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#WhereWasBill

#1 Post by themanintheseersuckersuit » Fri Nov 07, 2014 1:04 pm

That was the hashtag of an attack by Louisiana Sen. Landrieu on her runoff opponent Dr. Bill Cassidy

He sent her a link to this story

How I Did It
With a little help from a lot of friends, a doctor turned an abandoned K Mart into a field hospital for victims of Hurricane Katrina
(MONEY Magazine)
By Ellen McGirt
November 1, 2005
(MONEY Magazine) – BY DR. BILL CASSIDY, 48, BATON ROUGE AS TOLD TO ELLEN MCGIRT

"We had no way to predict what people coming out of New Orleans were going to need. My physician group didn't have emergency preparedness responsibilities, so we made a lot of this stuff up as we went along.

The old K Mart we were to use had been abandoned for about eight years. It was filthy. There was no electricity, no air conditioning and no windows....

http://money-archive.wp.alley.ws/magazi ... /index.htm
Suitguy is not bitter.

feels he represents the many educated and rational onlookers who believe that the hysterical denouncement of lay scepticism is both unwarranted and counter-productive

The problem, then, is that such calls do not address an opposition audience so much as they signal virtue. They talk past those who need convincing. They ignore actual facts and counterargument. And they are irreparably smug.

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