I had a bunch of Doc40 fun stuff prepared for Thanksgiving, but suddenly it no longer makes sense as the reports roll in about the attacks on Mumbai. Now, as the TV and the computer bring in the bad news, and all I can do is wait and watch impotently, see what happens next, and offer our collective sympathy to our friends in India.
My girl is having me do a thing with her family for the holiday... if not for that, I'd be down at the tribal casino.
ReplyDeleteI might still go depending on how late it is when we get back... we'll see how that goes.
I don't know what to say about Mumbai... I only wish the families & loved ones of the victims could have their way with the heinous people who are responsible for such an atrocity.
ReplyDeleteTerrible. Sad.
ReplyDeleteBut over 200 people have already been killed in different attacks in India this year with less media coverage. This time they wanted the British & American passport holders. So the world takes notice.
Shame on us all.
Shame indeed, but empathy fails all the time. We can't feel every attrocity as if it was our own. We'd go crazy.
ReplyDeleteIt started in Hindustan just after the WW2 when Jai India was cut to Pakistan and India. Hindus and Muslims in their rage used to burn whole trains full of people who were ethnically cleansed from their previous homes. Hundreds of thousand were killed.
ReplyDeleteNow with A-bombs on both sides and those new talibans
in game everything could become very delicate, the least to say. I saw these fuckers on work in Bosnia. Deranged killers with eyes full of hatred.
Today you throw in some massacres, especially on Western citizens, and with the media coverage the new hot spot is built.
These terrorists want to provoke there a permanent conflict between Christians, Muslims & Hindus. (Chinese spies & skunks in the Mumbai area are laughing now).
It is prophetized (Vanga) that WW3 would start in 2010 in Hindustan after an attempt to kill four Western politicians.
It could be that but it think that the war has already started, slowly and with unconventional means.
This could be a war between
believers and non-believers (Muslim term), rich fuckers and oppressed people, South and North, black and grey (white don't exist any more)... in one word... World Championship In Everything.
Why are people lately calling Bombay Mumbai? We don't say Wien for Vienna or Munchen for Munich.
ReplyDeleteFucking me again.
ReplyDeleteA Jain from L.A. told me this summer that Mumbai was the name long before the kolonial name Bombay was given by Brits so now it's again Mumbai. It's easy to verify but I didn't.
Anyway, no more Bombay Calling!
for the silence...
ReplyDeletethanks mick