Obama makes final appeal ahead of healthcare vote US President Barack Obama has rallied the support of Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill ahead of a crucial vote on sweeping healthcare reform. Urging them to back the measure in a House vote expected on Sunday, he said: "Let's get this done." Democratic leaders have spent days working to get the 216 votes needed to pass the highly-contested bill. Democratic House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said he believed the party now had the necessary support. Senior House Democrats have decided on a direct vote to pass a Senate version of the reform bill, rather than using a procedural measure that would have "deemed" it passed without a vote. Vote Yes

Health Care Whip Count Live Updates: Will Reform Bill Have The Votes? Ahead of this weekend's vote on health care reform, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives have been engaged in fierce behind-the-scenes lobbying of undecided lawmakers whose support will be crucial to final passage of the bill. The magic number that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other top Democrats are working toward is 216. On Thursday and Friday her prospects brightened as several fence-sitting lawmakers came out in favor of the bill. Still, there are holdouts and they will be the focus of the Democratic arm-twisting between now and Sunday's vote. Vote Yes

Meiji and Duke, you are missing. While we may disagree on our politics, we can ALL agree that Somali sovereignty and internationally recognized boundaries should be protected even more so in time there's no central government and we are midst of civil war.

Meiji-you should have been happy when Ethiopian are exposed for trying to pull one over Somalis (Puntland is in Somalia I should remind) and Duke, there is no we. Whoever is in Xamar is your problem too.

Khilaaf is my favorite in Somali

Taaloow Maaddeey maxuu ka tanaasule sidii nabad loo,arko? It turns out those in Somali conflict, the ones actually perpetuating the conflict are all connected and profit greatly from Somali misery.The joke is really on those of us that take sides.

^Geeljire Val-Sawiro kale aas sugaayee

JERUSALEM — Israel's foreign minister confirmed Tuesday that he boycotted meetings with the visiting Brazilian president, claiming he refused to visit the grave of the founder of modern Zionism. Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Israeli media he did not attend President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's speech at the Israeli parliament on Monday or two other meetings. Lieberman said he was upset at Silva's decision not to visit late Zionist leader Theodor Herzl's grave, especially while agreeing to lay a wreath at the tomb of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday. "A person who is not prepared to visit Herzl's grave but is visiting Arafat's grave, I don't accept that," Lieberman told the Israeli news Web site YNet. He claimed the snub breached protocol. A spokesman from the office of the Brazilian president countered that visiting Herzl's grave was not accepted protocol for a foreign leader's trip. Huff

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Originally posted by Cara.: Pffft, Roseanne all the way! Even worse-beer guzzling belly burping redneck with love handles,git-r-done.

Originally posted by Maaddeey: ^Dhabbaha (ii fasir lee ha i dhihin ) War ninyahow ri naaskeed nuugtey ha,igu noqon/ Ciyaal Wardhiigley maa iimaleyse

^ Dhabo Inc

Another Khilaaf coalition

Gheelle.T is no script.

Here's easy one- Googaaa..wax dheer oo ri naaskeed gaarin?

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I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable defender of U.S. interests abroad. So it pains me to say that on his recent trip to Israel, when Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s government rubbed his nose in some new housing plans for contested East Jerusalem, the vice president missed a chance to send a powerful public signal: He should have snapped his notebook shut, gotten right back on Air Force Two, flown home and left the following scribbled note behind: “Message from America to the Israeli government: Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. And right now, you’re driving drunk. You think you can embarrass your only true ally in the world, to satisfy some domestic political need, with no consequences? You have lost total contact with reality. Call us when you’re serious. We need to focus on building our country.” Thomas Friedman

David Axelrod went farther and called the incident "an insult". Netanyahu is between rock and hard place-to stay power he needs the hardliners (Lieberman and Co) but he also needs the Yanks, he should atleast seem like he's respecful of this "special" relationship.

^LoooooooooL..why can't post it Qabiil is central to any movement in Somali.

^That makes sense.Raamsade is the Mullah Omar of the atheist movement-with Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in one hand and megaphone in the other, he would have converted (reasoned to death) Melbourne in days' time. Of course, insanity would follow. Women can't wear skirts below the knees and cleavage is must, men can't grow beards. churches/mosques will be converted to nightclubs and strip clubs, and evolution (the New Testament) will be taught in every class Cara..It all starts with rhetoric.Dawkins just lacks the muscle

The good old days when many things were free on the internet-a treasure chest for young teenage boys looking for free porn. Who knew people had feet fetish

Abu Maaddeey-what do you think of guubaabiyey-is it the final push?

Like the dramatic headline

Oh my God-you have become redneck. We need to send you back to LA-quick to the Geelomobile.

Things that might happen to your cousin