President kulahaa, globe-trotting I-doit whose people are being massacred on daily basis. I'm afraid his time is up.

Her time is up. She put good fight though.

By George F. Will Thursday, May 8, 2008; Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there. Unfortunately, baseball's rules -- pesky nuisances, rules -- say it matters how runs are distributed during a World Series. The Pirates won four games, which is the point of the exercise, by a total margin of seven runs, while the Yankees were winning three by a total of 35 runs. You can look it up After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's Zip code. Or perhaps she wins if Obama's popular vote total is, well, adjusted by counting each African American vote as only three-fifths of a vote. There is precedent, of sorts, for that arithmetic (see the Constitution, Article I, Section 2, before the 14th Amendment). "We," says Geoff Garin, a Clinton strategist who possesses the audacity of hopelessness required in that role, "don't think this is just going to be about some numerical metric." Mere numbers? Heaven forfend. That is how people speak when numerical metrics -- numbers of popular votes and delegates -- are inconvenient. Gen. Douglas MacArthur said that every military defeat can be explained by two words: "too late." Too late in anticipating danger, too late in preparing for it, too late in taking action. Clinton's political defeat can be similarly explained -- too late in recognizing that the electorate does not acknowledge her entitlement to the presidency, too late in understanding that she had a serious challenger, too late in anticipating that she would not dispatch Barack Obama by Super Tuesday (Feb. 5), too late in planning for the special challenges of caucus states, too late in channeling her inner shot-and-a-beer hard hat. Most of all, she was too late in understanding how much the Democratic Party's mania for "fairness," as mandated by liberals like her, has, by forbidding winner-take-all primaries, made it nearly impossible for her to overcome Obama's early lead in delegates. If Democrats, who genuflect at the altar of "diversity," allowed more of it in their delegate selection process, things might look very different. If even, say, Texas, California and Ohio were permitted to have winner-take-all primaries (as 48 states have winner-take-all allocation of their electoral votes), Clinton would have been more than 400 delegates ahead of Obama before Tuesday and today would be at her ancestral home in New York planning to return some of its furniture to the White House next January. Tuesday night must have been almost as much fun for John McCain as for Obama. The Republican brand has been badly smudged by recent foreign and domestic policies, which are the only kinds there are, so McCain's hopes rest on the still-unattached cohort called "Reagan Democrats," who still seem somewhat resistant to Obama. McCain's problem might turn out to be the fact that Obama is the Democrats' Reagan. Obama's rhetorical cotton candy lacks Reagan's ideological nourishment, but he is Reaganesque in two important senses: People like listening to him, and his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness -- the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits. georgewill@washpost.com

Meydadka 12 ruux oo intooda badan la gowracay oo laga helay degmada Wanla weyn ee Sh/Hoose. { 08 May 2008} waxaa la daabacay Thu 08 May 2008 12: 34: 13 Wanla-Weyn(Allmudugnews.com)Meydadka 12 ruux oo rag dhalinyaro ah ay ku jiraan, isla markaana intooda badan la gowracay ayaa la gaarsiiyay deegaanka Yaaq Bari-weyne, oo ka tirsan degmada Wanla weyn ee gobolka Sh/Hoose. Dad goob joogeyaal oo ku sugan deegaankaasi Yaaq Bari-weyne ayaa sheegay in Meydadka dadkan laga keenay deegaana Carmoole, isla markaana 11 ka mid ah uu ka muuqdo in la gowracay, halka qofka kale toogasho uu ka muuqdo, sida ay yiraahdeen. Illaa iyo haatan waxaan si dhab ah loo ogeyn cidda dishay dadkani, hasa ahaatee waxaa uu ku soo beegmayaa xilli qarax xoogan ciidamada Ethiopia shalay lagula beeg saday deegaana Carmoole , halkaasoo ay ku sugnaayeen illaa waqti dambe. Dadka shacabka ah ayaa argagax xoogan ka muujiyay falkan, oo ay ku tilmaameen mid xasuuq ah oo lagula kacay dad aan dhibaato geesan , sida ay xuseen. Xafiiska Wararka Allmudugnews.com,Reporter Abshir Ali Muuse Abshir17@hotmail.com info@allmudugnews.com

Somalia: The face of resistance, or resistance without a face 4 May 4, 2008 - 6:53:14 AM SUNDAY EDITORIAL | Is the U.S. governments 'air strike diplomacy' a policy capable of achieving Washington's long-term strategic objectives? The fact that U.S. government warplanes bombarded a small town in central Somalia to kill one of the country's fiercest guerrilla leaders emphasized, to say the least, the key role the Bush administration continues to play in the chaotic Horn of Africa country some 15 months after the Ethiopian army's initial invasion. Sheikh Adan Hashi Ayro, a rebel who was allegedly trained by Afghanistan's Taliban, was the target of the U.S. bombing in Dhusamareb, the capital of Galgadud region. According to media reports, more than 20 other Somalis were killed in the air strike in the early hours of Thursday, May 1, 2008, including women and children and entire houses demolished to dirt. The death of Ayro was portrayed, rightly or wrongly, as the death of Somalia's al Qaeda leader and, therefore, a minor victory in President Bush's ongoing global "war on terror." Is the U.S. governments 'air strike diplomacy' a policy capable of achieving Washington's long-term strategic objectives in the Horn of Africa region? Does such militarist policy do more harm or good to the American leader's self-professed desire to spread liberty and freedom across the world, and especially in Muslim lands? Did Ayro's death bring any tangible results on the ground, or merely reinforce the Islamist guerrillas' hardline resolve to continue the bloody insurgency? These are questions that arise from the ashes of Tomahawk missiles that torpedoed rudely into the sands of Somalia and in the conscience of a suffering people. Many analysts and insiders have suggested that Ayro's assassination will not bring peace to Somalia, mainly because the essential ingredients that led to the rise of men like Ayro and continue to swell the number of young fighters joining the insurgency remain tacitly in place. That is to say, as long as U.S.-backed Somali warlords continue to selfishly hold on to the country's highest positions of power, and their authority is brutally reinforced by Ethiopian occupation troops, the insurgency will gain strength and spread by the day. In Somalia, there is a new generation of youth who have known little but poverty and drought, armed conflict and disorder, lack of public services and employment opportunities. The U.S. policy of bombarding the enemy is a tunnel vision of the country's numerous troubles that, while terrorism is a deadly factor, include a more complex web of domestic and regional issues that must be addressed in the application of a comprehensive foreign policy. Naturally, that would include investment not only in the country's ruling class, i.e. warlords, but also investing resources directly in civil society with the long-term aim of creating sustainable development initiatives that help tackle the pressing issues of unemployment, economic stagnation and the lack of public services. There is no single 'face' that represents the type of armed resistance we are now witnessing in Somalia. Nearly two decades of conflict have created a dangerous environment for any political force to function regularly. Unless the structure of the current system is dismantled and educated Somalis with no criminal history are given an opportunity to lead, Somalia will remain a minor mirror image of Iraq. The resistance will get new faces as the days of occupation progress, and as the Somali people feel as if they have no choice but to wage war on the hated warlords and their foreign backers. Garowe Online Editorial, editorial@garoweonline.com

^I know your heart is in good place but you sound like Rudolf Kastner in believing you could actually negoitate with the TFG and their masters in good faith!

^I think for some of us it will take Ethios boys raping our women and slitting our throats in the streets of Gaalkacayo and Bosaaso to realise who's really in control and what the TFG stands for. Imaanshaha ciidamada Ethiopia ee magaalada Gaalkacyo ayaa yimid iyadoo Madaxweynaha Puntland uu wali joogo Addis Ababa, kalana hadlayo Dowladda Ethiopia sidii Ciidamo Ethiopian u keeni lahaa Puntland web page It was Xamer, now it is the A-bsame, and tomorrow it will be you!

^Ayeeyo Ayaan Xirsi maxay kaa samayse horta. Intaad budh la boodilaheed bal usoo ducay gabadha.Ana laba faataxo ii soomar And kudos to the kid!!!

^I wish I did. Just wondering Saaxib, do you ever stop and think just maybe the TFG is beyond redemption? And in all seriousness, how much power do they weild in Somalia. The only power in Somalia right now are Ethios who pretty much do watever they like and the Al-shabaab. The TFG and Asmara are merely symbolic entities. P.S. If your call for negiotation is sincere. I say let it be between Somali tribes but let it be done outside the TFG and Al-Shabaab framework.

^Gotta admire your tenacity

With the strong backing of her determined mother, Ayan drew on the resilience she had witnessed among the Somali women she and her family came to know in refugee camps in Kenya, and resolved to be the first of her family to graduate from university. web page

O' the things that pass for criticisms these days, same regurgitated not mention dullish mantric babbling. It is extremely nauseating and equally offensive to the mind but that's reality of bitter men. Let's conflate all dissenting voices and forget those stuck in yesteryears. It is pointless to confute their arguments. Let them capitulate to tyranny. I get the feeling they will be in good company anyway. LooooooooooooL@LX

Yes I agree but the sincerity of some people's criticism could be doubted as being coming from different perspective, you know we are Somali... We could say that about everyone here including you and I but still shouldn't negate people's cricisms considering the fact that the charges are actually true.

Somalipride-Puntland is part of Somalia last time I checked. It is open to criticism from every Somali. Geeljire...No DNA neccesary. Reer Bari aa gaaban yihiin oo madoob yihiin. Horaa lagaa soo saaraa.

^Umadaan odagay duca u gurbiniyaan adigusay labadaan bari xaa kudaaray. Northerner...Bal ha,isii turanturayne halkaa hanoo joogto.

Originally posted by Biixi: ^^^ Why not. Everybody should pay for their own crimes.Xaarkaaga iska tir kow intaad sheegi lahayd mid ninkale kuyaal. Jimcaale...Waaba yaab war Somalipride ma Uusay naas nuujiya. Odaga dhiniciisa lagama marikaro

^Sida geel siliid macsaro shiidaaya iska dabawa warayganeesaa.Aw ka gudub marka!

^Could you not bring Somaliland into this?

^Adiga far waaweyn in wax laguugu qoro waaye

^Nah, but organize Somali Community in UAE or whatever city reside in and send whatever you could afford to the thousands displaced in Xamer.

^Just empty rethoric with you lot. This sort of indeffirence is criminal.

^It's simple fact.

Xiin...A good start would be to start a dialogue with OG communities. Silence mounts to appeasement.

^Hadal haan ma buuxsho...and that's all you lot do!!

Here comes Duke and Somalipride saying "Garowe Online is run by the sons of a bitter and loser ex-Puntland minister".