Could I ask a favor from my beloved fellow freepers ?
Can someone do a screen cature of the 2nd sceen in the video and post it here in this forum ?
This is documentory evidence that the blanco buses sat unused.
Thread needs pingers and bumpers.
Who post a screen cap of the blanco buses ?
My computer won't open the "rtsp" link above. Can you give me some info about that?
Of course the MSM will call them "Bush Busses."
We've seen lots of school buses - anybody have any idea about the Metro buses?
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BUMP!!! Public education alert!!!
To the tune of Camptown Races....
"Blanco Buses parked just right, doo-dah, doo-dah
Blanco buses float all night, oh de doo-dah day
Gwine to float all night, and etc."
Lame, I know. ;^)
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Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
On January 12, 2004, Kathleen Babineaux Blanco became the first woman to serve as governor of Louisiana. In her long, distinguished career, Governor Blanco has served the people with a vision of creating a new Louisiana, filled with hope and opportunity for all citizens.
As Governor, her top priorities include: providing affordable, accessible healthcare, improving the state’s education system, and creating a strong and vibrant economy.
In her inaugural address, Governor Blanco outlined her priorities as governor: “We face important challenges in this new century: expanding our economy and creating quality jobs; building an effective health care system; improving our roads and highways; rebuilding our coastline; protecting our farmers; and ensuring that all our citizens, no matter their age, have superior educational opportunities.”
Governor Blanco believes that Louisiana’s challenges can only be met “if we have the courage and wisdom to pursue a new and different path.” That, she says, means striking “a hopeful chord -- one that unites our people in lifting up all Louisiana families; one that cherishes our children, protects our environment, and creates new economic opportunity for all our citizens.”
Before serving in the state’s top office, Governor Blanco completed two terms as Lieutenant Governor. As the state’s second-highest official, she supervised the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism. Under her leadership, tourism in Louisiana increased by 41 percent. This growth led to a $2.5 billion increase in the tourism industry’s economic contribution to the state and the creation of 121,000 new tourism-related jobs.
First elected lieutenant governor in 1995, Governor Blanco was overwhelmingly re-elected to her second term in 1999, winning 80 percent of the vote.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Students return to class Thursday in a school system in such turmoil that no one is sure how many employees it has, the new budget is millions of dollars out of balance, and the buildings are old and deteriorating.
A once-popular superintendent was ousted in April, in part because he could not get a handle on the longstanding financial mess. A turnaround management firm was brought in to clean up the finances in June, at the insistence of state officials and over the objections of the school board president.
Part of the turnaround company's task in getting ready for the first day of school has been an employee-by-employee audit to make sure the right people are getting paid the right amounts and that health insurance benefits are going only to the qualified.
"We've had to start over in some cases and recreate data from scratch," said Sajan George, an executive of New York-based Alvarez & Marsal. The rate of payroll errors when he arrived was around 20 percent, he said...
...Last spring, when the district appeared close to missing its payroll, the federal government said $70 million of its money couldn't be accounted for....
Just a couple of weeks ago, they were in turmoil, already... They probably had little, or no, gas in the buses! The article says they have more than 120 schools in NO, so if each school only had ten buses (they probably had more), then that would be well over 1000!
His ability to double the speed limit in Texas is LEGENDARY !
The hurricane chart shown in this thread shows a strike zone about 400 miles wide. And at the time, the storm was what, cat 2 or cat 3?
If we follow what the Monday morning quarterbacks are calling for, how many times would NO have been previously evacuated? Once a year, since forever?
I'm starting to believe there were more buses than water in NOLA.