He played well. Could have scored a hatrick. We got hammered.

^shilin?? Afternoon all. Xaaji casiir yaa arkay wiigan?

80s? This song was number 1 when we landed

Oz posted a classic. I only know because he wrote what it was (can't see any of the videos).

Funny how 90s music is now referred to as old skool/good old days. We're getting on a bit

You should look into it saxib. Might be a bit late now as the new year has started but look around the website/agencies.

Sayid*Somal;746120 wrote: Yaa Carab wax barri kara? besides it means i have to take TEFL test and they prefer single retirees without package. as ngonge would say; ar naga daa carab waa mad as somali women You would be surprised. I know of a couple of Somali teachers who have relocated here on full family packages. Its not just English they need teachers for and its not just Arabs who need a decent education. You will probably be teaching a class with Europeans, Asians Africans and Arabs. That if you teach in a private school. Public schools pay more

Sayid, thought teaching here? There is a big demand here for English curriculum teachers. They pay well. Afternoon all.

Somalina;745765 wrote: http://www.hiiraan.com/news/2011/Sept/wararka_maanta12-14977.htm wow

You protest one minute about the reasons why seccession is sought and then say its fine as long as they don't drag the others along with them. Its not circular is hypocritical. In effect, you're acknowledging your original premise was wrong.

Dee sidaa uun maad tidhaahdid? I.e. "we don't want you breaking away based on clan but we don't mind you breaking away based on clan". Its the circular argument we have been having on here for years.

Dee its a bit like your prediction Brazil would win last year's World Cup. When they lost you said it was just bad luck while I thought they lacked leadership, mental strength and flair. You remind me of those drivers who only focus on what is 5 meters in front of the car.

Abtigiis;745969 wrote: Death and destruction not unique to Somaliland. Anarchy, most somalis are impacted and secession didn't come from any other. Political marginalisation? No one was marginalized more than the Bay and Bakool people and we don't hear scession there. That was my argument. I know that was your argument but it has it's flaws which I've highlighted.

I doubt we’re the only ones not satisfied with babble disguised as substance (what one believes to have happened is irrelevant). Hitchens merely walks the official line without addressing the points made by Chomsky head on. But then again, its Hitchens so he must be right, right?

Good luck in your new path.

Taas in aad ma hore ka fakarto miyaaney aheen?

Waar wa nabade ma career change baad sameesay?

Abtigiis;745767 wrote: Let us assume all Somalilanders who joined Somalia in 1960(not one clan) want to break that union. Can you now take the podium and give us three or more reasons why? And if you don't come back to either atrocity, cunto-gooni doonimo, or anarchy in South Somalia, I will call this for you. I thought I have addressed each of these reasons in my arguments here. If you explain the break of the union outside this frame, I will hold my hand in mouth with awe! What? Anarchy, death and destruction (which you acknowledge) isn’t enough to call for a sececession? How about, erm, let me see, we were not given free school meals? There! Case closed. Instead of prancing around it would be good of you to address the points I highlighted previously (about the RIGHT to make such a decision under the circumstances in those days. I hope you can without the song and dance routine).

Are these arrests at the request of the government or are they because a local governor is pissed off? The government needs to take a firm stand here and communicate arrests of journalists will not be tolerated. Having said that, there are some dodgy journalists out there.

^ Keep it up.

A company we work closely with has just sent us its new organogram and contact list for this project. The name of their male nurse? Freshly Baby [no joke] :D

Its funny. They say the best solution is a negotiated one. I mean, could they not come up with another excuse? They've been involved with the negotiations for 40 years!

Oz, did you watch the game? How did Meireles play?

Does he? Apart from portraying him as having a few screws loose, he doesn’t come anywhere near addressing Chomsky’s weightier piece.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/09/201191223127667411.html Arab states will push for a fully-fledged Palestinian state at the United Nations next week, the Qatari prime minister has said despite a US threat to block such a move. Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar's prime minister and foreign minister, told a late Monday night consultation session that he hoped the gathering would support the Arab plan to take the Palestinian bid for statehood to the UN General Assembly. "The Arabs had agreed to apply to the United Nations for a full-fledged Palestinian state with its capital East Jerusalem," al-Thani, chairman of the follow-up committee on the Palestinian UN bid, said at the start of the meeting. He did not mention the option of taking a resolution to the Security Council and forcing the US to fulfill its pledge to cast a veto. "We will review in this meeting the steps taken to go to the UN, because this is an Arab demand," he said. US President Barack Obama said on Monday that if the Palestinians try to achieve statehood in the UN Security Council, the US will oppose the proposal. "If this came to the Security Council we would object very strongly, precisely because we think it would be counterproductive. We don't think that it would actually lead to the outcome that we want, which is a two state solution," he told the Spanish service of the German Press Agency dpa and other Spanish-language media in an interview. "What we've said is that going to the UN is a distraction, does not solve the problem," he said. "This issue is only gonna be resolved by Israelis and Palestinians agreeing to something." The Palestinians currently hold UN "observer" status. They decided to seek UN recognition of statehood after years of failed negotiations with Israel. They could also seek lower status as a "non-member state", which would require a simple majority of the 193-nation Assembly. Adel Iskandar, a professor at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, told Al Jazeera that the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas has nothing else to market itself on. "This is the crisis that they face. It's a crisis of legitimacy, a crisis of accountability." Strategy not clear Diplomats have said the strategy Palestinians plan to adopt when the UN General Assembly opens on September 19 is not yet clear. Earlier on Monday, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who is in Cairo for talks with officials at an Arab foreign ministers' meeting on the UN bid for Palestinian statehood, said the EU has still not decided on a united position yet. Ashton, speaking after meeting Egypt's foreign minister Mohamed Kamel Amr in Cairo, said: "There is no resolution on the table yet, so there is no position." "What we're very clear about from the European Union is that the way forward is negotiations," she said. "We want to see a just and fair settlement, we want to see the people of Palestine and the people of Israel living side by side in peace and security, and I will do everything I can to help achieve that." Ashton left the meeting minutes after it began, saying that the EU believed that a Palestinian state should come through negotiations. Palestinian officials say that the European Union was waiting to see the text of the UN resolution to recognise Palestine. President Mahmoud Abbas, heading the Palestinian delegation to the meeting at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, has been under US pressure not to go ahead with the UN bid. Before the meeting began, he met with the head of the Arab League, Nabil Elaraby, to discuss the main elements of the Palestinian resolution, Egypt's state news agency MENA said. He also met separately with Ashton.