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In the latest incident involving Delhi’s notorious Blueline buses, seven pedestrians were killed today in India’s capital city.

A Blueline bus mowed down seven people at Ali Gaon taking the total toll from these deadly buses to 93 this year.

The dead in today’s gory incident involving a Blueline bus on Route 460 included five women, a child and a man. Eight others were injured.

Upset over the bloody incident, a mob of 3,000 threw stones at the bus and attempted to set it on fire.

One of the most incompetent governments in India today, the Delhi administration has done little to stop the killing spree of these privately owned Blueline killer buses, which are often reported to be speeding.

Residents of Delhi commonly refer to the 4,000 Blueline buses plying in the city as the “killer fleet“.

Death Toll from Blueline Buses
2007 – 93 (Jan-Oct 6)
2006 – 100
2005 – 142

Say what you will, we think the Singapore government’s policy of banning bubble-gum chewing in public was a sensible move.

Alas, the Indians are not half as smart as the Singaporeans, who got their Independence 18 years after the Indians.

As bubble-gum sales go flat in the U.S., the MNCs have turned their sights to attacking Indian kids with their hideous product.

Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting story on the bubble-game plans of the big multinational corporations:

Cadbury Schweppes PLC, the world’s biggest candy maker by sales, is intensifying the race to capture India’s growing bubble-gum market. Cadbury’s Bubbaloo, launched there in July, joins rivals Boomer gum, made by Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co. of the U.S., and Big Babol, made by Italian company Perfetti Van Melle SpA, to try to entice children, the main chewers of bubble gum.

One of the vilest products to emerge out of man’s imagination, we still can’t understand why both the young and old, boys and girls, rich and poor are slave to this horrid viscous chemical made from petroleum-based polymers.

Would you drink petrol? No, right. So, why would you want to put bubble-gum into your mouth?

As long as there are dumb, bovine folks in the Third World, MNCs have no Continue reading »

1. Blacks account for 13% of the U.S. population but about 50% of the two million prisoners. Writing in Sunday’s New York Times, Harvard professor Orlando Patterson attributes this “virtual gulag of racial incarceration” to unfair law enforcement, draconian mandatory sentencing, retreat from rehabilitation, far higher crimes committed by blacks and the catastrophic state of black family life.

2.  According to Nancy Benac of the Associated Press, 40% of Americans – a whopping 116 million – have never lived when there wasn’t a Bush or Clinton in the White House, either as President or Vice President. To all those Indians who whine about the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty’s hold on power, take heart. Things in America ain’t no better.

3. When you read that 23% of cars sold in the U.S. are manufactured elsewhere (mainly Japan, South Korea, Germany), you begin to realize why the American auto industry is going down the toilet. Just watch, things are only gonna get much worse for U.S. auto workers when the American car companies GM, Ford and Chrysler start importing cars from China and other low wage countries.

4. About 47 million Americans do not have health insurance. This means most of them cannot afford to visit a doctor unless they are unlucky enough to be struck with a catastrophic illness in which case they become bankrupt.

5. According to the New York Times, the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11 is projected to hit $800 billion by the end of 2008.