Dr. Jallow, I enjoyed it. I already have my parachute... I'm living
everyone behind....

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Haruna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> You sound like our progressive friend Caesar. Always excited to jump off
> the biggest cliff there is!!! I think Columbia should have a heavy ball &
> chain on your feet. What? Grand Canyon!!!!!! Is that where old Faithful
> is?
>
>  Haruna.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Malanding Jaiteh <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sat, Dec 1, 2012 10:18 pm
> Subject: Re: [G_L] Fiscal Cliff
>
>  Haruna, chicken again? If we going down the cliff let it be majestic
> Grand Canyon. is it true you do not have a golden pars anymore?
>
>  thank you Baba.
>
>  Malanding
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Dec 1, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Haruna <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>  Precious Galleh. I'm moving to Vermont. I hear the valleys are softer
> there for the landing.
>
>  Haruna.
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Baba Galleh Jallow <[log in to unmask]>
> To: GAMBIA-L <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sat, Dec 1, 2012 8:45 pm
> Subject: [G_L] Fiscal Cliff
>
>  *Fiscal Cliff *
>
> By Baba Galleh Jallow
>
> *At the Kaats residence. Mrs. Kaat walks into the living room, switches
> on TV. Wolf Blitzer is in the Situation Room. She sighs heavily and calls
> out to her husband Raat Kaat.*
> **
> *Mrs. Kaat:* Hey Raat? They talking about the fiscal cliff again hon.
> Seems like it’s gotten really bad.
> *Raat *(walking into the living room): I am just so tired of hearing
> about this fiscal cliff thing. I don’t wanna go over no effing cliff and
> they keep saying fiscal cliff, fiscal cliff. Why the hell can’t they do
> something before it’s too late if it is not already too late?
> *Kaat:* Do know honey. Do know. But they saying we might all just go over
> that fiscal cliff. That’s what they saying.
> *Raat:* Well I don’t wanna go over no gaadamn cliff, especially no
> gaadamn fiscal cliff. I worked for my gaadamn money and now they telling me
> I’m going over the fiscal cliff? Naa, naa not me.
> *Kaat:* Everybody’s going over honey; everybody. At least it’s everybody
> going over, not just us.**
> *Raat:* Well I am no gaadamn everybody Kaat. I don’t even wanna think of
> any cliff, you know that right? It’s not that you don’t know.
> *Kaat:* I know hon. I wonder what we can do…
> *Raat:* Well you can start by changing the channel. This is why I don’t
> like CNN. They are always predicting doom and gloom. Try Fox News instead.
> **
> *Kaat:* All right honey; here goes (switches channel; reporter’s voice
> fills the air).
> *Fox: *It seems like we are going to have to go over the fiscal cliff as
> democrats continue playing childish peekaboo with serious Republicans . . .
> *Raat:* Why don’t you just switch to ESPN, turn the darn TV off or get
> some movie On Demand. I just can’t stand all this talk about fiscal cliffs
> anymore. It’s killing me.
> *Kaat:* But honey it’s not gonna be the end of the world . . .
> *Raat:* What you talking about Kaat? Not the end of the world? It’s gonna
> be the end of my world; the end of the world for my business, my money.
> Can’t you see that it’s impossible to climb out of even a rock cliff?
> Compare that to the horrible prospect of falling down a fiscal cliff. . .
> Gaad Kaat I just can’t understand you sometimes
> *Kaat:* Relax hon; it’s serious but it’s not gonna be THAT bad. They say
> so in the news; some professor of economics at Cliffhanger University . . .
> *Raat:* I don’t care what anybody says and I don’t wanna hear about it.
> Why then do they keep taking about it? Why is everybody so scared to death
> if it’s not gonna be bad, huh? I’m just not going over no gaadamn cliff,
> especially not any gaadamn fiscal cliff. Why do you think everyone in this
> country is losing their effing minds if the fiscal cliff wasn’t real, huh?
> How can we not worry when our country is on the slippery edges of a
> blood-chilling dangerous precipice . . .?
> *Kaat:* Ah. You should’ve heard Ducky say how horrible it’s gonna be. She
> was literally shaking all over and her face was the reddest I’ve ever seen.
> Says her husband now constantly sticks cotton pads in his ears to avoid
> hearing about the fiscal cliff . . . They have disconnected their TV
> service.
> *Raat:* Well, damn good for them. The Beavers are moving over to Cancun;
> did I tell you that? They’ve sold their mansion and they leaving. They
> won’t sit around here and wait to fall into some gaadamn fiscal cliff. But
> you don’t wanna hear about moving anywhere outside this country that’s
> clearly headed for disaster . . .
> *Kaat:* I’m sure not moving to Mexico I would rather voluntarily jump
> over the highest and most dangerous cliff in America than move to some
> animal–infested backwater of country. Ha! Can’t even imagine that.
> *Raat:* Well you’ve always been stubborn and you can suit yourself.  I’m
> not going over no cliff; I’m gonna pack up and go soon even if it means
> going to Africa. Anything but a damn fiscal cliff! Now will you please
> change that channel or shut it off?
> (Kaat switches off TV as doorbell rings. Kaat gets the door)
> *Raat:* That must be Chicky. She’d said she would pass by tonight on her
> way home from shopping.
> *Kaat:* Hello Chick. Where the hell have you been in this darn cold?
> *Chicky:* Ha! Your brother needed a six-pack and I had to rush to the
> store for some groceries. Gaad, did you hear the latest news on the fiscal
> cliff? I was just listening on the radio and it seems we all going right
> over because of some stupid folks in Washington DC.
> *Raat:* We were just talking about that. Can you imagine America going
> over the fiscal cliff . . . the banks, Wall Street, Main Street, Hollywood,
> the Fed . . . Everyone just going right over that horrible fiscal cliff
> into a bottomless pit? I’m getting out of this gaadamn country Chicky and
> I’ve told your friend here as much.
> *Chicky:* It’s really bad guys. I mean really, really bad. My husband’s
> been drinking himself to death and there’s nothing I can do about it. He is
> right to be so worried isn’t he? Everyone’s worried to death. I heard the
> Beavers just moved to Mexico and the Breeds are going too.
> *Kaat:* I hate to be the unheeded voice of reason here but I think we are
> all over-reacting. The fiscal cliff is not really a cliff it’s just a
> metaphor . . .
> *Raat:* A metaphor?
> *Chicky:* Well it’s as real as real can be judging by how terrified
> everyone is. I’m told that down south the bars are always full of tears.
> People are drowning their fears in alcohol. My own husband will not open
> his eyes anymore and he sticks cotton wool into his ears. He doesn’t wanna
> see or hear anything about the fiscal cliff. Everyone’s convinced we are
> finished if we go over that fiscal cliff; and it looks like we gonna go
> right over that cliff. What with the kind of people we have in DC these
> days? People who are where they shouldn’t be in the first place and are
> holding our lives in their dark hands? Uh! Makes me sick thinking about it!
> *Raat:* You damn right; the effing world’s all upside down; might as well
> be the end of times; the entire effing country’s in shock and we are headed
> for a fiscal cliff because of the unnatural things happening in Washington,
> DC . . .
> *Chicky:* There sure is panic in the air; you can fill it and it’s real I
> tell you. We sure should get ready for the great fall; it might as well be
> the last fall if you ask me.
> *Raat:* Ugh! My blood sugar level is rising again . . . I’m gonna go get
> somin’
> (The phone rings; Kaat picks it up. It’s her cousin Birdy)
> *Birdy: *Hey, you guys heard the latest about the fiscal cliff? Seems
> like we all going over . . .
>
>
>
>
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