'Never Leave Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I guess only Gingrich, Santorum and Paul are left in the running, which sounds like the most messed-up F, C, M ever
OH GOD MY EYES MY EYES.
Honestly, though, Ron Paul would probably be the best case scenario. He's such a total nutjob that Congress would never work with him, so nothing would get done. As opposed to Newt, who knows how to get people to vote with him. He could do some real damage.
I think any of them would be a truly awful disaster. Even Romney would be. He has no convictions to prevent his appeasing the right. For that matter, Obama is pretty awful too, just not anything like as awful as the Republicans. He is the moderate Republican in the race, the non-Romney alternative. And I'll revive an old Buffista custom, and bet 50 Persian that Romney is the Republican nominee.
Just so you know:
My neighbor Brian (who I picked up from surgery last week) is taking me in first thing in the morning. He wanted to take me to the ER tonight, too, but I don't want to deal with an ER or ED tonight, and this can wait. That argument took a bit.
If your ER is anything like mine (which, maybe not, if it's not a level 1 trauma center), getting there before 8 or so can make a huge difference in wait time.
I actually think Gingrich might be the least damaging of the other three, as he strikes me as fairly smart and opportunistic, therefore more likely to be moderate rather than completely polarizing once in office. Ron Paul is one of the few politicians on the national level that I think has real integrity, but I also think his ideas about reducing government services would be disastrous if he were actually able to put them into practice. And Santorum is basically his Dan Savage-bestowed namesake as far as I'm concerned.
I agree with Matt!
If your ER is anything like mine (which, maybe not, if it's not a level 1 trauma center), getting there before 8 or so can make a huge difference in wait time.
Or if you can get there at like 4 or 5 AM, you do okay. 2-3 AM, which is the best time to visit Urgent Care, always seems like a nightmare in the ER, but an hour later is rather nice.
Oh, I'm going to Patient First, one of those urgent care, no appt friendly clinics. It opens at 8. I really don't want to do ER/ED. I'm not sure why. Hell, I know an awesome ED doc.
Around here, I imagine many of the hospitals are level 1s, I dunno. Hopkins, Mercy, Union Memorial, GBMC and that's just within spitting distance.
But I'll wait for the clinic.
Last election thought...
I thought a whole bunch of evangelicals came together last week to agree to vote for Santorum, but only 20% of those evangelicals did. I found that surprising.
I also laughed when K said there was a headline about voting for the Adulterer or the Mormon.
Hell, I know an awesome ED doc.
Who was working tonight!
But I understand not wanting to go the hospital.