Gant, Lederman working for Koch, Donors Trust

The Rushmore PAC blog is an earth hater's wet dream.

One of its authors is a Zionist state senator known for his close association with South Dakota's Church of the Holy Roman Kiddie Diddlers. Dan Lederman panders to his white readers recently assailing President Obama by quoting Robert L. Bradley, Jr., a shill for Koch Industries. The earth haters believe that drilling willy-nilly is the answer to high fuel costs.

Recall Lederman's role in the Missouri River flooding of the swamp at Dakota Dunes where he built a temple for self-worship.

He was on Bill Janklow's idea of public radio in Spring, 2011 defending his decision to build in a floodway. Lederman was recently fingered for bringing anti-government speakers to his infamous red state.

From a guest post at South DaCola:

For those who might need a refresher course here it is. In the election seasons prior to Jason’s ascension to the Secretary of State’s office in Pierre he was South Dakota’s leader of the Republican Senate Leadership Committee (RSLC). Jason Gant and his ilk in the legislature are financed by out of state rich benefactors who care nothing of South Dakota or its people. They only care about power. The Kochs are accomplishing it through RedMap, The RSLC Redistricting Project.

As the earth hater party explodes nationally, the collusion of South Dakota officios with Koch-funded Donors Trust to alter the electoral rules in that failed red state is coming into focus. Back at election time Cory began sniffing it out, recently Bob Mercer uncovered the smoking gun.

Here's an excerpt from an interview with Suzanne Goldenberg of The Guardian on yesterday's Democracy Now!

I think there’s something really different here and that comes into play, in that these organizations being supported by Donors Trust are actually working to spread information that is factually incorrect, that is untrue.

The US Environmental Protection Agency is a prime target for the earth hating christofascists slopping at the Koch trough.

Rat fuckers.

Montana Street Fighter has a story on Koch influence in that state.

Rapid City's American Indian population the nation's poorest

As the legislature of the failed red state voted to defy the United Nations, deny the Anthropocene (and to support Taiwan against Chinese tyranny?) Reuters announced that the indigenous peoples of the state are the nation's most desperate:

The poverty rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives in Rapid City, S.D. (50.9 percent) was around three times the rate in Anchorage, Alaska (16.6 percent) and about 30 percent or greater in five other cities most populated by this group (Gallup, N.M.; Minneapolis; Rapid City, S.D.; Shiprock, N.M.; Tucson, Ariz.; and Zuni Pueblo, N.M.), according to American Community Survey data collected from 2007 to 2011 by the U.S. Census Bureau.

It sure has been a crappy month for South Dakota Republicans so it comes as no surprise that the state is among the nation's least happy.

Thune fellates elderly white Spearditch circle

South Dakota's junior Senator glad-handed, spear-phished then lapped an aged, mostly obese, caucasian gathering of earth haters at an Adelstein-owned property in the northern Black Hills. Milo Dailey wrote in the Rapid City Urinal:

Before Thune began his speech, Spearfish economic development executive Bryan Walker said that a local business survey showed 82 percent believe the nation's deficit spending is the major concern. "We are not more than a few years away from a major catastrophe," Thune said. "The stakes are really high, folks."

As Bill Maher said Sunday night at the Santa Fe Convention Center: nothing riles up a white crowd like feeding a black man to the dogs, right, Johnny?

More on spear-phishing here.

Stupid fuckers.

Colonel Kernal: cornbelt compared to Dust Bowl, deforestation of Brazil

Dirk Lammers' story appears in the Black Hills Pioneer:

The research by Christopher Wright and Michael Wimberly of the Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence at South Dakota State University said a recent doubling in commodity prices has created incentives for landowners in South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa to convert grassland to corn and soybean cropping. Grassland conversion between 2006 and 2011 was mostly concentrated in North Dakota and South Dakota, east of the Missouri River. In Minnesota and the Dakotas, this expansion was concentrated near wetlands, posing a threat to waterfowl breeding habitats.

Rewilding is clearly another part of the solution. It has been proposed for decades; yet, the political will in the red states where the impact is felt most perpetuates a greed mentality as human migration has stagnated. From Nature News:

First, it was snowfalls that never seemed to end. After that came tornadoes. Now, a massive slug of water is working its way down the Mississippi River, forcing the US Army Corps of Engineers to deliberately flood farmland to spare riverside towns such as Cairo in Illinois, and threatening near-record water levels all the way to New Orleans. For decades, people have been building shopping malls and parking lots that cause water to flow quickly into rivers, rather than soak into the ground. Nicholas Pinter, a geologist at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, who works on flood hydrology, has a word for this: "hydro-amnesia". It causes people to build in places that were flooded a generation ago and will be flooded again a generation hence.

Black Hills beetle winning war with second-growth pine

Spoiler alert: the bug has already won.

KW reported this morning that an additional 11,000 acres of Ponderosa pine in the occupied Black Hills have been harvested by the mountain pine beetle.

The good news is that as those thousands of acres die the water table may begin to recharge against the demands of additional white people as they build more crap in the Hills.

The bad news is that as those trees decay, methane (an even greater accelerant of anthropogenic warming than Kristi Noem's 'gas of life'), just contributes to the hemispheric catastrophe already underway.

Paha Sapa, having never been glaciated, represents the heart of the continent. She boasts one of the oldest habitats for the hardy insect which had blown in from points west and north and managed second-growth for countless centuries before humans began burning stands to encourage bison and wapiti to browse aspen shoots at least 11,000 years ago.

The first Forest Service timber sale in its history took place near near Nemo: Case #1; that's when BHNF ceased being a wild thing.

Now the wind that blows through the West reeks of death and desecration. The stench of the wasicu wafts from the bores that pump into her and the shovels that scrape her flesh then bleed her entrails into the kill floor drain.

Spruce beetle activity in Engelmann spruce was detected on 262,000 acres in Colorado and 76,000 acres in Wyoming in 2011. Since 1996, spruce beetle has affected 1.2 million acres in Colorado and Wyoming; now, it is established in the Northern Hills.

Of course, it's all well and good blaming us in the environmental community as the easiest course of action because we hate white people with Rs after their names even though congressional gridlock on climate change is the real problem.

Taking all but the legacy pine would slow the decimation that white people have visited upon the aquifers and burning would allow the sequestration of carbon deep underground. LawCo should just create a mile-wide buffer at its borders with Counties Pennington and Meade, Crook and Weston in Wyoming, then take every Pinus ponderosa younger than a hundred years because the Central Hills is a conflagration looking for a match then let Rocky Mountain Juniper regain her southwestern flank.

Bug-hit, fungi-stained trees are generally considered salvage: for some stumpage guidelines click here.

Bovine antibiotics are detected in every watershed draining the Black Hills hydrologic region disrupting and strangling essential fungal communities.

Oh, and you praying people living in western Custer and Pennington Counties? You'd best be getting to it.

Shaka, when the walls fell.