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I Found A Good, Inexpensive, Independent Mechanic In Dickinson, North Dakota

A little over a month ago I wrote a blog post article expressing my shock and disappointment with Dan Porter Motors in Dickinson, North Dakota. In the past, I had taken two Toyotas multiple times to Dan Porter Motors to have work done, and the work was always performed competently, though it was at car dealership service department higher prices.

In November I took a new to me, Toyota that I had purchased back in August, to Dan Porter Motors for an oil change. Before I had bought this Toyota, during the test drive, and many, many times after I bought it, I looked under this Toyota to see if it was leaking anything. It never, ever leaked one drop of engine oil, engine coolant, or transmission fluid. But after the oil change at Dan Porter Motors, they told me it had an oil leak at the pressure sensor, an oil leak at the crank shaft seal, an oil leak at the oil pan, and a transmission fluid leak at the transmission pan, about $1,200 worth of repairs were needed.

I knew then that I could never, ever take a vehicle to Dan Porter Motors again, because not only could I no longer trust them to make recommendations on repairs that needed to be done, I wondered if they would stab my engine crank shaft seal or undo my engine oil pan bolts in order to cause repairs to be necessary.

I don’t know exactly why this happened. Are car dealers in Dickinson so slow now after the oil boom is over, that the service department managers, service writers, and mechanics have been told to “find work” or they will be out of a job?

I have lived in Dickinson for about seven years now, and the only good independent mechanic that I had ever heard of, was Dave at Dave’s Auto Repair located behind Runnings Farm & Fleet. I was able to take a Dodge truck to Dave’s Auto Repair one time before he closed his garage about a year ago. I was told by Dave’s customers that the owner of the building where Dave’s Auto Repair was located, he had tried to double the rent, and Dave could not stay in business paying twice as much rent.

Doing a lot of checking during the months of September and October of this year, I was able to find one independent mechanic that appeared to have a good reputation, Joe’s Auto Repair located in the industrial park just east of Walmart.

In early December I met the owner of Joe’s Auto Repair, Joe, and I got an estimate for replacing the front and rear brake pads without turning the rotors, on a Jeep, it was $300. This was much cheaper than what car dealerships and franchise repair shops charge in Dickinson.

During the changing of the brake pads on this Jeep at Joe’s Auto Repair, it was discovered that one of the brake caliper mount bolts had broken off, and that this broken bolt shaft had unsuccessfully been attempted to be removed in the past. Joe had to cut this bolt, drill it out, and re-thread the hole. The final price for this brake job, even with the extra work, it was still $300.

A week later, I scheduled this Jeep to have one of the electric windows repaired, using a used window regulator that came with this Jeep from the previous owner. When the mechanic at Joe’s Auto Repair was installing the used window regulator, he noticed that it was missing one of the rollers that fit inside of the slide rail. Joe took the used window regulator with him to various places like parts stores and salvage yards to try to get a roller that was the right size, and he ended up coming back to the shop and making a roller. The window repair, with all the extra time and work, final price was $125.

A few days later I brought this Jeep back to Joe’s Auto Repair for an oil change. For each of these three visits, each time I waited at the shop while the work was being done. For me, and for each of the customers who came in while I was waiting, the service writer looked up the parts, looked up the time for each job, and he gave a price estimate for both the parts and the labor. Myself and everyone else who came in, we were very happy with the price estimates that we were given, there were no complaints, and the work was scheduled.

Another thing that I noticed while I was waiting, insurance companies, oil companies, and construction companies were having vehicles dropped off to have repairs performed. Chevy, Dodge, Ford, and Toyota owners were taking their vehicles here, rather than the dealerships.

I Didn’t Know That I Was Very Allergic To Amoxicillin

December 11, 2019Uncategorizedallergic reaction to amoxicillin, emergency medical care in Dickinson North Dakota, health care in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, medical care in jail in Dickinson North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, rash from taking amoxicillin in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In mid-November I had the flu for about one week, then it turned into pneumonia. I had pneumonia for about five days, then I began taking amoxicillin antibiotic. After taking amoxicillin for five days, I suddenly had a rash/hives covering my entire body.

It was very frightening being completely covered in a rash of welts, and it was hideous looking. It was also very itchy and painful. Fortunately, I had read the list of possible side effects of amoxicillin before taking it, and I knew that it was the amoxicillin that caused the rash.

Having the flu, and then pneumonia, I had had a hard time breathing sometimes. During periods of coughing with fluid in my lungs, a few times I was not able to catch my breath, and I nearly died. I would have dialed 911 if I could have reached my phone and figured out how to dial it at the time, I could hardly move.

I have had so many bad experiences in Dickinson, North Dakota, where the local people have no knowledge or understanding about their own job, or anything else, and they don’t care, especially law enforcement and health care providers. When I could think clearly, I had made up my mind that I would rather die than be dragged around by the Dickinson Police, dumped on the floor at the jail or St. Alexius Hospital, and be neglected and abused by the nurses. But in a panic and unable to breathe, I almost wanted to call for an ambulance rather than die.

Here is an example of how the police and health care providers treat people in Dickinson when they are helpless. A young lady named Josi Justice, who was 37 weeks pregnant was arrested by the Dickinson Police and taken to jail. Two weeks later Josi Justice was taken for an examination at Sanford Health Clinic where an obstetrician/gynecologist determined that she “must undergo a cesarean section rather than vaginal delivery”.

Two days later, still in jail, Josi Justice began having contractions and her water broke. The jail nurse was called on the telephone. The jail nurse said that she was not scheduled to give birth yet. The young lady with no help, no assistance, no medication, no treatment gave birth on the jail cell floor. Here is the link to the full article https://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/crime-and-courts/4664894-Stark-County-Inmate-gives-birth-in-holding-cell-%E2%80%94-sues-jail

I would rather just die in my own apartment, than be tortured by the Dickinson Police and health care providers in Dickinson. This is one of the reasons why I couldn’t tell anyone how sick I was, if someone called the Police to perform a “welfare check” on me, and I said, no, no, I’m O.K., I don’t need any help, the Police would have been like “stop resisting” and beat me, tasered me, dragged me down the stairs, and thrown me in a jail cell with assault charges, and no medical care.

Or, if I made it to the St. Alexius Hospital, they would have been like, “We need to amputate your arms and your legs.” Sadistic, sick, mother fuckers in Dickinson.

Having To Take Fish Antibiotics Because There Is No Health Care In Dickinson, North Dakota

About two weeks ago I wrote a blog post article about how I became sick with the flu in Dickinson, North Dakota. Later, I became more and more sick, and then my flu turned into pneumonia.

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs that can be caused by a virus, bacteria, or chemicals. If not treated, pneumonia can be fatal.

I have lived in Dickinson, North Dakota for about seven years now, and there is no health care in Dickinson, North Dakota. In the past when I became sick in Dickinson, I looked in the phone book for general family practice or specialty practice physicians in Dickinson, and when I called I was told the next available appointment was several weeks out.

When I discovered a carcinoma, a quickly spreading type of skin cancer on my back about a year ago, I found that there are no dermatologists in Dickinson. When I called dermatologist offices in the state capital of Bismarck, I was told the next available appointment was six months away. I had to drive two states away to Idaho in order to see a dermatologist within a week.

When I have gone to the Sanford Health walk-in clinic in Dickinson, the medication that I was prescribed was extremely expensive and not effective at all. The Sanford Health physicians in Dickinson are “locum tenens”, temporary short-term staff from out-of-state. The comment was made to me about getting evaluated more thoroughly when I saw my “primary care physician”. I was thinking, what the fuck, this is all the health care I have or am going to get, what the hell are you talking about “primary care physician”, this is Dickinson, this is all the health care I am going to get.

The Catholics in Dickinson managed to dupe everyone into having an enormous temple monument constructed under the pretense that it was going to be a hospital. The St. Alexius Hospital in Dickinson is an empty shell. Another part of this sham is that the Catholics use it as a job program for Catholics, hiring Catholics to fill positions that they are not qualified for, have no training in, have no experience in, or are not suited for. Here, go and read the Google reviews for yourself using this link https://www.google.com/search?q=st.+alexius+hospital+in+dickinson+north+dakota&rlz=1C1AVFC_enUS746US746&oq=st.+&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0j35i39l2j0j69i61l3.4393j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#lrd=0x532622aa671dece1:0x121509f55e2f6d1d,1,,,

Now, when I become very, very sick, I have to decide whether I would rather die, or do I want to go to the St. Alexius Hospital in Dickinson and be mistreated, or go to Sanford Health and be given a prescription for Tang orange flavor instant breakfast drink.

Faced with death, as a last resort, I went to a farm & ranch store in Dickinson, and I bought some amoxicillin antibiotic for fish, “Fish Mox”, and I began taking it.

Dickinson is worse than a third-world country. In South America, Central America, or Mexico, I could have gotten more help and better health care.

How I Became Sick For A Week In Dickinson, North Dakota

November 24, 2019Uncategorizedgetting sick in Dickinson North Dakota, getting the flu in Dickinson North Dakota, how do people catch the flu, how not to catch the flu in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

Saturday a week ago I went to Menards warehouse store in Dickinson, North Dakota. On the way into the store, I grabbed a shopping cart because I was expecting to buy more items than I could hold and carry in my hands.

I pushed the shopping cart all around the store, and it turned out that I didn’t buy very much after all. When I went to one of the check-out lines to pay for what I bought, I used the debit card reader and key pad to pay.

I walked out to my vehicle in the parking lot and I tried to decide where I wanted to go to eat. I drove to the El Puricutan Mexican restaurant, but it was closed. I then drove to the King Buffet Chinese restaurant instead. This led to me becoming sick for more than a week.

It wasn’t the food at the King Buffet restaurant that made me sick, it was all of the things that I had done. When I went to Menards and handled the shopping cart and the debit card reader, and then later went to the King Buffet and handled the entry door handle and the food serving spoons, I had not washed my hands or used hand-sanitizer before I ate.

So many people go through Menards and the King Buffet restaurant every day, and some of them are sick. They may be just beginning to get the flu, or just getting over the flu, but covering their own mouth or nose when they cough or sneeze, or using a Kleenex to blow their nose, and then shortly thereafter grabbing a shopping cart handle or an entry door handle, is what spreads the flu.

I noticed thirty years ago, that I could feel perfectly fine while at home, being around very few people. Then after going to the grocery store and returning home, I would quickly become sicker and sicker. I had picked up a virus from something that I had touched at the store, like an entry door handle, a shopping cart handle, a check-out line conveyor, or cash bills.

More About Why And How Car Dealerships Might Try To Steal From People In Dickinson, North Dakota

In my previous blog post, I wrote about Dan Porter Motors’ service department in Dickinson, North Dakota, how I believed that they were trying to steal money from me by wanting to perform repairs on my vehicle that didn’t need to be done.

I was very angry and upset about what happened. I had taken two other vehicles that I own to this dealership service department about six times over the past five years, and they had never tried to do this to me before.

When I went to Dan Porter Motors on Tuesday, I did see many new people, and the service department seemed very different. To be honest, before any work was done on my vehicle, I got the impression that this dealership service department had been downgraded. I got the impression that there must have been a mass firing, a mass quitting, or many employees leaving Dickinson.

When the oil change was completed on my vehicle, the service-writer showed to me what the mechanic said needed to be done to my vehicle: engine oil pan gasket was leaking oil, engine crank shaft seal was leaking oil, engine oil pressure sensor was leaking oil, transmission pan gasket was leaking transmission fluid, repairs needed totaling $1,137.

The problem was, that I check this vehicle frequently when it is running, and where it is parked in the same spot every day, it doesn’t leak anything, not one drop. Why would Dan Porter Motors’ service department try to get me to have work performed, that does not need to be done?

I have read and heard from people who work in the automotive industry, that although car dealerships used to make most of their profit from car sales, now they make most of their profit from their service department. I have also read and heard from the automotive industry, that dealership owners and general managers hold meetings where they tell everyone in the service department: “When a customer brings a vehicle in for service, this is a good time to find additional work that could be performed.” and “We want to make money, and you want to make money, so you better find work that could be performed so you can keep your job.”

In Dickinson during the oil boom from 2007-2014, the local car dealership service departments were so busy that it was hard to get an appointment sooner than six weeks away. The local car dealership service departments were so busy with a backlog of repair and maintenance work, that they didn’t need to go looking for additional work to perform.

This is probably why I never experienced a car dealership service department in Dickinson wanting to perform repairs that didn’t need to be done, they had more than enough repair and maintenance work already.

It’s possible that the mechanic who worked on my vehicle this past Tuesday, that he personally may have been over eager to try to make more money, and he wrote-up repairs that didn’t need to be done. I think that it is more likely that the mechanic wasn’t acting alone, I think that the service-writer was in on this, and that both the mechanic and the service-writer were being pressured by this dealership to find work.

Beyond my belief that I can never trust Dan Porter Motors’ service department again to advise on repairs that actually need to be done soon, I wonder how far they were willing to go to find work? Was the mechanic about ready to loosen the bolts on my engine oil pan and my transmission fluid pan, to be able to say, “Look at these leaks”? Was the mechanic about ready to take a screw driver to puncture the engine crank shaft seal on my vehicle? Did he do these things already to my vehicle?

Going forward, I don’t know exactly how to handle this. I think that it is not safe to take my vehicle to Dan Porter Motors’ service department again. But what if it was just a rogue mechanic, who did this on his own, and not part of the business plan of this dealership? Complaining to the management of this dealership service department, may make it even more unsafe to ever let their mechanics work on my vehicle again.

Is this going to become something that all of the dealership service departments in Dickinson begin doing because business has slowed down?

It looks like my two best options are to take my vehicle to a different car manufacturer dealership service department in Dickinson, or drive to the actual manufacturer dealership service department in Bismarck 100 miles away to get work done.

Here is a short video showing underneath this vehicle while it is running. I recorded this several times, with the vehicle running, not running, and coming back later after the vehicle had been running, and it all looks the same as this, no leaks at all:

Here is a second short video that I recorded earlier in the day, each video just shows the same thing, no leaks at all:

Very Angry At Car Dealership Service Department In Dickinson, North Dakota

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I was very angry at Dan Porter Motors’ service department in Dickinson, North Dakota for attempting to take over $1,000 from me by performing repairs on my vehicle that didn’t need to be done.

When I first wrote this blog post article on Tuesday, I explained what happened to me, but I didn’t want to name this Dickinson car dealership at the time, for several different reasons. One reason was, that in order to demonstrate very clearly that the repairs this dealership wanted to perform were not needed, I thought that I could show this in a video, and that may be the best time to name this dealership, when I showed video proof that there are no leaks on this vehicle.

A second reason was, I thought that I could have a second talk with this car dealership management and come to an understanding with them, that I am paying dealership prices in order to get the most competent and knowledgeable mechanic to perform repairs and maintenance on my vehicle, to advise me when repairs are needed, but how can I trust them when they are wanting to perform work that I know doesn’t need to be done?

A third reason for not wanting to name this car dealership at the time, was that I was sensing that something was wrong. I saw many new people at this dealership, it seemed much different, it seemed like something bad had just happened, a mass firing, a mass quitting, a change in behavior of the owner?

In Dickinson, I have been to the Dodge dealer service department about six times, the Ford dealer service department about four times, and the Toyota dealer service department about six times. At each car dealership service department in Dickinson, the maintenance and repairs were always performed competently, but the prices were pretty high.

In the past seven years of living in Dickinson, I have spent about $1,500 each, at the Dodge dealer, Ford dealer, and Toyota dealer on maintenance and repairs. I never experienced a blatant attempt to rip me off at a car dealership in Dickinson, until today. In the past, it was just a high shop rate for work that needed to be done.

In August I bought a very nice, very clean, very good-condition used vehicle for $2,250 from a private seller in Dickinson. I drive 26,000 miles per year, to and from the industrial site where I work, so I want to have a low-cost, yet reliable vehicle, to get to and from work.

Before I bought this used vehicle, before I even spoke to the seller, I looked at it very closely where it had been parked in the same spot for two weeks, and I saw that this vehicle was not leaking any oil, transmission fluid, or coolant. When I test drove this vehicle and parked it, left it running, and checked it again, it was not leaking anything at all.

After owning this vehicle for three months, driving it to and from work, putting as much as 700 miles on it per week, and checking where I park it in the same spot every day, it is not leaking oil, transmission fluid, or coolant, not one drop. After putting 3,000 miles on it, I might have added 1/2 quart of motor oil, which is normal or very good oil consumption for an older, used, high-mileage vehicle.

On Monday, I went to work at 3:00 p.m., and I got home from work seventeen hours later at a little after 7:00 a.m. Tuesday morning. I slept for two hours, and then I got up in order to take my vehicle to Dan Porter Motors’ service department for an oil change appointment at 10:15 a.m.

When I arrived at Dan Porter Motors’ service department, there were many new faces at this dealership, including several new-hires as service writers. I said to the available service-writer, that I was here for a full-service oil change, that I had bought this vehicle a couple of months ago, could they be sure to check the rear differential fluid level, I don’t know when it was checked last.

I never requested a vehicle inspection, I was very happy with this vehicle, I had experienced no problems with it at all. The service-writer somehow got the impression that I was interested in a vehicle inspection, or that I might have had doubts about this vehicle. The mechanic “went to town”, and I had no idea that this was going to happen, this dealership had never done this to me before.

About two hours later, this is what the car dealership service-writer presented to me:

“Leaks Everywhere”

Engine oil leaking from oil pan gasket, oil leaking from oil pressure sensor, and oil leaking from engine crank shaft seal. Oil pan gasket repair $487, oil pressure sensor leak repair $96, crank shaft seal leak repair $168.
Transmission fluid leaking from pan, leak repair $386.
Rear differential service $116.

This is $1,137 in “leak repair”. I said to the service-writer, you must be mistaken, you must be talking about a different vehicle, my vehicle doesn’t leak anything at all. I asked to speak to the service department manager, who I had spoken to before in the past about my other two vehicles that I had been bringing here for service and repairs.

I was very angry, but I think that I was able to convey my two main points to the service department manager. One, I have owned this vehicle for several months, I regularly check where it is parked, and it doesn’t leak one drop of anything. Two, I only paid $2,250 for this twenty year old, 200K mileage vehicle, why are you trying to tell me that it needs $1,137 in oil leak repairs, it doesn’t leak oil, and it doesn’t use oil. And, I didn’t ask for a vehicle inspection in the first place.

I telephoned the private seller of this vehicle, whose profession is automobile mechanic, to ask him what he thought. I told him that I was very happy with this vehicle, I knew that he had replaced the valve cover gasket as this was the only oil leak that he knew of, I never saw that this vehicle leaked anything whatsoever since I bought it. I read to him the repair estimate from this car dealer service department. I later made a copy of this repair estimate, and I went over it with the vehicle seller in person.

The vehicle seller was a little shocked at the repair estimate from the Dan Porter Motors that I showed to him, because this vehicle didn’t need these repairs. Sometimes, either the mechanic or the dealership, takes the initiative to try to come up with repairs that they can perform, that aren’t needed.

On a twenty year old vehicle with 200K miles, there are all kinds of things that you could say needed to be replaced. You could probably say that the wheel bearings needed to be replaced, the brake calipers needed to be replaced, the drive shaft universal joints should be replaced, the upper and lower ball joints needed to be replaced, the radiator needed to be replaced, the shocks and struts needed to be replaced, the catalytic converter needed to be replaced, …. because they are old, show signs of wear, or have play in them, this list is about $4,000 worth of work. But you have to remember, the whole vehicle is 20 years old, and it only cost $2,250 to begin with, just about everything could be replaced, but that doesn’t mean it needs to be replaced.

When the snow melts in a couple of days, when I drive this vehicle home from work, I am going to park it on a pristine, white concrete driveway and leave it running, and video underneath it while it is parked and running, then turn it off and come back later to video underneath it again, to show that it doesn’t leak a drop of anything.

If this dealership service department is going to make up repairs that don’t need to be done, how can I trust them in the future? Would they go so far as to break things on my vehicle to cause repairs to be needed?

Here is a short video showing underneath this vehicle when it is running. I recorded this several times with the vehicle running, not running, and coming back later after it was running, it looked the same as this each time, no leaks anywhere:

Here is a second short video that I recorded earlier in the day, each video just shows the same thing, no leaks at all:

The Intentional And Deliberate Collapse Of Dickinson, North Dakota

I am not writing this blog post solely out of hate, though I do hate many of the people in Dickinson, and I want to see them get what is coming to them, for what they did to me, and to other people. Even so, I still feel like warning people, especially the ordinary, plain people who are usually the last to know anything.

The people in Fargo, Bismarck, and Grand Forks, the wealthy people, the bankers, the people at the highest level of government in North Dakota, they want to collapse Dickinson, North Dakota for several different reasons.

Everyone outside of western North Dakota is aware of the repeated and continual frauds committed in the Dickinson area: enormous government funding and donation funding to build the St. Alexius Hospital which is an empty shell and inadequate; Dickinson State University not-for-profit Foundation receiving investor funding and donations to build Hawks Point Assisted Living and the Biesiot Activities Center, yet not paying and denying liability for construction loans from banks; $1 million private donation to open the Strom Center For Entrepreneurship and all the money is gone with no accounting for it; Dickinson State University awarding hundreds of college diplomas to foreign students who never completed the curriculum; Civil Service Commission never once in its history ever siding with a City of Dickinson employee; methamphetamine addicts running loose and out-of-control in the City of Dickinson.

Everyone outside of western North Dakota is aware of what has been going on in Dickinson, and it has been decided, that one of the ways to handle it, is to make Dickinson as small and inconsequential as possible, to collapse Dickinson.

For instance, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library And Museum being constructed on the DSU campus was an idea that would have increased the enrollment at DSU, increased the importance of DSU, and brought many visitors and money to Dickinson. The Governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, stepped in and used all of his influence and powers of persuasion with the board of directors of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library And Museum Foundation to not build in Dickinson.

Another example, the president of DSU, Thomas Mitzel, came up with the idea, that DSU could become a polytechnic campus, providing certificates and degrees for people working in industries in the Dickinson area. This idea would have been a tremendous boost for DSU and Dickinson. The oil and gas industries would have gladly provided financial support to DSU for training that prepared people for employment with them. Students from around the country would have been attracted to DSU for its ability to place graduates in high paying jobs in the oil and gas industry. Not only did the State of North Dakota not listen to president Thomas Mitzel’s ideas, it cut DSU’s funding in order to show president Mitzel that he needed to leave.

The truth is, that the State of North Dakota does not want DSU to grow and prosper, it wants DSU to go belly-up. It wants DSU’s enrollment, reputation, and status to decline so much, that there is clear justification to close DSU. You just watch and wait to see all the ways the State of North Dakota has planned to decrease funding, eliminate programs, discourage administrators and professors, hire ineffective leadership.

As I have written in previous blog posts, the Banks have implemented lending policies so that people can not buy homes in Dickinson. This will cause homes not to sell, sellers defaulting on their mortgages, and home prices in Dickinson falling drastically.

The intention is, to diminish the size of Dickinson, to collapse Dickinson, to make Dickinson about the same size as Bowman, New England, Belfield, Beach, Killdeer, Richardton, Taylor, Dodge, or Halliday.

With Dickinson being just a small-town gas stop on the interstate, it will merit only minimal funding from the State, and only minimal political influence. At the same time, whatever oil and gas production that is occurring in western North Dakota, this oil and gas revenue won’t be going to Dickinson with its small population, it can go to fund projects in the more civilized areas of Fargo, Bismarck, Jamestown, and Grand Forks.

So what does this mean to the ordinary, plain people living in Dickinson? It means that Dickinson is going to get smaller, and smaller, and smaller, to where it eventually looks similar to New England, Bowman, or Belfield.

This is not just due to the oil boom going away, the entire rest of the state, the bankers, the highest level politicians in the State, the Governor, they don’t want State funding to go to this area, and they want the oil and gas revenue money from this area to go elsewhere, not here.

When Dickinson shrinks to a small size, the people in this area become poor, and the property here becomes very cheap, it is certain that the bankers and the wealthy people in the eastern side of the State will buy up the land and mineral rights, and promote drilling and fracking in this area, which is one of their long term plans. To financially ruin this area, so that they can then plunder this area for its resources.

Working At Menards And Diet, Can Lead To A Nice Tight Ass

November 1, 2019UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Menards in Dickinson North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, where to meet women in Dickinson North Dakota, women at Menards in Dickinson North Dakota, working at Menards in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I have noticed that many of the women working at Menards in Dickinson, North Dakota have a nice, tight ass, and I want to explain why.

At the beginning of last week, I went to Menards to buy a quart of motor oil and a headband LED light. When I got ready to leave the store, I went to the first checkout line that was open, which was checkout line #1.

The cashier was a Black lady, who I think was a new-hire. Standing a few feet away from the cashier, was a rather distinguished looking White woman, about 30-40 years old. This White woman, I am going to name her “Denise” for the time being.

Denise must have seen me coming, and she tried to not look in my direction, in order to attempt to not have to deal with me. This was fine with me, as it gave me plenty of time to check her out.

I started with her feet, she was wearing nice ASICS running shoes, which is a sign of good health in women, they can run or might try to run. Her feet were a good size and not deformed, not webbed, clawed, or hoofed.

She was wearing soft, faded blue jeans that fit her well. Her jeans weren’t tight, they just fit well. I could see that she had well-formed and muscular calves, normal knees, and nice quadriceps muscles. She had long legs, she was about 5′-9″ or 5′-10″. Her stomach was flat and not bulging. She was wearing a loose fitting plaid flannel shirt, so I could not tell what her breasts looked like.

Denise had nice arms, shoulders, and neck, she was thin. She had a pretty face, and long brown hair. I would say that she was a “9” or a “10” out of ten. I wondered what she was doing in Dickinson, she didn’t belong here. I think that she must have been an out-of-town manager come from Bismarck, Fargo, or Minneapolis to do training.

I wanted to say to Denise, “You think that you are being plain and ordinary, but you aren’t fooling anyone. We can all tell that you are good looking.”

The new-hire cashier scanned and entered my one quart of motor oil as a whole case of motor oil, not one quart, so I had to tell Denise, whoa, wait, hold on, this got scanned wrong. Denise had to do an override or correction. I asked her did this just scan wrong? Denise only gave me the most minimal of answers.

As I was leaving Menards, and thinking about Denise, it just reminded me that many of the women working in Menards have nice, lean, muscular legs, and tight asses.

For one, there is the red-haired return girl, who looks just like Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603). Another red-haired girl works there who has no title. Then there are a couple of very tall women who will walk you out to the Lawn & Garden area if you ask where are the pruning saws or where are the paving blocks. It’s like trying to keep up with a giraffe when walking behind them, they swing their long necks around to look back and see if you are keeping up.

At Menards, they make all of those women stand up, and walk around the store all day on the hard concrete floor. They don’t get to sit around watching TV all day eating junk food.

If I had a wife or girlfriend that wanted to work at Menards, this would be like the best thing that ever happened. They would be getting up off of their ass, walking around all day, burning calories, not being able to eat junk food, earning money, getting health insurance, learning about tools and hardware. This would be much better than a wife or girlfriend going to the gym, plus the Menards people keep an eye on them all day and keep them from getting into trouble.

Dunham’s Sports Has The Wrong Idea About Dickinson, North Dakota

October 31, 2019UncategorizedDunham's Sports in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, sporting goods stores in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

A year and a half ago I began seeing newspaper articles about a sporting goods store called “Dunham’s Sports” intending to open a store in the Prairie Hills Mall in Dickinson, North Dakota.

I didn’t think that this was a very good idea. I had always had the impression that people in western North Dakota are not very interested in sports, recreation, or physical fitness. I have lived in this area for about seven years, and I have noticed every day that the people in Dickinson are mostly overweight, they do not care about their appearance or health, most of the people drink and smoke, and many use illegal drugs.

The farmers in this area, they farm, work on farm equipment, work on their vehicles, work on hobby cars, motorcycles, and boats. Throughout the day they smoke and use tobacco products. Then they sit down, drink beer, and watch TV.

The workers in this area, the oil field workers and the construction workers, they try to work as many hours as possible per week in order to pay their bills and take care of their families. They get up at 5:00 a.m. and get home at 7:00 p.m., they eat, and go to bed. They don’t play sports.

The kids in this area, I have never seen such a lack of tree-fort builders, bicycle riders, ball throwers, ball kickers, and weapons makers. The kids here mostly stay inside, because it is cold, because they are lazy, and because their parents tell them to.

So what I am saying, is that the people here, who are mostly farmers and blue collar workers, they don’t play sports. The people here are not health and fitness conscious, they are overweight beer drinkers and smokers. The kids here are not active, they mostly stay inside.

The Dunham’s Sports has been open in Dickinson for one year now. I went there once when this store first opened, and though they had a large selection of many types of sporting goods, their prices were not appealing to me. I was expecting discount prices for some reason, and I was disappointed.

Today I went to Dunham’s Sports for the second time. They had a very large selection of kayaks, about forty different kayaks. I bought two kayaks several years ago at Menards, on sale for about $150 each. WalMart sells kayaks for a little more than this. Tractor Supply and Shopko sold kayaks for a little more than WalMart. The kayaks at Dunham’s Sports are nice, but they get into the $300 to $700 price range.

So another thing that I want to point out about Dunham’s Sports, is another way that they don’t understand people in Dickinson, people in Dickinson are cheap. Myself, and most people in Dickinson, they are very cost conscious. Even if they can easily afford $300 to $700 for a kayak, they won’t pay this much if they can get one at Menards, WalMart, or Tractor Supply for $200.

Altogether, I don’t know who did the market research on Dickinson for Dunham’s Sports, but somehow I think that they were led to believe that the people in Dickinson were “affluent”, “young”, “professionals”, …… “yuppies”, when Dickinson is the exact opposite of this. The people in Dickinson are blue-collar trades people who are cheap, and not interested in sports, fitness, or health.

The Police In Dickinson Are Close To Committing The Crime Of Violating My Civil Rights

It is just about to the point where the Police in Dickinson, North Dakota could be criminally charged with violating my Civil Rights. The penalty for this, is up to ten years in prison. I will explain the law on this, and what the Police in Dickinson are doing to me.

Under U.S. Code Title 18, Chapter 13, Sections 241 and 242:

Section 241: If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;……

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both;

Section 242: Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;

The above citations of the United States Code, are not my interpretation, they are exactly word for word what the law says.

Many U.S. court cases have decided, and established the law by precedent, that the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right of an individual to travel freely. Here are some examples of U.S. court decisions regarding this:

“The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment.”
[Kent v. Dulles, 357 U.S. 116, 125 (1958)]

“The right to travel, to go from place to place as the means of transportation permit, is a natural right subject to the rights of others and to reasonable regulation under law. A restraint imposed by the Government of the United States upon this liberty, therefore, must conform with the provision of the Fifth Amendment that ‘No person shall be * * * deprived of * * * liberty * * * without due process of law’.”
[Schactman v. Dulles, 96 App DC 287, 225 F.2d 938, at 941]

In my case, the two or more persons who are conspiring to oppress, threaten, and intimidate me while I am exercising my Constitutionally protected right to travel freely, are Dickinson Police Chief Dusty Dassinger, and the Police Officers who keep stopping me.

I have explained in several recent blog posts, that in my thirty-four years of driving, I average about one stop by Law Enforcement every five years. In a period of sixty days in Dickinson, I was stopped by Law Enforcement three times.

This past Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m., I was returning home on four-lane Villard Street in Dickinson. Villard Street was almost completely vacant at this time on Sunday morning. During the last mile of my drive on Villard Street, there were only two approaching vehicles.

I slowed down and put on my left turn-signal one city block from where I needed to make a left turn onto a side street. I had plenty of time to make a left turn in front of the approaching vehicles on Villard Street, until one of the vehicles sped up quite a bit. I had to then come to a complete stop on Villard Street, as the approaching vehicle caused me to be unable to make a left turn by its speeding up.

I waited for the quickly approaching vehicle to pass by so that I could make a left turn, but once I was forced to come to a complete stop and wait on this vehicle to pass by, this vehicle slowed down, it slowed down a lot. I became frustrated as I waited on the approaching vehicle as it slowed down more and more. I almost went ahead and made a left turn in front of it, it was going so slow.

I could then see that this was a Dickinson Police vehicle. I had seen this vehicle far to the east on Villard Street, and to the west end of Villard Street was another three miles. Why, why, on a Sunday morning did this Police vehicle need to turn onto the same exact side street that I was trying to turn onto?

What this Police Officer was trying to do, was instigate a conflict and cause some kind of driving violation that he could charge me with. Initially, I had plenty of time to make a left turn, until this Police Officer sped up quite a bit, in order to be able to cite me for turning dangerously close in front of him. Then once I came to a complete stop and waited, this Police Officer slowed way down in order to try to get me to turn in front of him again. The truth is, this Police Officer didn’t need to turn onto the same side street as me, he was just trying to cause an altercation.

Mentally Ill Drug Addict Woman Tries Assault Fraud In Dickinson, North Dakota

What I saw happen yesterday, Sunday, in Dickinson, North Dakota was very upsetting and troubling to me. I hope that people in Dickinson will share this, remember this, and discuss this with Law Enforcement in Dickinson to make them aware.

On Sunday, October 20, at 4:00 p.m, I went to the M&H gas station on Villard Street in Dickinson to buy gasoline and a twelve-pack of Coke. While I was filling my vehicle with gas, I noticed two other male customers who were also putting gasoline in their vehicles. I went inside and I bought a twelve-pack of Coke, then I went back out to my vehicle at the gas pumps.

As I was getting into my vehicle to leave, I saw a very new, white color, four-door, four-wheel-drive Dodge 1500 pickup truck pull into the parking lot at the west side of the M&H gas station building. A skinny woman, about 30 years of age, quickly got out of the passenger side of this Dodge truck, acting angry, slamming the truck door very hard, stomping away, then she began screaming frantically for help.

No one was following after her, and no one was doing anything to her. The driver of the Dodge truck, he just sat in the truck. The woman continued to scream and yell, and yell for someone to call the Police. She then threw her phone down onto the concrete parking lot. At one point, she dropped down onto the sidewalk beside the M&H building, to try to act like she was hurt and injured.

The driver of the Dodge truck then got out of his truck, and he began to try to dial on his phone. I assumed that he was calling the Police himself. The woman then ran over to the male driver of the Dodge truck, who was dialing his phone, and she began trying to hit him. He held onto each of her wrists as she tried to hit him. She quit hitting him, and she then walked about ten feet away. No one was harming her, or preventing her from leaving.

On her own, with no one touching her or doing anything to her, she stomped quickly back over to the Dodge truck, and she got back into the passenger side of the Dodge truck. She was not hurt or injured. She began flailing around on the inside of the truck, like she was trying to cause damage and break things.

The driver of the Dodge truck got back in, and he began backing out of the parking lot. The woman opened the truck door all the way, and she began yelling for someone to call the Police. No one was preventing her from getting out of the Dodge truck.

The male customer closest to me at the gas pumps, he had stopped what he was doing to see if this woman was in trouble, and he appeared to want to help, but he didn’t know what to do. I said to him that no one is doing anything to her, she is acting like she is out of her mind on drugs. The male customer replied, “Obviously”.

I was going to call the Police, because the way that she was acting, someone was going to get hurt or get falsely accused of assaulting this woman. I drove in the same direction as this white Dodge truck, to be able to tell the Police dispatcher where this truck was, and what direction it was heading. The woman got out of this Dodge truck right at the next corner, right at Main Street, and the Dodge truck drove away.

The woman began screaming bloody murder, like she had just been kidnapped and raped, first dropping down onto the sidewalk like she was injured and hurt, but then jumping up and running out into Main Street to try to stop passing cars, yelling for help, like it was a matter of life and death. A man wearing a backpack who happened to be passing by on Main Street on the other side of the street from her, he ran over to help her.

The woman then dropped back down onto the sidewalk like she was injured and hurt. A few times it looked like she was trying to get back up and run out into traffic again, as I came to the stop sign at Main Street and I made a right turn. I had dialed the Police dispatcher, and the dispatcher “Miranda” said that she had just received other calls about this woman, she asked me to please hold. I explained to the Police dispatcher Miranda what I had seen, and I gave her my name and phone number.

Within a few minutes, just as the Police were arriving, the passerby on Main Street who had run across the street to help this woman, he looked like he was trying to get away from her. It appeared that he had had enough of trying to help her, realizing that she was out of her mind, that she was probably on drugs, that she was not injured, and that no one was trying to come after her.

While I was parked on the side of Main Street, waiting on hold, then talking to the Police dispatcher Miranda, looking in my rear-view and side-view mirrors, this woman was continuing to try to get up, and yelling hysterically at passing cars.

This woman was out of her mind. There was nothing physically wrong with her when she got out of the Dodge truck at the M&H gas station, slammed the truck door, and angrily stomped across the parking lot. She dropped down on the sidewalk to pretend like she was hurt, but jumped right back up and quickly stomped back over to the truck, and got in. No one was preventing her from walking away.

I realized that if this woman had even just grabbed hold of my vehicle door handle, or any man’s vehicle door handle, passersby and the Police would have jumped to the conclusion that the vehicle driver must have just assaulted, harmed, raped, or drugged this woman, and were now trying to get away. Or, that they had hit her with their vehicle.

Even worse, if this woman would have run and jumped in the back seat or passenger seat of my vehicle, or any man’s vehicle, like what she appeared to be trying to do with passing vehicles on Main Street, the Police never ever would have believed the vehicle driver saying, “I have never seen this woman before, I don’t know who she is, she just ran and jumped in my vehicle.” The Police would be handcuffing the driver, and taking the driver to jail for assault, kidnapping, sexual assault, and rape.

Because this woman was behaving so hysterically like someone had just kidnapped her, assaulted her, and raped her, yelling for help, yelling for people to call the Police like her life was in immediate danger, upon witnessing this, everyone passing by appeared to believe that something like this must have just happened.

These hysterics were all just an act, dupe, con, and fraud. She could have caused an innocent man to be arrested, charged, and jailed for a serious crime with this act that she was putting on. The Police in Dickinson couldn’t tell and would not have known that she was making the whole thing up.

Women in Dickinson probably think that this is funny, and something that they can try too. The next time that I happen upon a woman screaming for help, I am going to press my vehicle door lock button, and drive away as quickly as possible, because apparently women think that it is a good idea to make false accusations of assault, sexual assault, and rape.

Update:

I waited for the Dickinson Press newspaper to publish its most recent “Police Blotter” or “Crime & Courts” article, in order to try to find out who this woman was on Sunday, October 20. On October 23, the Dickinson Press newspaper article “Stark County District Court Oct. 21 & 22” had this record:

“Jessica Michelle Smith, 33, of Dickinson, initial appearance: violation of order prohibiting contact (misdemeanor); bond hearing: contact by bodily fluids or excrement (felony); bond hearing: simple assault domestic violence, preventing arrest, unlawful possession drug paraphernalia (misdemeanors)”

The above record kind of matched the incident and the behavior that I witnessed on Sunday, it involved a 33 year old woman, simple assault domestic violence, preventing arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia, and violation of a no contact order. I went to the North Dakota Court Repository website to look at the actual date of arrest for this incident, and the charge of violating a no contact order did occur on Sunday, October 20.

I tried to find a photo of Jessica Michelle Smith on the internet, but I could not, so I can’t say that she is the person that I saw on Sunday. I am still trying to find out if this was her.

Near Accident Almost Costing Me My License And My Job

October 18, 2019Uncategorizedcar accidents in Dickinson North Dakota, driving in Dickinson North Dakota, getting a suspended license in Dickinson North Dakota, getting tickets in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, winter driving in Dickinson North Dakota, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

For the first two weeks of October, I griped and complained about getting stopped by the Police in Dickinson and almost getting 9 points on my driver’s license at one time: 3 points for failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign, and 6 points for not being able to find my proof of liability insurance. I ended up with just 3 points on my driver’s license for the time being. When you get over 11 points, you automatically lose your driver’s license.

The job site where I have been working for the past two years is about a one hour drive from Dickinson, it’s not like I can walk or ride my bicycle there if I lose my driver’s license. It’s out in the middle of nowhere, a rural area with large farms, not a place where you can rent something close by if you can’t drive there. Besides that, the owner of the company that I work for stated last week that if any employee gets a suspended driver’s license, they can’t work there.

So I am trying to be very careful driving. On top of everything else, I hit a deer on the way home from work two months ago. This was the first time in my life that I ever actually hit a deer. One of my coworkers hit a deer two years ago on the way to this job site and it did $20,000 damage to his new truck. Another coworker hit a deer on the way home about eight months ago and it totaled his Dodge Caravan, then two weeks later while driving his mother’s car to work he hit another deer and it totaled his mother’s Chrysler 200.

I don’t want to hit another deer, and I don’t want to get stopped by Law Enforcement again, so I drive very slow to and from work. When vehicles start getting close behind me, I pull off the road at the nearest approach and let them pass me. About three times per week on the way home, I pull off the road to let one of my coworkers pass me.

This past week, there was a very severe early snow storm that lasted for several days. Several times, the interstate that passes through this area was closed due to the number of vehicles sliding off the road. On the way to work on the two-lane highway, I did see a couple of snow related accidents, one where a four-wheel-drive Dodge 1500 pickup truck slid into the back of a dump-truck snow plow.

Last week, getting ready to drive home from work in the dark after working a twelve hour shift, I stopped at the job site exit to let the coworker who usually passes me on the way home, I let him go ahead of me. He drives a front-wheel-drive Honda Civic, which handles very good on snow and ice, probably even better than a four-wheel-drive truck.

My coworker got out onto the two-lane highway where the speed limit is 65 mph, and he drove 45-50 mph, which was what I was planning to do. The highway was very icy, probably about the worst I had ever seen. I stayed about 300 feet behind my coworker. Every time he came to a very bad ice spot, I could see his brake lights come on, he was slowing down, but he shouldn’t have been using his brakes so much, I thought, just let off the gas pedal.

After about eight miles, I didn’t see my coworker’s tail lights in front of me. Driving another 100 feet, I then saw that my coworker’s Honda Civic was sideways across both lanes of the highway. At first I thought that he was trying to turn around, but then I realized that he had hit a bad ice spot and spun out. Now only about 200 feet from him, I gently put on my brakes, but all wheels locked up, and I began sliding towards him, not slowing down at all, going about 35 mph. Colliding with him was inevitable.

The vehicle that I was driving, is my most favorite vehicle of any one that I have ever owned. I try not to drive it too much in order to not put many miles on it, and keep it safe. I don’t think that I will ever be able to replace this vehicle. But here I was, sliding towards my coworker going about 35 mph. He was sitting there appearing to be in shock, and I am about to smash up my most prized possession.

The vehicle that I was driving is all-time-four-wheel drive, it’s always in four-wheel drive, so when I was about 100 feet from my coworker, sliding sideways just like he had slid sideways, not slowing down at all, I let off the brake and I gave it about 15% throttle. The wheels caught just barely enough to pull me towards the high side of the highway.

I slid past my co-worker still going about 35 mph, but now with the tail end of my vehicle headed for the snow embankment on the high side of the highway. When the rear end of my vehicle hit the snow embankment, it would be just like the rear tires hitting a curb, causing my vehicle to flip over. All I could do was wait for impact. When I hit the snow bank, I didn’t hit solid enough to flip over.

I drove my vehicle out of the snow bank, and I parked on the edge of the highway. I spoke to my coworker briefly, and he said that he wanted me to go ahead of him for the rest of the way home. I drove about 45-50 mph the rest of the way home with my hazard-flasher lights on. This was the worst and most icy road that I had ever seen in my seventeen years of driving in snow.

This time, I gradually put about two miles distance between me and the vehicles behind me. It was more than a one hour drive home this time, only going 45-50 mph, but not even the idiots could go any faster and catch up to me. My coworker called me just as I was entering Dickinson to see if I had made it, I was out of sight from him. I told him to stop at Hardees restaurant when he got into Dickinson.

When my coworker arrived at Hardees, I said to him that if I had hit him, that I would probably have been cited for the accident. I asked him if he knew that we would have had to report this accident, if you don’t report an accident in North Dakota, it’s six points on your driver’s license. Judging from my coworker’s response, he didn’t know that you had to report the accident, he would not have wanted to report the accident, at first.

I was kind of angry, not so much at my coworker, but at the whole situation. I was driving slow, I let my coworker go ahead of me, I was staying 300 feet behind him, plenty far enough I thought to be able to stop in time. The ice that he spun out on, in a front-wheel-drive car, was the ice that I had to try to stop on, and I couldn’t do it, I couldn’t even steer away from him, let alone stop.

I would have been cited for the accident, 3 more points on my driver’s license. My coworker who acted like he would not have wanted to report this accident, because he didn’t know that he had to, would probably have changed his mind once he talked to his insurance company. Another 6 points for me for not reporting the accident, plus the 3 points for being cited for the accident, plus the 3 points that I got at the beginning of the month, means a suspended driver’s license for me.

I am so uncomfortable, uneasy, and unsettled living in North Dakota. So many bad things are always happening, even though all I am trying to do is just go to work, go to the grocery store, and just pay my bills. Living here really is like being in prison, nothing good ever happens, only bad things happen here.

Update:

I talked to a Highway Patrol Officer for about five to ten minutes, describing what had happened, and asking him questions. He told me that the Highway Patrol does not always make a determination of who was at fault in an accident, nor do they always give someone a citation for an accident, as in a weather/road condition/stalled vehicle related accident.

The Highway Patrol Officer also informed me, that up until August of 2019 it was mandatory to report a vehicle accident where there was more than $1,000 damage. After August of 2019, the vehicle accident reporting law was updated, where it became mandatory to report a vehicle accident where there was more than $4,000 damage.

Lastly, the Highway Patrol Officer indicated that if all parties involved in a vehicle accident choose to exchange identification and insurance information, and forego reporting an accident where no one was injured and there was not that much damage, the Highway Patrol is not interested in trying to give anyone a citation for not reporting the accident.

The Phat Fish Brewery Is Family Friendly

October 17, 2019Uncategorizedfamily friendly bars in Dickinson North Dakota, family friendly restaurants in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, Phat Fish Brewing Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In 2019 a new pizza restaurant and brewery was opened in Dickinson, North Dakota, called “Phat Fish Brewing”.

I kept hearing and reading that this restaurant and brewery is “family friendly”, which I think means that you can bring your kids with you, that it is O.K. for kids, or that it is meant for kids too.

From the Phat Fish Brewing website, it says:

“We are a family-friendly Brewery and Pizzeria with unique offerings created just for Dickinson!”

From a Dickinson Press newspaper article, where a reporter interviewed the owner:

“The new restaurant on Villard Street promises original brew and family fun…..A kids area is planned, and an area for adults to play games.”

“You don’t have to be 21 to be able to come in and have a pizza and a soda,” Scharf said. “We’re going to be doing our own custom root beer and cream soda. We’ll have root beer floats and smores pizzas.”

This is kind of what I picture in my mind:

Stevenson Funeral Home Marketing In Dickinson North Dakota

October 16, 2019Uncategorizedburial arrangements in Dickinson North Dakota, Funeral arrangements in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, Stevenson Funeral Home Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

Several days ago when I was on Facebook, one of the advertisements that kept appearing on my home page was for Stevenson Funeral Home in Dickinson, North Dakota.

I check my Facebook home page three or four times a day to see what people have posted and what items people have listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace. 90% of the time, everyone on Facebook knows that people are using it for fun and entertainment.

Every so often someone will post something political or religious that gets argued about until the post gets pushed further down the page and out of sight. From time to time someone will post an article about a charity fundraiser for a person who is sick or injured, or a news bulletin about a missing child or elderly person.

But when the advertisement kept coming up for Stevenson Funeral Home, I felt like it was out of place. This funeral home advertisement coming up on Facebook, was kind of like being solicited about funeral arrangements while at a party, picnic, playground, or restaurant. When people are being social, fun, and lighthearted, it’s not the right time to talk about funeral arrangements.

I looked at the comments that people had left attached to this Stevenson Funeral Home advertisement to see if anyone else felt the same way that I did about it. One man wrote something like, “Why does this funeral home advertisement keep appearing in my feed? Do you know something that I don’t know? Are you expecting me to die or something?”

There were a couple of comments where people complained about a relative’s funeral costing $11,000 and $13,000. Then, there were some comments about a neighbor burying people in their backyard. But these comments were all deleted.

The funniest comment, was where a person was actually being serious, she wrote, “The whole crew is awesome to work with.” I was thinking, “What?, what is going on? Is this person from the Adams Family or something?”

Here is what came to mind, adult Wednesday Adams:

I went and looked at the Stevenson Funeral Home Facebook page, and at the top of their page they have the banner or slogan, “Endless Possibilities”. I thought to myself, they have got to be kidding, “Endless Possibilities” ? More fitting would be something like “Eternal Possibilities”. When you or a family member is dead, you can be buried or you can be cremated, but to suggest that there are “Endless Possibilities” is kind of macabre and sinister. It makes me wonder what kind of voodoo, satanic, undead possibilities are there?

Hammer Hand’s MGTOW Movie

October 14, 2019Uncategorizedexplanation of MGTOW, Hammer Hand MGTOW movie, Hammer Hand Movie, Hammer Hand videos, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, MGTOW in North Dakota, MGTOW philosophy, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, review of Hammer Hand's moviename withheld

For those of you who don’t know, MGTOW stands for “Men Going Their Own Way”. For at least the past five years in western countries such as Great Britain, Canada, Australia, and the United States, many adult men have come to believe that there is no way that they can have a relationship with women without having disastrous consequences.

Adult men through their own experiences, and witnessing the experiences of other men, have come to realize that being involved with women, working with women, or even just crossing paths with women will likely lead to these outcomes: Allegations of sexual harassment; allegations of sexual assault; losing one’s job or career over false accusations; divorce causing the loss of their home and children; child support and alimony payments beyond what they are able to pay.

Many men have decided that it is just not worth it to pursue any type of relationship with women, and that it can be detrimental to their well being to work with, or even be around women. Once making this decision to avoid women, many men have found that they have more peace, happiness, success, and financial freedom beyond what they had ever experienced before. Hence, MGTOW.

My estimation is that approximately 20%-25% of men over the age of 25 in the U.S. have made up their mind to try to have as little to do with women as possible, because it is too costly in time, energy, money, distractions, and frustration. On a daily basis, as a philosophy, lifestyle, support group, or a kind of religion, these men have discussions on internet forums such as YouTube.

Some of the MGTOW YouTubers that I follow daily are Hammer Hand, RPM, and Coach Greg Adams. Though each of these three YouTubers are my age, approximately 50, Hammer Hand is White, whereas RPM and Coach Greg Adams are Black. Both Hammer Hand and RPM are truck drivers.

Hammer Hand, RPM, and Coach Greg Adams, all grew up believing that they would marry, have a wife, children, home, and career, just like I believed. However, they, and I, never could have imagined how bad things would turn out, society in the U.S. has fallen apart. This is what MGTOW followers discuss every day, what is wrong, what went wrong, how did this happen, why did this happen, who caused this, and how to fix this.

Finally, about one year ago, Hammer Hand decided to make a movie, in order to clearly explain what went wrong, what is wrong, how did this happen, why did this happen, and who is responsible. Here is his movie which was released yesterday:

This movie is pretty thorough and detailed in its explanation of MGTOW. I can understand some of the complexities because I have been considering many of these ideas for more than a year. But for a newcomer, I think that the first part of this MGTOW movie would be confusing. Soon after the movie starts, there is a lengthy commentary accompanying a video showing a riot/street-brawl in a Black community. What does Black people rioting/brawling in the street have to do with MGTOW many people might wonder?

What I have not mentioned or pointed out yet, is that Black families, Black communities, and Black society has been more thoroughly and completely destroyed than White families and White communities. This may have been why Hammer Hand chose to begin his movie with commentary and video of a Black community in chaos.

This movie intro may have made it easier to immediately begin addressing some of the causes for the break down in this community such as: Feminism’s support of unwed mothers; Feminism’s support of sexual freedom and promiscuity; Government welfare taking the place of Black men as provider; Jews controlling the media and entertainment to promote destructive behavior such as drug use, promiscuity, infidelity, and violence; Communist agenda to destroy the traditional family unit, traditional religion, and bring about people relying on the government for everything.

For now, I am not going to interject any more of my own explanation of MGTOW and Hammer Hand’s MGTOW movie, so that people can just watch this movie for themselves.

I Talked To The Police Officer Who Stopped Me Last Night In Dickinson, North Dakota

On Monday night, September 30, at 11:00 p.m., I was stopped by a Police Officer in Dickinson, North Dakota for failure to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. I had waited until late at night to drive to WalMart for groceries, because I didn’t want to go to the store when it was busy and crowded. I was not in a hurry at all, I was driving less than the speed limit, and the last thing I was expecting was to be stopped by the Police.

When the Police Officer asked me for my driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance, I told the Police Officer that I would have to look on my phone for a copy of my proof of insurance. At the moment, I could not remember whether I had taken a photograph of the insurance card off of my computer screen, or if I had had this insurance card e-mailed to me.

I bought this vehicle that I was driving, six weeks ago. Initially, what I had placed in the glove box as proof of insurance, was the price quotation that State Farm Insurance had faxed to me, the form that I had to sign and fax back to State Farm Insurance, and I had a photo on my phone of the check payment written out to State Farm Insurance with the dollar amount matching the price quote for this vehicle, the date, and in the memo section the make, model, and year of this vehicle.

The Police Officer was not believing me that I had insurance on this vehicle, even after I showed him the paperwork that I had in the glove box, and the photo of the check payment for insurance on this vehicle. I had other proof of insurance cards on my phone for other vehicles of mine, but not this one. I tried to go to and log onto my e-mail, but I couldn’t get the log in page to come up on my phone like it does on my computer.

The Police Officer mentioned to me that failure to have insurance or proof of insurance was a $140 fine, which was not that big a deal to me. As he was writing my ticket, I was able to get to my e-mail on my phone, go back to August, and luckily I found the proof of insurance card for this vehicle. I handed my phone to the Police Officer, and he looked at my proof of insurance card for this vehicle.

The Police Officer gave me a ticket for failure to stop at a stop sign, which he explained was $40 and three points on my driver’s license. I explained to the Police Officer, that I know that the Police in Dickinson are trying to stop as many people as possible in order to try to discover drug crime, but for people like me who are not criminals, this is a problem because I have been stopped three time by Law Enforcement in the past sixty days.

When I got home and I began looking on the internet to try to see how many points would go on my Idaho driver’s license, when these points would appear on my driver’s license, what online driver course I could take to get these points removed, and when I would need to take this online driver course, I found out that I nearly got nine points on my driver’s license for this traffic stop, and that the next time that I got stopped within the next twelve months, my driver’s license would automatically be suspended.

What I did not know or understand at first, was that there is no ticket for failure to have proof of insurance, there is only a ticket for failure to have insurance. If I would have paid the $140 ticket for what I thought was failure to have proof of insurance, I would have actually been admitting to not having liability insurance, which in North Dakota on the first offense carries a penalty of six points on your driver’s license, and for the second offense twelve points on your driver’s license.

I had no idea that on the way home from WalMart at 11 p.m., not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign, would result in me losing my driver’s license. But it’s worse than that, I didn’t understand what was going on, I didn’t understand how important it was to show more proof of insurance than what I had with me at the time, I didn’t know that paying the ticket for $140 would have been automatically admitting that I didn’t have liability insurance, which I did have liability insurance, I didn’t know that I would have had nine points on my license immediately, I would not have known that the next time I got stopped within the next twelve months that my driver’s license would automatically be suspended, … and I would have been driving around with a suspended driver’s license and not had any idea.

On Tuesday, I called a couple of DMV and IDT offices in Idaho to try to get some answers on how to handle the traffic ticket that I got on Monday night, to ask if and when the points would go on my Idaho driver’s license, and when and how many times could I take the online driver safety course to get the points removed from my driver’s license.

On Tuesday I called a couple of DMV and NDOT offices in North Dakota to ask questions, though the people in Bismarck were nice, they didn’t have all the answers. I called the Dickinson Police Department to try to ask to speak to a Police Officer that I already knew like Shift Sergeant Moser, Officer Kinto, or Officer Bates, but was told no. It was suggested to me that I speak to either the Police Officer who gave me the ticket, or his Shift Sergeant Jason Wallace this evening.

To clarify for those people reading this blog post who don’t understand why this is such a big deal to me: My home is in Idaho 750 miles away, I am just here in Dickinson, North Dakota to work. My work location is more than sixty miles from Dickinson, out in the middle of nowhere. If I lose my driver’s license, I will lose my job. I have trucks, trailers, and equipment that I have brought to Dickinson to do self-employed work, but without a driver’s license, I couldn’t do my self-employed work either.

If I lose my driver’s license, then my job, I don’t have anyone here to help me. I don’t have any good friends here, any family members here, any church relationship here, any attorney or accountant business relationships here. Without a driver’s license, without a job, without any income, that is when I would probably want to hire an attorney to try to help me get something like a temporary restricted license to drive to work, but the attorney would want thousands of dollars, and the Dickinson Police would just cause me to lose my restricted license as soon as possible.

I would not have had any idea that I was getting a total of nine points on my driver’s license by paying the $40 ticket and the $140 ticket from this traffic stop. I would not have gotten any notification about the nine points on my driver’s license, because I have an Idaho driver’s license. Any mail from the state of Idaho would be sent to my home or my P.O. box in Idaho.

I have to keep my Idaho driver’s license and do other things like pay state income tax to Idaho, as well as North Dakota, to legally claim Idaho residency. My home in Idaho is protected from any kind of lawsuit judgement if it is my primary residence, my homestead, but not if it is classified as a second home or investment property.

Getting back to the point, I keep getting stopped so frequently by Law Enforcement in Dickinson, because they are trying to stop drug crime, that I am in danger of having my driver’s license suspended, being arrested for unwittingly driving on a suspended license, losing my job, having no way to earn a living, losing my apartment, and not even being able to drive my equipment and vehicles back to my home in Idaho.

I spent some time looking up on the internet the Police Officer who stopped me and gave me the ticket on Monday night. He graduated from Dickinson State University about one year ago, he became a Police Officer about six months ago, and he is about 25 years old.

I called the Dickinson Police Department late Tuesday night when this Police Officer was back on duty, and I said that I wanted to ask him some questions about the ticket he gave me, and that I would like to meet him somewhere if possible. The Dickinson Police Department got a hold of him, and he called me back.

I asked him if I had not found the State Farm Insurance card on my phone, would he have written me a ticket for failure to have liability insurance, he said yes. I asked him if he would have told me that this ticket for not having insurance carries a six point penalty on your driver’s license, he said yes. I explained to him, that I had no idea that paying the $140 ticket for failure to have liability insurance means that you agree that you have no liability insurance, I did have liability insurance.

I tried to explain to him again, better than I explained it to him on Monday night, that I understand that the Police are trying to detect crime, but the way that the Police are scrutinizing my driving, and the frequency at which the Police are stopping me, that I am going to lose my driver’s license. I don’t think that I can drive perfectly all the time. I am not a criminal, but the Police are turning me into a criminal, to where I am going to end up driving on a suspended license.

I briefly explained that the way that the Police are stopping me so often, that I am going to lose my driver’s license, then lose my job, then lose my home.

This Police Officer explained to me that he was just doing his job. That he has to enforce traffic laws for public safety, people can’t speed and run stop signs just because they want to. I explained to him that I don’t speed, that I drive slow, I am always being tailgated, and that I have to pull over to let people pass me all the time. I didn’t run the stop sign, I just didn’t come to a complete stop.

After I got off the phone with this Police Officer, I had the impression that he believed that he was just doing his job, though I don’t think that he understands the impact of what he is doing.

People are supposed to have the right to travel freely in the U.S. The whole point of the first communities in the U.S. creating government and Police Officers was to maintain peace and order, not for the Police to hide and sneak up on citizens to try to get them for something like the citizens are prey, enemies, or criminals.

If there is supposed to be a curfew at night in Dickinson, which I agree with, then this law should be voted on by citizens and then published as law. In effect, what the Police in Dickinson are doing, is they have created a curfew law all on their own. I see very few people driving at night in Dickinson, and I think that it is because they are scared of getting stopped by the Police and cited for something.

It has been pointed out to me by other people, which I realized was the truth, new, clean, expensive vehicles in Dickinson do not get stopped by the Police. I just about never have seen a new, clean, expensive vehicle stopped by the Police in Dickinson, its always older less expensive vehicles that get stopped by the Police.

Getting Stopped By The Police Again In The Dickinson Prison Work Camp

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This past year, I realized that what Dickinson, North Dakota is really like, it is like a Prison Work Camp.

For more than a year, I have been writing again and again, over and over, that I can’t even drive to work, or drive to the grocery store without the Police following me, stalking me, and trying to pull me over for something.

Back on March 8, 2018 I wrote a blog post article titled, “Getting Stopped By The Police In Dickinson, North Dakota”. Here are some quotes from what I wrote back in March of 2018:

“I have written again, and again, and again, and again about not being able to go out at night in Dickinson, North Dakota because the Police are so eager and aggressive in stopping people for DUI, or trying to discover illegal activity.”

“At about 5:00 p.m., I drove from the restaurant to visit my friend at his home, who is old and in bad health. At about 6:30 p.m., I drove to Dairy Queen and got an ice cream cone. I was driving home from Dairy Queen on Villard Street, when a Dickinson Police car made a U-turn, came after me, followed me, and stopped me. This turned an ordinary evening and outing, into an unwanted stressful situation.”

“I am so sick of this in Dickinson, being followed by the Police, so that they can think of a reason to pull you over, to try to give you a DUI, or find something else to charge you with.”

Tonight, September 30, I waited until 10:15 p.m. to go to WalMart so that the store would not be crowded. I bought about $30 worth of groceries at WalMart, and then I drove home. I drove at about 30 mph to the store, and at about 30 mph home from the store, I was not in a hurry at all. When I got to the four-way stop at the intersection of 10th Avenue East and 21st Street East, I thought that I came to a complete stop, and then I made a right turn.

A Police Officer made a U-turn, came after me, followed me while he ran my license plate, then he pulled me over for failure to come to a complete stop at the stop sign. I almost got a $140 ticket for failure to have proof of insurance, because I had the insurance card on my phone, but I wasn’t able to find the insurance card until the last minute. I did get a ticket for failure to stop at the stop sign, $40 and three points against my license.

Six weeks ago I wrote about getting stopped by the Police in Dickinson, North Dakota, in a blog post article titled “Dickinson, North Dakota Is A Prison Work Camp”. Here are a few quotes from what I wrote six weeks ago:

“In the past two years of living in North Dakota, I have been stopped by Law Enforcement more times than in my previous thirty-two years of driving.”

“I dread going anywhere in North Dakota, especially just going to the grocery store, going to work, or coming home from work. In the past thirty days, while I was driving at the speed limit, not doing anything wrong, Law Enforcement that was travelling in the opposite direction, has made a U-turn after passing me, in order to come after me.”

“What Law Enforcement is trying to do, is stop me, ask me questions, and look in my vehicle in order to get me for something.”

I have been stopped three times by Law Enforcement in North Dakota in the past sixty days. None of it was for speeding, because I drive slow, I am trying to be careful, and I am trying not to be stopped. But I am learning that there seems to always be something that the Police can get you for, even if you are trying not to be pulled over.

In sixteen years of driving in Florida, from when I was sixteen years old to when I was 32 years old, I was stopped a total of three times by the Police, each time for speeding. In ten years of driving in Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho, I was stopped twice by the Police, once for speeding, once for a headlight out. This is not normal to be stopped by Law Enforcement three times in sixty days, but this is North Dakota, and I am warning people not to move here.

What Dr. Thomas Mitzel Started But Wasn’t Allowed To Finish, DSU Becoming A Polytechnic Campus

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In my previous blog post, I wrote about Dr. Thomas Mitzel giving his resignation as President of Dickinson State University, and leaving to become President of Kentucky Wesleyan College.

I knew that Dr. Thomas Mitzel would probably leave DSU sooner or later, because the town of Dickinson and North Dakota are difficult for normal people to live in, especially educated people. It is very cold in North Dakota, and this area of western North Dakota is mostly barren, undeveloped grassland prairie. The desolate landscape, very cold weather, and attitudes of the people here have helped to keep the entire population of the state of North Dakota below 800,000 people.

Regardless of whether North Dakota is inviting or not, there are several oil and natural gas formations about 6,000 feet underground, that caused an oil boom in the 1950s, late 1970s, and 2007 through 2014. A couple hundred thousand people came to North Dakota to work in the 2007-2014 oil boom, at jobs that paid higher than average.

Meanwhile, during the North Dakota oil boom from 2007-2014, all across the U.S., there was the widespread complaint that college graduates with large student loan debt were unable to find employment in their field of study, good paying employment, or even any employment at all. At this same time, many traditional Liberal Arts colleges were closing due to not being profitable.

Higher education in the U.S. is changing due to several factors. More colleges and universities are offering online college course work because it is less expensive for many people because they don’t have to relocate to a college town, commute to a college town, or give up their normal 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. job to attend classes.

Another factor that is changing higher education is that employers simply want people who are ready and capable to go to work for them. Traditional four-year college Liberal Arts degrees in majors like English, History, Religion, Philosophy, Art, Political Science and Communications aren’t exactly what many employers are looking for, especially in industries like health care, manufacturing, oil and gas.

Dr. Thomas Mitzel was aware that many traditional Liberal Arts colleges were closing, online college course work was competing with traditional college classrooms, many college graduates with Liberal Arts degrees were unable to find employment, and that industries with high paying jobs like health care, manufacturing, oil and gas wanted applicants with technical training.

In order to save DSU, or perhaps to even cause DSU to grow and thrive, DSU could continue offering four-year Liberal Arts degrees, but at the same time begin offering technical training that was specifically what industries and employers wanted. Dr. Mitzel had a meeting in Bowman, North Dakota where he explained what he had in mind. Here are some quotations as reported by the Bowman County Pioneer newspaper in their article https://bowmanextra.com/2018/09/21/dsu-looking-to-become-polytechnic/

“We will always remain a Liberal Arts institution,” Mitzel said. “But becoming a Polytechnic dual mission would allow us also to be able to offer certificates and practical courses.”

Mitzel has had three meetings with a manufacturer strategic group — the last one lasting for five hours….where it was discussed, “What are some of the needs that they have? We really sat down and went over every industry that was there,” Mitzel said. “What was their workforce needs? And we tried to find common ground. We found about eight areas of common ground in education that they need, going over everything from a certificate to a two-year degree.”

Mitzel said the programs are going to be career focused based on what industries want. DSU will be emphasizing real-world applications. Mitzel’s goal is to see 100 percent of the students complete an internship before they graduated. Mitzel said it doesn’t just help the student prepare to enter the workforce, but it also helps potential employers find suitable employees.

This Bowman County Pioneer newspaper article concluded with some statements about Dr. Mitzel’s continuing discussions with faculty and administrators on the DSU campus, and his expectation of making proposals to the North Dakota Board of Higher Education in the Spring of 2019.

After this newspaper article was published in September of 2018 announcing that DSU could become a polytechnic campus, I didn’t hear very much more about it. I thought that this was an incredibly good idea, that would solve a whole bunch of problems at the same time: increase enrollment at DSU; give DSU a unique mission and role in North Dakota; attract college applicants from all over the U.S. with its technical training; enable oil field workers to obtain higher level technical jobs; allow local recent high school graduates to obtain training for technical jobs in the oil field; allow local oil companies to participate in the education curriculum; and for DSU to receive additional funding from the oil and gas industry.

When I didn’t see announcements about DSU beginning to offer technical training in oil field technology such as instrumentation, automation, controls, and safety, I believed that the State of North Dakota had squashed Mitzel’s plans.

Just like the Governor of North Dakota helped to steer the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum away from the DSU campus and Dickinson, I believe that other people in North Dakota government did not want Dickinson State University to grow and prosper by becoming successful as a polytechnic school.

My belief is, that the State of North Dakota does not want Dickinson to grow, or DSU to grow, because it does not want state money to go to this area. I partly understand this, because the people in Dickinson really do act bad in all kinds of ways, very primitive at times.

DSU President Thomas Mitzel Leaving Dickinson, North Dakota

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Today I read in the Dickinson Press Newspaper that DSU President Thomas Mitzel is leaving Dickinson to go become President of Kentucky Wesleyan College.

When I saw Dr. Thomas Mitzel’s photo above the newspaper headline, I didn’t even need to read the headline, I knew that his resignation was probably coming. All kinds of people are abandoning ship in Dickinson, and I don’t blame them.

Dr. Mitzel served as one of the wardens of this Dickinson Prison Work Camp hell for the past four years, and now he is free. Probably no one is more happy about leaving Dickinson than his wife Rhonda. At this point, Rhonda’s only shopping options for clothes in Dickinson are WalMart, Tractor Supply, and Runnings Farm & Fleet, because that’s all there is.

Dr. Mitzel came to DSU at a time when it was just beginning to recover from at least four major scandals that weren’t his fault: DSU was caught awarding degrees to hundreds of foreign students who had not completed their coursework; DSU Foundation was dissolved by the State Attorney General for financial misdeeds; DSU Foundation had failed to pay for the construction of Hawks Point on the DSU campus; DSU had failed to pay for the construction of the Biesiot Activities Center.

Dr. Mitzel had begun making very good progress towards improving the status, reputation, and enrollment at DSU. He was part of the creation of a foundation that was organized to build a Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum on the DSU campus. Dr. Mitzel was also in favor of creating an Associates Degree program in Industrial Technology at DSU that would have educated people in a multi-state area for employment in the oil, natural gas, and other industries. https://bowmanextra.com/2018/09/21/dsu-looking-to-become-polytechnic/

However, when the Governor of North Dakota stepped in to relocate the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum away from Dickinson, because Dickinson is so primitive, backwards, and dangerous, and there was no state level support forthcoming for the creation of an Associates Degree program in Industrial Technology, the rug was yanked out from under Dr. Mitzel’s feet as far as improving DSU.

When the dead bodies started showing up on the DSU campus and elsewhere Dickinson, it was time for Dr. Mitzel and his wife Rhonda to get out of town, while they still could.

Where Dr. Mitzel and his wife Rhonda are going, Owensboro, Kentucky, the town has a population of 60,000, and the Ownensboro metropolitan area has a population of 120,000. I looked it up, there are forty clothing stores for Mrs. Mitzel to shop at in Owensboro https://www.yellowpages.com/owensboro-ky/clothing-stores

The school that Dr. Mitzel will be President of, Kentucky Wesleyan College, it was founded by the Methodist Church in 1858. Probably the most important thing in this blog post, is to explain what “Wesleyan” means:

For approximately fourteen centuries, the primary representation of the Christian religion was the Catholic Church. However in the 1500s, a Catholic priest named “Martin Luther” began to reject some of the teachings and practices of the Catholic Church as corrupt. In short, Martin Luther began to believe that people could attain salvation through faith and reading the Bible for themselves, not through the Pope or doing what the Catholic Church said. This led to the Protestant Reformation, and the creation of the Protestant religions, such as the “Lutherans”.

Similarly, in the 1700s, a Protestant priest named “John Wesley”, started a religious revival movement called Methodism. This led to the creation of the Methodist Church. Since the Methodist Church founded the college in Kentucky, it is called Kentucky “Wesleyan” College.

As a college founded by the Methodist Church, the college publicly states in all of its literature that, “We believe in ‘The Wesleyan Way’ of learning and living. The Wesleyan Way is based on four principles we incorporate into every single thing that we do:

We do everything with HONOR.
We SUPPORT EACH OTHER.
We COMPETE WITH INTEGRITY.
We LOVE EACH OTHER.”

For several years in writing this blog, I have tried to explain again and again how different the Catholics in Dickinson are compared to the Methodists in the South. In Dickinson, the Catholic Church teaches the importance of the Pope, going to Mass, and that fellow Catholics from this area are more important than other people from other areas, to the extent that people in Dickinson think that it is O.K. to take advantage of other people, to be hostile, mean, uncooperative, unhelpful, and unfriendly to others.

In contrast, the Protestant religions in the South teach that everyone is supposed to be helpful and kind to one another, not just in church, but especially in everyday life.

I know that Dr. Mitzel and his wife Rhonda will be going to a much warmer, friendlier, happier, enjoyable life in Kentucky, which they deserve after spending four years in the Dickinson Prison Work Camp.

Why Companies Have Become Corrupt And Unethical

In my previous blog post, I wrote about going to a branch of Dakota Community Bank in Dickinson where I have a checking account, and asking a banker if someone stole a check out of my checkbook, forged my signature, and wrote out a check payable to themselves or someone else, would the Bank reimburse me when I discovered the money was missing from my account. The banker replied, “No”.

I thought that I knew the law, but I wanted to see what banks in Dickinson thought the law was, and how they would handle fraudulent transactions on my account. Though I was shocked at the banker’s response, I was afraid that that is what it would be. I needed to know this, because now I know what to expect from this Bank if something goes wrong, denial of liability, and a fight with the Bank.

It turns out that banks are governed and regulated by a branch of the U.S. Department of the Treasury called “The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency” or the OCC for short. The OCC says that banks are liable for reimbursement of forged checks, however there are a couple of pleas that banks use to try to get out of this liability.

In this blog post, I want to tell a story that was probably my first introduction to the institutional practice of large companies denying legal liability, in situations where they absolutely have legal liability, and their reasons for this tactic.

Almost twenty years ago, I was working for an elderly man who had at one time been the vice president of one of the largest commercial insurers in the U.S., I believe that he said it was USF&G. One day, he wanted to tell me this story:

His company, USF&G, had a client whose parked vehicle was struck by a person driving another vehicle. The parked vehicle was completely destroyed in the accident. The driver of the other vehicle was insured, but his insurance company delayed and delayed paying for the damage.

At the vice president level, he did not normally handle the day-to-day business of individual accidents and insurance claims, but this particular case had risen through the different management levels at USF&G, because the other insurance company was delaying, refusing to pay for the damage to the USF&G client’s vehicle.

He got on the telephone with someone at or nearly at the level of vice president at the other insurance company and he said, “Look, you have no legal basis for not paying this claim, why won’t you pay this claim?” The person at the other insurance company, with pride and satisfaction gave the following reply:

“We have found, that when there is an individual who is elderly in age, like your client, when there is an accident and they are owed money, if we delay and wait in paying the claim, often times they will die due to old age.”

The former vice president of USF&G said that the following day, a memorandum was issued to all departments at USF&G, stating that if anyone was ever caught trying to not pay a claim because the claimant was elderly in age, they would be out of a job.

Since hearing this story, I have read several newspaper stories over the years, where large banks and utility companies deny legal liability, because they have so many employees, so many millions in assets, and full time legal staff, that they feel that they don’t have to follow the law or treat customers in compliance with the law.

I have written before about newspaper stories where utility company customers enrolled in automatic bill pay have had all of the money taken out of their checking account for erroneous $10,000 water bills or electric bills. The frantic customer contacts the utility company about the charges being a mistake, and explains that their normal water bill or electric bill is only $100 each month, how could they possibly have a $10,000 bill for the month?

In these cases, the utility company often sends the following response: “Dear Customer, we have received your letter contesting the charges to your account. We have conducted an internal investigation, and we can not find any error on our part. The charges are correct, and are currently due. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.”

I have also written about newspaper stories where all of a bank customer’s money has been removed from their checking account through an erroneous debit card transaction, often for fuel at a gas station. A debit for $8,000 worth of gasoline will appear on a customer’s account for one fuel stop at a gas station. The customer will call the bank and explain that the charges are false, their vehicle fuel tank only holds $60 worth of gas.

In some cases, the gas station will side with the customer, saying that there is no way that this customer received $8,000 worth of gas, and the bank’s response is, “The charges have been approved, and they have gone through. There is nothing that we can do at this time.”

Recently, a friend of mine who just turned sixty, he has been complaining to me about the tactics that he feels Sanford Health Care is using to deny him surgery. About a year ago, he enrolled in Sanford Health Care medical insurance. As part of this insurance plan, you are required to receive treatment at Sanford Health Care.

There are two different surgeries that he needs, he is almost always in pain due to his medical condition. Though the medical doctors that have evaluated him, acknowledge that he has these specific medical problems that require surgery, he has been delayed and denied surgery.

When answering questions that the medical doctors have asked him, he did not know that they were seeking reasons to delay and deny him surgery. In particular, they asked him, “How many days of work have you missed due to this medical condition?” And he replied, “None”.

The reason why my friend replied none, is because he can’t miss work, he is not allowed to miss work. I know the situation that my friend is in, and I know for a fact, without any doubt, that if he tried to not show up for work more than twice, that he would be out of a job. The medical doctors took his response that he has missed no work, to mean that his condition does not require surgery at this time, when that is not the case at all, he is not allowed to miss work, and he is in pain all the time.

The other thing that my friend thinks that Sanford Health Care is doing to him, is delaying surgery in the hope and expectation that he will just die.

In the examples that I have just given about the banks, insurance companies, and utility companies, they have so many employees, so many millions of dollars in assets, and full time legal staff, that they are insulated and protected from caring, from guilt, from remorse, from responsibility, from personal legal liability and recourse.

The employees of these companies all go home at night and eat dinner, watch TV, and go to sleep without guilt, shame, or remorse, feeling no responsibility for taking all of someone else’s money, refusing to pay people money that they are owed, or denying people medical care that they need. In fact, many of these employees are celebratory and proud of themselves for the money that they have saved their companies from paying, though legally they should have paid.