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I Thought That The U.S. Could Divide, But Now I Know That It Will Just Collapse

I grew up in a small town in Florida in the 1970s.  The population of this town was about 10,000 people.  It was kind of a typical southern small town, with not too much going on, most people were not in hurry, everyone generally knew everyone else, not a lot of crime.

But most of the small towns in Florida were changing as I grew up, due to real estate development.  Land was cheap in Florida in comparison to real estate in the densely populated areas of the northeastern U.S., especially New York.  In the northeastern U.S. in the 1970s, people who retired from work with a company pension, people who owned a home, or people who owned a business, they could typically sell their property for $200,000 or more, and then buy a home in Florida for half as much money.

The local people in Florida hated and complained about people from New York and New Jersey moving in.  These people had a New York or New Jersey accent, they acted like know-it-alls, they talked about how things were done back in New York or New Jersey, and they seemed to want to change things to be the same way they were back in New York or New Jersey where they came from.  I would see this same thing later in life with the migration of people from California.

Within thirty to forty years, by 2000 to 2010, the vast majority of the people living in south Florida, the whole southern half of Florida, were people from the northeastern U.S.  These were Democrats from failed Democrat controlled metropolises in the northeast, who came to Florida and began trying to create the same thing they had fled.

I left Florida in 2001 because I couldn’t stand it anymore.  By 2002 I was living in Arizona, where I began to hear local people complaining about people from California moving in.  The local people said, “These people from California see how nice it is here, they like it and they want to move here, but when they get here, they try to change it to make it just like California, which they already ruined and had to get away from.”

When I later lived in and spent time in the states of Utah, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, in each of these states I heard the exact same complaints from local people about people from California moving in.  In general, the people living near large cities in California could sell their average single-family home for more than $500,000, and then move to a sparsely populated western state and buy a house that was twice as nice, for half as much money.  But when these Californians arrived in a western state, they seemed to immediately want to try to make it like California.

In the early 1990s while I was going to college, there were groups and individuals that tried to resist the U.S. Federal Government, such as Randy Weaver at Ruby Ridge in 1992, the Branch Davidians at Waco in 1993, Timothy McVeigh at Oklahoma City in 1995, and the Unabomber in 1996.  During this time, I had a relative in the military who was deployed in the Middle East, who could hardly speak one sentence that wasn’t a complaint about the U.S. Federal Government.

The “militia people”, “domestic terrorists”, “anarchists”, “libertarians”, “white supremacists”, and “conspiracy theorists” at that time in the 1990s, they thought that the Federal Government was overreaching in many of the things that it was doing, and was acting outside and against the U.S. Constitution, in particular, its attempts to confiscate firearms from civilians.  The U.S. Federal Government appeared to have the same agenda as Liberal Democrats:  confiscate firearms from citizens, push citizens off land, government control of everything.

Though the book The Turner Diaries, was published by William Pierce in 1978, it spelled out all the fears and suspicions about the Federal Government, and the crimes committed by the Federal Government that would inevitably lead to a U.S. Civil War.  To many people, including myself, some of my relatives, friends, coworkers, and neighbors, it actually did appear to us that a civil war might occur in the late 1990s or 2000s.

How this would happen, there would be a series of well-publicized incidents involving the Federal Government, that appeared to be very fundamentally unfair, unjust, or unconstitutional, and people would take sides.  Many people would believe that they could no longer continue living under a corrupt and unconstitutional government, and that they must break away from this government.

Once people in the U.S. had made up their minds to split off and fight, there would be some immediate migration of people relocating to where they believed that they belonged.  Liberal, pro-Federal Government people would occupy the northeast U.S.  Liberal, pro-immigration, pro-gay rights, socialist type people would occupy the west coast of the U.S.

The rednecks, the farmers, gun owners, Bible believers, and Constitutionalists would occupy the south and central U.S.  I could predict how this civil war would go.  Just because of the state of Texas alone, with its energy resources, manufacturing, food production, sea ports, wealth, influence, and military capability, the southern and central redneck area could not be successfully overrun or defeated, just due to resupply and reinforcement from Texas.

On the other side, the Liberal northeastern U.S., and the Liberal west coast U.S., the Rednecks could begin depriving these regions of fresh water, food, electricity, fuel, oil, coal, and natural gas, causing rioting, looting, theft, violence, and murder to break out internally within these regions in a matter of just a few days, preventing the Liberals from focusing their efforts on waging a war.

Whereas the Liberals in the northeast and the Liberals on the west coast would want to have total defeat over the Rednecks, taking away their land, farms, firearms, freedom, and religion, the Rednecks would only seek to have the Liberals stay in their own fucking area.

The Rednecks would occupy the central and southern U.S., establish strong borders, and allow trade to take place with the Liberal northeasterners and the Liberal west coast.  The Rednecks would allow anyone to leave the central and southern U.S. at any time if they wanted to, but very few people would be allowed in, in order to keep out the riffraff.

For about twenty years I believed that the U.S. could be divided into three separate regions by a civil war.  Sometimes I didn’t care, sometimes I thought that it was inevitable, or that it would be a change for the better.  During the Obama presidency, I thought that it was probably time for the U.S. to divide, it seemed like half the population had exact opposite beliefs and values from the other half.

For instance, in the U.S. cities, Blacks would protest and riot when a Black man was shot for attacking a citizen or a Police Officer.  In contrast, in Redneck areas, it was generally expected that a person would get shot for attacking a citizen or a Police Officer.

Another for instance, in the cities, a majority of the population have come to expect the government to provide them with everything:  free housing, low cost housing, housing subsidies, free food, free EBT food cards, free medical care, subsidized medical care, free child daycare, subsidized child daycare, free drug rehabilitation, free job training, job programs, job placement, free college.  Whereas in rural Redneck areas the majority of the population still believes that they need to try to provide for themselves and their families, they strive to do so, and they feel uncomfortable accepting charity.

About one week ago, I suddenly realized that the U.S. could no longer subdivide in order for the traditional conservatives and Constitutionalists to separate themselves, it was now too late, the U.S. has become completely overrun with socialist/communist believers.

In October and November I was watching many YouTube videos about Californians moving to the state capital of Idaho, Boise.  Boise had had low crime, light traffic, affordable housing, and easy access to outdoor recreation, making it a nice place to live.  But in less than two years time, due to the sudden surge of Californians moving to Boise, everything changed.  Housing became unaffordable to locals, traffic became a problem, crime increased, people became less friendly and more pushy.

The people leaving comments to these YouTube videos about Boise being overrun by Californians, they wrote that the same thing is happening in Texas, only the migration of Californians is much greater in Texas.  More reading showed that Californians are moving in large numbers to Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, and Montana as well.

The main complaint about people from California continues to be, that wherever they move, they immediately begin trying to change things to make it like California, which ruins every place that they go.

They want to implement all or most of the Liberal policies and programs that they voted for back in California:  Laws that make it nearly impossible for law-abiding citizens to obtain a concealed weapons permit; laws that make it difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase a firearm; laws banning certain types of firearms and ammunition magazines; laws and policies that make it difficult to deport repeat criminal offender illegal aliens; laws and policies that create sanctuary cities for illegal aliens; laws and policies that foster crime, drug dealing, drug use, homelessness, and vagrancy.

From south Florida all the way up through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, the Liberal Democrats have become the majority, due to the population growth of the cities.  The same thing is happening to the interior of the U.S. with the migration of Liberal Democrats to cities like Denver, Minneapolis, Rapid City, Boise, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

It is unlikely that there will be a civil war now, as there is no point.  What area belongs to the rednecks, farmers, traditional conservatives, Bible believers, and Constitutionalists?  The city dwellers in every state want the Federal Government to take control, provide them with everything, they want socialism/communism.

Very soon the vast majority of the people in the U.S. will want and expect the government to provide them with everything.  They will accept socialism/communism.

Within ten years, without capitalism, entrepreneurship, free markets, innovation, and motivation, there will not be enough wealth for the government to provide everything for everyone.  Though the vast majority of people will have believed that now they were going to have everything, there will be no new vehicles, no new houses, no new buildings, no new schools, no new roads, no new bridges, just crumbling infrastructure and the rationing of water, food, electricity, medicine, and health care.

The Ghettos Of Dickinson, North Dakota

What inspired me to write this blog post, was more problems at the low-rent, older apartment building where I live in downtown Dickinson, North Dakota.  Recently a couple of my neighbors were drunk, high, driving recklessly, and engaged in some vandalism late at night in the area where I live.  After about twenty-five minutes of watching them drive recklessly up and down the street, into and out of the apartment building parking lot, not stopping what they were doing, I called the Police.

When the Police arrived five to ten minutes after I had called the Police dispatcher, by that time my drunk/high/vandalizing neighbors had driven away from the area and they were not caught in the act of what they were doing where I live.  However, in the next hour or so, the Dickinson Police were called by other people reporting damage/vandalism and the Police did eventually catch up to my neighbors and they were arrested.

Later, a Dickinson Police Officer called me and he wanted me to explain more clearly, exactly what had happened at the apartment building where I live.  I told the Police Officer that he could have the twenty-five minutes of security camera video that recorded what had happened.  The Police Officer came to the apartment building where I live, he watched the security camera video of what had happened, and he then collected some of the physical evidence from the vandalism.

One of the reasons why there is so much drug dealing, drug use, theft, vandalism, and other crime in downtown Dickinson, is because it does not get reported to the Police.  A small part of the non-reporting, is because some people have had bad experiences with the Dickinson Police, sometimes failure of the Police to do anything, and sometimes the Police being unfair and unreasonable with people.  I feel like this sometimes about the Dickinson Police, this is part of the reason why I waited twenty-five minutes before I called the Police, I didn’t look forward to dealing with the Police.

The main reason why the people in downtown Dickinson do not call the Police about drug dealing, drug use, theft, vandalism, and other crime, is the same reason why the people in downtown Dickinson don’t try to say or do anything themselves about the crime, they are scared of retaliation and other consequences.

The neighborhoods of downtown Dickinson that extend northward and southward from the east/west running Villard Street that bisects downtown, are ghettos.  They are ghettos because they have a high concentration of poor people, problems going on, and a high amount of crime that does not get reported to the Police.

I want to briefly explain why these downtown neighborhoods in Dickinson are ghetto and high crime, using some approximate numbers that are based on my observations and analysis.  Approximately 20%-25% of the residences in downtown Dickinson are single-family homes owned by local residents.  About 10%-15% of the residences in downtown Dickinson are single-family homes rented by local residents.

Approximately 10%-15% of the residences in downtown Dickinson are single-family homes owned by workers from out-of-state.  About 10%-15% of the residences in downtown Dickinson are single-family homes rented by workers from out-of-state.  This leaves a remainder of about 30%-50% of the residences in downtown Dickinson being rental housing consisting of subdivided homes, duplexes, apartment houses, and apartment buildings.

In downtown Dickinson, the local people who actually own their home (20%-25% of residences), these people probably care the most about what happens in their neighborhood, because it affects them the most.  They consider whether they, their children, their grandchildren, and property are safe.  Are they safe from burglary, robbery, assault, arson, vandalism, harassment?  They don’t plan on moving, so they care about the condition of their neighborhood and what happens in their neighborhood.

The workers from out-of-state in downtown Dickinson who own single-family homes (10%-15% of residences), they care about what happens in downtown Dickinson because it affects them, but they are prepared to sell their house and move if they have to, they are even prepared to take a loss on the sale of their house.

The local residents in downtown Dickinson who rent a single-family home (10%-15% of residences), they care about what happens in their neighborhood, they may have school-aged children who they worry about, but in many cases these renters would chose to move rather than deal with or confront a bad situation in their neighborhood.

It begins to become evident, that for people living in downtown Dickinson, the strength of their feeling for protecting their home, the degree to which they care about what goes on in their neighborhood, their willingness to confront or report crime to the Police, has a lot to do with whether they are a long-time resident who owns their home, or are they a renter.

My approximation is that 60%-70% of the people living in downtown Dickinson are renters of single-family homes, subdivided homes, duplexes, or apartments.  If or when these renters are faced with a bad situation or crime, rather than confront the situation, crime, or call the Police, they think about retaliation and other consequences, and instead do nothing.

Here are some examples of the retaliation and consequences that these downtown renters fear from confronting crime or reporting crime to the Police:  Damaged personal vehicle so that they can’t get to work, cut tires, broken windows, water in gas tank, loosened wheel lug nuts, vehicle arson.  Damaged  work vehicle, stolen tools, stolen equipment from work vehicle.  Break-in, theft, damage, vandalism, and arson to home.  Theft of mail.  Threats of violence, intimidation, and bullying to themselves or family members.  Acts of physical violence, bodily injury, or death to themselves or family members.  Creation of altercations to cause arrest by Police.

In summary, for approximately 60%-70% of the people who live in downtown Dickinson who are renters, they feel that it is not worth it to them to confront crime or report crime in their neighborhood to the Police, this is why downtown Dickinson is a ghetto.

One solution, which I will probably write about later, is that because the residences in downtown Dickinson consist of approximately 60%-70% rental housing, at least the apartment buildings should have some kind of on-site manager, whose job it is to watch out for crime and report it immediately to the Police.

The Downfall Of The Oil Industry Beginning In 2024

Since 2011, I have traveled to North Dakota, Utah, and Texas to work in the oil field.  I have spent about seven years working in North Dakota.  For the towns of Williston, New Town, Watford City, and Dickinson, the oil boom that occurred from 2007 through 2014, completely changed everything.  These towns that I named, they doubled and then tripled in population in just a few years time.

Since 2015, after the price of oil had dropped from over $100 per barrel down to $40 per barrel, the oil companies began to slow down on drilling new wells in North Dakota.  As the price of oil continued to remain low through 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, all oil field operations began to gradually decrease, accompanied by oil company layoffs, oil field service company layoffs, and an economic down turn in the oil field towns.

The reason why there was an oil boom in the first place, was because the high price of oil occurred just when horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing were proving to be successful in places like North Dakota.  It was known that there were very large underground oil formations in North Dakota, like the Bakken and the Three Forks, but prior to horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and high oil prices, the North Dakota oil was not profitable to produce.

In my previous blog post, I explained that I believed that Donald Trump would probably be re-elected in 2020 and serve as president through 2024.  However, due to the trend of the changing demographics in the U.S., where each of the cities in every state are becoming more and more populous, with most of these city dwellers voting Democrat, by 2024 the rural living conservatives will be out numbered and out voted in almost every state.  In 2024, the presidency and one or both houses of Congress will be Democrat controlled.

Many elected Democrat leaders and Democrat voters have seen the coal, natural gas, and oil industries as enemies of the people.  The use of these fuels has polluted the environment with carbon dioxide and other chemicals; the mining of coal has destroyed the landscape and habitat for animals;  the mining of coal and drilling for oil has caused the contamination of water and oceans;  the transport of oil by tanker ships, rail, trucks, and pipelines has led to oil spills.

When Democrats are in power, they will attack the energy industries.  The EPA will be expanded.  Environmental activists and protesters will be given every opportunity to influence change, by being appointed to the presidential cabinet, and being appointed to leadership positions in every government department, bureau, and agency.  The energy industries will be fought over everything they are doing, and everything that they try to do.

If energy prices rise significantly due to the struggle of these private energy corporations against an uncooperative and combative government, the Democrats will use this opportunity to paint these private energy corporations as villains in the eyes of the people.

The Democrats are different.  I will try to explain why in recent years the Democrats have begun to publicly espouse socialist and communist beliefs.  But my point in attempting to explain why the Democrats have come to believe in socialism and communism, is to show that the Democrats would in fact like to have the government take control of all the private energy corporations, and for the government to claim ownership of all energy resources.

The people who keep continuing to move to the cities in every state, by moving to these crowded cities, they are giving up freedom, peace, and privacy, and instead are accepting to live in a single small cell, stacked in the center of hundreds of other cells occupied by other people, being at the mercy of others for every single thing in their life: air, water, electricity, plumbing, garbage disposal, food, education, healthcare, employment.

The people who keep moving to the cities in every state, they may be primarily seeking employment opportunity.  This employment opportunity includes not only jobs, but possibly education, job training, job placement, unemployment benefits, electronic benefit cards for food, subsidized housing, subsidized daycare for children, immediate access to healthcare without request for payment.

What it comes down to, is that most of the people who move to the cities, they would gladly accept everything being provided for them by someone else, such as the government:  employment, job training, job placement, unemployment compensation, social security disability, healthcare, education, housing, housing subsidy, electronic benefit cards for food, food subsidy, child daycare, child daycare subsidy.  When everything is allotted, controlled, and provided by the government, this is socialism and communism.  This is why the city dwellers vote Democrat, this is why the Democrats are now socialists and communists.

With the Democrats being socialist and communists, and with the Democrats making up the majority of voters by 2024, the new Democrat controlled government will begin the process of assuming control of all energy production, distribution, transportation, and all energy resources.  This will be the beginning of the end of private oil companies in the U.S.

The Ruin Of Continental Resources

Continental Resources is an oil company based in Oklahoma City.  The company was founded in 1967 by Harold Hamm, when he was 21 years of age.  The story of Harold Hamm does not make sense to me, though I have read it several times.

Harold Hamm was the youngest of 13 children, whose parents were poor cotton sharecroppers.  He went to work in the oil field when he was in his teens.  I have read that he later went to work at an automobile service station & garage, or that he owned it.  He operated a water truck that delivered water to the oil field, and then he started an oil field water truck service.

The only thing that did seem to make sense about how Harold Hamm began to get ahead, was that there was an oil bust, and oil drill rigs began to be sold for scrap metal.  With all the money that he had or could get a hold of, he began buying as many oil drill rigs as he could, at scrap metal prices.  When oil companies began drilling again, he owned oil drill rigs.

Skipping ahead, in 1995 Continental Resources used horizontal drilling to develop an oil field that it had discovered in North Dakota, that became named the Cedar Hills Field.  Prior to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing being used in the oil industry, it was cost prohibitive to drill and produce oil in North Dakota.  In 2003, Continental Resources began using horizontal drilling and fracturing in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota.

Currently, Continental Resources produces approximately 242,000 barrels of oil and natural gas, per day.  It’s primary operations are in North Dakota and Oklahoma.  A company pictorial chart shows that 50.4% of its production comes from North Dakota.

Harold Hamm’s net worth is about $15 billion.  I have wondered how being poor and uneducated, Harold Hamm was able to become one of the top 100 wealthiest Americans, when the oil industry is full of hardworking, stubborn, ruthless, greedy, talented, and educated, workers, operators, financiers, geologists, and engineers, all of whom just about never get ahead.  How could Harold Hamm be right, every time, at every juncture?  Or, wait a minute, is he?

It is probably not well known, that in North Dakota, the oil wells that are produced using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, they lose about 25% of their production volume every year.  Here is an example of what this decreasing oil production looks like:

  1. Year 2010, well completed, production = 100 barrels per day
  2. Year 2011,   25% decrease,  production = 75 barrels per day
  3. Year 2012,   25% decrease,  production = 56.3 barrels per day
  4. Year 2013,   25% decrease,  production = 42.2 barrels per day
  5. Year 2014,   25% decrease,  production = 31.7 barrels per day
  6. Year 2015,   25% decrease,  production = 23.8 barrels per day
  7. Year 2016,   25% decrease,  production = 17.9 barrels per day
  8. Year 2017,   25% decrease,  production = 13.4 barrels per day
  9. Year 2018,   25% decrease, production  = 10 barrels per day

(For reference, here is the link to one formal study that shows the oil production values for North Dakota wells produced using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11053-019-09559-5)

Using the oil production values that I listed in the table above, even at oil prices as low as $40 per barrel, oil companies should be able to recover their exploration, lease, site, drilling, and maintenance costs for an oil well at the end of two years, with the generation of roughly $2.5 million in oil revenue from this well.

However, the owner of the mineral rights where a North Dakota oil well is drilled, typically a farmer or rancher, whose oil revenue money keeps dropping by 25% or more each year, they are not going to look at this as a business venture where initial costs are recovered and subsequent years are profitable to a point, until obsolescence is reached, like the oil companies do.

The farmers and ranchers who have oil wells on their property, whose oil revenue money keeps decreasing each year for eight or ten years until it is nothing, they are going to feel like they were swindled.  They are going to be angry that the money didn’t keep coming in like it did initially, and now they have this nasty oil well or oil wells on their property that don’t profit them hardly at all.

Donald Trump will likely get re-elected in 2020, and serve until 2024.  But unfortunately this will probably be the last Republican president in the U.S. due to demographics.  The continued population growth of all the cities in every state, and the majority of these city dwellers voting Democrat, these Democrat voters will outnumber the conservative rural voters in every state.  Both the popular vote and the electoral college vote will be a majority Democrat in the 2024 elections.

When the Democrats have the presidency, and one or both houses of Congress, the EPA will expand, and the coal, natural gas, and oil industries will be blocked and attacked.  Not only will there likely be a halt to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which is now being called “well stimulation” due to controversy, there will be groups of environmentalist and activists who seek a platform to rant about all of the destruction, jeopardy, and poisoning that hydraulic fracturing has caused.

The farmers and ranchers in North Dakota with oil wells on their property, who were so disappointed by the 25% yearly drop in oil revenue money down to nothing, that they felt swindled by the oil companies, they will switch sides and become plaintiffs against the oil companies in all of the lawsuits seeking monetary damages from hydraulic fracturing, such as causing groundwater pollution, sink holes, earth fissures, and earthquakes.

Come 2024, many people will catch on that change is coming.  Oil companies that had good earnings, and steady or increasing stock prices, will become suspect due to concerns about legal liability.  It won’t just be Continental Resources, but Marathon Oil, Whiting, Hess, ConocoPhillips, every company that used hydraulic fracturing.

Once an oil company’s stock price begins to fall due to concern over huge legal liability lawsuits, how will the oil company be able to pay the enormous settlements?  Though oil companies were able to profitably produce oil in North Dakota due to hydraulic fracturing, which was Continental Resources’ biggest success, in the end this may be their undoing.

Dickinson City Commissioners Study Wage Rates, But I Can Tell You What Is Wrong

A couple of months ago the City Commissioners in Dickinson, North Dakota discussed examining City of Dickinson employee wage rates to determine if they were normal, too high, or too low in comparison to wage rates elsewhere in the U.S.  Then, the City Commissioners even hired a wage analyst consultant to conduct a study/audit on what City of Dickinson employees were paid in comparison to elsewhere.

I don’t mind that the City Commissioners wanted to find out where Dickinson stood in regards to compensation for City employees.  This is probably something that needed to be done for a number of reasons, such as making sure that all City employees are paid fairly, and that Dickinson tax revenue money is not being wasted.

However, what the City Commissioners forgot to take into account, and what the wage analyst consultant probably doesn’t fully understand, is that Dickinson is a very difficult and very unpleasant place to live.  The wage rates are relatively high in Dickinson, because people don’t want to live here.

I want to explain as completely and as thoroughly as possible why the wage rates in Dickinson are high, due to the fact that Dickinson is a very difficult and very unpleasant place to live, thus wage rate comparisons with other areas are almost irrelevant and meaningless.

To begin with a quick anecdote, me personally, I get paid more than twice as much in Dickinson, as I would be paid back in Idaho where my home is.  In Dickinson at my place of employment we sometimes have difficulty filling job openings, whereas back in Idaho, if this job paid half as much, like $9-$10 per hour, there would probably be over 500 applicants for this job.  But the cost of living where my home is in Idaho is less, and daily life is easier in just about every way.

I now want to explain in an organized and thorough fashion, why and how Dickinson is a very difficult and very unpleasant place to live, and thus why the wage rates are higher in Dickinson because no one wants to live here.

Lack of opportunity for social drinking, dining, and relaxation in Dickinson:

  • Police in Dickinson are too over-eager and over-aggressive in trying to stop people for DUI in Dickinson.
  • Where the restaurants and bars are located in Dickinson, Villard Street, State Avenue, and Main Avenue, the Police drive by again and again, spot vehicles in restaurant and bar parking lots, stop patrons as they leave or are on their way home.
  • People in Dickinson can not safely go to bars and restaurants in Dickinson to relax, socialize, and have a few drinks, because of the high risk of DUI, losing their driver’s license, and losing their job.

Very poor service at bars and restaurants in Dickinson:

  • Widespread practice of hiring drug-addict women from Coeur d’Alene, Spokane, and the women’s prison for bartenders and servers in Dickinson.
  • Widespread practice of bartenders and servers in Dickinson acting nasty and incompetent so that customers leave, so that they don’t have to serve anyone.
  • The server’s process in Dickinson is 1) Stand outside smoking a cigarette until the customers enter, find a table, and start looking around for their server.  2)  Take drink order, bring drinks, take food order.  3)  Go back outside and smoke a cigarette until after customer’s food is cooked and waiting.  4)  Deliver food to customer’s table, ask if anything is needed.  5)  Go back outside and smoke a cigarette, and talk on the phone until customers are getting up from table to leave.

Shortage of women and lack of attractive women in Dickinson:

  • Most women in Dickinson are overweight and unattractive, they usually sneer, leer, glare, and scowl.  Usually unkempt, with a cigarette hanging out of their mouth.  Overweight women in Dickinson can be seen trying to paddle through the air with their arms as a means of locomotion.
  • When women in Dickinson stop mid-way across a parking lot to glare and scowl at passing vehicles, it is not just out of meanness, it is partly because that is as far as they could walk without stopping to rest.
  • Shortage of women in Dickinson has led to many acts of sexual perversion such as many recent criminal charges of  “Gross Sexual Imposition on a Minor” and sexual assaults of horses and cattle  https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/2187378-dickinson-officials-investigate-sexual-assault-horse
  • Prostitution is not permitted in Dickinson.  The Police in Dickinson place fake advertisements for women wanting to have sex, then arrest the men who seek to meet these women.

Over-aggressive Policing of  law-abiding people, while criminals run loose in Dickinson:

  • The easiest and safest people for the Police in Dickinson to pull over are law-abiding non-criminals who are on their way to work, to the grocery store, or home from a restaurant, so this is who the Dickinson Police target the most.
  • Criminals, especially thieves and drug-addicts, continually run loose in Dickinson, using drugs, dealing drugs, stealing, and burglarizing.  When these thieves and drug addicts are apprehended in Dickinson, within a few days they are out of jail and loose on the streets again, doing the exact same criminal activity, only they become more and more emboldened each time they get caught and are quickly released.

Over priced real estate in Dickinson with no justification:

  • During the beginning of the oil boom from 2007 through 2010, the rents and house prices in Dickinson doubled, then tripled, then quadrupled.   Due to the gouging on rents and house prices, most workers who came to Dickinson made up their minds that they would eventually have to leave Dickinson and that there was no way that they could afford to move to Dickinson permanently.
  • The oil boom is now over, oil field workers and others continue to lose their jobs, most of the oil companies are downsizing, people are leaving Dickinson, people don’t want to live in Dickinson, yet rents and house prices remain unjustifiably high.

Lack of competent, professional medical care in Dickinson:

People in Dickinson experience hostility, nastiness, unfriendliness, undermining, and lack of cooperation from others and co-workers:

  • The people in Dickinson are mean, nasty, unfriendly, hostile, hateful, uncooperative, sadistic, cruel, and undermining, especially to people who are not from here, and especially at work.  Here is an example

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Leaks Everywhere”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Intentional And Deliberate Collapse Of Dickinson, North Dakota

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Update:

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

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

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

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

Near Accident Almost Costing Me My License And My Job

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Update:

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

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

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

The Phat Fish Brewery Is Family Friendly

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

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

From the Phat Fish Brewing website, it says:

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

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

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

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

This is kind of what I picture in my mind:

Stevenson Funeral Home Marketing In Dickinson North Dakota

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is what came to mind, adult Wednesday Adams:

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

Hammer Hand’s MGTOW Movie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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