William Forbes a Ricketts plant: Nebraska Democratic Party

Unaffiliated candidate for US Senate in Nebraska, Dan Osborn is facing Earth hater Pete Ricketts. Similar matchups are happening in South Dakota and Montana where weak Democratic candidates are running in third place. 

Jane Kleeb is a leader who helped to kill the Keystone XL pipeline.

Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb responded Wednesday to what she called a "frivolous" lawsuit from former Democratic U.S. Senate candidate William Forbes who lost the May primary. He filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to force the party to name a replacement for Cindy Burbank, the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate who won the primary but then dropped out. Kleeb said Wednesday that the Nebraska Democratic Party will not back down on the legal question. When asked directly about the "may" versus "shall" language in the two statutes, Kleeb pointed to the structure of the two statutes in the party's defense. "Their lawsuit really jumps to the second section. You have to get to that second section first to get to the 'shall,' which will of course be something that our lawyers are focusing on in the courtroom," she said. [Nebraska Democratic Party pushes back on lawsuit demanding replacement in U.S. Senate race]

Cancer now pushing Iowa Earth haters to tap Missouri River water

Republicans cause cancer. 

Recall that in 2015, then-Iowa governor and Earth hater Terry Branstad helped to block a federal lawsuit that could have stopped industrial agriculture from polluting the Des Moines drinking water supply. Today, there are at least 23.4 million hogs in Iowa's concentrated animal feeding operations or about 7.3 pigs for every human in the state. Iowa livestock operations generate roughly 107 million tons of manure annually and the volume of animal waste produced is dozens of times greater than the human fecal waste generated by the state's residents. 

Voluntary buffer strips and other conservation practices have simply failed desertifying parts of the state and causing the Raccoon River to be named one of the most endangered waterways in the United Snakes. And, following the release of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's latest measurements Iowa Farmers Union President Aaron Lehman said that state's Nutrient Reduction Management Strategy is proving to be ineffective in controlling hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. But, Lehman is concerned that without further financial incentives from the Trump Organization Republican welfare farmers will simply continue polluting waterways. 

Industrial agriculture is ecocide and for those of us who love the Earth shucks like farm subsidies are greenwashing but ironically many Republicans actually benefitting from reduced greenhouse emissions decry the sequestration of carbon as caving to the Green New Deal. 20 of Iowa's 99 counties are devoted exclusively to food that is ultimately burned for automobile fuel but according to Iowa State University some land impacted by pipelines never recovers from the disturbance. Iowa contributes some 40% of the pollution killing the Gulf of Mexico.

Welfare farmers have ruined their own wells and the Big Sioux River but South Dakota will flout Waters of the United States rulings until the cows come home unless or until downstream states cry foul. Now, that has happened as the proposed $10 billion Dakota Mainstem Regional Water System pipeline project would supply South Dakota and portions of three neighboring states, with a capacity of 195 million gallons per day. 

The planned expansion of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System that the system’s members already project will need an additional 95 million gallons per day over the next 40 years plan to increase capacity to 60 million gallons per day by 2030 even as the US Army Corps of Engineers warns of low Missouri River levels.

Cancer rates in Iowa are the second highest in the US and public polling indicates that nearly 80% of registered Iowa voters support transition to mandatory pollution reduction requirements for large-scale agriculture. Both candidates for governor, the Democratic nominee Rob Sand and the Earth hater Zach Lahn, say more needs to be done.

"I think the Democratic Party at its best is the party for the little guy," Sand told a crowd in Corydon, Iowa, recently. "I'm also a believer that we want to have clean water to fish in and abundant public land to hunt on, and the Democratic Party is more of a supporter of those things." NPR reached out to the Iowa Farm Bureau and the Iowa Corn Growers Association for comment but did not hear back. [High cancer rates and dirty water: The crisis shaping Iowa's toss-up governor's race]

Learn more at South Dakota Searchlight.

Plunge in Rural Mainstreet Index reflecting GOP failures...again

Creighton University's Ernie Goss follows the economies of ten midwestern states including South Dakota's where the manufacturing sector lost about 800 jobs over the last year or 1.8% of its manufacturing base, ag workers still face severe stressors and a mental health provider shortage affects 62 of South Dakota's 66 counties. 

July's Index dropped below growth neutral for the fifth time in the past six months, bankster confidence plummeted to 42.1 or well below 50.0 growth neutral and the economic confidence index slumped to 34.2 from June's 42.1. Goss says low commodity prices, high diesel and fertilizer costs and a worldwide economic slowdown are also driving lousy numbers and because of the continuing trade-tariff volatility farm equipment sales continue to lag to a very weak 27.8 down from June's 28.9. 

Hot and dry conditions are degrading pastures nationwide but South Dakota is facing some of the worst ratings.

The July RMI for South Dakota declined to 43.4 from 54.7 in June. The state’s farm and ranchland price index decreased to 55.0 from June’s 57.7. [Rural Mainstreet Index Plummets for July]

SoDak Dems might nominate a candidate for AG after all!

This interested party asked Taneeza Islam, Clint Sargent, Tim Rensch and Alison Ramsdell to run for South Dakota Attorney General. I also asked the Libertarian Party of South Dakota to reconvene and nominate Matt Kinney for SDAG. They have until 11 August to run someone against Earth hater Lance Russell.

Piper's death row conversion unlikely to change catholic Jackley's compulsion to kill

Catholicism is hope like gonorrhea is charity.

In 2001 Briley Piper pleaded guilty to five crimes including first-degree felony murder in the kidnapping, robbery, torture and killing of 19-year-old Chester Allan Poage near Spearditch, South Dakota. 

Unsurprisingly, catholic Attorney General Marty Jackley says death row cases like Piper's take up too much time in the legal system. High financial burdens led Nebraska lawmakers to repeal capital punishment but voters reinstated the practice.

Bob Gruss is Jackley's fellow member of the Church of the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers. In 2018 Gruss wrote an essay on capital punishment in the Rapid City Journal.

The death penalty is always an inhumane and inappropriate punishment. I pray that South Dakota joins the many other states that respect the dignity of life by ending the death penalty — in particular for those with severe mental illnesses. [YOURS: Death row no place for mentally ill]

A state-ordered lethal injection isn't criminal justice; it's suicide by cop but Hell is life in the South Dakota State Penitentiary. 

In the autumn of 2007, Piper was teaching himself Spanish and asked the priest who was doing prison ministry at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, where Piper was serving his sentence, if he knew anyone willing to practice the language with him by phone. The priest called Caminando Juntos, a ministry serving immigrants in Sioux Falls, and Presentation Sr. Gabriella Crowley volunteered. Court records show that Piper had sought to introduce new expert evidence concerning possible brain damage, extensive childhood trauma and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, which he argued could have affected his reasoning, impulse control and ability to form intentions at the time of the crime, when he was 19. No execution date has been set yet, although South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley said after the May ruling that an execution could take place in late 2026. [He pleaded guilty to murder. As he awaits execution, Catholic supporters say he's changed.]

A federal judge in Minnesota just sentenced murderer Vance Boelter to two life sentences plus forty years for the assassinations of Melissa and Mark Hortman.

No doubt philandering Earth hater US House candidate Jackley will force the postponement of Piper's execution until after the November general election.