[NewCenturions]

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[BenLurkin]

I think Jabbor Gibson is a hero.

[pipecorp]

entitlement mentality. why should i do it when i can get you to do it. it runs from the governor down to the mayor and beyond. that explains 80% of the mess.

[Archidamus]

Thanks for the posting this.

[BenLurkin]

"Welfare culture is bad not just because . . . it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry . . ."

Could be a good tag line.

[livius]

Good article, as usual. I think Hurricane Katrina in NO will be the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire of our time; that is, the fact that incompetence, confusion and greed resulted in a significant number of possibly avoidable deaths - and surely a lot of misery and horror - will probably result in a good reassessment of our structures for handling this.

Granted, nobody ever thought that an important US city would have a mayor so incompetent, or a governor who perceived federal help as nothing but a power-threatening interference. Still, there's got to be a plan for a breakdown on local levels, and it's got to be ready for quick implementation.

Also, there's got to be punishment for the incompetents and obstructionists. By the end of this, both the mayor and the governor should be out of a job and even on their way to prison.

[Right Wing Professor]

Mayor Culpa! LOL! How does Steyn come up with these, week-in, week-out?

[Colonel_Flagg]

Steyn ping.

[martin_fierro]

The Mayor Culpa

[decimon]

...Jabbor Gibson... the authorities back in New Orleans may yet prosecute him.

Free Jabbor Gibson!

I don't think this guy will be lacking funds for legal representation.

[Mister Baredog]

PING

[Lurker]

Thanks for the whole thing, and man is this going to leave a mark.

L

[JRios1968]

Consider the signature image of the flood: an aerial shot of 255 school buses neatly parked at one city lot, their fuel tanks leaking gasoline into the urban lake. An enterprising blogger, Bryan Preston, worked out that each bus had 66 seats, which meant that the vehicles at just that one lot could have ferried out 16,830 people.

I think Mark Steyn refers to this picture:

or maybe:

[tet68]

Steyn Bump
The master at work.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Just damn, Mark is a lurking FReeper who is quoting almost verbatim what has been posted. Well, goodo for him getting it out of Freeperville and into the mainstream consciousness where it really needs to be said.

[niteowl77]

Ray Nagin, the Anti-Giuliani, a Mayor Culpa

That is so good.

[AmishDude]

For the ping list.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

That man drips talent.

[ckilmer]

The Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan specifically stated that people without private transportation were to be transported on public buses.

There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.

At 70 people per bus that is 28,000 people per round trip that could have been taken out of the storm surge area in the 48 hours prior the Katrina striking.

After the storm hit, what makes you think that buses sent from outside of New Orleans could drive through the flooded mess any better than the 145 New Orleans city buses that were parked 1.2 miles away from the Superdome?

Was Scotty supposed to beam the outside buses to the Superdome and them beam them back out so that they would not have to drive through impassable roads?

The time to evacuate those 200,000 low-income people on public buses OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE was BEFORE the Category 4 storm struck.

That was what the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan for New Orleans specifically called for.

The Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor did NOTHING to carry out that portion of the plan. They left 200,000 low-income resident abandoned and they now blame the Federal Government for not having Scotty beam down a massive logistics effort after a human disaster of their own making.

[dawn53]

and the authorities back in New Orleans may yet prosecute him. For rescuing people without a permit?

Classic Steyn...thanks for posting.