^Lol. LazyG, oh yeah, singal maadarada siiba! Oodkaca la dubo iyo uunsiga laysku shido hadaad ogaan lahayd

^Yeah, man,is cool. Bring her along, we have nothing short of a rainbow coalition in my yard .

^Got evicted from the basement then?

Originally posted by Che -Guevara: ^LooooooooL..Isseh, cunsuri ma tihid? Too laidback to be stackup unless I must, Che' . Middaan soo wado ayaan qiil usii raadinayaa; she's an Ibo tribeswoman . Pretty thing!

Marcus, you got pictures of the event for us? Sorry I wasn't there taking some...

Bunch of cunsuris!

Originally posted by J.a.c.a.y.l.b.a.r.o: Fuusto!

Is it? Good news, I say.

Nephy, Lol. Take my word for it, it is him (direct my comission to the local Mustaqbal)

^I got a hunch that I know her. She's maasha-allah.

MsD&D: Isseh You look so young Thanks to xabbad-sowdo MsD&D: Isseh looks like my cousin truly. Soomaalidu all look alike. I am asked whether I am someone else on monthly basis..usually different girls I am tol i look like. Ms, I've had an old man chasing with Bakoorat hadda ka hor shouting 'war ma anaad i inkiraysaa, ina Guuleed?' I also got briefly arrested in Garissa once for vandalizing a barbarshop under the influence of spliff . Got released when someone who knew the real criminal vouched for me. I get so many 'ari boowe, soo Boosaaso ma aadan joogi jirin, mise walaalkaa!' and to be quite honest its getting me pissed every other time... Dahia: ps..Isseh, you look familiar. Darling S., we're cousins . PS: Best thing about Facebook, I met family members whom I never know were on it! Neat.

Foori Dheere, that's me. I don't post on SOL but I'm still figuring out how the bloody site works...

Horn: Paragon and the rest, I disagree. When discussing something, you have to have legitimacy to discuss it. As a student of international relations, I trust you understand the importance of reputation for policy-making. For some, as clever Ayoub had recognized, Kismaayo was the hand that peels off the facade! Horn, sxb, you know waxaan ula dan leeyahay hadalkayga. I understand full well the importance of continuing with debate on Kismaayo, and again, you know my stance on Kismaayo, which can be summarized thus: Oohinta inaga daaya akhyaarta, Kismaayo idin dhaaftay, sidaad idinkuba dadkii asalkeedi lahaa aad u dhaafsiiseen, ee karaamada yaanan layska qaadin! My suggestion of going beyond Kismaayo is to simply safe face for some folks in here, who only seem to be delve into the belly of drivel, a tendency that does not do justice to the established characters. But if you insist on the continuation of discussing the Kismaayo issue, then, I say, by all means do please .

OK, chaps. As several have already reiterated, the Kismaayo issue only side-tracks the topic's intended subject. Let's deal with the farce of calling for reconciliations.

Originally posted by xiinfaniin: Paragon, I am still confused brother. If you are saying that untill conditions are right NO to reconciliation then logical question would be who would make the conditions right? Do you honestly think Ethiopian withdrawal from Xamar is the ultimate goal in our struggle? Confused? I doubt that, Xiin. I get the feeling that you want to be seen as such. One of the charades played in this thread. Now, read again what I wrote above in case you simply skimmed through the post. However, on my part, the principle of calling for conditioned reconciliations, I admit, is to merely observe Nuur Cade’s future policy directions and hope, as it will it is bound to be eventually, that he and Yeey/Ethiopia/America will be at loggerheads. If what we have been reading lately is anything to go by, namely on Ethiopia’s pronounced unhappiness with his recent political moves, then the man might become another Sharif Xassan in the making. My hunch is that Nuur Cade and Yeey will at each other’s throats very soon, as soon as Yeey’s interim years to the TFG’s presidency comes to an end. Thus, for the time being, the man deserves my occasional commendation . In a nutshell, no reconciliation intuu Yeey iyo waxa la hal maala Muqdisho joogaan.

Xiinfiniin: quote: Originally posted by Isseh: Following Nuur Cade’s current policy formulations, there is hope that he might create the right environment for reconciliations. If Nuur Cade takes the positive step of reducing, (and possibly) facilitates the total withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia, then and only then, could we say reconciliation’s time is due. For now, we wait on him to deliver the goods and until then, reconciliation will be on hold. Paragon , notwithstanding with your prelude, you are indeed agreeing, perhaps unwittingly, with Baashi’s point. Xiinfaniin, I am glad to see someone, unlike our friend Baashi, who exercises a certain amount of patience to read through posts to get to their end . Lately, our friend is hasty on the draw with little to say at deliverance. Fair enough, one could say that a treatment of varying interpretations to my post may give differing meanings. If someone with a cool head reads and comprehends what I said, it may occur to them to understand that I consider the willingness of people to reconcile as a universal trait present in all of us. In a nutshell, the concept reconciliation process is simply what its names implies, and anyone with rudimentary knowledge of human nature and conflict resolution understands that. Waxaan kugu tuhmay, misna siday noqotay ! Despite the above, if I allow myself to continue, what becomes a big problem, especially in this politics section, is when individuals, like Baashi, habitually advance the impression that the call to reconciliation is their compact political ideology, through which they could repeatedly remind us ‘oh, I am up for reconciliation and others are against it’ lol. Thus, albeit refraining from participating debates in this section, I could hardly help but opine an educational clarification in my short post above. The first three paragraphs of my post were on the universal willingness of all humans to hunger for reconciliation in times of exhausting conflicts, and I repeat again, there could be no agreement or disagreement on our need to reconcile, but willingness is all dependent on when rather than IF . In the last paragraph, it is this IF function that I introduced as a variable for what the TERMS and CONDITIONS of reconciliation should be. I accommodate the thought, that some might perceive my comment on Nuur Cade’s future policy formations, as a tacit agreement with what Baashi might have previously propagated. But the stark difference between my stance and that of Baashi is this: I arrived at my position of commending Nuur Cade on the possible account of acceptable conditionality to our group, while our friend Baashi’s argument consists of thus: vindictive appeal (which is in nature fueled by unfortunate 90s tragedies) that rigidly and unconditionally, albeit attempts to cover this up, endorses the TFG/Ethiopia, ordering us forcibly to his mirage dirrin. It appears as though his call for national reconciliations is intentioned to resettle old scores, such as the repossession of property and cities. However, on my part, the principle of calling for conditioned reconciliations, I admit, is to merely observe Nuur Cade’s future policy directions and hope, as it will it is bound to be eventually, that he and Yeey/Ethiopia/America will be at loggerheads. If what we have been reading lately is anything to go by, namely on Ethiopia’s pronounced unhappiness with his recent political moves, then the man might become another Sharif Xassan in the making. My hunch is that Nuur Cade and Yeey will at each other’s throats very soon, as soon as Yeey’s interim years to the TFG’s presidency comes to an end. Thus, for the time being, the man deserves my occasional commendation .

^^Lol@Post-Wazi era (RIP). Coincidentally, I was in the same lot, nay, the same class with Wazi (S-Class), together with characters like Papin, Ururu, etc.. Those were days...

Once, while a student of International Politics, I stumbled upon an excellent book on he tAmerican proposed ‘Road Map’ for Palestine and Israel peace reconciliations, written by Edward Said in which he asks the salient question of, to paraphrase him, ‘reconciliation and peace yes, but on whose terms and on what conditions?’ Thus, in our entangled situation, it is this question that we should ask ourselves. The fact remains that at one stage or another, every one of us accepts that reconciliation is a compulsory prerequisite without which life itself becomes a futile existence. Amongst us in this forum, there are those who fallaciously owned themselves a political stand-point that they think would arbitrate them associative ‘friendship’ with the concepts of reconciliation and peace. But nay, these individuals are deluding themselves to think they could categorize the ‘willingness to reconcile’ as a domain of their own reserve, in a bid to score some cheap point. Look, boys, if you thought there can be people who would disown reconciliation and peace, then, you are confused. How the hell can one declare his or her refusal of reconciliation in all its totality? Wouldn’t that become a self-defeating declaration? Isn’t the point of war the pursuit of eventual reconciliation and peace? Damn! I never thought I will bother correcting some of you boys, but he it is; terms and conditions, that is all it comes down to. So put aside the fallacious thinking that someone can be for or against reconciliation. If anything that thinking shows a degree of inability to fathom the structures of process and their meanings. All people are for reconciliation depending on favourable conditions/timing. Now, let us get down to the real issue at hand; do current terms and conditions allow reconciliation take place? Does the presence of Ethiopia and existence of the TFG create an environment conducive for reconciliation to commence? My short answer is no, not for the time being, but there is hope. Following Nuur Cade’s current policy formulations, there is hope that he might create the right environment for reconciliations. If Nuur Cade takes the positive step of reducing, (and possibly) facilitates the total withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from Somalia, then and only then, could we say reconciliation’s time is due. For now, we wait on him to deliver the goods and until then, reconciliation will be on hold.

Shar ma arke Lol, yeah right! You went to CH and burned everything? Oh you guys have Vujo only. Remember we were the barrack boys, 'Ciyaalka Dabeesha'! You know no GSS messed with us in old days. Must be the new sissies in CH that've let you guys near or around the barracks . County High was the school of hard-knocks and none can take away that reputation . Lool@Bethany Videos... Memories! Mother use to think I smoked cigarettes especially after coming out of there - the bloody Mkambas chain smoking . Awlugeeye I am still not going to guess. I am too proud of county to even opine your school's name in here. School for mumies' boys . Originally posted by Haneefah: quote: Originally posted by Isseh: Do you remember this one, Haneefa: (not the Boyz 2 Men version)... Ma dhici karto, LOL, I can't believe you used to listen to them...the cheesiest group ever! Adoo la qaadaya umbaa ii sawarantay Haneefah Lool. Visualizing me in those days you might just see me wearing t-shirt with 'DEATH - An International Sport' written on it. So young and dangerous, I tell you! Girls use to beg me to give one of danger t-shirts, 'cos they were brought to me from dibadda .And the last thing I would've done was listen to the cheesiest band of the time . Oh no, they weren't, no the cheesiest at least. PS: I will post you something to flow your old memories back, Haneefa. Just you wait and see.

^^Yes, I was talking about the timing... Yeah the initial booyaka comes from jungle music but in the 90s Shabba was very popular for its re-use... and the finger tapping thing...

Originally posted by Dahia al Kahina: Lol@usipo gongwa na gari utagongwa na ukimwi..lol Loo., wewe ni call-boxi ya kutumiwa na kila mtu..kumbe wewe ni taxi, sio personal car!' kix kix kix War caay kululaa ninku .

Originally posted by Valenteenah: quote:Originally posted by Isseh: underdog, thats shaba ranks for ya... buyeka! I think that's Shaggy . Nostalgic songs. Lol, Val. No dear. I clearly remember when kids use to say..'booyaka booyaka, fi Shabba Rankin' in his ting-a-ling song...

^loooooooooooooooooooool kix kix kix 'wewe ni useless, wewe nin baseles' lol. Is this guy a Kamba? They are the funniest bunch of people walaahi..lol Thanks underdog....haven't laughed that much for a long time.

Maasha-Allah. May God bless the blessed .