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.

Today in red state failure: Casey Tibbs Foundation on shaky foundation

In 2011 an earthquake that occurred ten miles under the sinkholes that developed in the Pierre Shale in Stanley County, South Dakota was large enough to be felt by humans who live there. 

Recall that the US Army Corps of Engineers touted the construction of the Oahe Dam on the geological formation known as Pierre Shale. Engineers faced fierce pushback and technical headaches due to the high risk of slope failure, which could easily bend, stress, or rupture buried pipelines. The topic was covered at the conference of the United States Society on Dams in 2009: Slope Stability Concerns on Pierre Shale, Oahe Dam - Pierre, South Dakota...655, Robert J. Worden and Michael T. Kelly, USACE. 

That same shale accounts for the systematic breakup of roadways and railbeds in South Dakota likewise confounding KeystoneXL pipeline engineers. Pierre Shale-associated mining or void failures continue to plague development in the state, famously triggering massive evacuations and lawsuits from neighborhood sinkholes in areas like those between Piedmont and Black Hawk.

Due to the shifting ground, the Casey Tibbs Foundation says areas outside of designated pathways may present safety hazards. Public safety is their highest priority, so they ask that all visitors stay on designated sidewalks and walkways while on the property and visit only during normal business hours. Conditions are being monitored around the clock. [Sliding hillside poses potential problem to Casey Tibbs South Dakota Rodeo Center in Fort Pierre; Foundation Board says it’s not an imminent threat at this time]

Stretches of I-94 in North Dakota crossing directly through Pierre Shale subgrades routinely encounter severe buckling, specifically around Bismarck, Mandan, and Menoken.

In a related story extreme wildfire potential has returned to the horrible red states on the northern Plains.

Ya think?

In 2018 KSA Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi who was investigating the Trump Organization and Jared Kushner's blood money infusions.

Brookings continuing socialist trend

The People's Republic of Brookings is not just home to South Dakota's fattest blogger. 

Brookings owns a research park, the hospital, a nursing home, the liquor store, the water, the sewer system, the garbage collection, the phone company, the power company, an entertainment venue, the golf course, a new rec center and is host to South Dakota's largest public university, a federally subsidized cheese and dairy industry and a rebranded medical products manufacturer that poisoned parts of town with forever chemicals. 

Daktronics is a thriving progressive technocracy while Brookings Utilities and the town's administration is a right wing mob so go figure. Recall that from the state that controls much of the means of production one of South Dakota's Earth hating former governors called Georgia's two Democratic US Senators, Communists.

So, today there is much jubilation about Target opening on the outskirts of Brookings but also significant sadness about the fire that took the 145 year-old Brost Building, several businesses and apartments downtown.

A unanimous Brookings City Council vote to buy downtown land at 210 Front St. for $450,000 drew public skepticism during the council’s July 14 meeting, even as city leaders defended the purchase as a critical piece of a larger economic puzzle. The land in question is just southwest of the facility shared by the Brookings fire and police departments and is situated near the Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern railroad tracks. A grain elevator is housed on the property and the city owns the land east of 210 Front St. as well. [City’s land purchase draws pushback in Brookings]