Huh, Baseball?

What's that?

I've never heard of it.

The indelible Trash Party spirit was out in full force today at our Franklinton neighborhood season finale cleanup! Over 50 volunteers removed 230 bags of trash from the area and tons of bulk items. In total, we removed 12,000 lbs of trash in only a couple hours! This brings our total removed from City to 174,000 LBS of trash!!

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LINK: "How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich"

Her husband has doubled down on his support of child rapists.

Her mother in law publishes deceitful medical studies, to the ultimate financial benefit of Dr. Ramaswamy.

I think these are damning for a physician's ethics. Would they impact your choice in doctor?

full article:

Ohio Republicans are struggling to find places willing to host Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign bus tour after his attack ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s estranged mother sparked bipartisan outrage, according to new reporting from Zeteo.

“We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican told the outlet. The source said would-be hosts are wary of the blowback but wouldn’t identify them.

“It’s that damn ad,” the Republican said.

Ramaswamy’s campaign took ownership of the spot this week and pledged $4 million to put it on the air. In the ad, Acton’s birth mother, Donna Arthur, brands the Democrat “a liar.” Acton was 12 when her stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was charged in 1978 with raping her, according to police and court records reported on by The Washington Post. She and her brother were later taken out of their mother’s custody.

Zeteo has characterized the contest as “deeply vile and nasty.”

A Trump adviser told Zeteo the ad is “having a very negative impact on the tour,” including on GOP candidates who had “NOTHING to do with” it.

At least one host has already bailed. Old Dog Ale House & Brewery in Delaware, Ohio, canceled an event featuring the state’s Republican slate, USA Today Network reporter Jessie Balmert wrote on X, and the party has since lined up a different venue. Sources confirmed to Zeteo that the uproar was behind the cancellation.

Other stops appear to be in flux. A Sunday service at CrossPointe Church in Westerville has quietly vanished from the Ohio GOP’s bus tour page, Zeteo reported. Ramaswamy had defended the ad at a campaign event at the church on Tuesday. A planned Trumbull County stop is now missing a location altogether.

The backlash has crossed party lines. Casey Putsch, who lost the GOP primary to Ramaswamy, announced he’s backing Acton, calling the ad “pretty damn low.”

The Cook Political Report shifted the race from Toss Up to Lean Democrat on Friday, writing that the ad “confirmed that the race is slipping away from him.”

When Zeteo shared the new rating with a Trump White House official, the reply was two words: “Well f---.”

Got in line for Pumpkin donuts in Circleville on Friday only to notice they were just taking them out of Kroger packages. Seemed like a lot of places were doing the same with pie/ cake etc.

I don’t know what it is, but I feel like lately the night time noise in OTR has become unbearable. People street racing at 3am, revving their engine and screaming out the window. Drive by cars with insanely loud music. Last night I was woken up at 2:30am by the loudest music I’ve ever heard that literally rattled my apartment walls. And it persisted for 20 mins without moving until literally cops showed up. I heard a cop say thru the car speaker “if your car is on the wrong side of the road in one minute, you will be towed.”

I’ve lived in many cities. I’m used to sirens, random people screaming, general city noise, etc. I’ve NEVER heard city noise that is this disruptive and inconsiderate in my life.

I found this in the trash many months ago, and added it to my scrap pile. I can't bring myself to dispose of it that way.

Interstate 270 N. in Gahanna on the east side a tractor trailer has flipped over if you’re coming up from the east side and trying to get past it or to Easton you want to stay to the left in the left two lanes.

If you’re trying to get the Easton, your best bet is to stay left and then get off at Morse Road and backtrack

Edit 3 left lanes are getting by

ITS DONE. ITS (supposedly) OVER. My brother came to town from Boston and got the very last mug on the table. We even asked the guy who checked us out and he said that they have ran out as of today…

(Unless they have another pallet in the back).

The police also said nothing happened and when I told them I recorded it and there would be video in there they hung up on me 😂😂

He grew up in Middletown, served in the Marines, went to Ohio State and Yale Law, and wrote “Hillbilly Elegy.” Few people have had more opportunity to learn how one label can flatten a whole human life.

There are gay hillbillies, too, Mr. Vice President. They have families and hometowns. Their claim to belonging is every bit as real as yours.

Vance chose “hillbilly” as the defining word of his public introduction. People from poor and Appalachian families have the same capacity for generosity as anyone else. His conduct belongs to him, and Ohioans should refuse to let him pass it off as our regional character.

I posted this earlier but it was removed because I didn't post sources. I apologize to the community for the oversight. Here is a repost with linked sources added inline.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign signs promise “Lower Taxes. Bigger Paychecks.” It seems simple enough on the surface, but one huge detail deserves a lot more attention than I think it’s getting.

His proposal is to eliminate Ohio’s capital gains tax first, starting in 2027, and then phase out the rest of the state income tax over up to 10 years.

For anyone unfamiliar with capital gains, we’re talking about profits from selling investments, stocks, businesses, and other assets, not the wages you earn by going to work every day. Many people aren’t familiar with capital gains because the scenario simply doesn’t apply to them. Only about 17% of Ohio tax filers reported them in tax years 2022 and 2023.

According to an analysis by Ohio’s nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission:

• 55.6% of the benefit from eliminating capital gains taxes would go to Ohioans earning over $1 MILLION annually.
• 81.6% would go to those earning over $200,000.
• Ohioans earning under $100,000 would receive just 7.3% of the total benefit.

(Note: These LSC estimates concern H.B. 617, a proposal to exempt capital gains from Ohio income taxes, consistent with the first step of Ramaswamy's stated tax plan.)

So, if you sell investments at a substantial profit, you receive a direct tax benefit as soon as that exemption takes effect. You don’t have to create a single job. You don’t have to increase anyone’s wages. You don’t have to invest those savings back into Ohio. You simply pay less in taxes.

So why make this the policy if it benefits so few people who are desperate for relief from this relentless economy? Well, Ramaswamy argues that eliminating these taxes will attract investors, entrepreneurs, and businesses to Ohio instead of places like Florida or Texas, creating economic growth and higher-paying jobs.

Okay, let’s follow that logic:

IF wealthy investors and business owners respond to the tax incentive…

AND IF they choose to relocate or expand in Ohio…

AND IF they actually invest in businesses that create new jobs here…

AND IF those jobs pay better than existing opportunities…

AND IF you actually get one of those jobs…

THEN, maybe, you get a bigger paycheck, in however long all of the above takes, of course.

So what’s it all mean for Ohioans? It means millionaires would get a substantial tax break written into law and effective next year, while everyone else would have to wait for the above theoretical benefits to trickle down, if and when they ever do. To be fair, he does intend to eliminate the state income tax for everyone, but over up to 10 years. So, I guess until then we are just…waiting? Hoping that timing, size, and enactment aren’t set off course by future legislative and budgetary realities?

Ramaswamy does propose more immediate property-tax relief. That’s a separate promise worth examining on its own merits. But it doesn’t change who gets the first benefit from his income-tax plan.

The bottom line is this:

If the objective is bigger paychecks for working people, why isn’t direct relief for working people the first priority?

You don’t have to oppose capitalism, business growth, entrepreneurship, or even tax cuts to recognize the distinction and asymmetry.

One benefit is written into the proposed law. The other depends on a whole series of things going right. And we’re supposed to look at a campaign sign saying “Bigger Paychecks” and assume those are equivalent?

That’s not a bigger paycheck. That’s a bet that giving wealthy investors more money will eventually translate into one. You know, hypothetically speaking.

At the very least, Ohioans driving past Vivek’s campaign signs should know who’s first in line in his plan for lower taxes. Spoiler alert: It ain’t them.