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? 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