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“Roger,” the deputy answered, “Both the coroner and a recovery team.”

He looked down at the body, having seen this before. The lifeless form of a human being, a man in this case, still clothed, blackened, shriveled and desiccated – another case of death by thirst.

He joined the rancher, who had found the man, in the search for the missing note that the rancher claimed had been left under the old whiskey bottle that lay empty next to the body hand of the dead man.

“Well, it could have blown clear to old Mexico by now,” the rancher stated as he gave up his search.

“Any idea what it read?” the deputy questioned.

“Jus’ instructions on how to prime the pump and a warning not to drink the water in the bottle,” came the ranchers answer.

The two men walked back to where the dead man fell, now mummified by the desert heat and dry wind. The rancher sighed heavily, “Guess he didn’t follow the instructions.”

The deputy shook his head from side-to-side, “Probably didn’t know how to read a word of English, either.”

“That too,” the rancher agreed.

First, there were the five Taliban commanders traded for the traitor, Bowe Bergdahl. Now President Obama has quietly “repatriated a dozen detainees from a small U.S. military prison in Afghanistan…”

In a letter to Congress, Obama informed lawmakers that 38 non-Afghan prisoners remained at the Parwan Detention Center outside of Kabul. Meanwhile, a Frenchman, a Kuwaiti and 10 Pakistani are back home, let go in late May of 2015.

Don’t worry though — the pro-jihad Pakistanis say they’ll watch them to make sure they don’t have any “militant ties.”

Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s most trusted confidante, is increasingly becoming a central figure in the presidential wannabe’s email scandal. Clinton recently told a federal judge that Abedin had her own email account on the server, “which was used at times for government business.”

Classified materials with national security implications are to be stored in such a way that unauthorized people cannot gain access to them. Clinton used of a private, unsecured server instead of an official government server.

Loyalty comes at a price with Clinton.

A 92-year-old woman’s been kicked out of her of church after 50-years. Josephine King received a letter from the First African Baptist Church in Bainbridge, Georgia, saying she couldn’t attend because she wasn’t tithing.

The letter, signed by Senior Pastor Derrick Mike, says King can’t “participate in any engagements (or) worship opportunities” because of “non-support…in the areas of financial and physical participation.”

King’s been sick for several months, which is why she didn’t go to church or tithe. So much for compassion.

Perhaps Pastor Mike needs a lesson from a ‘strategically placed’ burning bush.

Tymaine Sellman was shot to death in December 2014. His shooting happened long before current the unrest over the death of Freddie Gray.

Police said the 19-year-old Black man died at a local hospital after being shot multiple times. So far, no one’s been arrested in connection with his murder.

If #BlackLivesMatter really mattered, you might have heard Tymaine’s name on the national news. But his death doesn’t fit the Progressive agenda.

He wasn’t killed by a White police officer.

Fidel Casto celebrated his 89th birthday by arguing the U.S. must pay for damages caused by our embargo of his nation. The old dictator didn’t say how much we owe; however, in January 2015 he did demand Naval Base Guantanamo Bay be handed over.

“Cuba is owed compensation equivalent to damages, which total many millions of dollars, as our country has stated with irrefutable arguments and data in all of its speeches at the United Nations,” he writes in the state-run Communist Party newspaper Granma.

And knowing President Obama — he may give it to him.

Contra Costa County Deputy Sheriff Carlos Francies, a former Humboldt State University football player, died in an accidental drowning at South Lake Tahoe, August 13. He saw his sister and her male friend fall in the water and begin to struggle.

While Francies was able to save them, he failed to reach the shore, sinking in 15 feet of water. He was pronounced dead after being taken to Barton Memorial Hospital.

“He is a hero and an example of exactly what is right in law enforcement today,” his boss, Contra Costa County Sheriff David O. Livingston said.

It was around 11:30 Saturday night, April 25, 2015, when shots rang out at a home on McLemore Court in Spanish Springs. As the gun smoke cleared, two men lay dead at the foot of the drive.

Detectives say the residents of the home claim they heard a disturbance outside and when checking on it, were ‘confronted’ by ‘two strangers.’ The alleged confrontation left 20-year-old Ryan Robins and his 29-year-old brother Glen Robins dead.

The shooter, in his late-50’s, also wounded his 75-year-old father. The Washoe County Sheriff’s office also says neither of the dead men had a weapon.

The sheriff’s office continues to characterize the events leading up to the shootings as some sort of ‘domestic disturbance.’ On the other hand, neighbors say the brothers were ‘horse playing,’ with a third man before the confrontation in the street.

Sheriff’s spokesman Bob Harmon went on record to say of the homeowners, “I would say that there was definitely a confrontation in which the men felt threatened.”

Meanwhile, Sheriff’s Lieutenant Tom Green contradicted parts of Harmon’s statement.

“It would be too early for me to say that this is going to be self-defense or that it was self-defense,” Green said, adding, “but that is certainly an option.”

The sheriff’s office also stated no one’s been arrested and that the shooter continues to cooperates. Meanwhile, the Medical Examiner’s Office says Glen died from multiple gunshot wounds, while Ryan died from two gunshots to the torso.

A neighbor told the Reno Gazette-Journal that jus’ before he went to bed, a fight outside broke the neighborhood’s silence.

“It sounded like several adults arguing, men, I couldn’t get the gist of the conversation, but one of them yelled something I couldn’t catch it and then I heard three shots fired,” he said.

“The cul-de-sac was lit up from the lights from the police officers, so I came out of my garage and I look down and I see two bodies laying in the driveway,” he added.

Another neighbor said deputies threatened her with arrest if she didn’t return to her home after seeing them arrive on scene. She lives near the home where the killings happened and said her adult son had been outside, skateboarding with the two brothers’ before the shootings took place.

Five months after the murders’ she has yet to be questioned by detectives, though they’ve supposedly told the dead men’s mother that the woman had refused to make a statement.

Nevada is one of 30 states with “stand-your-ground laws” that allow the use of deadly force against attackers posing an imminent threat regardless of whether the aggressor is armed. Nevada law also says the shooter cannot be the original aggressor.

The question in this case is who was ‘the original aggressor’?

From the sounds of it, it wasn’t the Robins brothers. From everything I’ve been able to gather, the two men in the home went outside and began an argument with the brothers and when the confrontation became physical, the son pulled a firearm and shot the pair to death.

UPDATE: March 8, 2016 — The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office says that an exhaustive investigation into the 2015 shooting deaths of two Spanish Springs men has determined the shooter acted in self-defense, and in defense of his 50-year-old brother and 75-year-old father making this a justifiable homicide per Nevada Revised Statutes.

Sometimes sadness gets the better of me and becomes full-blown depression. It’s the down side to being a manic-depressive or rather ‘bi-polar disordered.’

This bout came on after a lengthy week of ups and downs. Everything from being overly tired, to the death of a friend, to news our housemate is retiring and moving to Las Vegas.

That last bit hit me like a ton of bricks. In the end though, I’ll pick myself up, dust myself off and I’ll press on.

Gotta admit its difficult when life happens in such rapid fashion.

An EPA crew inspecting the Gold King mine near Silverton, Colorado, released at over three million gallons of water laden with toxic heavy metals, including zinc, iron, copper, lead and arsenic among other heavy metals into the Animas River on August 5. High levels of these metals can cause all sorts of health problems from cancer to kidney disease to developmental problems in children.

Interestingly, a letter to the editor published in ‘The Silverton Standard and The Miner,’ on July 30, 2015 predicted the ‘accident.’ Authored by retired geologist Dave Taylor a week before the EPA’s mining mishap, it warned of an EPA “Superfund blitzkrieg.”

Taylor’s letter described how EPA officials would pollute the river on purpose so they could secure Superfund money. He also explained how the fouled-water would be released because of the buildup of too much pressure by the EPA’s plugging of the mine.

The EPA quickly admitted they misjudged the pressure in the gold mine – just as the editorial predicted. Under the scenario described, Taylor claimed the EPA would need instant funding to build a treatment plant for the clean up process.

EPA regional administrator Shaun McGrath claimed, “This was not intentional, obviously. The EPA was out doing this work to try to address what is an ongoing problem. In terms of why it happened, we are doing a complete look back at that to try an understand it.”

McGrath promised to hold people accountable in the same way the EPA would respond to a similar disaster caused by anyone else. But so far, no one’s been fired or disciplined.

The agency has pushed for nearly 25 years, to apply its Superfund program to the Gold King mine. If declared a Superfund site, this would end all future mining development in the area.

Though President Obama’s EPA opposes all mining in the U.S., the idea that this could’ve been on purpose is too awful to contemplate – but it isn’t out of the realm of possibility.