Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

remember 1964 and what I was hearing no longer matched what I heard in grade school and in some cases was the opposite...

 

Better looking, more practical and reliable than a Cyber Truck.

 

Sounds like my high school in the early 1970s. Those heady years when rampant liberalism was just getting started in our schools.

 

In the days after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, thousands of people remained trapped in flooded New Orleans as rescue and evacuation efforts struggled to keep up.
Among them was 20-year-old Jabbar Gibson. According to Gibson and multiple contemporary reports, New Orleans police told him and others they could take an abandoned school bus and leave the city. Gibson got behind the wheel and began picking up stranded residents, including families with young children, as he drove through the flooded streets.
The passengers pooled what little money they had to buy fuel and diapers during the 13-hour journey to Houston. By the time they reached the Astrodome, around 50 to 70 evacuees were on board, making it the first busload of Katrina survivors to arrive there ahead of the official evacuation convoys.
Officials initially refused the group entry because they were not part of the organized evacuation from the Superdome. After about 20 minutes, the evacuees were allowed inside.

Gibson's journey remains one of the lesser-known stories from Hurricane Katrina, illustrating how some survivors relied on their own initiative to escape New Orleans during the disaster's chaotic aftermath.
It's kids like him that give us all hope...

 

I wonder what he is doing now?

 

Jabbar Gibson is currently serving a federal prison sentence in New Hampshire.

As of August 2025, he was incarcerated at a federal facility in the state, with approximately eight years remaining on his 15-year sentence He is serving time for federal drug and gun charges unrelated to his Hurricane Katrina actions. Gibson is best known as a hero who, at age 20, commandeered an abandoned school bus in 2005 and rescued over 70 people from floodwaters in New Orleans, driving them to safety at the Astrodome in Houston Despite his later legal troubles, he continues to be recognized for his bravery during the disaster and has mentioned working on a film about his life and an appeal of his conviction while in prison

 

Sadly, Jabbar Gibson is currently serving 15-years in Federal prison on drug and gun convictions.

 

That's what President Reagan told the USSR about the Cold War. In many was President Trump reminds me of President Reagan; determined to do what needs to be done despite what the so-called "experts" say.