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I Thought Women Were Getting In The Way At Gyms Because They Are Stupid

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In the beginning of December 2017, I wrote a blog post article that was very favorable about a new gym that had opened in Dickinson, North Dakota called The Pit Gym.  Though this gym was small, it was set up primarily for the use of free weights, heavy weight bench press, heavy weight squat, and heavy weight dead lift.

I thought that there was no way that women would have any interest in The Pit Gym, because it didn’t have a women’s locker room, cardiovascular equipment, hardly any leg machines, no television, nothing that they would be interested in.  I was wrong.

In May of 2018, six months later, I wrote a blog post article titled, “The Beginning Of The Ruining Of The Pit Gym”, because women began showing up at this gym, and they began doing the same things that they do at every gym that they go to.

I thought that this was happening because women are stupid, and they didn’t know or understand that the whole reason why there needed to be a power lifting gym in Dickinson, was to have a place where women didn’t go and take up every spot using just the 45 lb bar with no weight on it.

At that time, I didn’t know that this was a World-wide scheme by women, to try to force men to pay attention to them.  I thought that women were just too stupid to know what a nuisance they were in the gym, but it turns out that they did know, and that this is all deliberate.

Here is a video created by a middle-aged Black man, explaining this:

Here are some insightful comments that were left by viewers under this video:

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That’s why I say feminists must have their own gym.
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We need males only gym.
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The women work out real hard at the gym, 1 set of exercise, 10 minutes on smart phone. 1 set of exercise, 10 minutes on smart phone.
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I stopped going to gyms years ago because i got tired of the thotty’s who wear makeup to the gym. I work out at the house, and jog outside now.
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I used to be a fitness/bodybuilding gym rat in the 90s in California. GOLDS gym Redondo, 24 hour fitness off PCH and chrenshaw, and LA fitness at Del Amo mall. It’s always kind of been a hookup spot but I have noticed myself women that have no place in a gym just taking up space and equipment lately.
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I do my workouts between 3 A.M. and 6 A.M. No women are in sight.
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What are they going to do once men start building home gyms?
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parasites and leeches SMH.
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Simple AttentionNomics for them to Invade every Male space and maximize the attention they receive.
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I just work out at home now.
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Most of the women at my gym are there for attention, validation, and the hook up. They are usually over 35 years old, trying to get back in the game. They do all this squatting, and glute work were they are always bending over or showing off their ass. Watch how their eyes are roaming when they are working out.
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I’ve ignored the gym thots for a long time. Wear a large hoodie to cover half my face so I don’t have to see them. They don’t like it either. I wish there was a male only gym I could go to but that won’t be allowed. Yet women have their own gyms. Go figure.
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And the exact reason i no longer go to the gym. have a home gym.
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Wow I thought I was the only one that noticed that these women are at gym showing all their body for attention! Its ridiculous.. I had one chick step right in front of me while I was doing abs.. & bent all the way over! I could not help but see the snatch print!! It’s so many Instagram thots at golds gym! I am 52 in good shape! I even got lesbians following me around the gym..they are getting desperate!! Gvb.
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Men only gyms. Simple.
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That’s why I have a home gym.
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We all know the whole #MeToo thing is usually just asking for attention. So even though they complain about being stared at by men, in actuality they like it and only complain as a a way to say “see girls I’m so attractive since all these men are looking at me. “
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Starve the parasite.
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That’s why I don’t go to the gym.
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Men, don’t give women any attention at the gym. Save yourself the irritation and money and exercise at home, you won’t be missing out on anything.
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Anywhere there seems to be a prevalence of men frequenting in one particular area, broads, sluts, and whores will try to run as fast as they can to get attention and money from men. This is why it’s so important that only men run and control their clubs, groups, and meetings…’lest you want women to stink it up like everywhere else. Sports games were invaded, there’s no telling what will be next.
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I have a home gym, I refuse to deal with women in anyway shape or form. ALL women are man hating feminists.
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I have written previously that most of the Gyms in the United States have been transformed into Fitness Centers over the past twenty years.  Concrete and wood floors being replaced with carpeting, rusty steel plates and bars being replaced with upholstered cable machines, stereos playing rock music being replaced with televisions showing Dr. Phil, in order to be more appealing to women.
It looks like gyms/fitness centers are presenting so many problems for men now, that men just won’t go to them anymore, and exercise at home.  Without men going to gyms, women won’t go either, and all gyms will go out of business.  I don’t think that gym owners ever saw that this was going to happen.

Runnings In Dickinson Calls Police On Gun Buyer

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In today’s Dickinson Press Newspaper, I read in the Police Blotter section, that on January 23 the Runnings Farm & Fleet store in Dickinson had called the City of Dickinson Police about a possible “straw buyer” of a firearm.  This was very concerning to me, and I will explain why.

There are three main things that I want to point out, and then explain in more detail:

One, If you have ever purchased a firearm for your wife, daughter, son, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, friend, or anyone, you could be reported for a felony punishable by more than one year in prison, if the firearm dealer chose to report you.  The reason why you would be guilty of a felony, is because when you complete the firearm purchase and registration forms required by the Federal Government or ATF, you are required to answer, “Are you the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm(s) listed on this form? Warning: You are not the actual buyer if you are acquiring the firearm(s) on behalf of another person. If you are not the actual buyer, the dealer cannot transfer the firearm(s) to you.”

Two, You should be concerned that at the time of the sale of a firearm to you, or at a later date, a gun dealer or an employee of Runnings Farm & Fleet could use your personal information on file at the store, to report you to the Police for a felony, based on suspicion, something they saw, heard, or became aware of, regarding a friend or family member possessing a firearm that was sold to you.

Three, If an employee of a gun dealer or Runnings Farm & Fleet is so convinced that the person they are selling a firearm to is a “straw buyer” that they would call the Police to report it, why would they make this sale in the first place?

When I read the Dickinson Press Newspaper this morning about Runnings Farm & Fleet calling the Police about a “straw buyer” of a firearm, I began trying to look up the North Dakota law, or any law that covers this.  After I had spent about one hour trying to look up the law on this, and reading reports of several different court cases, I learned that the easiest and simplest way to prosecute the accusation that someone was a “straw buyer” of a firearm, was to prosecute them for falsifying the paper work that they signed, which is a crime in itself.

The most famous applicable case, is the U.S. Supreme Court case of 2014 Abramski versus United States.  In this case a former Police Officer living in Virginia purchased a Glock handgun for his Uncle living in Pennsylvania, because he was able to buy it cheaper using his Law Enforcement discount at a gun dealer in Virginia.  In this case, some of the law that was cited that led to Abramski being found guilty of a crime was:

The Gun Control Act of 1968 regulates the sale and transfer of guns. Section 922(a)(6) of the act makes it unlawful for any person acquiring a gun from a gun dealer to “knowingly … make any false or fictitious … written statement … likely to deceive” the dealer, “with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale.”  Section 924(a)(1)(A) of the same act, makes it unlawful and provides a penalty for anyone who “knowingly makes any false statement or representation with respect to the information required by this chapter to be kept in the records of a firearms dealer under this chapter.”

And even more specifically, the “false statement or representation” that was made by Abramski to the gun dealer, what I already cited up above previously, was when he answered in the gun dealer paperwork the question:

“Are you the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm(s) listed on this form? Warning: You are not the actual buyer if you are acquiring the firearm(s) on behalf of another person. If you are not the actual buyer, the dealer cannot transfer the firearm(s) to you.”

To the readers who are thinking ahead of me, on how to circumvent this law, if you waited a certain amount of time, no one knows exactly how long, in order to demonstrate that you were the actual owner of the firearm for a period of time, and then at a later date you chose to sell this firearm or give it away as a gift, you could use this as your legal defense.  But I want to point out and remind everyone, that it costs just as much money to hire an attorney to defend yourself when you are charged with a crime, whether you are innocent or guilty, so do you even want to be charged with a crime in the first place?

The reason why I am so concerned about Runnings in Dickinson calling the Police to report a “straw buyer”, is that if they really thought that this person was buying this firearm on behalf of another person, possibly because of hearing something this buyer said, Runnings should have told this buyer, “We have reason to believe that you intend to purchase this firearm for someone else, based on what we heard you say, this would be a felony punishable by more than one year in prison, and we are not able to knowingly be involved in this sale or this felony.”

If Runnings in Dickinson heard a customer talking about a firearm and saying something such as, I think that my wife would like this, I think that my daughter would like this, I think that my son would like this, or my father always wanted a gun like this, and Runnings completed the sale, then telephoned the Dickinson Police to report a “straw buyer”, I think that everyone in Dickinson should be made aware that this can happen, so that they don’t do this.  If someone is convicted of this felony of being a “straw buyer”, they will no longer be able to buy or possess any firearm.

I don’t know how much of a detective and informant I want a gun dealer or Runnings Farm & Fleet to be.  Probably not at all.  Probably, if they are going to report me to the Police for buying a firearm from them, please just don’t sell me a firearm in the first place.

How far is Runnings Farm & Fleet in Dickinson going to take this?  Are they going to assume that someone accompanying a buyer and giving their advice or expressing their preference is actually going to be the owner of the firearm being purchased?  Is Runnings going to call the Police after the sale, and turn over the store and parking lot surveillance videos to be used to prosecute people?

Why would you purchase a firearm from Runnings Farm & Fleet in Dickinson if you had any reason to believe that they were surveilling you and going to report you to the City of Dickinson Police after you purchased a firearm from them?  Do you want to be questioned and investigated by the City of Dickinson Police?  Do you want the City of Dickinson Police getting into your personal business?

Runnings Farm & Fleet, Dickinson, North Dakota, manager Doug Tyrrell, phone 701-483-1226.

An Elderly Woman Gives Her Testimony Of Torture And Sexual Abuse As A Catholic Nun

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Yesterday, I angrily left De Porres House of Barbering and Lounge in Dickinson, North Dakota.  I became angrier and angrier, as I waited for my appointment, after I had read a large message board showing how customers had paid ahead for haircuts and pints of beer for the local Catholic Monsignor and Catholic priests.

The Catholic Church is the most corrupt and evil organization in the World, and it was blatantly apparent that both the owners Matt and Paul Ellerkamp and the customers were supporters of the Catholic Church.

Catholics refuse to believe, acknowledge, or understand the horrible corruption and evil of the Catholic Church, and they are complicit in this evil, because they go along with it.

Below I have included a video, where an elderly woman gives her testimony of the torture and sexual abuse that she received as a Catholic Nun.  She gives the details and explanation of how this occurred.

Particularly disgusting, is where she describes how she was given over to a Catholic priest to use for sex, by the Mother of the convent, who told her, “Oh child, it is O.K., your body is not yours anymore, your body has been given over to God.”  The explanation of how this happened begins at the 16:02 minute mark on this video.

Review Of De Porres House Of Barbering In Dickinson, North Dakota

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In about 2016, I began going to the Big Sky Barber Shop in Dickinson, owned by Matt and Paul Ellerkamp, who are cousins.  Matt and Paul were fairly polite and cordial to everyone, and for a time I believed that they were the best and most skilled barbers in Dickinson.

Even though the oil boom was over in Dickinson by the end of 2015, in 2016 and 2017 it was hard to get an appointment at the Big Sky Barber Shop, they were usually booked solid.  When I was getting my hair cut by Matt, I learned that he had a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Mary in Bismarck.

If anyone wondered why Matt was a barber, at $20 per haircut, times three customers per hour, times eight hours per day, that equals $480 per day, $2,400 per week, $120,000 per year.  But cutting hair all day long, and being on your feet all day long, is not easy, it is hard work.

It was not too much of a surprise to me, that Matt and Paul decided to relocate from their small, cramped barber shop, to a new location in 2018.  They were both making good money, they were usually completely booked, so why not get a bigger and nicer place.

I was surprised that Matt and Paul decided to occupy the whole ground floor of a historic building downtown, that required a complete and total renovation.  I had been inside of this building before recently, and I knew that this was a huge undertaking, what were Matt and Paul doing I wondered?

It turned out that Matt and Paul were opening “De Porres House of Barbering and Lounge”.  I was worried that they had gone too far, they might have been better off just sticking to being barbers, what they had been successfully making money at.  In any small town, especially Dickinson, you need to be very cautious about grandiose business plans.  Dickinson has gone through some very, very lean times in the past.

Today, was my first, and last time, trying to get my hair cut at De Porres House of Barbering and Lounge.  The four on-street parking spaces in front of De Porres were occupied, so I parked in the city lot across the street.  I didn’t know how busy they were going to be, it was about 10:30 a.m. on a Monday morning.

When I walked in the front door of De Porres House of Barbering, I was shocked, and I thought to myself, “What is this place?”, because there was an alcohol bar, bartender, and lounge right when you walk in.  I was thinking, this is not what I wanted at all, I just want to get a haircut, that’s all.

I guessed that you were supposed to ask the bartender if they had any walk-in appointments available, and the bartender asked me my first and last name, and he put me down for 10:45 a.m. with “Dave”.  In a matter of seconds I received a text message on my phone that I had an appointment at 10:45 a.m., they must have had my name and phone number in their system.

I had a coke to drink while I waited, and there was a man and a woman seated in the lounge who were apparently waiting to get a haircut.  In the back, I could see that Matt and Paul were busy with other customers, and so was the barber named Dave.  Within a few minutes, I received a text message that my appointment was now being re-scheduled to 11:00 a.m.

At first I was not too annoyed, I was just not very comfortable in this place, I was not seeking this kind of experience, I just wanted a haircut.  A customer went and sat at the bar drinking a beer, he told the bartender that his occupation was as a commercial truck driver.  Keep in mind that this was now 10:45 a.m. in the morning.

As I continued to wait, I saw a very large message board, where customers had paid in advance for haircuts and pints of beer for the local Catholic Monsignor and Catholic priests.  This was very off-putting to me, as I believe that the Catholic Church is probably the most corrupt institution in the World, and each local Monsignor and priest is complicit in this corruption, if not actively involved in molesting children.

I found myself becoming more and more angry, as my re-scheduled appointment time for 11:00 a.m. came and went.  I said to the bartender, that I was very angry, I no longer wanted a haircut, and that I would not ever be coming back.

I now think of Matt and Paul Ellerkamp as assholes.  This De Porres House of Barbering and Lounge is more like a monument to themselves, and something that arose out of their ego, pride, and arrogance.  They went from having a quick, efficient, dependable barber shop, to something that is an impediment and obstacle to getting a haircut.

I would not want this kind of lounge at a car dealer service department, a tire store, an attorney’s office, a dentist’s office, a chiropractor’s office, or any service provider where I came to get something done quickly, competently, and efficiently.  Alternatively, why don’t the Paragon, the Spur, the Rock Bar, Bernie’s Esquire Club, and the Eagles Lodge start cutting hair?

If you want to go to a barber shop like the Big Sky Barber Shop used to be, where you can quickly get in and get out with no fuss, I recommend Luke Simons’ Gentlemen’s Barber Shop.

I just wanted to get a haircut, not this…..

Video Showing Why The Theodore Roosevelt Library And Museum Is Not Being Built In Dickinson, North Dakota

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For those of you who don’t know, Theodore Roosevelt before he became president of the United States in 1901, from 1883 to 1885 he spent time on a cattle ranch approximately forty miles west of Dickinson in an area that is called Medora.

In approximately 2014, Dickinson State University began the process of taking print and photographic archival records of Theodore Roosevelt, and digitizing them so that they could be stored and accessed electronically with computers.  Though other people may have had the idea a long time ago, this is when it became more well known and discussed that Dickinson State University might be a good place for a Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.

Having the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum at DSU would have greatly increased the importance and prestige of Dickinson State University.  It would have kept DSU in the news perpetually, and brought more students, researchers, professors, funding, grants, and donations.

This would have been very good publicity for the City of Dickinson, and something that it could boast about.  Increased visitors, tourists, researchers, and students would have meant more revenue for restaurants, hotels, and businesses in Dickinson.

A Theodore Roosevelt Foundation was formed in order to plan the funding, design, and construction of the Presidential Library and Museum in Dickinson.  Donations and grants were sought, and the City of Dickinson pledged to provide more than a million dollars.

In order to have an excellent board of directors for the Theodore Roosevelt Foundation, board members were selected from scholars, business people, and descendants of Theodore Roosevelt throughout the United States, living on the east coast, the west coast, and in large cities like Denver.  This selection process was the beginning of the end, this would turn out to be disastrous for Dickinson.

People living on the east coast, the west coast, and places like Denver, they are liberal, they hate places like small town conservative Dickinson, North Dakota in the mid-west.  Before long, out of nowhere, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum began speaking on behalf of North Dakota in regards to the construction of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Dickinson, and the Governor did not want it to be constructed in Dickinson either.

With very little effort, the majority of the people on the board of directors of the Theodore Roosevelt Foundation became persuaded by Governor Doug Burgum that it was O.K. for the Presidential Library and Museum to be constructed elsewhere, even though it was the people of Dickinson that came up with the idea, plans, and had formed the Theodore Roosevelt Foundation in the first place for the purpose of building the Library and Museum in Dickinson.

This was a great tragedy for Dickinson, but I understand North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum’s dislike for Dickinson.  The local people in Dickinson, are mean, hostile, unfriendly, unhelpful, and uncooperative.  They hate people who are from someplace else, they mistreat and take advantage of people who are from someplace else, and they hate education.  The local people in Dickinson have been like this for more than the past one hundred years, and they are changing at a snail’s pace.

From the point of view of the people in Fargo, Bismarck, and the Governor, having the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Dickinson, would be a public relations disaster for the State of North Dakota, with the way the people in Dickinson act.  People from around the World might have traveled to Dickinson to visit the Library and Museum, researchers, scholars, professors, and tourists, only to be stopped and arrested by the City of Dickinson Police, assaulted by hoodlums, robbed by Meth addicts, taken advantage of by Dickinson businesses, and treated like shit by the people in Dickinson.

The local people in Dickinson don’t know how bad they are, they think that they are friendly.  I have attached two short videos below that are a re-creation of what people like Governor Doug Burgum may have experienced in Dickinson.  In the first video, this shows how local Dickinson women act when they are employed at local businesses.

In the second video below, this shows a re-creation of what kind of interaction that Governor Doug Burgum may have had in Dickinson to make him believe that the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum could not be built in Dickinson.

Not Caring About Anything In Dickinson, North Dakota

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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

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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

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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

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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
Not a tattoo in sight….. simply lovely !
Peter Stevenson
Nice to see girls that are not covered in tattoos
c Mc
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
Next year, Miss American contestants will be required to wear full bee keeper outfits at all times. Sad. 😦
micky rooney
How very politically incorrect…..i’m glad to say
John Campbell
See ya later, I’m moving to Poland. 😀
Mike Boyd
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.