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

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

[NewCenturions]

Bump

[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.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

I think Jabbor Gibson is a hero.

If he needs a defense fund, I'll contribute.

[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

[Archidamus]

"I guess the government will be hiring illegal aliens to clean up NO."

Although you are being sarcastic, you might well be right.

[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

[Archidamus]

Are you sure that his last name is Gibson? I though it was Wocky.

[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.