Moody County racism symptomatic of red state failure

Moody County is not just an agricultural sacrifice zone.

But a common theme in Flandreau, one that is perhaps talked about more often behind closed doors than ever in public, is the thread of racism many feel runs deeply throughout the community. Particularly between the Native, non-Native populations. A steering committee for Bridge Flandreau has been meeting over the past couple of months to lay the groundwork for the Racism Study Circles that are scheduled to begin early next year in Flandreau.

Read it all here.

Kevin Washburn is stepping down from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. He is warning of a TEA party Republican influence in Native American affairs.

South Dakota is already witnessing the destructive forces at work since Mike Rounds bought a US Senate seat.

After numerous racism-related incidents the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe dissolved its agreement with the City of Flandreau.

White people threatened the FSST with federal action after an economic development initiative brought hope to the tiny reservation.

This is what Cultural Genocide Looks Like... pic.twitter.com/6WZoIxYKuN

— Delores Schilling (@DelSchilling) September 24, 2015

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— Indigenous (@AmericanIndian8) December 12, 2015

Maybe we need to build a big bulletproof fence around each conservative American white male gunowner.

— Sherman Alexie (@Sherman_Alexie) November 29, 2015

Today in gun reform: tax the hell out of them

On Weekend Edition Saturday Scott Simon lumped the Westerhuis murders in with acts of domestic terrorism.

The names of towns — Colorado Springs last week, San Bernardino this week, Roseburg, Oregon in October, Platte, South Dakota in September, Lafayette, Louisiana in July, Omaha, in January — and of victims, heroes, and assailants sometimes seem to run together. [After Mass Shootings, People Turn To Prayer — And Prayer Shaming]

A gun is like a lawyer: you carry one around long enough and sooner or later you're going to use it.

From the Casper Trib online:

The Wyoming Department of Revenue has suspended sales tax collections from gun shows because of increasing animosity toward the state's field tax agents. Dan Noble, director of the department's excise tax division, said Friday that an incident at a gun show triggered the decision. He added, however, that resistance from gun show sponsors and participants has been a recurring problem statewide. "I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one of them has experienced some animosity," he said. "Folks are nervous anyway because there are guns there. I don't want to put my people at risk."

Red states are not going to fix their own problems.

Only We the People can slow these people down. Local law enforcement is only as effective as a legislature wants it to be.

Is this how Americans really want to live? Carry rifles and sidearms into every bar, church, and arena?

Milch has pointed out repeatedly in interviews that the intent of the show was to study the way that civilization comes together from chaos by organizing itself around symbols (in Deadwood the main symbol is gold). If history is written by the victors, Deadwood is all about giving the losers their due. In the first season, magnificent bastard Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) came off as a villain; this year, his inevitably doomed campaign to save the lawless town from annexation by the United States and exploitation by robber barons served as a brilliant allegory for the evolution of American capitalism.

Gun carrying people are saying they are being responsible (but won't be held liable) for our safety if the rest of us don’t, or refuse to, carry.

Thomas Jefferson believed a standing army and the right to bear arms are mutually exclusive.

Stand your ground has become vigilante justice because the courts are overwhelmed with suspects in the war on drugs, our communities are becoming armed camps and we’re barricaded in our homes afraid to let our kids go to school.

How many more people will be caught in or die from as yet uncounted crossfires?

Maybe this would be a great time for a piece of rhubarb pie.

Wyoming is most heavily armed state, South Dakota is number 22.

Prohibition doesn't work: levy transaction taxes on the sales and gifting of shotguns, rifles, handguns and extended clips then tag the revenue for Medicaid expansion.

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— Susan Maylone (@SusanMaylone) December 5, 2015

Members of Congress from which states get the most $$ from gun control / rights orgs? How do the 2 sides stack up? pic.twitter.com/IyBC6ii3LS

— OpenSecrets.org (@OpenSecretsDC) December 5, 2015

Napoli: Daugaard task force a joke

Today in ecocide: South Dakota is an agriculture sacrifice zone

Even as a dead chicken factory in Parker could be drawn and quartered South Dakota is doomed to industrial agriculture.

While numerous large barns were built throughout Moody County in 2015, only three required mandatory hearings for their expansion permits, two were Class B and one was a Class C. In those meetings, few seats were available. Neighbors showed up with a lot of questions. [Moody County Enterprise]

Milk from cows exposed to pesticides is creating the specter of Parkinson's disease and autism in children.

Proving once and for all that environmental factors are and will continue to be an important, if not crucial, factor in your health, a study has found that a pesticide widely used in the early 80s—and which found its way into our nation’s supply of cow’s milk—may be the cause of Parkinson’s disease emerging in people today.

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Remember: South Dakota is a moocher state dependent on the feds to exist.

Think Denny Daugaard isn't worried about GOP's national demise as that party continues its assault on an African-American president instead of working to advance the success of the nation?