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Not Caring About Anything In Dickinson, North Dakota

January 25, 2019UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, what is it like working in Dickinson North Dakota, what is winter like in Dickinson North Dakota, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

For the past three months in Dickinson, I leave home to drive more than an hour to work in the dark, I work for twelve hours, then I drive for more than an hour home from work in the dark. When I get home from work, I eat, then I go to sleep for about seven hours, then it is time for me to wake up to go back to work.

The driving and working, which adds up to a little over fourteen hours each day, is somewhat tiring. The weather, the snow and ice, the extreme cold, my problems, and my co-workers’ problems, make everything more tiring, it makes it exhausting.

One of my co-workers this winter, he hit a deer on the way to work which totaled his mini-van. Next, this same co-worker, driving a borrowed vehicle, he hit a snow drift across the road on the way to work, and he damaged his borrowed vehicle. One week later, this co-worker hit another deer on the way to work, and he totaled his borrowed vehicle.

Very often, the roads are slick and covered with ice and snow. Due to the North Dakota winds which are nearly constant on the barren prairie, the snow is driven in flurries and drifts across the road, which reduce visibility, and make it hard to see deer and snow drifts on the road when driving.

Me and my co-workers, we just hope that we don’t have car problems. Today, when the temperature was -17 degrees Fahrenheit, and the Wind Chill effect was -40 degrees Fahrenheit, my female co-worker’s truck battery went dead, while she was running her truck. It wasn’t her truck alternator, the alternator tested O.K., it was her truck battery.

Eight weeks ago while I was at work, after I had worked my scheduled twelve hours, I had to continue working for another twelve hours because someone quit, and during this second twelve hours, the alternator on my truck quit working. My co-workers helped me change my alternator, I was very cold and tired, and my co-workers did 60%-70% of the work, my hands couldn’t feel the bolts, and especially not the screws.

In a recent previous blog post, I wrote about “My $1,000 trip to the Killdeer Mountains” on Christmas Eve, where I cut and destroyed one new tire, destroyed the spare tire, and had to get my truck towed back to Dickinson for a $500 tow fee. In another recent previous blog post, I wrote about the Dickinson Police ticketing my vehicle and my neighbor’s vehicle, and having my neighbor’s vehicle towed away. After one week, the tow fees on my neighbor’s vehicle were $405, and he was never able to get his vehicle back.

The way things are in Dickinson, with work, with Winter, the ice, snow, extreme cold, dangerous driving conditions, vehicle problems, and the Dickinson Police, not only is there no desire on my part to go anywhere, it is in fact too costly and too dangerous to try to go anywhere.

Is there anywhere in Dickinson to go, or worth going to, like a nice, enjoyable restaurant? The answer is no. Do I want to drive to Bismarck, the State Capitol one hundred miles to the east? No.

The work, the cold, the dark, ice and snow, it is very bleak living in Dickinson, North Dakota.

On the internet, when I see videos of the cities and suburbs in the South and Southwest, places like Tampa, Orlando, Atlanta, Dallas, and Phoenix, there is no way that I want to live like that, like rats and roaches crawling on top of each other, where people have hardly any personal space to themselves.

The only thing good about North Dakota, is that there are very few people, because no one wants to live here.

Young High School Girl With Tourette Syndrome

January 6, 2019UncategorizedClaire Sophia, Claire Sophia Tourette Syndrome, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, Tourette Syndrome in high school girlsname withheld

I was watching videos on YouTube last night, when I saw a video of a young high school girl in Canada who has Tourette Syndrome. For those of you who don’t know, a person with Tourette Syndrome will make spontaneous involuntary movements or verbalizations.

One of the most noticeable and problematic aspects of Tourette Syndrome, is that people who have this disorder can spontaneously and unintentionally utter the worst possible words and statements, at the worst possible time, such as appearing to call people “nigger”, “cunt”, “whore”, “slut”, or announcing “I like to have sex”.

The first video that I watched from this young lady, Claire Sophia, was about twenty-six minutes in length. She was home in bed, and she woke up at midnight to make this video. She read from her notebook, the phrases that she commonly spoke and she demonstrated the movements that she commonly made. Though she was calm, relaxed, and comfortable in her own bedroom, demonstrating her common phrases and movements often led to her involuntarily repeating these phrases and movements in the video.

From this first video that I watched from Claire Sophia, I got the wrong impression. I thought that she had some control over her spontaneous phrases and movements, that she could suppress it or catch it if she was paying attention. As I watched several more of her videos, I saw that she sometimes had very severe fits that lasted for half an hour that she was unable to stop.

It is important for people to watch several of Claire Sophia’s videos for the following reasons. Although many people know or think that they know what Tourette Syndrome is, they may not really know how upsetting, insulting, embarrassing, and provoking the verbalizations can be unless they see it. Also, the verbalizations and movements could lead observers to mistakenly believe that they have some kind of mental illness or psychosis such as schizophrenia or hallucinations.

The video below, is an example of a moderate occurrence of involuntary verbalizations and movements in Claire Sophia. In other videos, she has much more severe effects.

In the second video below, this shows a more severe period of Tourette’s for Claire Sophia.

The Danger Of Getting Towed In Dickinson, North Dakota

About five days ago I had a bright orange ticket from the Dickinson Police Department left on my vehicle windshield. This ticket was for having my vehicle parked on the street in one spot for more than 48 hours. The ticket was only $15, but there was a notice that my vehicle would be towed away in 48 hours if I did not move it.

Since I bought this vehicle, I have had a fear of it getting towed. It is a full-time four-wheel-drive vehicle, similar to an all-wheel-drive vehicle. If my vehicle is towed the wrong way, the damage that is caused to the transmission costs over $4,000 to repair.

Jeep Grand Cherokees with Quadra-Trac, AWD Audis, AWD Mercedes, AWD BMWs, AWD Subarus, and Range Rovers, have all four wheels permanently linked to the transmission and transfer case. If a tow truck driver lifted one end of one of these vehicles with a wheel cradle, and towed it with the other set of wheels on the ground, it would break the linkage in the transfer case. For a Jeep Grand Cherokee the linkage is a chain in the transfer case, and this repair costs about $2,800 from what I have read, but for all the other vehicles mentioned above the linkage is a viscous coupler, and the repair is more than $4,000.

Would a tow company admit to causing $4,000 damage to a vehicle from towing it the wrong way? If you watch The People’s Court on television, the answer is no, tow companies do not usually admit to towing a vehicle the wrong way. You would have to file a small claims court case against the tow company and you would have to prove with evidence that the tow company caused the linkage in the transfer case to break, which they would deny.

Another problem that I worry about now that I see that I am going to get ticketed for leaving my vehicle parked on the street for more than 48 hours, is what kind of parking rotation procedure am I going to use every 48 hours, to where my vehicle doesn’t end up in the same exact spot six days later. I could move my vehicle three times in a six day period, and the Dickinson Police Officer who ticketed my vehicle would be back on duty, and he would say, “I am going to call to have this vehicle towed, it is in the same exact spot where I ticketed it six days ago.”

I telephoned the manager of the apartment building where I live, and I said that in the 1-1/2 years that I have lived in this building, I have parked on the street, because I realized that there is a shortage of parking in front of the building, but since I am going to get ticketed now for parking on the street, can I have an assigned parking space? The apartment manager said that they can not assign a parking space to everyone, there are not enough spaces for everyone. I asked if they had a garage available, and the manager said that they might have a garage available, and it would cost $60 per month.

On the same day that my vehicle was ticketed about five days ago, the vehicle behind me was also ticketed. The owners of the vehicle behind me, I don’t think that they understood the ticket or the threat of being towed, because they are from a foreign country, and they did not remove the bright orange ticket from their vehicle, or move their vehicle. About one day ago, their vehicle got towed.

Today, as I was walking up the stairs, the owner of this vehicle was walking down the stairs. I asked him if his vehicle got towed, and if there was something wrong with it. He said, yes, that it had a dead battery. I asked if there was anything else wrong with it that it would not run, and he said no. I asked him if he was going to get it out of the tow yard, and he said, “Probably.” I couldn’t understand why he let it get towed in the first place.

I asked him, and he told me that he was willing to sell this vehicle, and how much he wanted for it, about $500. I don’t know if there is something else wrong with it, or if he does not have a Title for it in his name, because if it runs O.K. it should be worth at least $1,500. I don’t think that he knew how much the tow fees and storage fees were going to be, because if he did, he probably would have pushed it or dragged it to a different spot, to prevent it from being towed.

I called the tow company to ask how much the tow fees and storage fees were, and the tow company said $125 for the tow, and $40 per day for storage. This is the second day that the tow company has had my neighbor’s vehicle, and if it goes just a few days longer, there is almost no chance that he will ever get this vehicle back. After just a few more days, the tow company fees will be equal to one month’s rent for the apartment that he lives in.

Poor people, are poor because of their life circumstances, mental problems, emotional problems, health problems, accidents, bad decisions, lack of education, lack of understanding, irresponsibility, and so forth. All they may be able to afford is a studio apartment in an old building downtown with not enough parking in the parking lot, so they park on the street. All they may be able to afford is an old vehicle with some mechanical problems, that sometimes doesn’t run, that maybe they can’t even drive because they can’t pay for insurance. So it gets ticketed by the Dickinson Police and towed away a few days later.

At $40 per day storage fees, a poor person is very likely not going to ever get their vehicle back. They do not understand how quickly the storage fees will accumulate. The first day $165, in one week $405, in two weeks $685. What are these fees all about?

In Dickinson, I have some vehicles in storage, and I pay $45 per month. At the Dickinson Airport, I believe that it costs $8 per day to leave your vehicle inside of their fenced, access controlled parking lot. However if you are a poor person, with not very good understanding, the Dickinson Police will help to make sure that you get charged $40 per day for your vehicle so that they can take it from you.

To be clear, if you are wealthy enough to own a home, where you can park your vehicle in your driveway, garage, or yard, you won’t have the Dickinson Police bothering you. But if you are very poor, and you live in the poorest area of Dickinson, and your car doesn’t always run, the Dickinson Police have this scheme where they will take your car and you won’t be able to get it back.

Being so poor, having nothing left, and making poor decisions, the only way that these desperately poor families have to come up with $405 to $685 to get their vehicle back, is to sell their children to sex traffickers.

Miss Teen Poland Swimsuit Competition

January 3, 2019Uncategorizedhot women in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, women in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I don’t really like beauty pageants, and I kind of feel sorry for young women trying to get ahead by appearing almost completely nude. However, this feeling of sympathy, comes from being brought up with the wrong idea and understanding of women.

It’s a trick and deception to feel sorry for women. The reality is that you will never in your life come across anything more treacherous, dishonest, scheming, and malevolent than women. Once you understand this, you are on your way to having a happier, more successful, more productive life. If you fail to understand this, you will fail in life, likely always being poor, in debt, and miserable.

So sit back and enjoy this video of young Polish women competing against each other to prove who is the hottest, most attractive, and most desirable for mating:

Contestant #10 at the 2:50 mark, is that Codi Miller? I didn’t know that Codi was Polish. Is she allowed to do this, I think that she is like 25 years old now?….O.K. I saw from the pageant banner at the end of this video that this pageant was in 2013, so Codi would have been 19 years old then.

Here are some of my favorite viewer comments:

Gerald Wilson 3 days ago

Not a tattoo in sight….. simply lovely !

Peter Stevenson 3 days ago

Nice to see girls that are not covered in tattoos

c Mc 4 days ago

All the diversity you need, red hair, blond, dark and light brown, black hair, light skin, tanned skin, brown eyes, green and blue eyes, don’t need any more diversity.

Nobody Move 3 days ago

Next year, Miss American contestants will be required to wear full bee keeper outfits at all times. Sad. 😦

micky rooney 4 days ago

How very politically incorrect…..i’m glad to say

John Campbell 5 days ago

See ya later, I’m moving to Poland. 😀

Mike Boyd 5 days ago

Greatly enjoyed this. But actually would like to see their moms, too!

Something to keep in mind, is that Polish women age very well, they keep their looks for a very long time. And these women are willing to work, you could get one of them and put them to work right away doing book keeping, working at a bank, being an office administrator, dispatcher, dental hygienist, beautician, bartender, or stripper.

Two Very Funny, Short, YouTube Videos

December 31, 2018UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

It has been very, very cold and windy in Dickinson, North Dakota lately. I choose to not go outside or go anywhere unless I have to, like move my vehicle to a different spot further down the street so that it doesn’t get ticketed again by the Dickinson Police, and threatened to be towed. But if I actually left my apartment and went anywhere, the Dickinson Police would get me, the Meth addicts would get me, or the hoodlums would get me. Read the Dickinson Press newspaper Police Blotter.

I spend a lot of time watching YouTube videos: Dixie Cryptid and Brenton Sawin Mysteries To Search about Bigfoot; Scotty Kilmer about cars and car repair; and Nika Banana to see what she is doing and leave her annoying comments. But in between I watch a lot of random videos about new discoveries, the history you don’t know, abandoned places, unexplained mysteries, badly behaving people, and funny animals.

Below I am including two of the funniest animal videos that I have ever seen:

What Living In Dickinson, North Dakota Is Like, Like Being In Prison

December 29, 2018UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what are people like in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakota, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In many previous blog posts, I have mentioned that living in Dickinson, North Dakota is like being in prison. I want to give a recent example.

I have been working at a particular job site outside of Dickinson for a little over one year. For the first eight months that I was at this job site, there were just a few employees from the company that I work for, and we had our own office trailer. The employees that had been here before I got here, they had set things up, and they had established the rule that everything was going to be kept clean.

The refrigerator, the microwave, counter tops, floor, and outside portable toilet were all kept clean. We each cleaned, purchased cleaning supplies, and took out the garbage. Something that was very important, was that my co-workers had installed some insulation around the outside portable toilet, and inside the portable toilet there was a small electric heater beside the toilet seat.

For several years prior to me arriving at this job site, the few company employees that were here, they had made it through several winters where the temperature got down to -20, -30, -40 degrees Fahrenheit. Once they even got snowed in, where they couldn’t drive home, and they had to stay here in the office trailer, which was O.K., because they set it up for people to be able to stay overnight if they had to. When it got really, really cold, the electric heater inside of the portable toilet was left running all the time, which kept it at about 40 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

Five months ago, due to increased work activity at this site, my company personnel got moved to a different location on this site. We no longer had the use of the office trailer. Due to many personnel changes, I became the only person on this entire site, who had ever been here through the winter, and knew that workers had been snowed in here before.

When it got to be November this year, where the temperature began to drop below 20 degrees Fahrenheit, I installed an electric heater inside the portable toilet that we were using, at a height of about two feet above the toilet seat, and two feet to the left of the toilet seat. I brought my own 3500 Watt portable electric generator, which costs about $500 new, to power the electric heater. I had to buy a poly containment basin to place the generator in per site regulations regarding fuel and oil spills containment.

Within about one week, it was reported to me, that someone tried to urinate into the electric heater inside of the portable toilet. Someone used the portable toilet, and right after he exited the portable toilet, two of my co-worker saw that he had urinated all over the back wall and bench seat of the portable toilet. One of my co-workers thought that he had had an accident, where the zipper got stuck on his overalls. The other co-worker was certain that he had deliberately tried to urinate into the electric heater. How could you accidentally urinate two feet up on the walls of the portable toilet?

I explained to my co-workers, not to let anyone vandalize this portable toilet and electric heater. Though it might not seem that important now, it will be when it gets down to -20, -30, -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

The next thing to get abused and misused was my 3500 Watt electric generator. When I wasn’t around, people began putting garbage in the containment basin that the generator was sitting in. The generator fuel valve was left on, some other things were done to it, and it wouldn’t start. When I removed the generator oil tank filler cap, a bunch of fuel came out of the oil tank.

I took my generator home and I spent several hours working on it to get it to run again. I got it to where it would start on the first pull of the starter cord. I kept it on my truck, not being able to decide if I could leave it there on the job site without someone messing it up again. Then, I was notified by my co-workers, that someone had ruined my electric heater that I had installed inside of the portable toilet, to where it wouldn’t work at all now.

I thought to myself, what kind of people, deliberately urinate into an electric heater that is two feet above, and two feet to the left of the toilet seat? This week it has gotten to below zero degrees Fahrenheit at this job site, and it is only going to keep getting colder. Why would site personnel try to destroy the only heated toilet anywhere on site that they could use?

Meanwhile, there is a small prefabricated building with no electricity to it, that has a small propane heater. When the small propane heater is set on low or medium, it keeps the small building at about 60 degrees inside, when it is 20 degrees and windy outside. A particular co-worker, has been found several times to be setting the propane heater to high, and then complaining about how hot it is inside this building.

Two co-workers have explained to this one co-worker, to stop setting the propane heater to high, because he has caused the small three to five gallon propane tank to run out of propane in a day or two, instead of this propane tank lasting four or five days if the heater was set on low. We began using larger size propane tanks, but this one co-worker is still being found to be setting the propane heater on high, and then complaining about how hot it is inside of this small building that we use. We are now completely out of propane, having nothing to heat this small building with now, or in an emergency.

My point is, that I can’t believe how these people in North Dakota are deliberately sabotaging the facilities that we use. This kind of primitive, ignorant, destructive behavior is like something you would find in a prison amongst criminals. It’s like these people in Dickinson are so fucking stupid, ignorant, and criminal minded, that they destroy and sabotage the things that they need to use, only making their own personal situation even worse.

As frustrated as I am, I realize that probably about 60% of the North Dakotans who read this will think, “Heh, heh, that is what I would do too. Pee into the electric heater, and run the propane heater out of propane. Yeah, that is what I would do.”

Be Careful With Your Debit Card In Dickinson, North Dakota

December 27, 2018Uncategorizedbe careful using your debit card, incorrect charges on your debit card, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, using your debit card in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

One of the things that I previously explained on this blog website, is the danger of allowing automatic deductions from your checking account to pay monthly bills. Every year I have read in newspapers about a utility company debiting a checking account for $10,000 for a water bill or an electric bill, causing a person’s checking account to be brought down to a $0 balance, and every other check written on their account to “bounce” or “NSF” for non-sufficient funds.

The reason why these $10,000 debits by utility companies to people’s checking accounts made the news, was because when the customer disputed their bill which was obviously a mistake, the utility company responded with a letter saying something like, “We have looked into this matter, and found no error in our billing, the charges are correct.” Only after a newspaper or television station reported on these stories did the utility company respond with a statement like, “We regret this situation, which was the result of a misunderstanding, and these charges have been corrected.”

But another way that all of the money can be removed from your checking account, is by an error when using your debit card. A couple of weeks ago I was in the check out line at a store in Dickinson. The customer ahead of me had a quantity of various supplies, which totaled about $60. One of the items had an incorrect product code, and when the cashier scanned the item product code and entered in the quantity, the total came out to something like $3,460.

The cashier was paying attention, and she said, “No, that can’t be right.”, and she stopped the transaction herself, and she began trying to correct and determine what had gone wrong. But many times in Dickinson, I have been at the check out line and the cashier does not look at or tell the customer what the total is when the customer is paying with a debit card.

If you weren’t paying attention and accepted a $3,460 charge to your debit card, depending on how much money you had in your checking account, you might begin “bouncing” or “NSF-ing” checks for your rent, mortgage, car payments, car insurance, credit cards payments, and other bills. You would likely be in a lot of trouble, because everyone you owed money to would just assume that you were unable and unwilling to pay them, and they likely wouldn’t care what kind of story or explanation you gave them.

But a second reason why you need to pay attention when using your debit card in Dickinson happened to me last night. I placed a carry out order on the telephone with a restaurant in Dickinson. The person on the telephone was having a little bit of difficulty with my very simple order. She asked me if I wanted to pay with a debit card, or pay when I got there. I said that I would pay when I got there.

When I arrived at this restaurant to pick up my carry out food order, and I tried to pay, the cashier was having a problem, because my order was listed in their system as having already been paid. A manager was called over, and she realized what had happened. The manager called the employee over who had taken my order over the telephone, and when I saw her, and the way that she was acting, she was the epitome of a meth addict with everything about her, her appearance, and the flighty, skittish way that she was acting.

What had happened, according to the manager, was the women who had taken my order over the telephone, she charged my order to someone else’s debit card or credit card. I don’t know how she managed this, but she did. When I got home with my food order, which was a very simple food order, it was wrong. I realized that in giving a person like this my debit card or credit card information over the telephone, I could end up having my debit or credit card used to pay for someone else’s order, or instead of being charged $14.85, she could have entered $148.50, or even $1,485.00.

When your debit card is incorrectly charged, it’s not just being overcharged that is the problem, it’s being overcharged to the extent that your rent payment, car payment, utility bills, credit card bills, car insurance, and other payments could “bounce” or “NSF” causing you all kinds of problems.

Winter Preparedness And My $1,000 Trip To The Killdeer Mountains

December 26, 2018Uncategorizedgetting your vehicle stuck in North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, off-roading in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, visiting the Killdeer Mountains, winter driving in North Dakotaname withheld

A year and a half ago I began driving to a wooded valley in the Killdeer Mountains on the Fort Berthold Native American Reservation. I happened upon this valley when I was working for an oil field service company, working on oil well sites. When I first saw this valley, it really amazed me because in the six years that I have lived in North Dakota, I had never seen a forest.

When I was in the High Plains Cultural Center in the town of Killdeer, I read a pamphlet about the Killdeer Mountains. Because of the mountain peaks shielding the deep valleys, it created a mini-ecosystem, where this is one of the few or only locations in North Dakota where Burr Oak trees grow. Native Americans lived in these valleys of the Killdeer Mountains for more than a thousand years where they prospered because of the forests, the wildlife living in these forests, and being shielded from the high winds of the Dakota prairies.

In this valley, I had seen turkeys, deer, and wild horses. I had also been told by one of my co-workers, that different people, including him, had felt like they were being watched from the trees by something, to the extent that he and others refused to work in this area by themselves. This was probably Bigfoot, I looked up Bigfoot sightings in North Dakota, and there have been many Bigfoot sightings on the Fort Berthold Native American Reservation. Why wouldn’t they be in these hidden valley forests with all of these turkeys and deer to eat?

After this past summer was over, I had not felt like driving up to the Killdeer Mountains. I had a long drive to and from work every day, and I didn’t feel like driving on Highway 22 any more if I didn’t have to. I was also not in the mood to have something go wrong out there, there are all kinds of things that can happen, and you are a very long way from getting help.

A friend of mine who is in his sixties, is a very enthusiastic long-time hunter and trapper in North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. I asked him if he wanted to drive up to the Killdeer Mountains with me, and he said that he did. The first time that I felt like going and he was in town, was Monday December 24.

The vehicle that I wanted to take, has full-time four-wheel-drive, and it also has differential locks, which lock each wheel so that there is no limited-slip non-four-wheel-drive bullshit going on when you don’t want to get stuck. It has new, deep tread, 31 inch off-road tires. It has never had any mechanical problems whatsoever.

In this vehicle, I have about four tow ropes, a two-ton cable come-along, a jump start box with air compressor, a large can of fix-a-flat, a shop jack and an emergency jack, a set of tools, a spare tire and wheel, another spare tire, coolant, engine oil, bottles of water, an extra winter jacket, extra clothes, gloves, a sleeping bag, a pistol, a rifle, and a mountain bike. And I made sure that my phone had nearly a full charge before we left. Later on in this story, you will see that all of this stuff was still not enough.

I set my trip odometer before we left Dickinson, to let my friend know how many miles it was from Dickinson to the turn off from Highway 22. I set my trip odometer again at the turn off from Highway 22 to get the distance to the next turn off. I pointed out to my friend, the houses that were the closest places to go to if there was some kind of emergency.

When we got to the turn off leading to the valley that I wanted to go to, there was snow on the ground and on the road, even though North Dakota had just gone through a one week period where the daytime high was about 40 degrees Fahrenheit. I slowed down and tried to drive carefully on the winding, up and down, red scoria oil field road.

When I got to the “Y” in the road where I wanted to turn to go down into the valley, to my surprise, there was now a fence and a locked gate across the road. I couldn’t believe it, though I had always feared that this would happen. I had written two or three blog posts about this valley, showed pictures of it, and made a couple of videos showing it. My first impression now was that the Native American who owned the land on the west side of the road had unlawfully closed off this road, to keep people out, even though there was Bureau of Land Management public land on the east side of this road.

I stopped and thought about this, and I tried to figure out what was going on. Could it be that the Bureau of Land Management put up this fence and this locked gate to keep people from using this road, because too many people had gone down this road but couldn’t get back out having to drive uphill through deep snow?

I called a friend of mine who had been to this area before I ever had, and he said that no, this road shouldn’t be closed, that it was designated as a public use trail to access the BLM land. Did the fence and the gate have any BLM signage or North Dakota Game & Fish signage, he asked? I said no, it doesn’t. My friend who I called on the phone said, well then, that’s your answer about who put that fence and gate up, a private land owner did that.

I looked around the area of the gate to see if there was another way to get in, but there wasn’t at this spot. I had a vague idea from having looked at Google Earth satellite imagery that there were trails that wound around, going downhill, and reached the valley at different points, but these trails were on private land.

The friend that was with me, said that he would like to drive down an underground pipeline easement, so we drove down an easement for about a mile. We turned off of this pipeline easement to see about taking another trail, but I didn’t want to go on other trails for a couple of different reasons.

Going on a trail that I did not know, it was possible to go down a hill that was so steep, that I would not be able to climb back up it on the way back. Or, I could end up sliding off of a trail into a ravine, and there would be no way to get my vehicle out. I was also concerned that the landowner could have spiked the trail in order to flatten the tires of trespassers driving on his property.

Before long, we were back on the red scoria oil field road, and I found that my right rear tire was completely flat. This tire had a cut across the face and the sidewall of the tire, like only a jagged piece of metal sticking out of the ground could have caused. The tire bead had separated from the wheel. I had to jack up the rear axle to get the tire off the ground to try to get the bead to seal when I used my can of Fix-A-Flat on the tire. This didn’t work at all, the tire bead didn’t seal or the tire cut was too big.

I got my spare tire out from under the vehicle, and I replaced the rear wheel with my spare tire. When I lowered the rear axle back down and removed the jack, the spare was half-way flat, and it appeared to be getting flatter. I connected my air-compressor to the spare tire to try to inflate it, but it just kept deflating. I had already used my can of Fix-A-Flat.

It was now almost dark, and it was December 24, Christmas Eve. I felt that all I could do was get hauled on a flat bed tow truck back to Dickinson. I knew from working in the oil field on the Fort Berthold Native American Reservation, that any vehicle left unattended overnight in a remote area will get stripped and destroyed, so I couldn’t just try to get a ride back to Dickinson and leave my vehicle. I knew that the friend of mine that came along with me would probably like to get back to Dickinson without any more problems.

I called a tow company in Dickinson, the tow truck driver had worked in the oil field, and he knew where the turn off was at Highway 22. I told him that I would meet him out at the paved road, because there was no way he was going to be able to find me out on the winding scoria road in the dark. I completely destroyed my spare tire, and possibly the wheel, driving it flat for several miles on the scoria road back to the paved road where the tow truck driver could see me.

The flat bed tow back to Dickinson was $510, and I knew ahead of time that it would be this much or even more. On the following Wednesday the replacement tire for my badly cut tire was $250. The spare tire that I destroyed and the wheel that I may have destroyed will be another $250. Altogether about $1,000.

Knowing that this kind of thing can happen, I had tow insurance coverage on this vehicle, but I don’t know if the insurance company will try to get out of paying for the tow all the way back to Dickinson, instead of Killdeer.

I didn’t mention in this story yet, that on a fairly safe looking trail, my full-time four-wheel-drive vehicle got nearly sideways on some snow that must have turned to ice. If I had not recovered from this slide, which I very nearly didn’t, my vehicle would have slid down into a ravine, about thirty feet down. The only way to have gotten my vehicle out then, would have been with a four-wheel-drive tow truck with a heavy duty commercial winch. This might have cost $1,000, and I don’t think that insurance would have paid for this.

My lesson from this, is that in the Winter in North Dakota, you want to try to do everything you can to not have problems. Don’t take chances driving, especially off road. I got off very lucky, and this still cost me $1,000. I could have gotten stuck much further back in the woods, or I could have slid into a ravine, where a tow truck company might have been unable or unwilling to try to recover my vehicle. Leaving a vehicle unattended overnight in a remote area, can result in your vehicle being stripped, vandalized, or destroyed. So don’t get yourself into this position to begin with.

Why I Turned Down An $85,000 Job Recently In North Dakota

December 26, 2018Uncategorizedguide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakota, working in the oil field in North Dakotaname withheld

On Thursday morning of this past week, a former supervisor telephoned me and said that he would like for me to come and work with him. He said that he could offer to pay me $25 per hour, twelve hours per day, Monday through Friday. I quickly did the math in my head, the first forty hours would be $1,000, and the next twenty hours of overtime would be about $740, so that’s $1,740 per week. For easy math, at fifty weeks per year, that’s a little over $85,000 per year.

I told him that I already had a job, that this job was going O.K., but that I would consider it, because his job offer was more money than I was currently making. My current job is not very difficult, this job offer that he was making would be a more difficult and more unpleasant job. It would involve working in an area of North Dakota where there is nothing, driving a crane truck, and working on oil wells.

I told him that I was not ready to give up my apartment in Dickinson yet, that he would need to find me a place to stay Monday night through Thursday night, just a place to sleep. He said O.K.

After I got off the phone with him, I realized that I had a cat now. What was I going to do with this cat? I decided that I would get a second litter box, a cat food dispenser, and a cat water dispenser. The cat would probably be O.K. by himself in my apartment in Dickinson Monday through Friday, but he wouldn’t like being alone. This cat was an abandoned cat that I took home from a job site, so he wasn’t having that bad of a life, living in a warm and dry apartment with food and water, though he was going to be alone. Maybe I would leave the television on for him, and find someone to check on him.

Soon I was going to have to give my current employer not much more than one week notice that I was going to work someplace else due to being offered a lot more money. I wasn’t looking forward to having to explain this to him, and causing him to have to find a replacement for me on short notice. I was also uneasy and apprehensive about giving a notice of resignation when my current job was an O.K. job that I liked, that was not difficult.

At the end of the day on Thursday last week, my former supervisor called me back, he said that everything had been worked out, the company owner had agreed to pay me $25 per hour, pay for health insurance, provide a trailer for me to stay in, that we would be working seventy to eighty hours per week. He said there was some pre-hire paperwork for me to complete, take my drug test, and did I still have my Class A Commercial Driver’s License?

I said that I never had a Commercial Driver’s License, though I had driven vehicles at work that required a Commercial Driver’s License, I didn’t have one. He said, “Oh shit, that was the whole basis of getting hired right away at $25 per hour, that you had a Class A CDL. What to do you want to do? Oh fuck it, we won’t tell him right away, you’ve got the job anyway.” I said, I don’t want anyone to have a fit when they find out that I don’t have a CDL, just tell him that I passed all of my written tests for a Class A CDL with the air brake endorsement, tanker endorsement, double and triple trailer endorsement, that I had a Class A CDL learner’s permit from Idaho, but that I let it expire before I took my driving test.

I agreed that I would call the North Dakota DMV Friday to find out what I had to do to get my Class A CDL in North Dakota. Thursday night, I looked at the North Dakota DMV website to see what the requirements were. One of the things that was going to be a problem for me, which I never encountered before in my life, was that due to this new “Real ID” or “Enhanced Driver’s License” program in North Dakota, I was going to need to provide either a valid U.S. passport or a certified Birth Certificate.

Up until August of 2017, I had a certified copy of my Birth Certificate, until Lowell Kern Jr. of Belfield stole my truck and took everything out of my truck, including my original Social Security Card and my certified Birth Certificate. How was I going to get another certified Birth Certificate from Florida where I was born 49 years ago, and how long was this going to take?

I was beginning to become angry, I don’t want a fucking Class A CDL, I don’t want to have to jump through a bunch of hoops with the North Dakota DMV. Once you have a CDL, the legal blood alcohol limit is no longer 0.08%, it drops down to 0.04%, and you have to report any traffic citations to your employer immediately.

And what is this about working seventy to eighty hours per week? This means you would be working six to seven days per week, every week, having only one or no days off per week. What would I do with my cat then, I guess I would have to get rid of him. When would I do laundry, when would I do personal errands, when would I pay my bills?

Where I was going, there are no grocery stores and there are hardly any restaurants. You end up eating horrible gas station and oil field truck stop packaged food, day after day after day.

Why would I want to live like this? Living like this there is really no reason to be alive, working every day, being tired and filthy dirty all day, being excruciatingly cold, with only horrible rotten food to eat, and only seeing fat, ugly, ham-fisted, mean nasty battle-axe North Dakota women every day. I would make $100,000 per year, but I would pay about $30,000 in income tax right off the top.

I told him that I was not currently physically or mentally able to work like this. I have done this before, like many, many people who came to North Dakota to work during the Oil Boom, and I don’t really want to do this again, it is not worth it, living like this.

I talked to a friend of mine on Friday of last week, and he said that it was good that I didn’t take this oil field job, the price of North Dakota oil is currently down to $20 per barrel. What this means is, with the price of oil this low, is that oil companies will suspend all oil field work at this time, and there will be many oil field worker layoffs very soon.

I felt very bad that I almost resigned from my O.K. job that I like, for a very miserable job that I wouldn’t be able to do for long, or wouldn’t have for very long with oil field work being shut down due to the very low price of oil.

Brenton Sawin Needs To Screen His Guests More Carefully

December 25, 2018Uncategorizedare Brenton Sawin's guests lying, are Brenton Sawin's guests making things up, Brenton Sawin Bigfoot, Brenton Sawin Dogman, Brenton Sawin interviews, Brenton Sawin Lexington Kentucky, Brenton Sawin Mysteries, Brenton Sawin YouTube channel, does Brenton Sawin screen his guests, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In about 2013 a man named Brenton Sawin who lives in Lexington, Kentucky, started a YouTube channel called “Brenton Sawin Mysteries To Search”. He has uploaded approximately 380 videos to this YouTube channel, most of them on the subject of Bigfoot or Dogman encounters.

In most of Brenton Sawin’s videos, he begins with a brief introduction covering recent events, certain topics that were discussed in previous videos, or updates on what is happening with previous guests. After the introduction, Brenton usually interviews one guest for one hour, more or less, discussing with them their Bigfoot or Dogman sighting or encounter.

There are several ways in which Brenton Sawin’s YouTube channel differs from other YouTube channels that deal with the Bigfoot and Dogman subject. Unlike the other YouTube channels which usually have Bigfoot or Dogman encounter stories that last ten to fifteen minutes, and are fairly sanitized and not too shocking, Brenton will interview a guest for thirty minutes to ninety minutes, and the interviews get into Bigfoot or Dogman behavior that is very gruesome, nasty, and horrific.

If anyone ever wanted to tell everything that happened to them or everything they experienced, without being censored, no matter how strange, horrible, or bizarre it was, Brenton will let his guests do it. What this has resulted in, is Brenton and his viewers have become more and more familiar with Bigfoot and Dogman behavior that was previously not publicized.

For instance, both from Brenton Sawin’s YouTube channel, and from other Bigfoot researchers, many people are now aware that there are at least four different types of Bigfoot, one of them being Dogman, which very much resembles a werewolf. Both from Brenton Sawin, and from other Bigfoot researchers, people have been made aware that Bigfoot, and especially Dogman, can be vicious and aggressive, taking and killing household pets and livestock.

Where Brenton Sawin’s YouTube channel is different, is that many of his guests will talk about Bigfoot or Dogman following people home, looking in their windows, trying to get into people’s houses, actually getting into people’s houses, carrying people off, and killing people. There have been occasions where guests have talked about Bigfoot having sex with horses.

There is some really nasty deviant behavior that Brenton Sawin’s guests have described witnessing Bigfoot or Dogman engage in. Some of this behavior, such the rape of human women, has also been reported by Bigfoot researcher Tim Coonbo Baker, and written about by a woman in her book titled “50 Years With Bigfoot”.

The problem is, that myself and some of Brenton Sawin’s other viewers, have noticed that some of his guests appear to be making shit up, making everything up, based on what they have read and heard elsewhere. I don’t mind listening to people’s stories, but I don’t want to waste my time watching Brenton Sawin’s YouTube channel if people are going to come on his show with a completely made up story.

For instance, about one week ago, I watched one of Brenton Sawin’s videos from 2016, that was about a young man, claiming to be a 21 year old Marine currently stationed in North Carolina named “Phil”, who grew up on a 2,400 acre ranch in northeastern Montana. In this young man’s story about shooting and tracking a Bigfoot on his family’s ranch in Montana when he was 13 years old, there came to be more and more facts that could not be true.

Phil kept talking about his huge Norwegian Elk Hound, who weighed 160 lbs, who was bred to hunt bear and mountain lion, who once attacked and knocked over a Black Bear. Myself and other listeners looked up Norwegian Elk Hound, they only get up to 55 lbs, they are not a large dog, they are a small dog, and they don’t attack bears and mountain lions, they only track them and bark at them, they are a hound.

Phil said that his family’s ranch in Montana was so remote, that it was a three hour drive to the nearest town. You can drive half way across the state of Montana in three hours, there is nowhere in Montana that is more than an hour’s drive from a town.

Other viewers left comments like, “I have lived in northeast Montana my entire life, it is mostly flat, there are no mountains like you described, there are no Grizzly Bear like you described, there are no Russian Boar like you described, and there are hardly any Black Bear. You are not from northeastern Montana like you claim.”

Finally, a lot of people called “Bullshit!” on Phil’s story, when Phil said that he had four Bigfoot encounters in Montana, three in California, and two in North Carolina. Keep in mind, that Phil is only 21 years old.

I have recently watched some more Brenton Sawin YouTube videos, where there is an individual who has been a guest of Brenton Sawin a couple of times, who may be making up stories. This guest says that he is currently employed as a Fish & Game Officer, and during his first interview, he described shooting a Bigfoot with a 30.06 rifle twice, and it ran off carrying a deer. Later, in a second interview, this Fish & Game Officer said that he was attacked by a group of Bigfoot, knocked unconscious, dragged away, stripped of his bullet proof vest and firearm, and that his service dog was killed by the Bigfoot.

Not me, but other viewers, began leaving comments like, “Come on man, no Fish & Game Officers carry a Desert Eagle 0.50 caliber pistol as their duty weapon. It wouldn’t be allowed, they aren’t reliable, they are too heavy to carry around all day on your belt, and if you had ever been in the military like you claimed, you would know all this.” They also left comments like, “You claim that you were also carrying a shotgun loaded with slugs. For the type of work that you are doing, slugs drop tremendously in 200 yards, they have a ballistic path like throwing a rock, anyone working for Fish & Game would know to use heavy shot, if not a standard issue AR-15 or AR-10. I don’t believe you work for Fish & Game.”

It is suspicious to me, that this Fish & Game Officer in the course of a year or two, shot one Bigfoot with a rifle, and then later was attacked by a group of Bigfoot, knocked unconscious, dragged off, and his service dog was killed. If this Fish & Game Officer is not making all this up, and this actually happened, one of the reasons why I am doubting his stories, is because of other guests that Brenton Sawin has had on, that appear to be making their stories up, like the 21 year old Marine named Phil from Montana.

I wish that Brenton Sawin would screen his guests more carefully, and when it looks like his guests may have been making up their stories, to go ahead and tell listeners that he was sorry this happened, that it was not his intention to have made up stories.

Yes, Brenton Sawin’s YouTube channel is supposed to be for entertainment, but it is not entertaining to me, to have people lie about who they are, where they are from, what they have done in life, that they are a Marine, or a Fish & Game Officer. In fact, it is illegal and a crime to state that you were in the military when you were not, and to impersonate a Law Enforcement Officer.

Here is one of the interviews with the Fish & Game Officer:

I Have Looked At North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum’s Wife, And She Is O.K.

December 23, 2018UncategorizedGovernor Doug Burgum's wife Kathryn Helgaas, hot wives of governors, Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, Representative Kelly Armstrong's wife, Viking women in North Dakota, what is North Dakota like, what is the North Dakota Governor's wife like, women in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

Last week when I wrote a blog post about North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum not liking the Dickinson area, a reader left a comment that indicated maybe I should look up the Governor’s wife, so I did.

In November of 2016, just before he was sworn in as Governor, Doug Burgum married Kathryn Helgaas, who was about 52 years old at the time. I looked at many current photographs of Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, and even though she is now about 54 years old, she looks like a hot 40 year old housewife.

Here is what I mean, imagine that you are in high school, and there is this really good looking girl who is a cheerleader, and you meet her mom, and her mom is way hotter, and you are much, much more attracted to her mom, that would be Kathryn Helgaas Burgum.

If I said that Kathryn Helgaas Burgum was a trophy wife, I would be only half right. Yes she is pretty, yes she is hot, but she had lived a life as a professional, self-supporting, working woman for many years before she became married to the Governor.

In February of 2017, Kathryn Helgaas Burgum had an interview with a Grand Forks Herald newspaper reporter, where she explained publicly for the first time, that she had once had an alcohol addiction, that she had sought treatment for. She realized that she was drinking too much, and she voluntarily went into an alcohol rehabilitation program, though no one, not even her closest friends or family members had any idea that she had a drinking problem.

The reason why Kathryn Helgaas Burgum gave this interview to a newspaper reporter, was because she said that she wanted to be able to help remove the stigma from people seeking treatment for alcohol and other substance addictions. Perhaps, she wanted to give her story first-hand, so that some tabloid newspaper wouldn’t be able to make it look like she was hiding a troubled past.

The most suspicious and doubtful thing that I think that Kathryn Helgaas Burgum has ever done, is live in Texas and work in human resources.

Regarding her drinking problem, Kathryn Helgaas Burgum said, “It was just part of my DNA that was going to show up at some point.” Yes, I was going to get to this. Having watched several seasons of the television series “Vikings” on the History Channel, there are some characteristics or traits of Scandinavian and Norwegian women that you should be aware of.

Whether it is the Governor’s wife Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, or North Dakota Representative Kelly Armstrong’s wife Kjersti Armstrong, or Dickinson City Attorney Janilyn Murtha, though they may appear quiet and meek, because of their heredity and genetics, they have the latent characteristic, or even the repressed desire, to do things like: Take off all of their clothes and go swimming in icy water, wear just the bare minimum of animal skins or furs as clothing in winter, throw axes at people, stab people with knives, shoot people with arrows, try to spear people, or go boating.

If I lived down the street from Kathryn Helgaas Burgum before she moved into the Governor’s residence, or down the street from Kjersti Armstrong, or down the street from Janilyn Murtha, before I went outside of my house, I would look out the window to see if I could see them, and see what they were doing. I would look to see what kind of mood they were in, what they were doing, and what they were holding in their hands before I would come outside, because sooner or later, their nature is bound to come out in them, it’s only a matter of time.

I am going to go ahead and put Kathryn Helgaas Burgum on my “List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson”. I won’t fault her if some of her natural genetic tendencies come out, being no more surprised than I would at a lioness leaping on a buffalo, it’s just her nature.

Dickinson’s New Campground Ordinance Limiting RVs’ Stay To 270 Days

December 19, 2018UncategorizedCampgrounds in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, RV parks in Dickinson North Dakota, trailer parks in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

I have worked in the oil field in Texas, Utah, and North Dakota. For some occupations, especially welders, pipe fitters, electricians, equipment operators, and Union workers, it is sometimes easier and more practical for the workers to own and live in RVs and travel trailers because work project duration can last from two months to two years.

Other factors that make owning and living in an RV or travel trailer more practical are that some projects require a peak amount of welders, pipe fitters, electricians, equipment operators, and other workers at certain times to get a particular phase of construction completed, then once this phase of construction is completed, the number of welders, pipe fitters, electricians, etcetera is greatly reduced. No one knows ahead of time, which welders, pipe fitters, electricians, equipment operators, and workers will get to remain on the project, which ones will be let go, and when exactly the layoffs will happen.

With some people working in occupations where they really do not know if they will get to work on a project for two months, two years, and when exactly they will be laid off from a particular project, these people have found that it is more practical to own and live in RVs and travel trailers. It would be foolish and a mistake to sign a lease for an apartment or a house when you could very likely get laid off in a couple of months.

Try to think about this and realize this, though real estate agents, appraisers, accountants, and city employees may remain in their job in a town for five, ten, twenty years, people who make their living working on pipeline construction, oil storage terminal construction, refinery construction, and other large industrial projects, they no longer have a job once their pipeline, oil storage terminal, or refinery construction is completed. They have to move on to the next large industrial project, where again they will not know if they will get to work on this project for two months or two years, because the number and type of occupations needed for each phase of construction varies and changes.

Welders, pipe fitters, electricians, equipment operators, and Union workers may purchase a new or newer RV or travel trailer for as much as $80,000. They may expect this RV or travel trailer to last them eight to ten years. One of the benefits of living in an RV or travel trailer, is that your personal possessions, important paper work, clothing, cookware, food, bed, furniture, TV, stereo, computer, is all right there, and you don’t have to pack everything up, and carry it down stairs out to a moving van, every time you move.

But in cold climates, there are a few laborious and time consuming things that RV and travel trailer owners have to do when they park in a campground. They have to install tight-fitting insulated skirting along the bottom perimeter of their RV or trailer in order to keep their grey-water tank, black-water tank, and fresh water lines from freezing. They will likely have to install electrical heat tape on both their sewer line and their fresh water line. They may need to construct a 6 ft x 6 ft mud room at the entrance door to their trailer in order to be able to take off muddy boots, and muddy overalls before entering their trailer, and also to keep from letting all of the heat out of their trailer when there are high winds.

But the City of Dickinson, the City Commissioners, the residents of Dickinson, and the property owners in Dickinson do not care about what is convenient or practical for other people. They don’t care, and in fact, the property owners, property managers, and real estate agents like the idea that by putting a limit of 270 days on living in an RV or travel trailer, that this would potentially force workers to rent an apartment, rent a house, or buy a house.

I have tried to point out again and again, that when Dickinson “does things to people”, like quadrupling the price of rent during the oil boom, over aggressive stopping of everyone for DUI by Police, over aggressive following of people by Police, trying to convict people for a 20 year sentence for seeking sex, a Civil Service Commission that has never once decided in favor of a City employee, and generally treating out of state workers like shit, no one wants to come to Dickinson or stay in Dickinson once they find out what it is like.

Limiting the amount of time that a person working in Dickinson can stay in a campground in their RV or travel trailer to 270 days, is not going to turn all of these people into apartment renters, house renters, or house buyers in Dickinson. Many of them, who may have spent up to $80,000 on their RV or travel trailer, will just plan on moving on in nine months. Not only not renting or buying a home in Dickinson, but not renting in a campground or living in Dickinson at all.

I don’t know when, if ever, the people in Dickinson will realize that they are driving people out of Dickinson to such an extent that Dickinson will eventually look like Belfield, Richardton, Taylor, Gladstone, New England, Dodge, or Haliday. To the property owners that are so greedy, what will your property be worth when no one wants to come to Dickinson and more and more people leave Dickinson?

Miss America And Miss America USA To Now Include Math Word Problems

December 17, 2018UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Miss North Dakota, Miss North Dakota to include math word problems, Miss North Dakota USA, Miss North Dakota USA to include math word problems, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, women in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In 2018, in order to be more inclusive to fat girls and unattractive women, the Miss America pageant under the leadership of Gretchen Carlson, decided to discontinue the swimsuit competition. So that fat girls and unattractive women have a chance at winning, the pageants have decided to include math word problems.

My understanding is that the competition will now be judged as follows: Personal interview 40%, evening gown 30%, math word problems 30%. The math word problem section, will consist of three problems, each worth 10%, and you have to show your work, or you will receive 0% credit.

What this means is, that in order to win, a pageant contestant will probably have to correctly answer all three math word problems. For example, a very attractive young lady with a good personality might get very high points in the personal interview phase and the evening gown phase, but if she misses one or two math word problems, points-wise, there is almost no way she could win.

Here are some examples of the kind of math word problems that will be given in the North Dakota pageants:

A 2010 Dodge 2500 diesel with a 6.7 liter Cummins engine gets 17 miles per gallon in town, and 22 miles per gallon on the highway. If you had to drive this truck from Amidon to Belfield on Highway 85 for 34 miles, how many gallons of diesel fuel would you need?

Answer: one gallon/22 miles x 34 miles = 1.545 gallons

Your boyfriend works as an apprentice electrician and he makes $3,200 per month gross pay before taxes are taken out. After taxes are taken out, his take home pay is $2,560 per month. However, $400 in child support payments are then taken from his take home pay each month. A bank is willing to lend him money for a home mortgage, with monthly payments not to exceed 40% of $2,160. What is the maximum monthly mortgage payment that your boyfriend could make?

Answer: 0.40 x $2,160 = $864

Walmart sells packages of three women’s panties for $21.50. Target sells packages of two women’s panties for $20. And Victoria’s Secret sells women’s panties for $25 each. Given $100, and the ability to buy these women’s panties from Walmart, Target, and Victoria’s Secret, what is the most amount of panties that you could buy?

Answer: Twelve panties. You could buy four packages of Walmart Panties for $86, giving you twelve panties. Buying from Target would give you only ten panties for $100.

What North Dakota Land Owners Should Have Done With Their Oil Revenue Money

December 16, 2018Uncategorizedhow people spend money in Dickinson North Dakota, investing in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, people showing off in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, wasting money in Dickinson North Dakota, what Doug Burgum thinks you should do with your money, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, what people spend money on in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

In yesterday’s blog post about North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum not liking the Dickinson area, in the last paragraph I wrote the sarcastic comment that the Governor was very impressed with how land owners spent their oil revenue money on luxury fifth-wheel travel trailers, side-by-side buggies, and four-dour four-wheel-drive lifted one-ton diesel trucks. I want to explain and elaborate on why the behavior of Dickinson area people is irritating and ignorant to people elsewhere in North Dakota, the U.S., and the World.

In western North Dakota, where farmers were poor historically, when the most recent Oil Boom came in 2007, thousands of land owners began receiving large initial oil lease payments, and then later monthly oil well production payments. Not having had this kind of money before, and not knowing what to do with it, many local land owners could only think to buy the biggest and most expensive pickup truck that they could find, the biggest and most expensive fifth-wheel travel trailer they could find, and then the most expensive four-wheelers and side-by-side buggies they could find.

To educated, professional people, who either had good incomes, would have good incomes, or came from middle-class, upper middle-class, or wealthy families, this kind of spending of once-in-a-lifetime windfall money, was foolish, ignorant, reckless, obnoxious, and even tragic. The money that could have benefited entire families for generations to come, was going to disappear within ten years, like it never even happened.

To explain this, some of the larger four-door four-wheel-drive lifted one-ton diesel pickup trucks can cost $80,000 new. The largest fifth-wheel luxury travel trailers $80,000 new. The nicest side-by-side off-road buggies $20,000. Add these three items up, and the total is $180,000. Then add sales tax, registration fees, title fees, and insurance, and the cost is easily $200,000.

Ten years from now, the truck will be worth about $20,000, the travel trailer about $20,000, and the side-by-side buggy about $5,000, altogether about $45,000. Together, this is a $155,000 loss on an investment of $200,000.

To educated people, or wealthy people, with an initial investment of $200,000 in the right stocks or the right real estate, ten years later you could have $400,000. It is a tragedy that someone could take $200,000 and turn it into $45,000 ten years down the road.

So when Dickinson area North Dakotans think that they are impressing people when they are driving down the road in an $80,000 truck, towing an $80,000 trailer, towing a $20,000 side-by-side buggy, they are actually embarrassing themselves, showing their ignorance, and showing their lack of understanding about money.

Rather than staying in a campground in a travel-trailer every year for ten years, and at the end of ten years the truck, trailer, and buggy are worth $45,000, having lost $155,000 in depreciation, the initial cost of $200,000, if it were invested, could have paid for a luxury vacation anywhere on Earth, not for ten years, but for an entire lifetime.

How should have North Dakotans spent or invested their initial lease payment and oil revenue money, in a way that would have been the most beneficial to themselves and their families? In the oil field where I worked in southwest Texas in 2012, the ranch owners built guest houses or guest cottages with their oil revenue money, and I will explain why this was a good idea.

In southwest Texas, the land was kind of barren and desolate, not that much different than the land in western North Dakota. Instead of getting down to -30 degrees Fahrenheit like North Dakota, it got up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit throughout the summer in southwest Texas. Like the farms in North Dakota, the ranches in southwest Texas were not very fancy sometimes, because the owners had not always had money.

In the oil field where I worked in Texas, once the ranch owners began receiving oil revenue money, many of them built guest houses or guest cottages on their property, that ranged from nice to very impressive. I don’t mean that they went and bought single-wide or double-wide manufactured homes and placed them next to each other on their property like a trailer park, I mean they put a lot of thought and pride into creating something on their property that was an enhancement, improvement, and beautification.

The ranch owners would pick a spot on their property that they had always thought of as a good place to build a house, whether on a hill with a good view, in the middle of some trees that provided shade, or near a fishing pond. They would think out and plan what kind of house or cottage they wanted, would it have a front porch, a back porch, a patio for Barbequeing, a swimming pool, a grass lawn, landscaping?

The ranchers intended to rent out their guest house or guest cottage to hunters, or oil field companies if it were going to be used for professional personnel. Or, they would allow their friends, relatives, or guests to stay in their guest house or guest cottage. But in any case, they built, furnished, and decorated their guest house or guest cottage to be something that was attractive, inviting, enjoyable, and something that they could show off and be proud of.

In the Dickinson area, if land owners who began receiving oil revenue would have built nice guest houses or guest cottages on their property, this would have been something that was very beneficial to themselves, their family, and others. Instead of spending $80,000 on a fifth-wheel travel trailer that would be worth only $20,000 ten years later, this $80,000 would be enough to build a nice guest cottage on their land.

During hunting season, pheasant hunters or deer hunters would have paid $1,000 per week for a nice, furnished cottage on a farm in rural western North Dakota. For just four weeks rental per year, this would have been $4,000 per year income for the next twenty years, re-paying the $80,000 initial cost to build it. The other forty-eight weeks per year, friends, family members, adult children, or grandchildren could have been invited to visit and stay in the cottage.

During the Oil Boom, a guest cottage could have been rented to a professional person working in the oil field for $1,500 per month, which equals $18,000 per year, taking only five years to re-pay the $80,000 initial cost to build it.

When I mentioned that this guest house building or guest cottage building would have been helpful to others, consider the following. Many adult children, or other family members, either through divorce, separation, job loss, accident, injury, or illness become temporarily unable to afford a place to live. Or, sometimes an elderly parent may temporarily or permanently become unable to live on their own. Or, a friend or family member may be unable to afford to pay for anywhere to stay on vacation. Or, a friend or relative may need a low cost place to stay when trying to find work in the Dickinson area.

Yes, I know you don’t want to help anyone, go buy your $80,000 fifth wheel that will be worth $20,000 in ten years.

I Don’t Think That Governor Doug Burgum Likes The Dickinson Area

December 15, 2018UncategorizedDickinson State University will be closed if it doesn't act quickly, Dickinson State University will be shut down next, Doug Burgum advocating for Theodore Roosevelt museum, Doug Burgum Theodore Roosevelt Library, Doug Burgum's reaction to Dickinson North Dakota, Governor Doug Burgum's opinion of Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what does Governor Doug Burgum think of Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I don’t think that North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum likes the Dickinson area, and I will explain why. I got this impression when Governor Burgum stepped in, uninvited, to steer both the Theodore Roosevelt Library and the Theodore Roosevelt Museum away from Dickinson in the Summer of 2018 . I became even more certain when Governor Burgum announced out of nowhere recently, that he would like to relocate the women’s prison away from New England to Bismarck.

The Theodore Roosevelt Library and the Theodore Roosevelt Museum would have been very good for Dickinson, increasing the prestige, importance, and image of both Dickinson State University, and the town of Dickinson. It would have also benefited the local economy greatly. Now, closing the women’s prison in New England, 26 miles south of Dickinson, will remove New England’s largest local employer.

I know why Governor Doug Burgum does not like the Dickinson area, and I really want to explain it to you. On this blog website, I have tried to explain Dickinson for the past four years, and it seems like it is impossible to get through to most of the local people. The local people ignore and disregard what I write, and they don’t know that failing to recognize their shortcomings is going to be fatal for Dickinson in the end.

Governor Doug Burgum was born in, and grew up in, the small agricultural town of Arthur, North Dakota, population 400. He knows, exactly, exactly, how people are in Dickinson, Belfield, New England, Richardton, Taylor, Amidon, Bowman, and Watford City.

Governor Doug Burgum graduated from North Dakota State University located in Fargo, North Dakota, the largest city in North Dakota with over 100,000 people. Governor Burgum then attended Stanford University in California where he received a Masters of Business Administration.

For those of you who don’t know, Stanford University in California is one of the most difficult colleges in the United States to get into. Stanford only admits the best of the best, the smartest of the smartest. Once you get in, you are surrounded by some of the most intelligent and brightest people in the world. At Stanford, Doug Burgum became friends with a classmate who later became the CEO of Microsoft.

After graduating from Stanford University, Doug Burgum went to work in Chicago for a short while. Soon he returned to Fargo, and he helped form a business software company called Great Plains Software, which he became president of. In 2001 Great Plains Software was sold to Microsoft for $1.1 billion.

I have given you Doug Burgum’s background, growing up in an isolated North Dakota agricultural town with 400 people, getting out, going to college in Fargo, getting an MBA from Stanford University in California, creating a billion dollar software company in Fargo, to make sure that you understand, that Doug Burgum has already experienced for the first eighteen years of his life, the stupid bullshit that you people in Dickinson, New England, Belfield, Richardton, Bowman never cease to get out of and put behind you, the kind of ignorance that never stops.

Because of the barren, desolate, freezing plains of North Dakota, where there weren’t even any trees to build houses out of, and people had to stack cut grass sod to make 10’x12′ houses for their entire family to live in, it was a struggle for the first settlers in North Dakota to even survive. There was no hospitality or generosity, or help given to others, it was a matter of each family for themselves.

It wasn’t a matter of anyone getting ahead, it was a matter of merely surviving from one year to the next. The only way that anyone might feel like they got ahead in North Dakota, was when someone else failed. In fact, if someone failed, if they died or had to leave, there might be some land or some improvement that was left behind to scavenge. This was the origin of North Dakotans withholding help from others, hoping that other people failed, or seeing other people’s failure as a win for them.

This was also part of the origin of North Dakotans’ hatred of education and people with an education. Someone else getting an education was a threat to them. The only thing that North Dakotans had to look forward to was someone else failing, so someone else benefiting from education was a detriment to them reaping from someone else’s failure.

If you ever got out of the small North Dakota towns where people withhold help, seek other people’s failure, and hope for other people’s failure, to large cities or large universities, you would see a change in attitudes, outlook, and beliefs, where people believe in opportunity, growth, improvement, innovation, prosperity, success, collaboration, and shared success. The attitude that, “A rising tide, raises all boats.”

In contrast, the epitome of Dickinson, Belfield, New England, or Bowman is a 300 lb, ham-fisted, battle-axe woman, working at a local business who will not serve customers, leering and sneering, snarling, “We didn’t ask you to come here!”

Or, the local Police in Dickinson knowing that there is an extreme shortage of women, posing as a woman on-line wanting to meet men for sex, then luring a recent DSU business graduate from Nepal to have sex, then acting like a character out of the movie Deliverance, “Oooooeeee! Look what we got here boy! We going to put you in jail for 20 years! That’s right, we going to put you in jail for the next 20 years! Ooooooeeeeeee!”

Or, that western North Dakota companies were responsible for a two to three year backlog of unpaid wage complaints with the North Dakota Department of Labor. And western North Dakota property owners quadrupled the rents and housing prices to the highest in the United States to where workers were sleeping in their vehicles, under bridges, and in the bushes.

So yes, Governor Doug Burgum, uninvited, had to intervene in order to steer both the Theodore Roosevelt Library and the Theodore Roosevelt Museum away from Dickinson, lest people from across the country and around the World be accosted or harmed by the local people here in the Dickinson area. The Governor was probably thinking, “God knows what the people in Dickinson would have done to the tourists and scholars that would have arrived from around the World. They would probably have been beaten up, extorted, robbed, and put in jail.”

Something else that the local people in Dickinson do not know or understand yet, if Dickinson State University does not hurry up and immediately get underway with a technical training program for industry and the oil field, Dickinson State University will be shut down.

The way that the State of North Dakota looks at it, the elected representatives, civil servants, and educators, “Why should we use state money to fund Dickinson State University? It is a publicity nightmare for the State of North Dakota: Awarding degrees to foreign students who have not completed the course work; The Attorney General having to dissolve the DSU Foundation over questionable financial practices; The unaccountability of the Strom Foundation for the spending of donations; DSU recruiting thug hoodlum athletes; The evidence of DSU graduates not having college level literacy. Wouldn’t it be better for higher education in North Dakota, to no longer waste money on DSU, which only downgrades and weakens the reputation of higher of education in North Dakota?”

What probably really impressed Governor Doug Burgum about western North Dakota, with thousands of local land owners receiving oil leases and oil revenue, what they have done with this money. The new fifth-wheel luxury travel trailers, side-by-side buggies, and lifted four-door four-wheel-drive one-ton diesel trucks, makes the Governor proud of this investment in North Dakota for future generations.

The History You Know Is Probably Wrong

December 9, 2018Uncategorizedhistory in North Dakota, history of North Dakota, learning history in North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, World history in North Dakotaname withheld

For about four years I have tried to explain on this blog website, what Dickinson, North Dakota is actually like. This has been very hard to do, because there is so much disinformation, misinformation, lies, people willing to believe whatever they hear or are told, people parroting back what sounds good, and the deliberate manipulation of people.

In the approximately six years that I have lived in Dickinson, I have only ever personally met three or four people who ever made over $100,000 per year working in the oil field, yet television news, radio, newspaper, trade journals, and magazines claimed for years that everyone was making $100,000 per year working in the oil field in North Dakota.

Local people, business people, oil industry spokespeople, and North Dakota government representatives commonly made the statement, “This Oil Boom is going to last for the next twenty years.” Yet this Oil Boom lasted for only seven years, from 2007 to 2014. The North Dakota Oil Boom in the late 1970s lasted about seven years, and the North Dakota Oil Boom in the 1950s lasted about seven years.

As frustrating as it has been to even get the truth out about what is actually happening in Dickinson, North Dakota right now, in the present, I am reluctant to share anything as difficult to understand as the World history that everyone knows is probably incorrect. I am not just talking about the fact that Christopher Columbus did not discover America in 1492, and that there is evidence that there were other Europeans and Middle Easterners here much earlier.

As an introduction, there probably have been enough bits and pieces of information presented in magazines like National Geographic, or on television networks like the History channel or the Discovery channel, to make people living today suspicious about the history that we do not know. For instance, the stone blocks used to construct the Egyptian pyramids and the South American pyramids are sometimes cut more precisely, placed more precisely, and are larger than what we can transport with modern technology.

Another area of history that is suspicious, is that all throughout North America, from the period of the European colonists arriving in the 1500s until the present day, there is documentation of giant human skeletons, correspondingly large tools and other objects being unearthed. Ten foot tall human skeletons with 30 lb axes, being uncovered from Maine all the way to Texas.

Recently, throughout the World, there have been researchers who began to speculate and believe, that there is evidence that the recent World history from the past two hundred years is a lie. I will briefly explain a few reasons why they believe this, that have to do with World maps, hundreds of thousands of orphans World-wide in the late 1800s, and the existence of World-wide architecture that does not fit local history.

Some researchers have examined maps of the World from the 1500s and 1600s. These maps sometimes showed many towns and even large cities existing in Mexico, the Southern U.S., Northern U.S., and Western U.S. prior to what we “know” to be the colonization and settling of the United States by Europeans in the 1500s and 1600s.

Throughout Europe and North America in the late 1800s, there were hundreds of thousands of orphans and historical accounts of the placement of these orphans, who were sometimes called “foundlings”. Entire train loads of orphans. Where did all of these orphans come from?

On every continent of the World, there are large classical Roman Architecture stone buildings. Researchers have begun to wonder, how could these massive and ornate grand buildings have been constructed in countries, where neither the native people or the European settlers had the skill, equipment, or means to build them at the time they were said to have been constructed, or even now at the present time?

In summary, with the existence of large cities in North America and other continents before the European settlers arrived, with the existence of large ornate stone buildings before the European settlers arrived, and the mystery of hundreds of thousands of orphans being relocated in the late 1800s World-wide, researchers speculate that many of the great cities of the World were not created when, how, or by who history tells us, they might have been already existing and new-arrivals merely moved in.

There is also speculation, that previously existing World-wide technology has been lost, suppressed, or hidden. Technology that once provided free energy, and would have allowed for and explain the large stone structures that exist, that we can not duplicate in modern times.

Here is a video from an Australian named Max Igan. I don’t believe everything that he proposes, but considering what he says makes you realize that the history we have been taught may not be correct:

Columnist Rob Port, And A 12 Year Old Shooting A Wildebeest

December 1, 2018Uncategorizedaliens hunting humans, columnist Rob Port, extraterrestrials eating humans, extraterrestrials hunting humans, hunting for sport, hunting in Africa, hunting on game preserves in Africa, is hunting perverted, is hunting sick, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, Rob Port being hunted by aliens, Sylvia Peach Leiviskaname withheld

Every day I try to read the Dickinson Press newspaper stories on the internet. Just now, I read a short article by columnist Rob Port titled “It’s Just An Animal”.

I was shocked at the title of this article, what Rob Port had to say, and what this article was about. Apparently, a 12 year old girl from Fargo named Sylvia Peach Leiviska, shot and killed a 600 lb wildebeest on a game preserve in South Africa.

Everything about this sickens and astonishes me. I can not understand, that people believe that because we have higher intelligence than other animals, that we have the right to kill them. If this kind of thinking is O.K., sound, and logical, it should be acceptable to kill stupid people, developmentally disabled people, mentally disabled people, mentally ill people, drug addicted people, and unproductive people.

Do people even realize, that there is a whole spectrum of intelligence among people, and if it ever came to it being acceptable for intelligent people to kill less intelligent people, many of you, many of us, would find out that we were deemed killable?

Or, do people even realize, that there are more advanced, more intelligent beings in the Universe, and if it is O.K. for more intelligent beings to kill and harvest the less intelligent beings, that this means us?

Yes, I understand that if I eat animal meat, that an animal was killed for it. I wish that I never would have started out in life eating animal meat, and that there was an equal or better substitute for the food value of animal meat.

If I had to personally shoot and butcher cows and pigs in order to get meat, I would eat a lot less meat, maybe none at all. I don’t even like to fish very much anymore, and when I do, I release the fish right away.

Even when I was a kid, but especially as I grew older, I could see that all animals, including us humans, have a similar life. We start out as fumbling infants, and spend our entire lives trying to get food, water, make a shelter, stay warm and dry, obtain resources that we need, and keep ourselves and our family safe.

Us humans, with our language, writing, science, technology, and manufacturing, can produce water resistant clothing, very insulated clothing, high magnification spotting scopes, long range accurate rifles with high magnification scopes, off-road hunting buggies and four-wheelers, large four-door four-wheel-drive 500 horsepower off-road trucks, and we use all of this to shoot an animal, that doesn’t have anything, and then celebrate this like it was a personal victory?

The domestic cattle that we raise for food, if I had to do it, or for whoever has to do it, I would walk right up to it and shoot it in the head as quickly as possible, so that the animal would not experience being terrorized, it would just be dead. And I sure as hell would not be proud of it, and wanting to have my picture taken.

No animal, not even Rob Port, would like being in an enclosed game preserve, having lived through the experience before of tourists coming to try to hunt and shoot them, knowing that they are captive and that it is only a matter of time before they are killed.

Maybe one night, on a desolate stretch of highway, some aliens will stop Rob Port’s car, chase him around through the woods, taser him, have their young take a photograph beside his immobilized body, and then roast him on a spit alive, because that’s the most tasty way to do it. It would be all in fun and sport for the aliens, but not for Rob, but he doesn’t really feel anything, because he’s not as evolved as the aliens, as they are accustomed to saying.

Ape Creatures And Prime Rib At The Paragon In Dickinson, North Dakota

December 1, 2018UncategorizedApe Creatures in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, John Mueller Dickinson North Dakota, John Mueller manager of the Paragon in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, Paragon Bowling Alley Dickinson North Dakota, Paragon Diner Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, who manages the Paragon in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I have gotten into or nearly gotten into more trouble at the Paragon Bowling Alley & Diner in Dickinson, North Dakota than the sum total of everywhere else I have ever been in my entire life.

There are only two reasons now why I ever go to the Paragon Bowling Alley & Diner: if one of my friends is there, or if it is Prime Rib night on Saturday.

This Saturday I spent working on one of my vehicles at my friend’s house, and going to Mac’s Tool, Tractor Supply, and Menards to get parts. Once it got dark at about 5:30 p.m., I couldn’t see what I was doing anymore, so I called it quits for the day. I was hungry, and I was planning on going to the drive-thru of a fast food restaurant on the way home, when I realized that it was Saturday, and it was Prime Rib night at the Paragon.

I decided that I would drive by the Paragon, and if one of my friends was there, I would eat there. I didn’t see any of my friends’ vehicles in the parking lot, but I parked my vehicle, and I went inside to see who was in the diner. There were not very many people eating in the diner, it was not crowded, maybe a total of ten people at three different tables, so I thought that I would eat here.

I sat at the counter in order to not take up a table in case other groups of people came to eat. The Prime Rib dinner at the Paragon on Saturday night is $16.95, and it comes with a baked potato, and your choice of soup, or a bowl of lettuce.

John Mueller who is in his late fifties, is the manager of the Paragon Bowling Alley & Diner, which was established by his father, Dick Mueller, in the 1960s or 1970s. John’s mother Bernice, who is in her eighties, still works in the diner sometimes.

If you ever watched the television show “Fantasy Island” in the 1970s, where all of the guests were greeted by the character “Mr. Roarke”, who always wore a white three-piece suit, John Mueller is kind of like Mr. Roarke, in a way. You see, just as Mr. Roarke planned out an elaborate fantasy for each one of his guests, John Mueller hires your fantasy waitresses, if your fantasy happens to be being waited on by drug addict women from Couer D’Alene, Seattle, or Spokane, or women from the county jail, or women from prison, or the latest fantasy, female Ape Creatures.

When I went to the Paragon on Thursday morning this week to see a friend of mine, and when I went to the Paragon this Saturday night, I saw that John Mueller has hired a whole entire clan of Ape Creatures. On Thursday morning, one of the big female Ape Creatures who weighed about 300 lbs, she had orange hair, and she was fairly well trained, as she could do most things, but in a blunt kind of way.

On this Saturday night, there was a different 300 lb female Ape Creature with very short light colored hair waitressing, along with a smaller female Ape Creature weighing about 225 lb, with dark hair. Both of these creatures were going through the motions of waitressing, though they appeared to be a little confused.

I watched these two Ape Creatures for about five minutes. It was taking all of their effort and concentration to bring things to the three tables of customers who had already been seated. What appeared to be causing some confusion, and posed a dilemma for them, was that they didn’t grasp the concept that they didn’t have to stand in front of the cook’s window waiting for food to be put out, that they could go and do other things.

Partly because of their fascination with the cook’s food window where they remained standing and staring, or perhaps because I reminded them of someone who had once shot and killed one of their family members, neither of the two Ape Creatures came over to take my order.

I went looking for John Mueller who I had seen when I arrived, to tell him that his Ape Creatures were not taking my order, but apparently John had gone to the other side of the island, as he was no where to be found.

If you know anything about me, you might think that getting to see Ape Creatures up close and eating Prime Rib would be an enjoyable night for me. It turns out that I only want to see Ape Creatures in the wild, and that they do not make very good waitresses. I never did get any Prime Rib to eat.

Watch Rachel Cook, It’s Just As Good As A Bigfoot Video

November 23, 2018UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, Rachel Cook video, women in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I live in Dickinson, North Dakota, where there is a shortage of women. Most women, try to run away from Dickinson, because there is nothing to do, no where to go, and it is very cold and grey.

I have very little to do. I watch YouTube videos of some women, and videos about Bigfoot. I like videos about Bigfoot, but this video of Rachel Cook is just as good:

I Wish That I Could Force You To Understand Dickinson, North Dakota

November 23, 2018Uncategorizedeconomic outlook for Dickinson North Dakota, economy in Dickinson North Dakota, guide to Dickinson North Dakota, Information on Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, truth about Dickinson North Dakota, understanding Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I have been writing about Dickinson, North Dakota on this blog website for a little over four years now. For those of you who don’t know why I started writing about Dickinson, it was because Dickinson, Williston, and Minot, North Dakota were the towns in the middle of the Oil Boom in North Dakota that occurred from 2007 through 2014, and I was living in Dickinson.

During the Oil Boom years, there was a great amount of chaos, confusion, development, excitement, optimism, hype, misinformation, and people being taken advantage of. For those of you who don’t remember, have forgotten, or never knew what happened from 2007 through 2014 in Dickinson, here is a short synopsis:

Most people did not know that 2007 through 2014 was North Dakota’s third Oil Boom. There was an oil discovery boom in the 1950s, and there was an oil market shortage boom in the late 1970s. Dickinson had experienced an influx of oil field workers and oil companies before, in the 1950s, and the 1970s. Well-informed people, well-educated people, and intelligent business people in Dickinson knew from past experience that these Oil Booms last about seven years, that’s why they are called a “Boom” in the first place.

However, even though there were very wealthy people, moderately wealthy people, influential people, politicians, elected representatives, large land owners, and community leaders in Dickinson who all knew from the previous two Oil Booms in North Dakota, that these Oil Booms last for about seven years, rather than trying to manage this Oil Boom in the most effective way for everyone, they either tried to benefit personally at the expense and suffering of others, or they did nothing to stop the taking advantage and suffering of others.

For those of you who were not here, or do not know what I am talking about when I write about the taking advantage of others and the suffering of others, I will explain:

All over the United States, television, radio, newspaper, and magazine media frequently announced that everyone working in North Dakota was making over $100,000 per year due to the Oil Boom. This was not true at all, the average wage rate in western North Dakota was about $15 per hour at the time.

Believing that they were going to make $100,000 per year in North Dakota like they heard about, people who were struggling financially, or who were broke, used the very last money that they had to travel to Dickinson or Williston. When they got here, one-bedroom apartments that had once rented for $300 per month, were now $1,500 per month. With $3,000 due at lease signing for first month’s rent and security deposit, for the cheapest apartments available, most people could not afford a place to live.

Though business was booming in Dickinson, and many wealthy people were becoming even wealthier, there was deliberately and intentionally no homeless shelter in Dickinson. The people who had been lured to North Dakota by the announcements that everyone was making $100,000 per year, ended up sleeping in their cars in the parking lot of WalMart or the Tiger Truck Stop. Or, if they arrived in Dickinson by bus or by hitch hiking, they slept under bridges, in the bushes at Patterson Lake, or in the bushes behind businesses. In the winter, it gets down to -30 degrees Fahrenheit in Dickinson.

When quick, short-term housing solutions, such as the permitting of temporary housing called “man-camps” were proposed, the building permits were denied, due to citizens of Dickinson supposedly fearing “rape” from all the men. However, the permits for many, many large apartment complexes were approved, even though the occupants would be the same men who would have lived in the man-camps, who were feared for “rape”, but apparently not if they paid $2,000 per month rent for a new apartment.

During the Oil Boom of 2007 through 2014, I witnessed many, many people arriving in Dickinson who were financially broke, who had been lured here by television, radio, newspaper, and magazine announcements about everyone making $100,000 per year in North Dakota. This was not true, even after living in Dickinson for six years, I have only ever personally met about three or four people who made $100,000 for even one year, working in the oil field.

One of the very first things that I tried to do when I started this blog website four years ago, was to try to get the information out there, that most people were not making $100,000 per year in North Dakota or the oil field, that this was a lie. I tried to explain what the employment situation was really like. I tried to explain that only young men between the ages of 18 to 30 years old, who were able-bodied, in good physical condition, with no physical defect, would even be considered to start out working on an oil drill rig, where they would work 12 hours per day, for fourteen days in a row, at about $23 per hour, and make nearly $100,000 per year.

I tried to explain in my blog posts that the vast majority of the job openings in North Dakota were not on an oil drill rig, some were in the oil field, what these other oil field jobs were, what skills and abilities these other oil field jobs required, what it would be like working in the oil field, and what other jobs there were in Dickinson.

I also wrote blog posts explaining that there was a shortage of housing in Dickinson, and that housing was very expensive. I tried to counter what the television, radio, newspapers, magazines, Chamber of Commerce, North Dakota Job Services, business owners, and politicians were saying in order to try to get people from all over the United States to move to Dickinson or Williston, not knowing what they would be getting into.

During the Oil Boom, I had jobs where I was paid $12 per hour, $15 per hour, $16 per hour, $17, $18, $19, and $20 per hour. But I had a college degree in engineering, management experience, experience operating heavy equipment, experience in construction, experience in heavy mechanical equipment assembly, and I was able-bodied. From what I saw, from the people that I worked with, and my experience living in Dickinson, the average hourly wage was about $15 during the Oil Boom.

There were times when the local WalMart paid $15 per hour. But many businesses paid less than $15 per hour for store clerks, front desk people, customer service people, retail workers, fast food workers, restaurant workers, drivers, general laborers, caregivers, and many other jobs. For instance, the TSA at the Dickinson airport paid officers $14 per hour.

At the same time that the average hourly wage in Dickinson was about $15 per hour, some of the cheapest old one-bedroom apartments rented for $1,500 per month. If a person worked for 50 hours each week at $15 per hour, with overtime pay that comes out to about $820 per week before taxes, about $700 per week after taxes, and a take home pay of about $2,800 per month.

Starting out with a take home pay of $2,800 per month, and subtracting rent $1,500; utilities $150; cell phone $50; car insurance $100; car payment $200; fuel $150; leaves $650 left over for the entire month for food, clothing, and everything else. That’s less than $20 per day that you could spend on food. What if you had a child, a medical emergency, or a major car repair?

I wondered, and I wrote about, what kind of people would double, triple, and quadruple the rent and housing prices in order to gouge and take advantage of the out-of-state workers who came to Dickinson, many of whom were struggling financially to begin with or were completely broke?

You need to know and keep in mind, that outside of Dickinson there is more vacant, barren, flat, undeveloped land than almost anywhere else in the United States. There is no scarcity of land to build on. The land outside of Dickinson is almost as vacant as the deserts of Arizona, Nevada, or Utah. Though the land outside of Dickinson is not as dry as the desert, it is very, very cold in North Dakota from October through April, that’s seven months out of the year, and this is one of the reasons why there are less than one million people living in the entire state of North Dakota.

With such an abundance of vacant, barren, undeveloped land, why were the rent prices in Dickinson and Williston higher than any place else in the United States, higher than even New York City and San Francisco? The local people liked to say that it was a matter of supply and demand, low supply of housing, and a high demand for housing. But like I just got done explaining, there is more vacant, barren, undeveloped land outside of Dickinson, than almost any place else in the United States.

Keep in mind, that the well-informed people, well-educated people, the intelligent business people, the wealthy people, and the large land owners in Dickinson knew about the oil discovery boom in the 1950s, and the oil market shortage boom in the 1970s that occurred in North Dakota. They knew from these previous two Oil Booms, about all the workers and oil companies that come to North Dakota during the Oil Booms.

The doubling, tripling, and quadrupling of the rent and housing prices that occurred in Dickinson, was not merely a matter of supply and demand. There was more to it than that. If you have foreknowledge that something is going to occur, where people will experience a scarcity or lack of some necessity, and you seek to take advantage of this scarcity, and even take steps to keep this scarcity from being alleviated so that you can personally benefit financially, you are unethically taking advantage and gouging other people. I will give a couple of examples for you to think about:

When a hurricane was approaching the east coast of the United States, and everyone needed to prepare for an emergency, some businesses used to sharply increase the price of fuel, drinking water, plywood, generators, and other emergency supplies. Do you know that this practice is now illegal, and that business owners are now criminally prosecuted for this?

What if you and your business associates created or helped form a retirement community in Nevada, an isolated community consisting of modest, inexpensive, single-wide manufactured homes on 50 ft. x 100 ft. lots, for sale for about $50,000. Once each of these modest manufactured homes had been sold, what if you doubled, tripled, and quadrupled the price that you charged for water, knowing that there was no other water service available, and that the cost to drill a well would be about $20,000, which these low-income residents would be unable to afford?

Just because someone can see a way to take advantage of and gouge other people on the price of a necessity that they will need, this in no way means that this is ethical, moral, or even legal.

What was actually going on in Dickinson and Williston, was that the wealthy people, the business owners, the property owners, elected representatives, politicians, community leaders, spokespeople for the oil industry, and spokespeople for the North Dakota Job Services continued to perpetuate the lie that everyone who moved to North Dakota for work was making $100,000 per year, even though they knew that this was not true, that they would make much less money than this, and that more than half of their pay would be spent on housing because they had quadrupled the price of housing in North Dakota.

The reasons for spreading this lie all over the United States and luring people to North Dakota were:

To bring as many people as possible to the state to be able to rent, lease, and sell all property available.
To bring as many people as possible to the state to occupy or buy all property available, to cause a shortage, and be able to greatly increase rents, leases, and property prices.
To cause the need, the requirement, or the perception, that there needed to be new apartments constructed, new housing constructed, new retail stores constructed, new grocery stores, new schools, new hospitals, and new infrastructure like water towers and roads.
To lure property developers and business entrepreneurs to the state build developments and start new businesses.
To bring customers to the state to increase business and sales.
To greatly increase tax revenue to the state in sales tax, personal income tax, and property tax revenue.
To bring a surplus of workers to the state to try to keep wages low.

After writing about all of this for four years, I realized or discovered several surprising, sinister schemes. What is even more surprising, and kind of funny, is that most of the people who sought to take advantage of others and be predatory, have been set up for financial ruin, and they don’t even know it yet. I will explain.

The ordinary people in Dickinson, whether local people or from out-of-state, each of them are aware of only a fraction of what is going on. They are often very susceptible to lies and misinformation, their circumstances in life change greatly when their rent is increased, their hourly wage rate is increased, or they lose their job. They are practically slaves or livestock, and they don’t even know it. They were likely to parrot the phrases that they were taught, such as “This Oil Boom is going to last for the next 20 years”, and then later “The Oil Boom is coming back” or the ever perpetual phrase “Things are starting to pick up again.”

The business people, business owners, property owners, property developers, elected representatives, Chambers of Commerce, oil industry spokespeople, and North Dakota government agency spokespeople, were or are, kind of like the herders, shepherds, shearers, fleecers, milkers, and egg gatherers of the ordinary people, who are like slaves or livestock.

The business people, business owners, property owners, property developers, elected representatives, Chambers of Commerce, oil industry spokespeople, and North Dakota government agency spokespeople thought that they were all in agreement, all with the same program, of continuing to encourage people to move to North Dakota because it accomplishes their goals of having customers, making sales, having properties rented or leased, having properties sell, keeping property values high, and keeping tax revenue coming in. So they all keep making announcements that there are thousands of high paying job vacancies in the oil field of North Dakota, even though there aren’t.

But when I, and several of my friends were unable to get home loans from banks in Dickinson recently, I discovered something odd. Eventually I realized that there is an entirely different plan in place, that is unknown to 99.95% of the people in Dickinson. The wealthiest 0.05% of the people in Dickinson, which includes the local Bank owners, have a completely different plan.

Despite what the business owners, property owners, property developers, Chambers of Commerce, oil industry spokespeople, and North Dakota government spokespeople are saying about the thousands of high paying job vacancies in the oil field in North Dakota currently, in order to try to keep the economy going, the Bank owners and the wealthiest 0.05% are preparing for an economic collapse.

When I and several of my friends were denied home loans recently by Banks, even though our income was sufficient to make the mortgage payments, and we had each been at our present jobs for more than four years, it was like the Banks were saying, “Even though you currently earn enough money to make the mortgage payments, and you have been at your present job for more than four years, we don’t believe that you will keep your job, or be able to get another job in Dickinson, and we don’t want to foreclose on a property that will be worth much, much less than your mortgage with the bank.” In other words, the Banks are preparing for an economic collapse in Dickinson, where many people will lose their job, be unable to get another job, and property values will fall.

I began to realize that what the Bank owners know, what the wealthiest 0.05% of North Dakotans knew all along, was that these Oil Booms in North Dakota last about seven years. You can make money on the way up, you can rent properties, lease properties, sell properties, build some properties and sell them, but you need to sell or hold during the way up, don’t buy anything, unless it is very early on. The real money to be made, is when the economic collapse comes, then you can buy businesses, equipment, buildings, houses, and properties for 10% of what they cost.

The funny thing is, that the business people, business owners, property owners, property developers, Chambers of Commerce, oil industry spokespeople, and North Dakota government spokespeople, all believed that they had the same goal, were on the same page about growth, and keeping the economy going, when all along the wealthiest 0.05% of North Dakotans were just eagerly awaiting the economic collapse that was inevitable.

The business people, business owners, property owners, and property developers that were kind of the herders, shearers, fleecers, milkers, and egg gatherers of the ordinary working people, taking advantage of them and gouging them on rent, leases, and real estate, once the economy in Dickinson collapses, they will be broke or in a very bad financial position. The wealthiest 0.05%, who knew this was coming years ago, have been waiting for this.

Business people, business owners, property owners, and property developers that once took advantage of other people, will then be taken advantage of. Whatever they built, created, bought, or owned, they will end up losing it, and perhaps be paid 10% of what it cost them.