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October 16, 2021
Vehicle of family that went missing 20 years ago discovered in Ohio River
The vehicle belonging to a woman who went missing with her two children nearly 20 years ago was recovered from the Ohio River, according to the Delhi Township Police Department.
Stephanie Van Nguyen, 26, and her two young children, Kristina, 4, and John, 3, went missing in 2002 from Delhi, Ohio, police said Friday in a statement on Facebook. Delhi is a suburb of Cincinnati.
Nguyen was traveling in a green 1997 Nissan Pathfinder with an Ohio license plate, according to a missing person's report with the Ohio Attorney General's Office.
"Nguyen left a note that she was going to drive into the Ohio River," police said. The case was investigated, but ultimately went cold.
In 2021, Delhi Police took a fresh look at the case, making use of advancements in sonar technology. They were assisted by the Hamilton County Police Association Dive Team and Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
For six months they scanned the Ohio river for clues, and found "three unique objects" last week, police said.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/16/us/stephanie-van-nguyen-delhi-ohio/index.html
October 16, 2021
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/10/anti-vax-flat-earth-preacher-rob-skiba
Anti-Vax Flat Earth Preacher Rob Skiba Dies From COVID-19
Anti-Vax Flat Earth Preacher Rob Skiba Dies From COVID-19
"The one scenario that really does appear to be coming into focus is the likelihood that within I’d say 2 to 3 years or so... one of us will probably be dead," Skiba posted to Facebook to those getting vaccinated.
By Ed Scarce
Skiba was calling vaccine mandates the "mark of the beast" from Revelations way back in 2012. He thought COVID-19 vaccinations were dangerous, posting on Facebook, "To those who disagree with my position on our current situation... One of us is right,” he wrote.
Rob Skiba made a really bad bet.
Rob Skiba, an influential figure in flat earth and Christian circles, has died of COVID-19, colleagues announced on Thursday. He had been fighting the virus since at least late August, when he began exhibiting symptoms after “Take On The World,” a biblical flat earth conference. “He has been sick since coming back from TOTW,” a Facebook friend posted in early September, adding that Skiba had been hospitalized for low oxygen levels. One of the country’s most prominent advocates of Flat Earth Theory, Skiba was also skeptical of COVID-19 vaccines and some of the illness’ treatments. On the first day of the Take On The World conference, Skiba authored a Facebook post suggesting that the COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous.
‘To those who disagree with my position on our current situation... One of us is right,” he wrote. “Unless YHWH miraculously intervenes, based on what I’m seeing/hearing, the one scenario that really does appear to be coming into focus is the likelihood that within I’d say 2 to 3 years or so... one of us will probably be dead. Truly, I take no joy in saying this, nor will I if I'm the one still standing.”
https://crooksandliars.com/2021/10/anti-vax-flat-earth-preacher-rob-skiba
October 16, 2021
An unvaccinated man met a doctor at a bar. He left agreeing to get his first dose.
Mark Hall was not fond of Duane Mitchell's appetizer selection.
"That sounds awful. No, thank you," Hall joked.
Soon, the icebreaker that got the two strangers chatting at the bar of a Gainesville, Fla., restaurant earlier this month turned into an over three-hour-long conversation about coronavirus vaccines.
"What do you think about the vaccine?" Hall asked after Mitchell disclosed that he was a researcher studying human diseases at the University of Florida.
Mitchell replied that he believed in the vaccine and that he had been vaccinated. But Hall had no plans to get the shot. Hall said he had done extensive research about the vaccines, but plenty of his questions remained unanswered.
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By the end of the dinner, the men exchanged numbers, and Hall cracked one more joke. He'd get the vaccine - but only if Mitchell gave it to him, the physician told The Post. To Mitchell's surprise, Hall followed through and texted him to schedule his appointment at the university's clinic. Five days after their chance meeting, Hall received his first shot.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/An-unvaccinated-man-met-a-doctor-at-a-bar-He-16529180.php
October 16, 2021
"The heartbreaking part was," he continues, "while [Kevin] was in the hospital, he asked the medical staff to give him the shot. They had to tell him it was too late."
Mike told The Free Lance–Star that his brother first started to show symptoms last month, but was sent home from an urgent care center with cold medicine. A few days later, when his health had not improved, Kevin returned to the facility and tested positive for COVID-19.
Just a few days later, Misty, who was diabetic, also began to feel unwell and was soon hospitalized, per the newspaper.
On Sept. 22, Misty's family learned she had to be put on a ventilator and that her kidneys were only functioning at 50 percent, reported The Free Lance-Star.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/va-couple-die-of-covid-weeks-apart-leaving-behind-5-children-please-get-vaccinated-family-says/ar-AAPzXoZ?ocid=msedgntp
parents of 5 die days apart from COVID. had refused to get vaxxed. asked for vax too late
"I knew how deadly COVID could be so I went to my brother and asked him to please get vaccinated," Mike tells PEOPLE. "His response to me was to show different memes and stuff that he found on Facebook. He believed all that to be gospel truth and I could not change his mind.""The heartbreaking part was," he continues, "while [Kevin] was in the hospital, he asked the medical staff to give him the shot. They had to tell him it was too late."
Mike told The Free Lance–Star that his brother first started to show symptoms last month, but was sent home from an urgent care center with cold medicine. A few days later, when his health had not improved, Kevin returned to the facility and tested positive for COVID-19.
Just a few days later, Misty, who was diabetic, also began to feel unwell and was soon hospitalized, per the newspaper.
On Sept. 22, Misty's family learned she had to be put on a ventilator and that her kidneys were only functioning at 50 percent, reported The Free Lance-Star.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/va-couple-die-of-covid-weeks-apart-leaving-behind-5-children-please-get-vaccinated-family-says/ar-AAPzXoZ?ocid=msedgntp
October 16, 2021
A viral TikTok video captured a woman confronting and accusing a Black man of fitting the description of an individual who was breaking into cars in a Nashville apartment garage. The video, recorded by Joshua Black, has since amassed nearly 12 million views.
A TikTok has gone viral after a woman accused a man who lives in an apartment building of fitting the description of an individual breaking into cars.
"First off, we have break-ins here in cars," said the unidentified woman, who was standing with another man.
Black responded and said that his own car was broken into before saying that he lived in the apartment building for five years. He said that the woman had approached him and accused him of "following her."
The woman claimed her car was broken into, then insisted that Black fit the description of the individual who was breaking into other cars at the complex because he was wearing a hoodie and a backpack.
The apartment complex said the person accused of the break-ins was actually described as a white adolescent on a bike with a red backpack, News 4 Nashville reported. He told the news station that he believed the woman accused him because he is Black.
Black told Newsweek that he has never seen or met the woman before and did not hear from her since the incident on Wednesday evening.
Prior to the start of the video, Black said that the woman had knocked on his car window and began asking him if he lived in the building. He initially thought she might have been a driver for DoorDash who needed instructions on how to get to an elevator, but he said she began to angrily ask him questions and was taking photos of his car.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/black-man-records-woman-who-allegedly-asked-him-why-he-s-in-his-own-garage-in-viral-video/ar-AAPzBtJ?ocid=msedgntp
Black Man Records Woman Who Allegedly Asked Him Why He's in His Own Garage in Viral Video
A viral TikTok video captured a woman confronting and accusing a Black man of fitting the description of an individual who was breaking into cars in a Nashville apartment garage. The video, recorded by Joshua Black, has since amassed nearly 12 million views.
A TikTok has gone viral after a woman accused a man who lives in an apartment building of fitting the description of an individual breaking into cars.
"First off, we have break-ins here in cars," said the unidentified woman, who was standing with another man.
Black responded and said that his own car was broken into before saying that he lived in the apartment building for five years. He said that the woman had approached him and accused him of "following her."
The woman claimed her car was broken into, then insisted that Black fit the description of the individual who was breaking into other cars at the complex because he was wearing a hoodie and a backpack.
The apartment complex said the person accused of the break-ins was actually described as a white adolescent on a bike with a red backpack, News 4 Nashville reported. He told the news station that he believed the woman accused him because he is Black.
Black told Newsweek that he has never seen or met the woman before and did not hear from her since the incident on Wednesday evening.
Prior to the start of the video, Black said that the woman had knocked on his car window and began asking him if he lived in the building. He initially thought she might have been a driver for DoorDash who needed instructions on how to get to an elevator, but he said she began to angrily ask him questions and was taking photos of his car.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/black-man-records-woman-who-allegedly-asked-him-why-he-s-in-his-own-garage-in-viral-video/ar-AAPzBtJ?ocid=msedgntp
October 15, 2021
he Calls Himself the ‘American Sheriff.’ Whose Law Is He Following?
Lamb insists he has never said Biden did not win the election. But on Nov. 12, he appeared on One American News Network and said the enthusiasm he saw for Trump in Arizona “does not compute” with the election results. And he still believes there was, as he put it to me, a “significant amount of concerning information” about the integrity of the election. (There is not, according to multiple courts; an audit in Arizona also reaffirmed Biden’s victory there.) He also argues the mob that overtook the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was more heavily policed than the Black Lives Matter movement. (In the two weeks after a police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, some 10,000 protesters were arrested around the country, compared with about 600 Jan. 6 rioters so far.) “I don’t think that Black Lives Matter is productive for the Blacks,” Lamb also told me.
When I asked Lamb whether the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was an example of people violating the very rule of law he professes to cherish, he replied, “Just because somebody was there doesn’t necessarily mean they’re guilty,” then added, “I guarantee you [the rioters] are very loving, Christian people. They just happen to support President Trump a lot.” When I asked about the roughly 140 law enforcement officers who had been injured or killed while on duty at the Capitol — doing a job Lamb also professes to cherish — he demurred, saying he hadn’t been there and couldn’t say what was or wasn’t true.
It was the month after the insurrection, with Joe Biden in the White House and Democrats in the majority in Congress, that Lamb announced the launch of Protect America Now, his new coalition of currently serving sheriffs — Lamb calls them “patriots” — with a stated mission of “educating Americans about how our Sheriffs and the law enforcement community are standing for our Constitution and law and order.” It’s mostly a messaging operation: The group runs ads and has written letters to the Biden administration. Protect America Now’s 69 member sheriffs, who come from states including California, New Mexico, Virginia and South Dakota, also appear on right-leaning media to advocate for smaller government in all areas except immigration. The group’s website lists seven additional sheriffs — at least five of whom have been accused of some form of misconduct — as advisory committee members. Lamb, too, is on the advisory committee, but he’s also the group’s most prominent public representative.
Lamb’s belt buckle reads, “Sherrif Lamb”; Lamb’s worn cowboy boots
Lamb often invokes the importance of the “rule of law” but says of the Jan. 6 rioters, “I guarantee you those people are very loving, Christian people. They just happen to support President Trump a lot.” | Doug Barrett for POLITICO
Nutcase maga sheriff alert..mark lamb of arizona
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/10/15/mark-lamb-arizona-constitutional-sheriff-elections-republicans-514781he Calls Himself the ‘American Sheriff.’ Whose Law Is He Following?
Lamb insists he has never said Biden did not win the election. But on Nov. 12, he appeared on One American News Network and said the enthusiasm he saw for Trump in Arizona “does not compute” with the election results. And he still believes there was, as he put it to me, a “significant amount of concerning information” about the integrity of the election. (There is not, according to multiple courts; an audit in Arizona also reaffirmed Biden’s victory there.) He also argues the mob that overtook the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was more heavily policed than the Black Lives Matter movement. (In the two weeks after a police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis last year, some 10,000 protesters were arrested around the country, compared with about 600 Jan. 6 rioters so far.) “I don’t think that Black Lives Matter is productive for the Blacks,” Lamb also told me.
When I asked Lamb whether the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was an example of people violating the very rule of law he professes to cherish, he replied, “Just because somebody was there doesn’t necessarily mean they’re guilty,” then added, “I guarantee you [the rioters] are very loving, Christian people. They just happen to support President Trump a lot.” When I asked about the roughly 140 law enforcement officers who had been injured or killed while on duty at the Capitol — doing a job Lamb also professes to cherish — he demurred, saying he hadn’t been there and couldn’t say what was or wasn’t true.
It was the month after the insurrection, with Joe Biden in the White House and Democrats in the majority in Congress, that Lamb announced the launch of Protect America Now, his new coalition of currently serving sheriffs — Lamb calls them “patriots” — with a stated mission of “educating Americans about how our Sheriffs and the law enforcement community are standing for our Constitution and law and order.” It’s mostly a messaging operation: The group runs ads and has written letters to the Biden administration. Protect America Now’s 69 member sheriffs, who come from states including California, New Mexico, Virginia and South Dakota, also appear on right-leaning media to advocate for smaller government in all areas except immigration. The group’s website lists seven additional sheriffs — at least five of whom have been accused of some form of misconduct — as advisory committee members. Lamb, too, is on the advisory committee, but he’s also the group’s most prominent public representative.
Lamb’s belt buckle reads, “Sherrif Lamb”; Lamb’s worn cowboy boots
Lamb often invokes the importance of the “rule of law” but says of the Jan. 6 rioters, “I guarantee you those people are very loving, Christian people. They just happen to support President Trump a lot.” | Doug Barrett for POLITICO
October 15, 2021
WASHINGTON — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday.
McCabe, a frequent target of then-President Trump’s ire, was fired in March 2018 by then-Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions after the Justice Department’s inspector general determined he had misled internal investigators about his involvement in a news media leak. The termination came hours before he was to have retired, denying him his pension.
McCabe has denied intentionally deceiving anyone, was never criminally charged and blasted his firing as politically motivated.
He sued in 2019, saying his firing was part of an effort by Trump to purge the FBI of officials he perceived as disloyal. McCabe became acting director of the FBI after Trump fired James Comey, who was leading an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
U.S. to restore full pension of FBI deputy director fired under Trump administration: Andrew McCabe
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-14/us-to-restore-full-pension-of-fbi-official-fired-under-trumpWASHINGTON — Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday.
McCabe, a frequent target of then-President Trump’s ire, was fired in March 2018 by then-Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions after the Justice Department’s inspector general determined he had misled internal investigators about his involvement in a news media leak. The termination came hours before he was to have retired, denying him his pension.
McCabe has denied intentionally deceiving anyone, was never criminally charged and blasted his firing as politically motivated.
He sued in 2019, saying his firing was part of an effort by Trump to purge the FBI of officials he perceived as disloyal. McCabe became acting director of the FBI after Trump fired James Comey, who was leading an investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
October 15, 2021
Tia Belton was arriving home from work one day and was excited to get inside to see her dog, Reese. As she pulled up to her apartment, she noticed something shocking — Reese all alone outside, sniffing around a dumpster. Belton was immediately livid and had no idea how Reese had managed to get out of the apartment.
“I was distressed — my Reese never wanders off and doesn’t particularly enjoy running outside,” Belton told The Dodo. “Our apartment complex dumpster is not near my apartment at all. She normally just lays in the sun, so for her to be sniffing around the dumpster was too much for me.”
Belton called for Reese, and she came running over to the car immediately. She jumped in and Belton parked and then carried Reese up to the apartment. She was still feeling a little annoyed at Reese — when she opened the door and saw Reese already inside waiting for her.
Belton looked at the dog in her arms who was not Reese but looked exactly like her and quickly realized her mistake. The mystery dog, who she later figured out is named Bella, didn’t seem to mind the mix-up at all.
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Belton put up posters and drove around with Reese and Bella and did some searching, and after three days, Bella’s family reached out to her. Belton and Reese said goodbye to Reese’s unexpected twin, and the sweet little dog was reunited with her family. The mystery of the look-alike dog had been solved, and Belton left the experience with one very important lesson.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/pets-animals/woman-sees-her-dog-outside-and-brings-her-in-then-realizes-she-s-already-inside/ar-AAPx9FX?ocid=msedgntp
Woman Sees Her Dog Outside And Brings Her In -- Then Realizes She's Already Inside
Tia Belton was arriving home from work one day and was excited to get inside to see her dog, Reese. As she pulled up to her apartment, she noticed something shocking — Reese all alone outside, sniffing around a dumpster. Belton was immediately livid and had no idea how Reese had managed to get out of the apartment.
“I was distressed — my Reese never wanders off and doesn’t particularly enjoy running outside,” Belton told The Dodo. “Our apartment complex dumpster is not near my apartment at all. She normally just lays in the sun, so for her to be sniffing around the dumpster was too much for me.”
Belton called for Reese, and she came running over to the car immediately. She jumped in and Belton parked and then carried Reese up to the apartment. She was still feeling a little annoyed at Reese — when she opened the door and saw Reese already inside waiting for her.
Belton looked at the dog in her arms who was not Reese but looked exactly like her and quickly realized her mistake. The mystery dog, who she later figured out is named Bella, didn’t seem to mind the mix-up at all.
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Belton put up posters and drove around with Reese and Bella and did some searching, and after three days, Bella’s family reached out to her. Belton and Reese said goodbye to Reese’s unexpected twin, and the sweet little dog was reunited with her family. The mystery of the look-alike dog had been solved, and Belton left the experience with one very important lesson.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/pets-animals/woman-sees-her-dog-outside-and-brings-her-in-then-realizes-she-s-already-inside/ar-AAPx9FX?ocid=msedgntp
October 15, 2021
Alaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold — who in April was banned from Alaska Airlines over her refusal to wear a mask — has tested positive for COVID-19.
Reinbold, 57, announced her positive diagnosis in a Wednesday Facebook post.
"Its my turn to battle Covid head on... game on! Who do you think is going to win?" she wrote. "When I defeat it, I will tell you my recipe."
It's unclear if Reinbold — who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from PEOPLE — has been vaccinated. In her Facebook post, she wrote that she was "completely unimpressed with instructions, on my positive test, that says to go home & take Tylenol." The lawmaker added that she was "taking lots of vitamins" as well as Aspirin and was using a Vick's steamer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lawmaker-who-couldn-t-fly-because-she-wouldn-t-wear-a-mask-now-has-covid/ar-AAPwOaV?ocid=msedgntp
Lawmaker Who Couldn't Fly Because She Wouldn't Wear a Mask Now Has COVID
Lawmaker Who Couldn't Fly Because She Wouldn't Wear a Mask Now Has COVIDAlaska state Sen. Lora Reinbold — who in April was banned from Alaska Airlines over her refusal to wear a mask — has tested positive for COVID-19.
Reinbold, 57, announced her positive diagnosis in a Wednesday Facebook post.
"Its my turn to battle Covid head on... game on! Who do you think is going to win?" she wrote. "When I defeat it, I will tell you my recipe."
It's unclear if Reinbold — who did not immediately respond to a request for comment from PEOPLE — has been vaccinated. In her Facebook post, she wrote that she was "completely unimpressed with instructions, on my positive test, that says to go home & take Tylenol." The lawmaker added that she was "taking lots of vitamins" as well as Aspirin and was using a Vick's steamer
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lawmaker-who-couldn-t-fly-because-she-wouldn-t-wear-a-mask-now-has-covid/ar-AAPwOaV?ocid=msedgntp
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