FOX is full of drama queens these past few days...but Bill-O and the newly arrived Geraldo must be going the fast-track route for some sort of Pulitzer or Emmy or sumpin; delusional to say the least.
Posted on 09/02/2005 8:01:12 PM PDT by george76
Edited on 09/02/2005 8:06:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
This AP photo shows scores of New Orleans school buses sitting in flood waters after Hurricane Katrina - sitting where they sat instead of being used to evacuate thousands of poor people before Katrina hit.
Why are scores of school buses sitting in the flood waters of New Orleans today? Blame New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who is one reason things have gotten worse, not better, in his stricken city since it was hit by Hurricane Katrina. His laissez faire approach to looting allowed the looters to become increasingly armed and violent, interrupting rescue and recovery operations.
But even before Katrina hit, he failed his poorest citizens horribly. He told them to evacuate the city - and then gave his city's poorest residence no way to do so.
Nagin lashed out at federal officials yesterday for the government's relief efforts, pleading for the government to round up "500 buses" to send to New Orleans to evacuate survivors.
But Nagin, who ordered a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans before Katrina hit, ought to be made to answer this question: Where are the buses of the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority? Under water? Destroyed? Why?
FReeper hole_n_one was the first one to find the photo and post it on FR.
FOX is full of drama queens these past few days...but Bill-O and the newly arrived Geraldo must be going the fast-track route for some sort of Pulitzer or Emmy or sumpin; delusional to say the least.
Have you seen any headlines about the Gov or the Mayor?
The LA Times has one on Barbour. What?
Most school buses, like those in the photo, are 55-pax, so 11,000 people. If he started at the 72 hour point, and made a run every 12 hours, we're talking 55 to 66,000 people evacuated before landfall. Add a few more per busload if you had people sitting in the aisle, or on stretcher there.
That kid has the can-do, never-say-die spirit that made America great. Kid has to be a republican.
Nagin had a plan for evacuation. Here it is on the NOLA website:
http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=16
Browse around the site and see how prepared they were.
It is being mentioned on talk radio. The story will not stop.
Can a public official be charged with negligent manslaughter?
"That kid has the can-do, never-say-die spirit that made America great. Kid has to be a republican."
How about the next Mayor of New Orleans?
I hope so. Both he and his friend Blanco.
I didn't post the drudge story (he hasn't had a real scoop in years), sorry I missed the hole n one post. Thanks for the update. Actually, Yahoo got it first, but as usual, freepers were on the ball.
Surely you jest.
"I don't want to see anybody do anymore goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference until the resources are in this city. And then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can't even count.
Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's too doggone late. Now get off your asses and do something, and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country"
Both, of course, have a defense in diminished capacity.
Nagin's failure, like his predecessors, was not having a plan. The city and county MUST practice, practice, practice disaster plans in order to be effective.
Nagin couldn't help the fact he didn't have the resources to deal with a disaster of this magnitude. That's where Blanco failed, in addition to the fact she had absolutely NO plan, NO judgment and NO clue. She needs to go back to doing lessons plans and yard duty.
"Yet they'll reelect him. You see, he has the GOLDEN D after his name!"
Yes, he has the GOLDEN D -- and he's black. Competence isn't an issue.
"They're all blaming Bush. It makes me sick that they're sooo ignorant!"
It makes me sick that they're so ignorant, too. And it makes me sick that we're all expected to pick up the pieces of their so-called lives because they were too lazy and/or stupid (not ignorant -- truly stupid) to leave when they were told to leave. I realize that some were too old or ill to help themselves, and that's fine; helping them would be a privilege. The others? I have no sympathy for them. (Still, we'll be writing a check for their relief at church this weekend -- because that's what Christians do.)
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