the fault of men. The women’s revolution has succeeded to an amazing degree. Our society has adopted, quite without realizing the magnitude of the change, a practice of equality between the sexes never before known in human history. My intent is not to stand in the way of this change. Women are not going to be herded back into the kitchen by men. But we need to recognize that there have been both gains and losses in this revolution. Manliness can be heroic. But it can also be vainly boastful, prone to meaningless scuffling, and unfriendly. It jeers at those who do not seem to measure up, and asks men to continually prove themselves. It defines turf and fights for it--sometimes to defend precious rights, sometimes for no good reason. Manliness has always been under a cloud of doubt--raised by men who may not have the time or taste for it. But such doubts about manliness can hardly be found in today’s feminism. Contemporary feminists, and the women they influence, have essentially a single problem with manliness: that it excludes women. Betty Friedan’s feminist classic The Feminine Mystique is not an attack on manliness, but on femininity. It insists women should be strong and aggressive--like men. Though the word is scarce in use, there is an abundance of manliness in action in America today. Young males still pick fights, often with deadly weapons.What we suffer from today, is a lack of intelligent criticism of manliness. Feminism has undermined, if not destroyed, the counterpart to manliness--femininity--and with it the basis on which half the population could be skeptical of the excesses of manliness. Of course, women are still women. While they want men to be sensitive to women, they don’t necessarily want them to be sensitive in general. That’s why the traditional manly male--who is protective of women, but a sorry flop when it comes to sensitivity--is far from a disappearing species. Manliness offers gallantry to women. But is gallantry fundamentally insincere because it always contains an element of disdain? The man who opens a door for a woman makes a show of being stronger than she, one could say. At the same time, the woman does go first. Manly men are romantic about women; unmanly men are sympathetic. Which is better for women? The “sensitive male†who mimics many female emotions and interests, while discarding the small favors men have traditionally done for women, is mostly just a creation of contemporary feminists who are irritated with the ways of men, no longer tolerant of their foibles, and demanding new behavior that would pave the way for ambitious women. Feminists insist that men must work harder to appreciate women. Yet they never ask women to be more understanding of men. Manliness is a quality that causes individuals to stand up for something. It is a quality that calls private persons into public life. In the past such people have been predominantly male, and it is no accident that those who possess this quality have often ended up as political rulers and leaders. Manly men defend their turf, just as other male mammals do. The analogy to animals obviously suggests something animalistic about manliness. But manliness is specifically human as well. Manly men defend not just their turf but their country. Manliness is best shown in war, the defense of one’s country at its most difficult and dangerous. In Greek, the word for manliness, andreia, is also the word for courage. For good and for ill, males impelled by their manliness have dominated all politics of which we know. Is there something inevitable about this domination or are we free to depart from it? With more and more countries moving toward democracy and peace, perhaps manliness will become less necessary. Yet there might also be a democratic manliness. In democracies, Tocqueville said, a manly frankness prevails--an open and fearless stance of “man to man†in which all are equal. Does democracy, then, tend to produce, and require, manliness? Feminists find all sexual roles objectionable. They are insulted by the idea that nature has determined different social parts and purposes for the sexes. They have largely forced the abandonment of any idea of sexual nature in favor of the feminist notion of “choice.†A woman today has the choice of every occupation that used to be reserved for men, plus traditional women’s roles. Inevitably, “choice†for women opens up choices for men too. What happens when men are no longer pressed to face the duties that used to go with being a man? Traditionally, the performance of a man’s duties has required him to protect and support his family. To be a man means to support dependents, not merely yourself. But the modern woman above all does not want to be a dependent. She may not have thought about what her independence does to the manliness of men (it might make men more selfish). And she may not have considered carefully whether the protection she does without will be replaced by sensitivity, or by neglect. The statistics on male abandonment of their children in our day are not heart-warming. According to feminists, any traditional notion that the different sexes complement each other serves merely to justify the inferiority of women. On its face, complementarity suggests real equality--each sex is superior in its place. But if you are sure that the best positions have been the men’s and that women have been the “second sex,†then in order to achieve equality you must go for full interchangeability of the sexes. You must deny any natural preponderance of one quality or another in men and women. Do men and women have different natures that justify different social roles? Or are these natures just “socially constructed� If women can conclude that their roles have been designed artificially by society, then they are free to remake themselves without constraint. But the latest science suggests that being a man or a woman is much more than having certain bodily equipment (see the article below). Perhaps men and women are characterized more by how they think than by their sexual organs. While maleness is partly just a fact of biology, in humans it is linked to thinking and reason in ways that make manliness something much more than mere aggression. In humans, masculinity is more than just defense of one’s own; it has been extended to require noble sacrifice for a cause beyond oneself. Certainly, women reason and sacrifice too, and they are not devoid of aggressiveness. But their participation in these things is not “equal.†As Aristotle said, men find it easier to be courageous--and women find it easier to be moderate. Of course, you cannot avoid Aristotle’s qualifier, “for the most part.†For the most part, men will always have more manliness than women have, and it is up to both sexes to fashion this fact into something good.

Originally posted by 7 0f Nine: SKY , you mean this one? It slipped to the second page. No I mean the one about the Somalis and Ethiopians that drowned in the Gulf of Aden. This guy above and this strange girl were attacking me left and right. Castro asked me where I could possibly get the info, I showed it to him and the kid is still giving me an attitude.

^^^ Even though you and Ofleh aka Castro both are smallminded. Its clear that Ofleh has some major issues to deal with. Tolow why was Salaxuddiin's topic deleted? Ngonge, do you know what's up sxb?

Racist Hurricane Coverage? By BET.com Staff Updated Sept. 2 2005 -- “Black people loot, White people find†reads a headline making the Internet rounds after Hurricane Katrina. Several blogs are highlighting two newspaper photos and their captions: one where a young Black man wades through water with a bag “after looting a grocery store,†and a similar photo with a White woman and man wading through water “after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store.†The photos are from The Associated Press and Agence France-Presse/Getty Images, respectively. Chris Graythen, the photographer who shot the so-called "White people find" photo, has responded to the controversy on a message board at www.sportshooter.com. "I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word," he writes. "There were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. It had no doors. The water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. " The caption on a third controversial photo -- from The Associated Press -- reads that a White person "looks through their shopping bag" in front of a broken store window. Do you think the looting coverage is racist? Is this representative of a media slant in covering African Americans? Click “Discuss Now†to talk about it.

I don't understand these Miss-contests. The woman is butt-ugly.

Plan Your Work, Work By Plan.

Somalia's nomad government pleads for help to quell terrorists By Aidan Hartley (Filed: 04/09/2005) "I like Britain," Somalia's President and former warlord Abdullahi Yusuf told me. "In fact, a part of me is British." He patted his stomach and revealed that he'd had a liver transplant in London. "I owe my life to the donor, a 27-year-old Englishman." President Abdullahi Yusuf: 'We must rely on Western countries' As if on cue, several aides produced British passports. "Wembley!" said one. "Kentish Town, innit?" chimed another. This was in Jowhar, a dusty Somali village where Mr Yusuf's recently appointed government is camped like a nomadic horde north of the capital Mogadishu. The Cockney accents bring into focus the global consequences of a forgotten crisis in Africa that President Yusuf, aged 70, says the West ignores at great peril. If his secular government fragments, Somalia will remain a failed state, its capital in the hands of Islamic terrorists who would step up attacks across the region, and the world. "If we don't succeed, Somalia will become a home to Islamic extremists, to terrorists," said Mr Yusuf, whose government has only just established itself in Somalia after three years of talks. "But we have no money. We must rely on Western countries. I don't know what they are doing." I have reported on Somalia since it collapsed into anarchy in 1991. Last month I returned to report on the "war on terror" in the Horn of Africa. It was an alarming trip. Mr Yusuf's government grew out of the 14th peace process in as many years of chaos. He has set up in Jowhar because he claims that Mogadishu, 50 miles to the south, is a hive of terrorists. Now, as fresh conflict threatens, ministers say they cannot hold on much longer without funding. "A few months, maybe a year," said Abdirazak Osman, the planning minister. Up to 500,000 Somalis have died in 14 years of war, pestilence and famine. Britain and other Western countries have already donated vast quantities of aid and taken in thousands of refugees. An American-led United Nations mission collapsed in 1995, two years after the ignominious Black Hawk Down battle in Mogadishu, when Somali militias dealt a humiliating blow to United States special forces. The operation to end famine and establish democracy ended with US forces helicopters firing on civilian districts. Today, Western forces dare not set foot in Somalia but conduct surveillance by air and from offshore. More than 1,800 US troops are based across the border in Djibouti. Mr Yusuf's enemies say that he is a stooge of neighbouring Ethiopia, Somalia's age-old Christian-led adversary, and that troops from Addis Ababa fill his ranks. "There are no Ethiopians," he told me. But in Wajid, near the ****** frontier, we saw Ethiopian military instructors training recruits for a new national army. They might be deployed against the warlords and Islamic radicals who oppose the government if UN efforts to broker peace between the factions collapse. UN workers say fresh conflict will create a humanitarian disaster in rural Somalia, where rains have failed to arrive for the third successive year. To test Mr Yusuf's claims of Islamic militancy in the capital, we went to Mogadishu, the first film crew to visit since Kate Peyton, a BBC television producer, was shot dead there in February. Mr Yusuf's government itself is already divided, and Peyton went to Mogadishu on the invitation of politicians who claimed that the city was safe. A string of execution-style killings have occurred since then. Most recently, peace activist Abdulkadir Yahye, an old friend of mine, was shot dead at home in front of his wife. Some believe that the killings are the work of Islamic militants; others that they are being carried out by Ethiopian assassins. One leading militant who sees the hand of Ethiopia in Somali politics is Shaykh Hassan Dahir Aweys of the Wahhabi group al-Itihaad al-Islamiya (Islamic Unity - AIAI), who for the first time went on the record about his ambitions to lead an Islamic state in Somalia and elsewhere in Africa. His group has long been a target for Mr Yusuf, a former army commander and ally of the West, who claimed that he had wiped out 2,000 AIAI militants in the early 1990s. The US accuses Shaykh Aweys, 70, and AIAI of being among several surrogates for al-Qaeda in the Horn of Africa. Washington put them on its wanted list after 9/11, but intelligence services allege that they have been involved in bombings and other terrorist attacks dating back to the attacks on Black Hawk helicopters. The cameraman James Brabazon and I were the first Western journalists to meet him in his Mogadishu lair. According to many reliable sources, the CIA pays out millions to local warlords to capture terror suspects. But Shaykh Aweys, a former colonel, was on home turf and entirely relaxed. I asked him if he was a terrorist. "I am not a criminal," he said. "I am a politician." He compared AIAI to Hamas or the FIS in Algeria. "We have never committed crimes against the West but they stamp us as terrorists because they fear we can take over the country with an ideology they find unacceptable," he said. "Every day we have C130 aircraft flying over us and warships surround our shores. The West is fighting against us but they don"t want us to fight back. "My objective is to establish Islamic government in Somalia, then other countries." He said he would like to spread Islamic rule "across not only Africa, but also the world". I asked if he meant to do that by peaceful means or by jihad. "If it's possible to handle it by peaceful means we'll do it that way," he said. "If not we'll do it the jihadi way." Western intelligence services say that foreign terrorists are hiding in Somalia, but Shaykh Aweys denied this. He said he was not afraid of being attacked or captured by the Americans. "A Muslim should not fear death," he said. "If we are attacked for our beliefs, whether free or in prison, we will never surrender our goals." blamed the spate of assassinations on Ethiopia, which he demonised as playing a role in Africa similar to that of Israel in the Middle East. As we chatted, a Koranic sermon blared out from a nearby compound where a mosque was recently erected over a colonial-era Italian cemetery. According to reports, Italian graves were dug up and the bones tossed into the street. That we were able to speak to Shaykh Aweys and get out alive was significant, according to a Western political analyst. "This is a signal he wants to enter politics," he said. "He pretty much feels Mr Yusuf's government is about to collapse and he sees this as an opportunity." If the West assisted the government with technical and training staff - as Britain did in Sierra Leone - Mr Yusuf's ministers say they would not have to rely on Ethiopia. When I asked the President what the US forces and Allied warships in the Gulf of Aden were doing, he shrugged and said: "Nothing." After Mogadishu, we flew to Djibouti. Here, we saw US forces train local government soldiers in "anti-terrorism" tactics. Unable to set foot in Somalia, the Americans spend a lot of their time mending nomads' teeth, vaccinating their livestock or handing out free spectacles - all on a vast military budget. And across the frontier, Somalia is still without the rule of law 14 years on - the longest period any state has remained in anarchy since the UN was founded. • The new series of Channel 4's Unreported World begins in November. FyrKanten, hawl kale baa ku sugaysaa nofeembar!

1991 I was fleeing my country as a young toddler from Mogadishu to Kismaayo. Stayed in the crowded Kismaayo till that city was invaded. Will never forget that period in my life. The rest is history. But discovered the Internet in '97.

Originally posted by Animal Farm: You need a wifey, a girl you sweet talk to death, make life plans with her, and you know eventually your going to get married, but to respect each other you refrain from unethical sex, you discuss the deen with her, she’s religious too, you pretend to be too, and so forth…. you don’t call her your girlfriend, you call her your ‘wifey’ sxb, what if you have several wifeys? I mean, I can't choose between three girls. I wish I could marry all three of them at once. I'm so afraid I look back in life and realise I chose the wrong girl. I heard its a very common problem.

Hanging. If someone is gonna kill me, please let it not be my brown buddy in the kitchen. XXL Magazine or King Magazine?

If anybody starts laughing, I'm logging off: UB40 - Can't help falling in love Righteous brothers - You've lost that lovin' feelin'

Originally posted by Ceebla: P.S. I have been glued to the t.v and I have yet to see any white person in all those videos and pictures from the disaster area. I've seen some white folks among the black masses. As usual, they were checking out wether the black folks are ready to go back to work as soon as Monday.

Daughters, as usual in Oriental countries, do not “count†as part of the family: they are, however, utilised by the father, who disposes of them to those who can increase his wealth and importance. Divorce is exceedingly common, for the men are liable to sudden fits of disgust. Maybe this is what caused them to be so mental.