I had a reversal a year and a half ago. Had to wear a bag for a year due to colon knicked during routine hissy
Anyway, is there any chance that going up there with a tube will damage my reversal?? I know, it’s probably a stupid question, but things have been so good the last year with the reversal, I never want to risk going back
Nardo was the Colonel Klink of super-villians!
On her 1994 application to be certified as a physician in Ohio, question No. 15 asked Amy Acton if she had ever received outpatient treatment for “emotional or mental illness, drug addiction or abuse, or an alcohol problem?”
Acton, the Democratic nominee for governor, whose name at the time was Amy Beech, told the truth. She checked the box marked “YES” and subsequently met the requirement that her “treating physician” provide the State Medical Board of Ohio with a letter explaining the reason for her treatment.
That reason involved the emotional trauma of growing up in an environment of neglect, the product of a dysfunctional, abusive and dirt-poor family in Youngstown.
Nevertheless, Acton not only persevered, she thrived. Her life story is inspirational.
Acton went to college, then medical school. When Gov. Mike DeWine took office in 2019, the Republican governor made this Democratic doctor his health director. For her work when COVID-19 arrived in Ohio in March 2000, DeWine would call Acton, “a good, compassionate and honorable person” who has “worked nonstop to save lives and protect her fellow citizens.”
Acton had legions of fans, but many others thought the state’s COVID lockdown strategies went too far. On at least three occasions in the spring of 2020, small groups of protesters paraded in front of her Bexley home. A few classy folks carried weapons to ward off all the dangerous criminals who regularly roam the streets of this well-off suburb.
But the warm feeling many Ohioans have for Acton poses a significant problem for Vivek Ramaswamy, her Republican opponent in this year’s election for governor. Ramaswamy may be the most unlikeable major party candidate for governor in Ohio history. He’s talented. He’s smart. He knows almost nothing about state government. And, above all, he oozes arrogance.
Ramaswamy campaign strategists first tried to change all that by spending millions on advertising designed to make him likable. It didn’t work. The race against Acton in red-state Ohio remained tied.
Another tactic involved an attempt to make Acton the face of COVID-19 shutdowns. But the truth is rarely Ramaswamy’s friend. Another tactic involved an attempt to make Acton the face of COVID-19 shutdowns. But the truth is rarely Ramaswamy’s friend. Multiple news organizations have conclusively shown that, at the time of Ohio’s lockdowns, Ramaswamy** **advocated arguably tougher COVID restrictionsthan were implemented by DeWine.
There is as yet no evidence the COVID attack line has worked for Ramaswamy, either. So the billionaires who seem to be running his campaign, including Elon Musk, the world’s richest and creepiest man, have teamed with the repugnant folks at the state GOP to attack Acton with one of the most vile and repulsive lies ever told in an Ohio campaign for governor.
They are using question No. 15 from Acton’s 1994 application, in which she honestly acknowledged being treated for emotional problems related to her horrible childhood, and suggesting her checking that “Yes” box was also an admission that she was a drug addict and a drunk.
They are doing it on social media. They are doing it in television commercials costing millions. And they are doing it with a slanderous word-of-mouth campaign. These are sick and twisted people, willing to peddle any lie necessary to keep control of an office Republicans have held for all but four of the past 36 years.
Another section of Acton’s application with the state medical board included outstanding reviews from those involved in her medical education. When she was a first-year resident (first-year residents are also known as interns), Acton began a 12-month program at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx. But the married Acton was pregnant, so she decided to leave the program and return home, completing only four months of the 12-month internship.
In those four months, Acton trained under Dr. Steven Shelov, a widely respected pediatrician. Shelov gave Acton high marks on a survey he submitted to the Ohio Medical Board but explained** **that, on the survey, she received an “insufficient” skills grade only because she spent just four months in the program. When Acton completed the yearlong internship in Ohio, she again received excellent evaluations.
Attempts to contact Dr. Shelov for this column were unsuccessful.
Acton soon finished the one-year internship in Ohio and was granted a license to practice medicine in June 1994 .Nevertheless, the Ramaswamy campaign and his bottom-feeding supporters at the Ohio Republican Party continue to spread falsehoods about her, even maliciously stating that the state medical board determined she lacked essential skills.
That’s a lie.
If these parasites gain control of the governor’s office, chances are they will lie about almost everything. Then they’ll do whatever it takes to sell out working-class Ohioans with policies designed to make the rich even richer.
In the final campaign of his long and successful life in Ohio politics, former Gov. Jim Rhodes sought a fifth term as governor, hoping to spoil incumbent Dick Celeste’s bid for re-election in 1986.
From the start, Rhodes was a decided underdog. And as the election neared and polls showed him headed for a landslide loss, Rhodes resorted to disgusting gay-bashing tactics, depicting Celeste as a homosexual sympathizer.
It didn’t work** **then, it shouldn’t work now. If Ohio voters genuinely believe that truth and decency matter in public life, Ramaswamy’s campaign will end the same way.
Brent Larkin was The Plain Dealer’s editorial director from 1991 until his retirement in 2009.
To reach Brent Larkin: blarkin@cleveland.com
Cleveland’s struggle to appease and retain its professional sports teams is a 68 year problem, one still in search of a meaningful solution.
It dates back to the late 1950s, when declining performance and attendance led to three decades of reliable reports and rumors linking the Indians to suitors in Minneapolis, Tampa, Houston, Seattle and New Orleans.
Nearly seven decades later, the team is still here, though now named the Guardians. Unfortunately, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and entire region have yet to find a long term funding stream to build and maintain publicly owned facilities.
The challenge this poses to governments is enormous: Satisfy billionaire sports team owners in a way that doesn’t place an unreasonable burden on taxpayers, while preserving the economic activity these publicly facilities generate as significant drivers for downtown and the broader region.
That is precisely the challenge Cuyahoga County and city of Cleveland l;eaders face again now as they struggle to pay about $40 million owed the Guardians and Cavaliers, while also funding future repairs that may total $400 million in over the next decade.
This is what happens when a city struggles with generational poverty, in a county that has been losing population for 30 years. And when governments of adjacent counties, the beneficiaries of much of that population loss, selfishly reject numerous requests over the years that they help pay for stadiums and arenas their residents use and enjoy.
Attempts to take the Indians elsewhere ended, for a time, in 1990, when voters narrowly approved a sin tax for the Gateway project, the new arena and baseball stadium built on the site of the old Central Market.
Gateway brought the Cavaliers back to downtown, 20 years after they left because civic and political leaders failed to take seriously owner Nick Mileti’s threats to build an arena on an empty field in Richfield. Of course, Cleveland lost its NFL team for three years in the late 1990s when Art Modell moved the Browns, renamed the Ravens, to Baltimore.
Today, Greater Cleveland is the smallest market in the country that hosts a major league baseball, basketball and football teams. And, once again, it is mired in a crisis of how much taxpayers should pay to build and maintain the facilities that host their games.
If and when Greater Cleveland loses a sports team, it won’t be the one that is by far the least important. Armed with a potential $600 million gift from state government and a deal that will eventually fleece the citizens of Brook Park, the Browns are building a new covered stadium in that suburb that will keep them here for decades.
To essentially guarantee that the Guardians and Cavaliers remain downtown for another generation will require a funding stream that doesn’t now exist. But within the next two years, ownership of the Guardians will likely pass from the Dolan family to David Blitzer, the New York billionaire who has invested in numerous professional sports teams.
If the county and city can’t fund Gateway in a manner that avoids defaulting on existing obligations to the Guardians, the new owner might find the demographics of places like Charlotte or Nashville a whole lot more appealing than here.
Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb did not cause this problem. And Ronayne has already saved the taxpayers $600 million by refusing to support the Browns’ request to have the county fund their abandonment of downtown. Ronayne’s handling of the Gateway debts owed the Cavaliers and Guardians, however, has been less decisive.
The choice for both Ronayne and Bibb is to craft a long term funding solution for Gateway or face the eventual loss of a team, which would devastate downtown. Bibb has already let one team leave on his watch. Losing another team would be an even more devastating blow to the city’s core. Mayors are ultimately judged not only by the problems they inherit, but what they do to solve them.
Complicating the problem is a state government willing to reward Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam with a $600 million gift of public money in return for their funding Republican campaigns. But it on’t even give the county permission to ask voters to approve a large sin tax extension to fund required investments in Progressive Field and Rocket Arena.
In a petty move that intentionally harmed Ohio’s largest region, House Speaker Matt Huffman declined to allow for such a vote. The late House speakers JoAnn Davidson and Vern Riffe understood that their responsibility extended beyond their own political interests and geographic bases. That’s why they’re fondly remembered. Huffman is a speaker who will be remembered more for the harm he caused and the vendettas he pursued. And that is why history will be so unkind to him.
So, here we are, trapped in a state that handed $600 million to the Browns but won’t even allow Cuyahoga County voters to decide for themselves if they want to prevent Gateway from defaulting on its obligations to the Cavaliers and Guardians.
If this all ends badly for Cleveland, many will share the blame - including the worthless Republican legislators from Greater Cleveland who have the power to do something about this.
For everyone involved, it’s important to remember doing nothing is not leadership. It’s cowardice.
To reach Brent Larkin: blarkin@cleveland.com
Hubby won his bet (Kim over DeChambasshole). It was an initial loss, so DraftKings took his money and didn’t pay him. After the 2 stroke penalty, he won, but they are still saying it was a loss.
Anyone have an answer to this? I think DK paid the ‘winners’ prematurely, and should have waited till the scoring was absolutely final.
I mean, it’s only $40 bucks, but others are getting screwed for much more.
The United States at 250 has little in common with the nation that celebrated its 200th birthday in 1976. Back then, Americans had reason to believe their government worked exactly as the Founders intended, that the Congress and Supreme Court would not tolerate the crimes of the Watergate era, forcing from office a president whose crimes seem trival compared to what’s happening here today.
Indeed, in the election of 2024 an astonishing 77,303,568 Americans voted to return to the presidency, a man who, not long before that, was found by two juries of his peers to have committed 34 felonies related to his business and a year before that ordered to pay $88 million to a woman he sexually abused in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
Trump has returned that favor by assembling and presiding over a government that is today on of the most reviled on the planet, one where everything he touches, up to and including the nation’s 250th birthday, becomes a national embarrassment.
Fifty years ago, America celebrated its 200th birthday with dignified celebrations near the Washington Monument, a Kennedy Center gala that featured genuine stars, and a dignified speech from President Gerald Ford. That’s quite the contrast to what’s happening there now, with what has been aptly described as human cockfighting on the White House lawn on June 14, or the planned political rally for July 4 hosted by Trump and a handful of third-rate entertainers. The racism on display from some thug who hurled a vile insult at Michelle Obama during the June 14 event, while Trump sat smugly by, was yet another low moment for the country that returned him to office.
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Trump, you see, cares not one bit about what happened here in in the 1770s. He has zero appreciation or understanding of what July 4 symbolizes. The entirety of his focus is always the glorification and enrichment of Donald Trump. Now, with his popularity in a freefall and surrounded by a talentless cabinet of bootlickers, Trump has become a hideous disgrace, a man unworthy of mention in the same sentence as the Founders.
That is why Trump deserves his own special day of remembrance, a day that will be taught in history classes for centuries. That date, of course, would be Jan. 6. On that day in 2021 Trump, as a sitting president, incited a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol designed to overturn an election he lost. The goal of Trump’s goons on that day was to bring a violent end to the freedoms so many real American sacrificed their lives for in a war that began in April of 1775.
The Jan. 6 mob attacked law enforcement officers. It desecrated the Capitol. There was talk about finding and hanging Vice President Mike Pence, and of murdering House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
All this took place because Trump falsely claimed the 2020 election for president, which he decisively lost to Joe Biden, was rigged. In Trump’s warped view of democracy, every election that doesn’t go his way is rigged. The ones he wins were honest.
But more than six years after Trump got beat, not a shred of evidence has been unearthed to support that lie. Nevertheless, the man who four years later received more than 77 million voters now describes Jan. 6 as “a day of love.” He has granted clemency to the violent criminals who did his dirty work that day. Nearly a 100 of them have since allegedly returned to their lives of crime. These are the types of people Trump wants to reward with the proceeds of a $1.8 billion slush fund of our tax dollars.
At first, Trump’s supporters were horrified by the violent attempt to overturn a free and fair election. Over time, that changed. MAGA voters began to believe what they were told to believe. A CBS News poll taken right after the insurrection showed 51% of Republicans “strongly disapproved”on what happened that day. A CBS News poll taken as Trump prepared to take office after the 2024 election showed only 30% “strongly disapproved.”
Trump’s obsession with that 2020 loss and the violence he later incited makes him seem frighteningly unstable. On June 7, Trump angrily stormed off a Meet the Press interview when host Kristen Welker politely asked him about the lack of evidence the 2020 election was stolen, calling Welker “stupid” and Meet the Press “crooked.” Trump also repeated the bald faced lie that FBI agents were “ushering” the insurrectionists into the U.S. Capitol that day.
During his first term as president, Trump appointed Christopher Wray to head the FBI, calling Wray an “impeccably qualified individual” and a “model of integrity.” Wray was indeed a model of integrity. That’s why, five months after the violent insurrection, he told a congressional committee, “The violence and destruction of property at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6 showed a blatant and appalling disregard for our institutions of government and the orderly administration of the democratic process. The FBI does not tolerate violent extremists who use the guise of First Amendment-protected activity to engage in violent criminal activity. The destruction of property, violent assaults on law enforcement officers, and imminent physical threats to elected officials betray the values of democracy.”
That was Trump’s guy, talking about what Trump’s hoodlums did that day. Trump doesn’t deserve to celebrate the 4th of July, and this country doesn’t deserve him. Brent Larkin.
We live by a small lake with many Mallards and Geese. This beauty stopped by and I think she’s going to stay!
‘Blonde’ Mallard female. Research shows they are quite rare…only one in 165,000 births!
She’s already got a fella! Lol
Hi, fellow gamblers. I have studied a few recent videos of the Apex Casino and I can no see any Video Poker machines. In order to fulfill my Blue Chip free cruise, I pretty much only play VP. If there are none on the Apex, I will be looking at other X ships.
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