The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll [Steyn Alert]

The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 9/6/05 | Mark Steyn

[hoboken109]

At least that kid showed some balls and some concern for others. He wasent swimming away with 2 DVD players like many of the other gang bangers.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Which begs the question..who would work harder for 14 hours a day at $10 per hour..an illegal mexican looking to support his family or one of the welfare people who's lived on handouts all their life, then complained about not having a job...??

[aculeus]

BTTT

[Torie]

Putting aside the merits, this is really a very fine piece of advocative writing. The man is frankly a genius. I don't want you to miss it, with all the activity around here. When I run for potus, Steyn will be at my side, or I just won't do it. :)

[Allen H]

Excellent. All very true, and very unfortunate. If someone in the New Orleans had put their heads on their shoulders Saturday or Sunday, as late as Sunday evening, instead of having them neatly tucked between their knees for buoyancy practice, babies and kids and elderly, and sick people, like the Jackson Parish President's mother who drowned Friday after the flooding, could have easily been evacuated. But it's easier for him and Nagin and everyone else to blame Bush and take no responsibility for their inaction. Well, with the internet and radio and the responsible new media, that just won't "float" anymore.

[AmishDude]

Well, duh.

It's Mark Steyn. Capital M. Capital S. Don't forget the "y".

And if anybody can explain to me why he doesn't have about 5 Pulitzers by now, I'd love to hear it.

[OneLoyalAmerican]

Granted, nobody ever thought that an important US city would have a mayor so incompetent...

No need to think, just vote democRat. Cleveland once had Congressman DENNIS! Kucinich for mayor.

[AmishDude]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: There should be a Steyn sidebar. I'd put it above Breaking News.

[Alien Gunfighter]

I'm sure it will come up eventually. We must remember and post a link to donate if/when NOLA attempts to prosecute him.

Funny how NOLA is making noises about going after a kid that rescued a lot of people by commandeering a bus, yet consider looters to be 'victims'. People like Jabbor expose the mayor and other authorities as the idiots they are and provided a shining example of what a person can do on his own, without government help (or in this case, interference).

[DumpsterDiver]

Which begs the question..who would work harder for 14 hours a day at $10 per hour..an illegal mexican looking to support his family or one of the welfare people who's lived on handouts all their life, then complained about not having a job...??

IF those were the only two choices, I'd say that the "illegal mexican looking to support his family" would work harder. However, those are NOT the only two options available.

[Happygal]

Steyn at his best.

Mayor Culpa bump!

[T Lady]

I second that.

He's actually one of few, besides Gen. Honore who are down in The Pelican State with any sense at all.

[Peelod]

I think Jabbor Gibson is a hero.

Medal of Freedom level.

[decimon]

Every lawyer in the South will be lining up to represent him for free. Too bad the rest of the brothers were busy looting and raping to emulate his heroic actions.

I don't think you meant to smear with so wide a brush.

I do think most of his brothers were concentrated on self-preservation and not other-deprivation.

[mountainfolk]

Thank you for the Steyn post. A dose of sanity that is nowhere to be found in the hateful twisted reporting of Katrina by the RAT affiliated main stream media.

[kittymyrib]

"Why argue about what level of bureaucracy you want to be let down by?", Steyn asks in this excellent piece. This evening, Newt argued with O'Reilly that government CAN help solve our problems. He's another big government Republican who should never again be elected to anything

[GeorgiaDawg32]

agreed

[Right Wing Professor]

And if anybody can explain to me why he doesn't have about 5 Pulitzers by now, I'd love to hear it.

Oh come on. Brilliant, conservative, utterly merciless towards liberal sacred-cows - the man could live 1000 years and never win a Pulitzer!

[pushforbush]

One of Steyn's best

[Clemenza]

I was wondering how long it would take for the immigration in everything crowd to pop up again.