^ My milkshake [tribe] brings all the boys to the yard, and I'm like, it's better than yours. Damn right, it's better than yours. I can teach you, but I have to charge.

Sorry y'all, I'm totally off topic here, but what on earth is Simply_I talking about in her posts above? I've not seen a response so far off topic in my tenure her at SOL. This takes the cake. Atheer, Simply_I, could you elaborate on how your response addresses the topic. Thanks.

^ That's true. It's funny hearing it when there's a heavy eastern European or Indian accent, but reading it is a pain. There's absolutely no excuse to write bad grammar if one has lived in an English speaking country more than 5 years. None.

^ Sowwie. Still, GB and the great white hope suck! How about them Colts, eh? Two days before they're 12-0. :cool:

^ Saaxib, let's declare a truce. I'm extending an olive branch to you.

^ Did you have to wear safety goggles?

Originally posted by Curling Waterfall: And you guys wonder why I adore The Eagle . Thanks Muta. That was nice of you [and accurate if I may blow ma own horn]. This is beyond excessive. It's an assault on our senses and sensibilities. :rolleyes: Muta? Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Originally posted by Curling Waterfall: Detectives from Operation Trident - the Met's specialist black-on-black gun crime unit - have launched a hunt. Do these cops not know that some Somalis refuse to be called black? Shouldn't this be a case of Mijo-yar on Mijo-yar crime?

Deja vu? Ah, that damn gulf of Tonkin US Vietnam intelligence 'flawed' Newly-released US documents suggest the US escalated the war in Vietnam based on skewed intelligence. The documents cast doubt on the existence of an attack on a US warship by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of Tonkin on 4 August 1964. The incident prompted President Lyndon Johnson to ask Congress, in effect, to declare war on Vietnam. The revelations, released by the National Security Agency, were written by its own historian in 2001. Robert Hanyok declares his review of all the intelligence shows beyond doubt that "no attack happened that night". The USS Maddox had been attacked two days earlier. He claims errors were made in the translation of the intercepted signals from the North Vietnamese, and officials gave too much weight to flimsy evidence. But he clears President Johnson and his ministers of any blame. They were only shown intelligence supporting the claim of an attack, not a wealth of contradictory material, he says. Instead, he blames the intelligence-gathers. "They walked alone in their counsels," he wrote. Three days later, President Johnson asked Congress to empower him to take "all necessary steps" in the region, opening the way for a war that resulted in the deaths of 58,000 Americans and three million Vietnamese. The US government is said to have fought the declassification of the documents over fears of comparisons with the handling of Iraq, says the BBC's defence and security correspondent Rob Watson.

^ No. It was to Despotic-Hitlerette*. The female architect of the final solution.

Mutakalim, are you sure this is Abi Tayyib? The second line sounds awfully Starbuck-ish. Relieve me of my ignorance.

Originally posted by Jomaana: Somali Girls.... Huge Exception Castro I must agree. The poster of this topic is a testament to that exception.

^ No but I plan to. Check this out. This is from Common Dreams : Let God Speak for Himself by Molly Ivins Austin, Texas -- The Lord Impersonator is back again. This fella reappears every couple of years and causes no end of trouble. The jokester goes around persuading feeble-minded persons he is the Lord Almighty and that they are to do or say some perfectly idiotic thing under his instructions. One of the worst cases we've had in Texas was the time the Lord Impersonator convinced 20 people in Floydada to git nekkid, get into a GTO and drive to Vinton, La., where they ran into a tree. Seein' 20 nekkid people, including five children, come out of a GTO startled the Vinton cops. The nekkid citizens all said God told them to do it. Quite a few people have been mishearing the Lord lately. The Rev. Pat Robertson thinks the Lord told the people of Dover, Pa., they shouldn't ask for His help anymore because they elected a school board Robertson doesn't like. And Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana said right after Hurricane Katrina that "we finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did it." I kind of doubt Katrina was designed by the Lord as a form of urban renewal. I think it's a big mistake for us to go around putting our own puny interpretations on stuff that happens and then claiming the Lord meant thus-and-such by it. It is my humble opinion that some folks should do a lot more listening to God and a lot less talking for Him. In that category, I put a whole passel of politicians — including that God-fearing professional patriot Rep. "Duke" Cunningham, of San Diego. Cunningham resigned his office after pleading guilty to having accepted $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors. "Duke's" big cause in Congress was to get a constitutional amendment to ban flag-burning. Which do you think is more unpatriotic: burning a flag to indicate desperate dissent against American policy or getting elected to Congress and selling out for a Rolls-Royce and some antique commodes? Rep. Tom DeLay, who is under indictment in Texas, is another fine parser of the Lord's intent. According to Mother Jones magazine, DeLay appeared at a prayer breakfast just after the tsunami that killed 240,000 people. "DeLay read a passage from Matthew about a nonbeliever: '... a fool who built his house on sand: the rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house, and it collapsed and was completely ruined.' Then, without comment, he righteously sat down." Some Christians seem to me inclined to lose track of love, compassion and mercy. I don't think I have any special brief to go around judging them, but when the stink of hypocrisy becomes so foul in the nostrils it makes you start to puke it becomes necessary to point out there is one more good reason to observe the separation of church and state: If God keeps hanging out with politicians, it's gonna hurt his reputation. I've always hoped that people like Tom DeLay and Duke Cunningham (and Reps. Bob Ney, Richard Pombo, Dana Rohrabacher, John Doolittle and William J. Jefferson, a Democrat; and Sens. Bill Frist and Conrad Burns) were really stonewall cynics at heart, secretly sneering at the rubes who buy into their holier-than-thou posturing. But I'm afraid they're not. I'm afraid one actually has to allow for the denial and self-delusion that make it possible for people to be both self-righteous and sleazy at the same time. We are all capable of fooling ourselves in a grand variety of ways. Another reason why religion and policy make such a bad mix is that religion brings the dread element of certitude into what needs to be a constant process of questioning. In the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh quotes a former Defense Department official who served in Bush's first term: "The president is more determined than ever to stay the course. He doesn't feel any pain. Bush is a believer in the adage, 'People may suffer and die, but the Church advances.'" Look, certitude is the enemy of clear thinking. "Never be absolutely sure" is a useful motto, and sailing through our current policies in Iraq without a shadow of a doubt is both foolish and dangerous. I would be far more reassured if I thought the president were second-guessing every move we make than I am to find out he hasn't a shadow of a doubt. For one thing, it shuts him off from considering alternatives, and boy do we need some alternatives. So here we sit, watching a great, stinking skein of corruption being fished to the surface of Washington, while the town is simultaneously filled with a great babble about God, prayer and morality. Corruption trails head off in all directions — lobbyists, wives, jobs, perverting intelligence, outing agents for petty revenge — all this and a prayer breakfast every day.

^ Dude, have you been to the engineering building of any university yet? The women there are just ugly. I mean, if they were any uglier, they'd be arrested for public nuisance. No one has ever bragged about dating an engineer. But those Psych. majors, mmmm yummie!

^ Though eventually he will lose to Walmart, he's made enough people aware that it could make a difference. I listen to him on KPFT 90.1 (Pacifica in Houston). It's never dull and I always learn something new. His contributions are priceless really. Here's another progressive magazine I enjoy (because of Hightower) : Mother Jones

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Libaaxow , jecliyaa marka clever Castro struggles to play to the gallery . This time the age factor has slowed him down. Digfer buu ku leeyahay. Ilaahay uun baa kaa weyn, my dear Castro ! You guys, we're messing up a good debate here. Sorry MMA. We should continue our Carbon dating exercise somewhere else. I'm sure that's the only way to date the age of both of you for I have an original birth certificate.

Originally posted by Katrina: Ibtisam; I can vouch for Castro's bank acct. and his qabil it's not the best but a gurl could do worse. Much, much worse. But it's my size 13 feet that I'm most proud of.

Actually, Digfer was built in the '60s' with money donated by the EU. So atheer LSK, you may be right. It was probably there in 1963.

^ Now that's what I call a come back! Truce?

Originally posted by Jomaana: Castro...how are u bro? Dont ask me why am back! I understand the parole system. I won't ask. (Welcome back)

^ Atheer cut the crap. Digfer was built in 1970. You would have been 13 at the time.

^ My claim of Xamar is not one of accent, lineage or even of style. It is one of birth. I was born there and I'll be damned if I let anyone, let alone a self appointed language inspector (Xoogsade ), tell me I belong there or not. My birth certificate says Digfer hospital and that's that. I speak a mix of 'Xamaraawi', 'khaldaan', English and Arabic. I understand them all and I love them all equally.

Originally posted by Katrina: I dream of a day where Somali men judge themselves based on the content of their character and not the size of their car, house, bank account, qabil, j.o.b or size of their shoes. I wear size 13. And I have a big car.

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: As to my age, well, not sure if I could be classified as an old man . Dude, few things are older than you. Examples: dirt, fossils, comets. You get the idea?

^ I call it dereliction of duty.