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A Type Of Generosity That Hurt An Individual’s Own Family In Dickinson, North Dakota

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I came to know a family that was from Dickinson, North Dakota.  Both sets of great grandparents were from Dickinson.  All of the family members knew the hardships of being poor farmers.  By the 1980s, the last of their farms were sold, although they retained the mineral rights.

Each of the family members became employed in occupations in Dickinson.  In the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, jobs paid very low wages in Dickinson.  The young adults continued to live at home, even past the point of being young.  The members of this family just bumped along, often in debt, often with different financial crises.

In about 2007 when the Oil Boom came back, the parents were very old.  Beginning in about 2008, the elderly parents began receiving oil revenue checks because they had retained the mineral rights on the farm that they had sold in the 1980s.  Immediately, distant family members pleaded with them for money, which they freely gave to help with what appeared to be a much more desperate need than themselves or their children had.

By 2009, the five adult children began requesting money from their parents when they needed it, some of the children more than others, for food, gas, rent, tires, car repair, car insurance, doctor visits.  Some of the children were receiving about $20,000 per year in assistance from their elderly parents.

Though $20,000 per year might have been what each of the family members had earned in their occupations for many years, they now became unable to get by even with $20,000 in gift money each year from their elderly parents. The adult children were not jerks or badly behaved, mostly, but they did get way off balance in their lives.

In small ways throughout the day, they spent too much, wasted too much, did not do enough, and did not earn enough.  They made up for their shortfall in money, by asking for money from their parents.

I came to Dickinson during the peak of the Oil Boom.  I did not know anyone in North Dakota, or what was going on.  I had several jobs of short duration, but I did not have difficulty in getting jobs.  I met some long time local residents, some of them members of this family that I am now describing.  One of them was very, very under-employed, getting by with money from his parents.  Several times I got him to work with me, and through this work he earned $64,000, though some of it was taken out in taxes.

This person is old now, but not old enough to begin collecting social security retirement.  The Oil Boom is over.  His elderly parents are no longer receiving oil revenue payments.  I don’t know what is going to happen to him, or to some of his other family members because they were barely getting by at the peak of the Oil Boom with financial assistance from their parents.

What I blame for this, is ten years ago, he and his other family members were able to earn enough to just barely get by, but once they started receiving oil revenue money, they slacked off in many different ways:  not seeking difficult, demanding, high paying employment;  not seeking employment with a high amount of responsibility;  not asking friends, acquaintances, or relatives for employment;  not searching hard for employment;  not seeking self employment opportunities; not considering having more than one job;  being lazy; over indulging in small pleasures, entertainment, and time wasters.

What the elderly parents thought would benefit and help their adult children, actually caused them to slack off in so many ways that no one was keeping track of, that they are now unable to support themselves.

A Scheme I Agree With In Dickinson, North Dakota

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I was getting ready to write another blog post about excessive greed in Dickinson, North Dakota, and describe how it hurts the greedy individual’s own family.  I was planning on showing a comparison between wealthy individuals who are hated, and individuals who are not hated.  I decided to just go ahead and write about the individuals who are not hated, for the time being, who have hatched a scheme that I actually agree with.

In the mid-1900s the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed a dam on the Missouri River to create Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota.  This is the third largest man made lake in the U.S., it is about 178 miles in length.  Most of the land along the shore of the lake is federal, tribal, state, county, or city owned and controlled.  However, in some locations, the government granted land leases, where individuals could park privately owned trailers or manufactured homes, non permanent structures.  One of these locations was Charging Eagle Bay, also known as Mosset Bay.

Who knows, in the 1960s and 1970s, the successful business owners and successful farmers in Dickinson started parking trailers and manufactured homes on Mosset Bay so that their families would have a place to go for recreation in the Summer.  My belief is, that many business owners would send their wives and children up to Mosset Bay for a couple of weeks at a time so that they could “have fun”, meanwhile the business owner would “suffer” alone in the house back in Dickinson.

At first, these business owners could teach their squabling young children how to swim and how to fish.  As they got a little older, how to ski, how to sail, and how to operate a boat.  The parents had time to talk to their children.  It was a good, safe, fun environment, because the only people there were people who had a land lease and could afford to install a trailer.  There were no hoodlum, rif-raf, drug people at Mosset Bay.

As the children became adults, they tended to not want to visit mom and dad, unless they were at Mosset Bay.  At Mosset Bay they could go boating, jet skiing, get drunk, socialize, and not have to pay for anything.  The moms and dads that kept their trailers, boats, jet skis, and fishing poles at Mosset Bay had a way to get all of their married children, adult children, teenage children, and grandchildren together in place where they liked being and were happy.

Over time, the trailers have had decks built on, extra rooms built on, sheds constructed for golf carts and ATVs.  The interiors have been remodeled and are nicely furnished.  A lot of money has been spent on the trailers and the toys by the successful business owners and the successful farmers, but I totally agree with it.  It is something that the children, grand children, and great grandchildren look forward to, have fun for many days every summer, and will have very happy memories that they might not have had unless the grandparents made this possible by getting the land lease forty years ago.

How Excessive Land Greed Has Hurt Dickinson For Ever

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I wrote about “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota” in my previous two blog posts.  In many other blog posts, I have described and explained the extremely high cost of housing in western North Dakota and Dickinson that occurred during the Oil Boom from 2007 through 2014.

Both in their behavior and in their actual statements, many business owners, merchants, land owners, home owners, real estate agents, and property developers indicated that they believed the Oil Boom would continue for much longer than it did.  This belief seemed to inspire high pricing:  If you want some place to live, you better take this, the prices are only going up;  If you want some place to live, you better take this, soon there won’t be any place left;  If you want to make this money here, you better take this, it will be worth it in the long run.

The out of state workers paid very high prices for housing because they had no choice, they believed they had to take what they could get before prices went up more or somebody else took it, and they believed with a high amount of pay it would be worth it in the long run.  The out of state workers and the out of state companies hated the extremely high housing prices.  They became aware that prior to the Oil Boom, the one bedroom apartment they were now renting for $1,800 per month, had been $400 per month.  The old three bedroom house that they were now renting for $3,000 per month, had been $600 per month.

The out of state workers and out of state companies felt like they were being gouged and taken advantage of.  They felt like if they were willing to leave their homes, families, and friends and travel all this way to work in a cold and barren environment, that that overtime pay should go in their pocket, pay off all of their debts, or build their savings, not go to their local landlord, who was not making any kind of sacrifice or facing any hardship.  This bad feeling about being gouged made both the out of state workers and out of state companies have bad feelings about working in Dickinson.

But forget about bad feelings about working in Dickinson, the reality was that workers were paying $1,800 per month for a one bedroom apartment, or $3,000 per month for an old three bedroom house.  The out of state workers and out of state companies knew all along that they could never afford to stay in Dickinson if the high paying work went away.

But it did not have to be this way.  There are hundreds of miles of barren, desolate, vacant, unoccupied grass lands stretching in every direction outside of Dickinson.  More vacant unoccupied land than almost any other place in the United States.  In other states, I have seen 1\4 acre lots in completed developments for $25,000.  To put a new manufactured home on one of these lots would have cost an additional $80,000 to $100,000.  To put a conventional home on one of these lots would have cost an additional $125,000 to $150,000.  These types of new homes would have had mortgages of less than $1,500 per month.

Everything could have turned out differently for Dickinson, North Dakota.  If Dickinson would have had new manufactured homes or new conventional homes with mortgages of $2,000 per month, thousands of skilled workers and trades people would have made Dickinson their permanent home, and out of state companies would have relocated operations here.

The truck drivers, welders, pipe fitters, heavy equipment operators, plumbers, and electricians, they are always having to travel out of state to work on big projects, no matter where they live.  If they would have come to Dickinson, expecting that they were going to be here for at least several years, they would have happily and gladly bought a home for $2,000 per month.  They had the income and job security to do it, and they would be owning something.  They wouldn’t have had any hesitation, if the oil field work went away, they could work other big projects in other states, they always had.

If Dickinson had had these new affordable homes, many trades people would have been able to pay them off in ten years if they had a wife who also worked, or room mates.  There could have been vast neighborhoods of new homes with so much equity in them, that the owners were not about to walk away from them or fail to pay their property taxes.  The workers would have had more disposable income and a place to park boats, motorcycles, ATVs, snow mobiles, and campers. Once workers get equity in a home, all the toys they want, their wife and kids, they are stuck, that is their home.  If money problems come up, then the worker has to travel out of state and send money back home.

I don’t know if any one in Dickinson ever realized, that the excessive land greed in Dickinson, where land owners would not sell vacant grass land for less than $100,000 per acre, resulted in and will result in Dickinson losing most of its workers, and causing land to be worth about $1,000 per acre because no one wants to live here.  You’ll see.

Answering A Reader’s Questions About Lot Sizes In Dickinson, North Dakota

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A reader left a comment in response to my previous blog post titled “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota”, asking if this has anything to do with the shortage of neighborhoods in Dickinson with acre sized lots.  Yes, excessive land greed is one of the main reasons, but not the only reason, that there is a shortage of houses on one to five acre lots.

The reader who posted the comment has been looking for a home on one to forty acres for some time, but can’t find one, because there are not that many to choose from.  One of my main goals in making money, was to never have to live right next to someone else, ever again.  I didn’t want to have to listen to anyone else’s arguments, problems, stupidity, bad behavior, television, stereo, or children.  I didn’t want to have to care about what their house looked like, what their yard looked like, what they had in their yard, what they did in their yard, how many cars, trucks, trailers, boats, or motorcycles they had.  And I didn’t want anyone to be able to complain about what I did on my property.

In my opinion, you don’t start to get away from hearing your neighbors until the lot sizes get to be at least one acre.  Once the lot sizes get to be over two acres, people seem to observe each other’s right to park boats, motor homes, RVs, and contractor trailers on their own property.  Most red-necks, blue collar workers, and trades people would like to own a home on two or more acres, for privacy, peace and quiet, and to park all of their belongings.

With at least five thousand well paid blue collar workers and trades people moving to Dickinson from out of state during the Oil Boom from 2007 to 2014, there was a desire for manufactured homes or conventional homes on one acre lots, but there were very few of these homes, and their purchase price was probably double what people expected.  Most of the out of state workers and companies would have liked to have made payments on a home that they would own, rather than pay $2,000 to $3,000 per month for rent on an apartment that they would never own.

As I wrote in my previous blog post titled “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota”, during the Oil Boom land owners in and around Dickinson became so greedy that they believed their land was too valuable to sell at all, or they were unwilling to sell their land for less than $100,000 per acre.  What I did not write in my previous blog post, and what I need to emphasize now, is that during the Oil Boom the land owners were not willing to sell off just a few acres at $100,000 per acre, you had to buy the whole 30 acre to 120 acre parcel!

I met land owners in Dickinson that absolutely would not sell off an acre, or two, or three, or five, because they were suspicious that the buyer would put some “Thing” on their lots, that would adversely affect the remainder of the property.  One of the worst “Things” would be a home, because they thought that then a developer would not want the remainder of the land for commercial or industrial use.  Or, that an industrial building on five acres would make the remaining lots unsuitable for residential.  This what they told me.  They required any buyer to purchase the entire 30 acre to 120 acre parcel.

This is why developers, builders, and individuals did not create neighborhoods with homes on one to five acre lots during the Oil Boom in Dickinson.  Developers could not see spending $8 million just to get the land, their development costs, and then having to wait until just about every one acre lot sold for $150,000 to $175,000 over three to four years to get their money back.  It would have been easier for builders or individuals to buy one acre of land and build a home or install a manufactured home, but the land owners would not sell off one acre of land at a time, only the entire 30 acre to 120 acre parcel.

I also need to answer the question, why weren’t there more neighborhoods with homes on one to five acres already existing in Dickinson prior to the Oil Boom?  The answer is, if you were an individual in Dickinson with enough money to buy a home on five acres back in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, you ended up buying a home with 20, 30, 40, 80 acres because that is what was available.  There used to be not that many people in and around Dickinson, and land was very cheap, there was so much of it.

If you wanted to live in town, you lived in town.  If you didn’t want to live in town, then you lived outside of town on a farm.  And if you didn’t want to live in town, and you wanted to live on five acres, they didn’t have that, you lived outside of town on 40 acres.

Land was so inexpensive and plentiful in North Dakota, it was like buying grapes or peanuts, it didn’t come in ones or fives, it came in a bunch or a whole bag.

Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota

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The entire population in the state of North Dakota is currently less than 800,000 people.  There is more vacant and unoccupied land in North Dakota than just about any other state.  The land in North Dakota is mostly barren and desolate.  There are very few trees, rivers, or mountains, it is mostly grassland.  But I have never before seen people so excessively greedy about land as around here in Dickinson, North Dakota.

One of the few explanations that I can determine why the people around Dickinson have been so greedy about land is that nothing else really exists here in North Dakota.  They could have been greedy about coal, oil, horses, or cattle, but that pretty much involves land too.  Another explanation that I have written about before, was that the people around Dickinson never envisioned becoming successful through ingenuity, innovation, or creativity, but just by getting more land.

If you ever watched the old West television shows like Gunsmoke, Rawhide, High Chaparral, The Virginian, and The Rifleman, there were always episodes where some insane old fucker was trying to shoot at people who came near his land, bought the adjacent land, were thinking about buying the adjacent land, or he was trying to kill his neighbor in order to take his land.  These insane old fuckers that were trying to shoot people are actually more rational and less mentally ill than the land owners in and around Dickinson.

The land outside of Dickinson is worth about $1,000 per acre without the mineral rights, because there is just so much vacant land in North Dakota.  Outside the Oil Boom areas in North Dakota, you can still buy land for $1,000 per acre.  If the Oil Boom does not come back to western North Dakota within the next five years, land owners outside of Dickinson will only be able to sell their land for about $1,000 per acre.

However, during the Oil Boom, there were many land owners in and around Dickinson that would not sell vacant barren grassland for even $10,000 to $70,000 per acre, without the mineral rights.  In the other states where I lived, Florida, Virginia, Texas, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, and Idaho, these states grew, development extended out from the towns into the wetlands, orange groves, farms, prairies, and deserts.

In every other state where I have lived, when a town or city needed to grow, it would grow outward.  The least expensive new housing would be the apartments, next least expensive the town homes, third least expensive would be manufactured homes on small private owned 1/4 acre lots, then conventional framed houses on 1/4 acre lots, then manufactured homes and conventional homes on five acre lots, and so on.  This outward growth did not happen in the Dickinson area because of the excessive greed of the land owners.

Yes, apartments did get built just on the outskirts of Dickinson.  This is because the developers went ahead and paid more than $100,000 per acre in order to construct three-story apartment buildings, side to side, and back to back, with the intention of renting each unit for $2,000 to $3,000 per month.

Just about every working adult realizes that for $2,000 per month, for that kind of money, that would be like paying the mortgage on a $250,000 house.  Why would you want to pay $2,000 per month to live in an apartment, $24,000 per year, and not own anything?

Beyond the new apartments, why weren’t there new manufactured homes on 1/4 acre lots, and new conventional homes on 1/4 acre lots.  There were some, but not that many.  A manufactured home costs about $80,000, a 1/4 acre lot in a development should cost about $30,000 with the utilities completed, that’s a cost of $110,000, couldn’t a developer sell that for $150,000?  There would have been about one thousand individuals and companies trying to get one of those, because the mortgages would have been about $1,100 to $1,200 per month, much less than rent, and you would own the home and the land.

The reason that affordable home ownership did not occur in and around Dickinson during the Oil Boom, was because the land owners would not sell land at all, thinking that the land was much too valuable to sell for any reason, or because they would not sell land for less than $100,000 per acre.  We are talking about vacant, unoccupied, desolate, grassland that stretches hundreds of miles in every direction.

It has not been talked about or written about explicitly, that all of the workers who came to western North Dakota to work during the Oil Boom made up their minds right away that they would never be able to live here permanently due to the extremely high cost of housing.  But this high cost of housing was completely, completely created by the excessive greed of the land owners in and around Dickinson.  No where else in the United States is there such an abundance of vacant, unoccupied, barren, desolate grassland stretching for hundreds of miles.

Because of the excessive greed of the land owners in and around Dickinson, not only have most of the out of state workers left, more will continue to leave, and they will never want to come back.  Some merchants, property owners, and business owners made a lot of money for about seven years.  But what good will that do these merchants, property owners, and business owners when they can’t make any money for the next five, ten, twenty years because they drove all the new residents away?

That property that all the land owners would not sell for less than $100,000 per acre, the tax appraiser will asses high taxes for the next five years at least.  By the time the land owners in and around Dickinson have to go to the nursing home, their land will be appraised at about $1,000 per acre.  It will cost them about 100 of those acres per year in the nursing home.  That will be reaping what they have sown.

Most Unpleasant Winter Of My Life, Here In Dickinson, North Dakota

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This has been by far the most unpleasant Winter of my life, here in Dickinson, North Dakota.  This past mid-November through mid-January 2017, has been almost as bad as being in prison.

In year 2016, I had three jobs at the same time.  The first was Sunday through Wednesday for 48 hours, the second was Thursday through Saturday for about another 16 hours, and the third was self employment work that I could fit in on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.  Year 2016 was the most money that I ever made.

It is not that I don’t have money this Winter, it is that I don’t have very much to do, or anywhere to go, here in Dickinson.

In Florida in the Winter, no one’s life shut down.  You could still go to the beach to walk, lay in the sun, roller blade, run, wind surf, ride your bike.  You could still golf, play tennis, go boating, go fishing.  At night there were all different kinds of good restaurants to go to, all different kinds of night clubs, and bars.  You would meet people in every profession, from every state, different countries, a huge variety of people.

In Arizona in the Winter, not many people’s life shut down.  Where I lived, in the Winter people went skiing down the mountain and cross country skiing.  You could still hike on the south faces of some mountains, or you could drive to Sedona to hike which was twenty degrees warmer.  In Arizona, like Florida, you could fill your day with fun outdoor activities, and look forward to going out at night, eating at good restaurants, meeting interesting people, socializing at different bars.

In Tampa, I looked forward to going to eat at a Thai restaurant where the waitresses were very beautiful young Thai women in dresses with long black hair down to their hips, who were very pleasant, friendly, and polite.  The food was excellent.  I could have eaten at the Columbia restaurant in the old Cuban section of town, Ybor City, and then gone to several of the twenty night clubs in the old buildings and warehouses.

On most Friday or Saturday nights I would drive across Tampa Bay to Clearwater on the Gulf of Mexico to go to the bars and nightclubs.  The Turtle Club was built out over the water, the Beach Bar was right on Clearwater Beach.  There were many successful business people, celebrities, professional football players, baseball players, and hockey players in Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Pete.  There were many beautiful girls and women that would get dressed up when they went out, trying to get attention and look better than all the other women.

After I had lived in Florida and Arizona and was older, I was ready to settle down for a quieter and less expensive life in Idaho.  In Idaho, the Mormons were fairly pleasant and decent people, but not glamorous, not extravagant, not partiers.  Idaho was more dull, but I was ready for that.  In the Winter in Idaho, in the small town where I lived, I looked forward to going to the hardware store, the grocery store, the printer, Artic Circle, and Fiesta Ole, because they had very good looking friendly young ladies working there.  The young women were friendlier than was for their own good, they were as friendly as puppies.

In Idaho, I would fill my day doing ordinary things, my self employment work, vehicle repair, home maintenance, errands, shopping, going to the gym, going to restaurants, going to bars.  I was never bored or lonely.  There was never a day that I did not have more than several things that I looked  forward to doing.

I came to North Dakota in 2011 to make money.  It has been pretty bad, living here, working here, just existing here.  There is not one restaurant, one fast food restaurant, bar, store, location, or destination that I look forward to going to.  The majority of women who are from Dickinson, have been raised to be mean and unfriendly, to not take care of their health and appearance, and their lack of education and ignorance makes them tremendously unaware of how primitive and nearly savage like they are.  The women from out of state who came to work here in Dickinson, are the trashy, drug addict, mentally ill women from places like Seattle, Portland, Coeur d’Alene, Boise, Rapid City, because they could get a job here with no background check or concern that there was something wrong with them.

When I first came to Dickinson in 2011, several years before there was any indication that the Oil Boom would be over by 2015, there were many different types of men that came to Dickinson, any kind or category of men that you could think of.  Though many of them were broke, poor, stupid, or incompetent, there was widespread enthusiasm and optimism amongst them.  The enthusiasm and optimism among the men, and some of these men actually being intelligent, talented, competent, and educated, made Dickinson much more positive, upbeat, fun, and entertaining.

As more and more of the people that had arrived in Dickinson came to a more accurate and realistic understanding of how things were in Dickinson, the great enthusiasm and optimism went away.  I believe that the intelligent, talented, and educated men were the first to leave Dickinson because they could clearly see how things were going to be, and what was going on.  If you were a truck driver, rig hand, roustabout, equipment operator, or electrician, and you were willing to work twelve hours per day, seven days a week, you would make a lot of money in overtime.  But, you would have 30% of this money taken out in taxes, you would risk getting killed or injured every day, you would be filthy dirty all the time, you would be cold most of the time, you would pay $1,800 per month for a small apartment, there was no place to eat, there were no attractive women, …does this make any sense?  No, for people that were intelligent, talented, educated, or competent, there were other places in the world to work that they could think of.

When the Oil Boom went away in 2015, the employers in Dickinson let their worst and most troublesome employees go first, if they had a choice.  I have said before that the people that kept their jobs were the most competent and dependable employees.  What you have now in Dickinson are mostly dependable truck drivers, mechanics, equipment operators, welders, and electricians, who are older and settled.  But the enthusiasm and optimism is gone from the workers in Dickinson.  Many workers wonder when their job will end, and they look at what they have, and what they owe, and they can’t  believe that’s all there is.

Throughout Dickinson, the women are unfriendly and unattractive, the local people are both angry about the Oil Boom and at the same time angry that it is over, the workers are not enthusiastic or optimistic about their jobs or being here in Dickinson, there is very little to do, and no where to go.

Government, Catholic Church, Mormon Church, Masonry, And Dickinson

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Whether it’s the Government, Catholic Church, Mormon Church, Masonry, or Dickinson, the rulers are evil, or evil creeps in.

When large numbers of people exist together, some men think that it would be desirable or beneficial to establish order and control.  Sometimes, a man who has superior strength in some way, effectively takes control.  Other times, leaders emerge through competition.  After control is established, leaders may be elected or appointed.

Order and control of large physical territories are presided over by: Emperors, Kings, Queens, Princes, Presidents, and Prime Ministers.

But that is not the only way to control people.  Some men think that it would be desirable or beneficial to control people in their spiritual beliefs.  If a person believes in a God, he must choose whether it is the Jewish God, Christian God, Muslim God, or Mormon God.  If he believes in the Christian God, is he a Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Methodist Seventh Day Adventist, or Jehovah Witness?

If he is a Catholic, he must recognize the Pope as the leader of the Church, the Cardinals, Bishops, and Priests as the leaders of the Church, and he must follow their rules and instructions.

Some men think that it would be desirable or beneficial to control people in additional ways, perhaps through Civic, Social, or Fraternal organizations.  Rotary Club, Elks Lodge, Knights of Columbus, Free Masonry.  I want to use Free Masons as an example.  The same procedure is used in selecting and advancing leaders in Government, Catholic Church, Mormon Church, and Dickinson, any where men try to control other people.

A Masonic Lodge may have been established in any town similar to Dickinson, because a group of men may have thought that it was desirable and beneficial to have a fraternal organization, where men could gather together in a civil atmosphere and discuss business, development, issues, and things that were needed in the community.  They might come up with plans to fund and build a library, a park, an orphanage, or an old widows home. Many ordinary people might have had good intentions in establishing a Masonic Lodge in a town.

Many ordinary men could see some benefit in joining the Masons.  Rather than going to a bar after work where people got drunk and got into fights, they would rather go some place with a better class of people, better behaved people, who were trying to accomplish good things.  The mayor was a Mason, the bank president was a Mason, but so were a construction worker, a truck driver, and a mechanic.

An ordinary man might find that he was welcomed into the local Masonic Lodge as an initiate.  He might soon find out that not only was the mayor and the bank president a member, but so was the city judge, chief of police, fire chief, building inspector, concrete company owner, lumber company owner, and trucking company owner.  These successful men were all higher degree Masons.

An ordinary man might find the initiation ceremony to be so uncomfortable, bizarre, suspicious, and confusing, that he may be reluctant to ever seek the higher degrees of Masonry.  To attain the higher degrees, the costumes, procedures, sayings, and oaths are so questionable and sinister, that many men’s sense of decency makes them not want to participate, even though it is supposed to be all in good fun.  This is organizationally intentional, that the less intelligent, morally unwavering, and less ambitious men remain at the lower degrees.

The higher degree Masons, which will be the mayor, the bank president, and perhaps the concrete company owner, have the opportunity in a controlled private environment, to meet and assess the initiates and the lower degree Masons.  The higher degree Masons will decide what everyone’s level is, how they can be used, and what they are good for.  Are they intelligent, educated, street smart?  Are they naïve, gullible, able to be manipulated?  What are their beliefs, what are they willing to do?

The initiates and the lower degree Masons, they may have wanted to join a fraternal organization that did good things in the community.  They may have been aware that it would be beneficial to them to meet and associate with men that were older, more experienced in business, and more successful.  They might have known or later came to know, that doing what the higher degree Masons wanted would result in them advancing in their career or business.  But the initiates and the lower degree Masons may remain just as unaware as the general public, that at the higher degrees of Masonry, one must begin to understand and acknowledge that benevolence, right and wrong, religion, and God are fictional concepts created by man.  It is good that ordinary people believe in these fictional concepts because it makes them predictable, easier to control, easier to manipulate, and easier to take advantage of.  But if you are ever going to rise above everyone else, at the highest level you must not be held back by these child-like beliefs in right and wrong, and God.

At the lower levels of Masonry, the members have been assessed many times by the higher level Masons.  Even very friendly, amicable, kind conversations, were evaluations of the lower level Mason’s intelligence and ethics.  Some intelligence combined with some ethics, will probably result in a member being given the opportunity to advance to a higher degree.

A higher degree Mason will be trusted with more, and be expected to do more.  The advancement through the higher degrees of Masonry takes time, and organizationally it is meant to.  The amount of time and involvement within the Masonic Lodge should reveal any defect, and weakness, that would prohibit the member from attaining the next degree.

The advancement through the degrees of Masonry is sometimes referred to as learning the mysteries, because there are esoteric things to learn and answer to attain each degree.  It does require not only a good amount of intelligence to answer these mysteries, but the ability to play along with the role, and not be shaken.  The intelligence part involves being able to give the right answer, the one that they want, knowing what that is, if you have not been so privileged as to have been told ahead of time.  The playing along with the role is demonstrating that you can stick with your story, keep your head, and not break down, even under duress, interrogation, and trial.

The correct answers to the mysteries at the lower levels of Masonry, are what the Churches typically teach about right and wrong.  This demonstrates that you are least trustworthy enough to attain the lower levels, function as a Mason at the lower levels, and not be a liability to the Masons.  To advance through the higher levels of Masonry, you will have had to have been persistent, and have been favored enough by the higher degree Masons to have received coaching, and been given the correct answers to the mysteries.  As you attain the highest levels of Masonry, you will have to profess that you acknowledge and understand that right and wrong, good and bad, moral and immoral, religion, and God are just fictional concepts created by people, and that knowledge is the ultimate power, that there is nothing that is prohibited, nothing that is prohibited to you.

The majority of people who attain the highest level in Government, Catholic Church, Mormon Church, Masonry, Military, and Business, have so much power, control, and wealth, that evil creeps in.  Ordinary people are so insignificant to them, as insignificant as chickens, cattle, or sheep, and also just as powerless, and also just as oblivious to the big picture which they can see.  “Clinging to their Bible and their Guns”.

I Probably Shouldn’t Tell You Ordinary People In Dickinson This

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Below are the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Bible.  The Books of the Old Testament of the Bible, were recorded by the Jews, and are accepted and incorporated by the Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons.

  1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
  2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. (In this commandment, the Lord condemns the worship of idols. Idolatry may take many forms. Some people replace the living God with other idols, such as money, material possessions, ideas, or prestige.)
  3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
  4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  5. Honor thy father and thy mother.
  6. Thou shalt not kill.
  7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Fornication, homosexuality, and other sexual sins are violations of the seventh commandment.)
  8. Thou shalt not steal.
  9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
  10. Thou shalt not covet.  (Coveting, or envying something that belongs to another.)

 

You may have first been introduced to the Ten Commandments in Church.  You may have later seen the Ten Commandments displayed in school classrooms.  You may have seen the Ten Commandments displayed in County Courthouses and State Capitols.  The Ten Commandments are taught and displayed because this is what we are supposed to believe and follow.

In court, witnesses are sworn to tell the truth by placing their hand on the Bible.  Elected officials are sworn to uphold the Constitution by placing their hand on the Bible.  We are supposed to believe in the Bible.  The ethics, morals, conduct, and justice contained in the Ten Commandments and the Bible are an important basis for our government, the Constitution, our laws, our court system, our law enforcement, and our military.

We are supposed to conduct ourselves in a Christian manner, according to the Ten Commandments, and according to the Bible.  Everyone is educated in school and taught in Church what to think and what to believe.  We are taught right and wrong, good and bad, what is moral and immoral, what is acceptable and unacceptable, what is appropriate and inappropriate.  We are taught how to act, how to behave, and how to conduct ourselves.

Most of the adults living here in Dickinson, who aren’t in jail, live each day trying more or less to abide by what we were taught in school and Church about how to behave, what is right and wrong, what is moral and immoral.  Most of us do.

However, there are people living in Dickinson who wanted to get ahead, and either little by little, or all at once, they got rid of their belief in God, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments.  When they quit believing in God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and everything that they were taught about right and wrong, tremendous opportunities and possibilities opened up.  Especially the opportunity to take advantage of everyone else.

These Elite People, they have figured out that there are so many more possibilities in life once you are no longer held back by fear of retribution from God.  Once you realize that there is no God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments, right and wrong, moral and immoral, are ridiculous fictional concepts that needlessly limited what they could do.

I am telling you Ordinary People in Dickinson this, because at the higher levels of the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, other Churches, Masonry, Government, and Business, the people no longer believe in God.  They don’t have to abide by the same rules as you Ordinary People, because there aren’t any rules.  However, it is better if all you Ordinary People continue to believe in God and the Bible, because it makes all you Ordinary People much easier to control, manage, and take advantage of.

Is Dickinson, North Dakota Racist?

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Is Dickinson, North Dakota racist?  The short answer is, yes, but not very much, comparatively speaking.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the least amount of racism like San Francisco, and 10 being the highest amount of racism like Apartheid in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, Dickinson is about a “4”.  You might think that a “4” is pretty bad, but I want to explain why it isn’t as bad as you think.

The people that are from Dickinson, or western North Dakota, they don’t necessarily think that whites are better than blacks, they just don’t like people who are from some place else.  They don’t believe that blacks are less trustworthy than whites, they just don’t trust people who are from some place else.  It is not that you are black, it is that because you are black, you must be from some place else.

The people that are from Dickinson, or western North Dakota, they don’t necessarily want to do anything mean to black people, but since they are from some place else, they might wish that they would leave.  It is not that they don’t want to live or work with black people, it is just that they are wary of black people because they are from some place else.

The unfriendliness that black people might experience in Dickinson from the local people, might feel like racism, but the local people treat all of the people from some place else like this.

The Lutheran Church, which is the second most powerful and influential Church in North Dakota, is very welcoming and generous to black people, almost as if they are trying to make up for two hundred years of mistreatment of black people.  Lutheran Social Services which is headquartered in Minneapolis, and is very active in North Dakota, is constantly trying to help black refugees from around the world.

When neo-Nazis or White Supremacists groups tried to get established in North Dakota in recent years, the citizens very actively tried to drive them out.  In recent years, North Dakotans do not want any neo-Nazi or White Supremacist activities in North Dakota.

The women in Dickinson are tired of white men, because there are so many white men.  The women in Dickinson have watched movies, ESPN, and pornography, and now they all want black men.

Everything that I wrote up above would make Dickinson about a “2”, on a scale from 1 to 10, on racism.  However, because there are many white male workers from the South, Idaho, and Montana living in Dickinson, North Dakota, their attitudes towards blacks probably ends up making Dickinson about “4” overall, on a scale from 1 to 10, on racism.

I Repeat, Problem Women Moving To Dickinson, North Dakota

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On New Year’s Eve, I was at a bar & restaurant in Dickinson, North Dakota.  I have known the bar & restaurant owner, the manager, the bartender, and the wait staff for two years.  It was a busy night, all of the customers were pretty well behaved, there were very few problems, and almost everyone had a good time.

When it got to be close to 1:00 a.m., it became closing time, with last call for alcohol, and then shortly after that it became time for the customers to leave.  I had agreed to stay to drive a wait staff person home when they got off work.  The restaurant had cleared out completely, but here came this young lady that I knew, back to get her coat off the back of a chair.

This young lady that came back to the empty restaurant to get her coat off the back of a chair, had been one of my biggest inspirations in writing the blog post about six months ago titled, “Problem Women Moving To Dickinson, North Dakota”.  I had had an incident with her about a year ago, where she had wanted and was attempting to remove bottles of alcohol from a bar, where she did not work, when the bar was left unattended.

I did not want to start anything with her this night, I believe that she is crazy, I did not want any confrontation, so I turned the other way to not even look at her.  After about forty five seconds, she did not exit the restaurant, and I turned around, and she wasn’t there.  I looked all around the room, and she wasn’t there.  I knew that she didn’t leave the restaurant, was she hiding in the restaurant?  I couldn’t believe it.

I started looking under tables, and when I looked up, I saw her very quickly leaving the restaurant through the exit, and the bar & restaurant owner coming out of the stock room behind the bar.  I said to the bar & restaurant owner, “Did you find her in the stock room?”  The owner said that yes, he did find her in the stock room.

At this time the manager came over.  I explained to the bar & restaurant owner, and to the manager, that this is the second time that I have seen this young lady attempt to stay behind at a bar after closing, and remove alcohol when the bar was left unattended.  I gave them her name.  The manager asked the owner, “What did she say to you when you found her in the stock room behind the bar?”  The owner replied, “She said that she wanted to buy some alcohol off-sale.”  The owner said that he just told her to leave and go to a liquor store.

I had had a problem with this young lady the last time I was around her when a bar was left unattended, and I had not forgotten her.  She was very rude and inconsiderate.  She was from New York.  I had found out some of the places that she had worked in Dickinson as a waitress.  People told me that she was nutty, one person told me that she had caused a tremendous amount of problems, but no one told me that she had stolen alcohol.  I can’t believe that she hasn’t tried to remove alcohol from bars elsewhere in Dickinson, but I can believe that she might not have been caught yet.

In my blog post titled “Problem Women Moving To Dickinson, North Dakota”, I explained that women can make more money in New York, Arizona, Florida, and Texas as a waitress, bartender, hotel clerk, bank teller, or administrative assistant, and live in less expensive housing, with a better social environment.  Why would they want to move to Dickinson where it is so cold, and housing was so expensive?  The answer was, there was such a shortage of workers in Dickinson, that employers did not ask a lot of questions, or do much of a background check.  If employers would have talked to some of these women for even five minutes, they would have noticed that they were crazy.  If employers would have contacted previous places where they worked, they probably would have been given some hints about the things these women had done in the past.

I am very,very angry about this, because not only is there nothing to do in Dickinson, and a shortage of women, the women that you do come in contact with in the bars, restaurants, stores, and banks, they are fucking crazy!  So yes, I am trying to point out this crazy woman who moved here to Dickinson, because they found out what she was like where she came from, and now she is doing her same crazy shit here, and probably her co-workers have been blamed for, or are under suspicion for what she has done.

Advice To Normal Black People On Moving To Dickinson, North Dakota, January 2017

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I am writing this blog post in response to a black reader’s comments about considering moving to Dickinson, North Dakota from the South.  This advice is for normal Black People who are considering moving to Dickinson, North Dakota.  I have separate advice for the Black Men that are needed in Dickinson to impregnate as many White Women as possible, in order to change things in Dickinson, which I have written about several times in recent previous blog posts.

I am writing this blog post on December 31, 2016.  In this month of December, this has been the worst weather that I have seen in Dickinson in the four years that I have lived here.  On one night this December, the temperature got down to -27 degrees Fahrenheit.  In the past two weeks, there have been blizzard conditions several times, with very high winds, snow blowing sideways with zero visibility, roads and highways being blocked with snow, and electric power failures.

It would have been very, very dangerous for any newcomer to have arrived in Dickinson this December, and it may still be this dangerous in January and February.  What do I mean by dangerous?  I have a very, very good four wheel drive vehicle with new heavy tread tires, and I have nearly gotten stuck very bad several times recently, in the middle of a four lane highway.  Even though the highways are plowed, the deep snow drift mounds came right back.

Last night driving home on a four lane 55 mph highway, I came up to two stopped vehicles in the middle of the road.  They were both local people.  A Ford Taurus was stuck in the middle of the road.  I got my tow strap out, and my neighbor who had stopped, used his truck, which was heavier than mine, to pull the Ford Taurus back down the road.  It was 15 degrees Fahrenheit, with 35 mph wind, windchill made it like -5 degrees.  We all knew where we were.  The Ford Taurus went back the other way.  My neighbor who is a very experienced truck driver, equipment operator, and mechanic, continued north ahead of me and got stuck.  I was very surprised that he got himself unstuck.  Then I nearly got stuck, and barely made it.

I had a half of tank of gas, thermal underwear on, heavy winter jacket, heavy sleeping bag, tow strap, knew exactly where I was, where the nearest houses were, a telephone, and knew who I could call, what tow company I could call, and how long it would take for them to get there.  It would have been very dangerous for a non-local person to be in this same situation.  A non-local person could have died of hypothermia by walking in the wrong direction to get help, not knowing where they were.

I do not recommend to any person from the South, to try to move to Dickinson, North Dakota in December, January, or February, because it would be too difficult, and too dangerous.  If you tried to fly in, there were many days this December that a plane would not have been able to land or take off.  You would have likely been stuck in Denver or Minneapolis for days, trying to get here to Dickinson by airplane.

I recommend not trying to relocate to Dickinson until late March at the earliest, April would be even better.  Now, would be a good time to start looking at the internet websites “North Dakota Job Service”, Indeed.com, and Careerbuilder.com for job advertisements.  Look at these three websites at least twice a week, so that you can get an understanding of how frequently jobs are posted, how long they are posted, and how soon they appear to be filled.

If you look at the three job advertisement websites in January and February, you will see a few job advertisements for floor hands on drill rigs, work over rig hands, wireline operator, frac operator, pumper, crane operator, roustabout, tank battery installer, swamper.  If you don’t already know what each of these jobs are, you need to look them up, because there is a lot to know about each of these oil field jobs.

The most difficult oil field physical jobs are floor hands and work over rig hands, and you will absolutely not be able to do these jobs unless you have great physical endurance and no physical defect.  You will not likely even be considered for these two jobs unless you are under 30 years old, unless you are experienced, then you could be up to 35 years old.  Slightly less physically demanding are frac operator, roustabout, tank battery installer, and swamper.  If you are in good physical shape, you would be considered if you are under 40 years old.

If you are older, and have oil field experience, you would hope to get a pumper job or crane operator job, because they are not constantly physically demanding.  Only a very level-headed, intelligent, fast learner, alert, physically in shape person, with a commercial drivers license will be considered for wireline operator.

The jobs listed above are the commonly advertised oil field jobs that do not normally require any formal education.  You might also see a job advertisement for instrumentation and controls, health & safety, or engineer, which require both education and experience.

All of the oil field jobs that I have listed above pay between $16 to $30 per hour in the Dickinson area.  If you ever heard about people making a lot of money in the oil field, it was because they worked a tremendous amount of overtime hours every week.  Seven, twelve hour days, every week, for months at a time, was not uncommon during the Oil Boom.  It was not optional.  If you didn’t want to work twelve hours a day, every day, for weeks, then your employer would seek to replace you.

But the Oil Boom is over in North Dakota, for now.  I wrote that you needed to look at the internet job websites at least twice a week in January and February so that you could get an idea how often the oil field jobs are advertised, how long they are advertised, and how soon they appear to be filled.  It is my impression lately, that there are some oil field jobs, but not many.  I believe that the competition for the oil field jobs that are advertised right now is moderate, because so many oil field workers have moved away.  I believe that there are some experienced applicants living here locally for every oil field job that is advertised, making it a little difficult for a person with no prior experience in that position.

Before you try to move to Dickinson, I would contact the employers that are placing job advertisements to see what they have to say, both by e-mail, and by telephone.  Are they positive, and encouraging to you, or are they mean, and assholes?  I would not, I repeat, I would not move to Dickinson at this time, meaning Spring, if I could not get an offer of employment from at least two or three employers.  There is not very much to offer in Dickinson at this time, unless you have a job here that pays quite a bit more than what you are currently making where you are now.

If you can get several offers of employment, that offer the rate of pay you want, the hours you want, at a job that you can physically do, it might be worth it to move to Dickinson if the pay will be quite a bit more than what you can make where you are now.  But you need to talk to the employers first, and get several offers, because people lie and will trick you.  Don’t drive all the way to Dickinson because one person tricked you.

There are about at least 500 newly completed, never lived-in apartments in Dickinson that were built for the Oil Boom, then the Oil Boom went away by the end of 2015.  Real estate agents and leasing agents have some good deals on housing right now in Dickinson, but you will have to check many places to make sure you are getting the best housing deal.

I still recommend to anyone considering moving to Dickinson, that the husband or primary income earner come to Dickinson by themselves. Stay in an inexpensive motel with a weekly rate or get a monthly rate.  (Avoid the least expensive motel in Dickinson).  Try out your new job for a month or two.  It is O.K. to let your employer know that you are searching for a home for your family that is close to schools, or that your family is staying behind until school gets out for the summer.  Don’t get into a year lease before you know if your job is going to work out.  Don’t move your family here until you know that your job is going to work out.  Try to save as much money as you can for the first two months of your new job.

That is enough for this blog post on advice to normal black people moving to Dickinson.  I urge caution and wariness, and to look into everything thoroughly.  Read more of my blog posts.  I don’t want anyone to feel like nobody told them what it was going to be like here.

Why So Much Complaining About Dickinson? Why So Much Complaining About Women In Dickinson?

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In my previous blog post, I wrote that I wanted to get out of Dickinson for a day or two, and I drove to the Prairie Knights Casino south of Mandan.  I was shocked and disappointed.  Is this the best that North Dakota has to offer?  This place was much worse than Dickinson, and I was trying to escape how bad things are in Dickinson.

There are many readers that don’t understand what I am complaining about.  Dickinson sucks, compared to what?  Women in Dickinson are horrible, compared to what?  I can answer this.

When I was living in a different state about ten years ago, I met a lady who was very wealthy.  It was not difficult to meet people who were very successful, very educated, very famous, or very wealthy because people in the town socialized with each other and were very civil, social, healthy, active, adventuresome, outgoing, and fun loving.  There was very little crime, discontent, or violence.

This woman that I met, she and her husband had had a company with 25,000 employees in the United States and different countries.  There was a book written about her husband because of his influence, innovation, and success.  This woman has many famous friends and associates whose names you would recognize.  But she also liked to spend time with me.  I have been friends with her for about ten years now.

She would invite me to stay with her at one of her homes in a resort town.  In this resort town, her house was in a private gated community where the least expensive house was $700,000.  These were all vacation homes owned by famous celebrities, politicians, and very wealthy people.  The buy-in to be a member of the country club was about $100,000.

Her neighbors and friends were mostly nice to me.  Her sons were nice and pleasant to me, they liked me, one of her sons had a degree in engineering like me, and was valedictorian when he graduated from high school like me.  Her daughter was also valedictorian when she graduated from high school, and she had graduated from law school.  I would play with her daughter until she would become irritated, which her mother and brothers enjoyed, until her daughter would complain to her mother to make me stop.  At which time the mother would announce, “Now I had planned on us all going over to the club for dinner, but we’re not going unless you quit fighting, and you can’t fight during dinner.”  Then we would all shut up and behave.

At the private club on the golf course, where members of the public were not allowed, they weren’t even allowed in the community, we would drive up, and the valet would take the vehicle.  The staff would greet the family, and we would be escorted to the best table on the veranda. The sun would be setting over the mountains behind the landscaped and meticulously maintained grounds.  The staff would come and light the outdoor gas heaters so that the women would not be chilly.  The men were all required to wear blazers, dinner jackets, or suit jackets so they were not as likely to become cold as the women.

The women would all order wine, but I would not, in order to not become a jerk.  They would all insist that I have wine, but I wouldn’t.  I would always order the fillet mignon.  I had had a navy blazer or two which were good enough, but just for something fun to do, the wealthy lady that liked me gave me several Armani suits, and had me go to her tailor to have them fitted.  This was probably as much for her sake, her daughter’s sake, and her friends sake, so that I looked better.

I would go and visit this wealthy lady at other places where she had a home, would go out with her to very exclusive resorts, and be introduced to wealthy women that she thought would like me.

To answer one of the questions that I said that I was going to answer, no these women weren’t like the women in Dickinson.  Some were doctors, some were lawyers, some were famous, some were divorced from famous people.  They had traveled around the world before they were even adults.  They had several homes, sometimes yachts, sometimes planes or jets.  These women were generally polite, friendly, and civil toward me.  So no, I don’t like it when trashy women bartenders and trashy women waitresses in Dickinson can’t even be polite, they are really wretched, and I haven’t been able to explain it to the reader until now.

Right now, I don’t want to go on and on about going to people’s multi-million dollar homes high in the hills above cities, with their private swimming pools, guest houses, outdoor kitchens, new Ferraris, Jaguars, and Mercedes in every garage bay, private art collections, rare book collections.  The owners being friendly, social, outgoing, communicative, educated, intelligent people, and entertaining hosts.  Dickinson is very poor, dirty, backwards, trashy, low class, ignorant, uneducated, and ugly in comparison.  This answers the question Dickinson sucks compared to what?

The very wealthy lady that liked me, was born and grew up in a town like Dickinson.  Once a week, on a Saturday night, her father would halfway fill a metal wash tub with hot water.  She would bathe in this tub first, then her stepmother would bathe in this tub second, then her father would bathe in this same water last.  They had an outhouse, no indoor toilet.  When she was about ten, she had to kill a rattlesnake that had gotten into the outhouse when she went to use it.

She left home when she was sixteen to live as a boarder with a family in town.  An older girlfriend went to a beauticians school in Denver, and got her to do the same thing.  They lived together, and worked together.  At night they would both go to the most exclusive resort hotel in town.  She and her girlfriend were welcome there because they were friendly and polite with the male gentlemen.

This was a very expensive, exclusive resort hotel.  Gentlemen would like the company and entertainment of nice young ladies.  As long as she and her girlfriend were polite, civil, pleasant, sociable, agreeable, and didn’t cause problems, they were welcome.  She was not the most beautiful girl, or the most intelligent, but she sure as hell knew that she had better get along and have a good attitude if she was ever going to make it out.

Because she was so agreeable and reasonable, someone introduced her to a nice young man, a salesman.  Conversely, since this salesman was a nice young man, he was introduced to this young lady.  This young salesman was very intelligent, knowledgeable, perceptive, well behaved, and well mannered.  His father owned the small company that he worked for.

These two became married, and stuck together, through the closing of the family business, a new career, a relocation to a different state, another new career, job disputes, formation of a new company, and eventually great wealth and success.  Their children were young when the new company was formed.  They have only just a few memories of there ever being a shortage of money when they were young.  Each of the three children were able to focus on school and they each graduated first in their high school class.  Each of the three children went to very expensive good universities, where they met their wives, and husband.

Everyone only knew this lady as the wealthy widow of a very famous successful business man.  Everyone probably just assumed that she had been a young debutante from a wealthy family, and that she was a trophy wife.  She was content to let everyone believe that.

The reason that she liked me, besides me being handsome and funny, was because I was partly rough and partly not rough.  I would try to be nice and polite, especially in public, which was required.  But she was like me, just no one knew.

Disaster And Mistake In Going To Prairie Knights Casino

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I wanted to get out of Dickinson for a couple of days, but where to go?  A friend of mine who is dead now, used to recommend to me that I go to the Prairie Knights Casino south of Mandan.  From his accounts and descriptions, I thought that I might like it.  On Friday evening I looked at the Prairie Knights Casino website and read the directions on how to get there.  I packed a bag so that I could stay for a day or two if I liked it.

It was an eighty mile drive from Dickinson to Mandan on Interstate 94.  It was 15 degrees Fahrenheit, and the roads were slightly snowy and icey.  Once I got to Mandan, it was supposed to be another 47 miles south on Highway 1806.  As I started driving south on Highway 1806, there were signs saying that Highway 1806 was closed at Huff.  Huff, where is Huff?

I kept driving south on Highway 1806 because that is the only way I knew to get to Prairie Knights Casino.  I went around two more “Road Closed” signs.  The road was not that bad, though it was snowy and icey.  I didn’t know why it was closed.  Even though roads are closed sometimes, they are still open to local people so that they can get to their homes.  I had enough fuel to make it all the way to the Prairie Knights Casino and then back to Mandan.  The vehicle I was driving had all-time four wheel drive, front and rear differential locks, and new huge tread off-road 31 inch tires.  I had an extra jacket, thermal underwear, sleeping bag, air compressor, fix-a-flat, two spare tires, and tow strap.  I was not worried about having a problem.

Eventually I got to the problem, only 22 miles north of the Prairie Knights Casino.  The National Guard and Highway Patrol were blocking the small bridge over the Cannonball River.  I said that I was going to the Prairie Knights Casino, that I didn’t have a map, and that this was the only way I knew how to get there.  They said, “Drive back north 20 miles to Road 138A, go to Highway 6 and drive south for 40 miles to get to Highway 24, Highway 24 will lead into Highway 1806.”  I said that I had enough fuel to go 80 miles, could I make it on that, they said yes.

(The National Guard and the Highway Patrol were blocking the bridge on Highway 1806 because the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters had set vehicles on fire on this bridge about a month ago, and it was now not known if this bridge was structurally safe.  Also, they were using this as an excuse to keep people out of this area.)

The detour was a very bad drive.  It was very dark, very desolate, without any signs for the Prairie Knights Casino, and the mileages that I had been given were not correct.  I kept getting lower, and lower, and lower on fuel.  So low on fuel that there was a 50% chance that I wouldn’t make it, or have a warm vehicle to be in.

I did not know where I was, there were no towns or gas stations, and my fuel gauge was on empty.  When Highway 24 ended at Highway 1806, there were still no signs for the Prairie Knights Casino.  I made a left turn to go north to Cannonball.  I was so low on fuel that I stopped after a few miles, and telephoned the Casino, luckily there was phone coverage, but just barely.  I should have turned right onto Highway 1806 and headed south toward Fort Yates.  I turned around and headed south.  I did not know if there was a gas station anywhere around, but at least I might make it to the Casino and could stay there overnight.

I barely made it, and there was a gas station next to the Casino.  I was mad.

Fucking Native Americans!  Why can’t they have at least one sign like, “Casino 7 miles” or “To Prairie Knights Casino”.  On their website, when I looked at the directions on how to get there, why couldn’t they post a note “Don’t take Highway 1806, it’s closed at the Cannonball River”.

The Casino, Hotel, and the restaurants were all in one very large building.  I got a bad feeling about the place as soon as I drove up to the building and saw that the parking area right next to the building had not been de-iced at all.  How could you have a Casino and not de-ice your parking lot?  I slipped about five times walking to the building.

Just as I was entering the Casino, so was a Bureau of Indian Affairs Police Officer and he acted like I was a suspicious person.  The first people that I saw were some unfriendly acting Native Americans who looked rough, and some poor lower class white people at the slot machines.  I instantly thought, “Oh noooo, I didn’t know that it was going to be like this.”  I kept walking and crossed paths with the same BIA Police Officer again, and he was wondering what my problem was, stalking him.

The whole interior of the the Casino and Hotel smelled of cigarette smoke, because smoking is permitted inside.  The Hotel is connected to the Casino, which I did not know, or think about.  This is a problem, because throughout the Hotel lobby there are signs that say, “We may ask you to leave the Hotel for loitering, because we have a problem with loitering, it interferes with Hotel staff performing their jobs.”  Standing and sitting along every wall of the lobby, were rough mean looking Native Americans and weird poor white people, loitering.  The BIA Police were handling several incidents at this time in the Hotel and the Casino.  There was a BIA Police Officer about every one hundred feet, and they appeared stressed, and not happy because they were all apparently constantly having to deal with problems.

The mean rough looking Native Americans, the weird poor white people, and the BIA Police Officers everywhere gave me the impression that this was a bad place.  I couldn’t believe it.  I don’t know what my friend had seen in this place that he would have recommended it to me.  I couldn’t believe that I had driven about 175 miles to get here.

I went into the nice restaurant, not the buffet restaurant.  It was nice, clean, and quiet, with only one table of customers dining.  I spoke to the restaurant manager who was a friendly, polite person.  I ordered a 14 oz New York Strip steak, which was very good.  The waitress was nice.  As I was eating, a very strange women who was mostly white also came to eat in the restaurant by herself.  I was about 90% sure that she was a prostitute, and I don’t want to describe in detail what she looked like or anything else because I think that she “works” there, and this is probably against Hotel and Casino rules.  No, I was not interested in her, but I would bet that from the looks of things in the Casino, she would have lots of customers throughout the day, night, and early morning.

I went looking for the bar, but both of the bars are part of the Casino, there is no separation at all.  The Hotel and the Casino, were like a big laundromat, bus station, or county jail, where smoking is allowed and there are slot machines.  I left and drove back to Dickinson.

I am amazed at North Dakota.  I can’t believe that North Dakota’s premier Casino Resort is exactly like a laundromat, bus station, or county jail.  The atmosphere and clientele was the same as what you would find at a large truck stop on an interstate.  The whole town of Dickinson is glamorous and upscale compared to the Prairie Knights Casino.  They don’t even need to have police standing there in Arby’s, Burger King, McDonalds, and Taco Bell in Dickinson, because Dickinson is so affluent in comparison to the Prairie Knights Casino.  North Dakota is pathetic.  I didn’t realize that Dickinson is as good as it gets in North Dakota.

The Fate Of Workers & People Relocating To Dickinson, Illustrated By Some Statistics

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Here are some brief statistics on what working and relocating to Dickinson, North Dakota is like.  I have compiled some numbers from the places that I have worked in Dickinson.  I show the number of people employed at each company while I was working there, the number of these people that I worked with who remain in Dickinson to this day, and the number of these people who were severely injured, having a lifelong injury:

1) At my first job in in Dickinson in 2011:

Total co-workers = 10, Number of these people still in Dickinson = 3, Severely injured = 4

2) At my second job in Dickinson in 2011:

Total co-workers = 8, Number of these people still in Dickinson = 3, Severely injured = 3

 

3) At my third job in Dickinson in 2013:

Total co-workers = 10, Number of these people still in Dickinson = 0, Severely injured = 0

4) At my fourth job in Dickinson on in 2013:

Total co-workers = 13, Number of these people still in Dickinosn = 3, Severely injured = 1

 

5) At my fifth job in Dickinson in 2014:

Total co-workers = 10, Number of these people still in Dickinson = 7, Severely injured = 0

 

To summarize and point out something important, since 2011, I have worked with 51 co-workers in Dickinson, 35 of these co-workers have moved away from Dickinson (the majority of them leaving the state), and only 16 of these co-workers have remained in Dickinson. In other words, 69% of the people that I worked with in Dickinson in the past five years have moved away!  (The majority of them leaving the state.)

The Chamber of Commerce in Dickinson, North Dakota would never publicize or tell anyone considering moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, that 69% of the people that come to work in Dickinson will leave within five years!

16% of the people that I worked with in the past five years in Dickinson were severely injured.

10% of the people that I worked with in the past five years in Dickinson were arrested and convicted of DUI, that I know of.

At the first two companies that I worked for in Dickinson in 2011, nearly 50% of the workers were severely injured.  I was nearly severely injured or killed at these two companies many times.

Yes, I made more money here in Dickinson than I would have where my home is in Idaho.  Most of my blog posts describe and explain what living in Dickinson, North Dakota is like: unfriendly, uncooperative, hostile, shortage of women, lack of attractive women, bad service everywhere, extremely high rent, extremely aggressive DUI enforcement, police placing advertisements for prostitutes, nothing to do, and very controlled for many years in not letting anyone get ahead.

Feel free to go ahead and think, ask, or say, “Well, if you hate it so much why do you stay?”  I evaluate living in Dickinson, every day, several times a day.  Just about every minute of every day, I wish that I were some place else.  I think about what the economy is like everywhere that I have been, and everywhere that I can think of.  I haven’t used my home and automobiles in Idaho for five years, I would like to be there, it is a nice environment, there are many enjoyable things to do, the people are fairly pleasant, and it is not difficult to date healthy attractive women.  I am here in Dickinson because it is easier to make money, though it is harder to live.  In order to try to make a home and a living here in Dickinson, I have four trucks, equipment, trailers, motorcycles, mountain bikes, kayaks, and all kinds of stuff here.  But is sucks so bad here in Dickinson, that I look at internet job sites to see if I could get a job in Salt Lake City or Boise and make a little bit more money than what it costs to live in a hotel room.

Managing A Bar Or Restaurant In Dickinson, North Dakota

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Most bars and restaurants have similar management in Dickinson, North Dakota.  First, what the manager is looking for, is a waitress or bartender with many jobs of short duration.  With many jobs of short duration, there is no need to contact previous employers, because the employee obviously excelled.

Another thing that the bar or restaurant manager is looking for, is a waitress or bartender who is a first or second year student at Dickinson State University, and they are obviously better than most of their customers.  Even if they are an elementary education major in their first or second year at Dickinson State University with an enrollment of about 1,000 students, they are far superior to customers with a degree in business or engineering from a university with 50,000 students.  You know, they are 19 or 20 years old, and they have been around, done it all, far more so than any of the 40 year old or 50 year old customers, who are losers.

Another good thing about hiring a 19 or 20 year old Dickinson State University student, besides the prestige, with DSU in the news for being investigated for fraudulently awarding degrees and financial fraud, the DSU student can let all of the customers know that this job is not important to them, and that they would rather not be there.

What the manager of a bar or restaurant in Dickinson, North Dakota is looking for, is a waitress or bartender that does not want to be there, and that they say it out loud, and say it often.  It is good that the waitress or bartender either talk about things that they wish they were doing in front of the customers, or talk about their problems.

Although it is good for a waitress or bartender to talk in front of customers, it is not good for them to talk to customers.  The ratio of men to women in Dickinson is about 3:1.  Most of the customers in a bar or restaurant in Dickinson will be men who do not have families in Dickinson.  Because these men work all day, do not have families in Dickinson, and there is a shortage of women in Dickinson, the waitress or bartender is probably the only woman the customer will speak to all day.  Therefore, it is good that the waitress or bartender not talk to the customer, and walk away, out of sight is the best.  That way, even if the customer needs mustard, ketchup, silver ware, or a drink, the waitress or bartender is not around.  It is important to not be available if the customer wants something.

There are all kinds of good ways for a waitress or bartender to not be available to customers: going to the bathroom, going outside to smoke, going out to their car to talk on the phone, socializing with friends, and eating.  It is important to ignore customers as much as possible.  It is very important to not be hospitable or provide good service in the hospitality and service industry, just ask any bar or restaurant manager in Dickinson.

In order to be a good waitress or bartender in Dickinson, you have to not be good at just one thing, you need to combine the things mentioned above.  For instance, if you seat a customer at a table, you need to walk far away from them, turn your back to them, and become occupied with texting on your phone.  This accomplishes several things, you are not talking to them, you are not available to them, you are showing that you are more important than them, you are showing that you don’t want to be at work, and you are ignoring them.

Once you have had many waitressing and bartending jobs of short duration, complete less than three years of college at some place like DSU, get a DUI, have a drug or alcohol addiction, and have caused several restaurants to go out of business, then you will be ready to manage one of the bars or restaurants in Dickinson.

I Want To Be The Dead Chicken Around Your Neck

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In my previous two blog posts I wrote about the Miss North Dakota USA pageant.  I am so angry and disgusted with the Miss North Dakota USA pageant, that it would be fine with me if Future Productions and Miss USA never came back to North Dakota.  There are some young women and their families that would disagree with me.  They think that they can compete and win, get the publicity, get a scholarship.  Sometimes, you need to withdraw, not participate, not cooperate, oppose, speak out against, and fight some things in order to get them changed, even if it costs you.

Most of the local people in western North Dakota are not going to like what I write.  Though the local people who read my blog may agree with a blog post, or two, or three, if they read more, they will eventually come across more and more things that they don’t like.  They will find things that hit too close to home.

I don’t want to be like the local Chambers of Commerce, that attempt to put everything about western North Dakota in a good light.  I don’t want to be like the Dickinson Press newspaper, only able to report hard facts, and not entirely able to discuss negative things for fear of losing readers, subscribers, advertising, and individual reporters fearing losing their job.

I don’t want to write only things that the people I like will enjoy and agree with.  I don’t want to not write what will make the people I like angry and offended, wanting me to shut up.

I want to be the dead chicken around your neck.  I want to bring up, remind, and keep reminding everyone what happened and is happening in Dickinson, Watford City, and western North Dakota.

(Also, I want what the frog wants, in the Brothers Grimm tale “The Frog King”.)

What Happened At Miss North Dakota USA?

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In my previous blog post, I wrote that I had expected Codi Miller to win the Miss North Dakota USA pageant that was held in Fargo on November 19th & 20th.  I personally did not want Codi to win because I wished that she would stop competing in pageants.  Winning would lead to her competing in the Miss USA pageant.

When I saw the Miss North Dakota USA pageant results on Sunday November 20th, I couldn’t believe it.  The winner of Miss North Dakota USA, and the winner of Miss North Dakota Teen, were not representative of North Dakota at all.  I was very, very angry about the pageant results.

I wondered who the judges were.  Before and after the pageant, I looked on the Miss North Dakota USA website, and I could not find anywhere who the judges were.  I had already read that the pageant organizer and producer, Future Productions, was based in Minneapolis.  Were the judges from Minneapolis too?  The ideology, culture, and values of the large, liberal city of Minneapolis are completely different than the culture and values in North Dakota which is 95% rural, farming, and ranching, with the one exception being Fargo.

I do not like that the Miss North Dakota USA pageant is held in Fargo.  I do not like that the organizers and producers of the pageant are from Minneapolis.  I do not like that the names and short biographies of the pageant judges are not given.

In order to not be sued for libel, I can not write what I think happened.  Other people have already been sued for libel and defamation by Miss USA for making specific accusations which they were not able to prove.  I will give the following example, with quotes from the Wikipedia website, regarding former Miss Pennsylvania USA Sheena Monnin:

“Monnin became a household name a few years ago when she was sued by Donald Trump for US$5 million for calling the “Ms. USA pagent” rigged. She alleged that the Miss Universe Organization had predetermined the results of the Miss USA 2012 pageant.”

“In June 2012, Ms. Monnin said that another contestant, Karina Brez (as Miss Florida USA) saw the names of the top five on a telecast paper in the same order in which they were later called out. Brez later said she had made her comment jokingly. Brez went on to then say that she made the whole thing up, changing her story more than once.  Monnin stepped down when what she said were those same contestants were named to the Top 5. Immediately following Monnin’s resignation, The Trump Organization publicly denied Monnin’s allegations. Following television appearances by Donald Trump and an interview with his attorney, Monnin appeared on the Today Show to give an interview with Ann Curry explaining her position.“

“On the night of the Miss USA awards, Monnin made a Facebook post calling the pageant “fraudulent”, “lacking in morals”, “inconsistent”, and “in many ways trashy”.  Monnin refused to renounce her claims.”

I can not write allegations that I can not prove.

I believe that many people in North Dakota do not agree with the Miss North Dakota USA pageant results.  Maybe many North Dakotans do not like that the pageant is held in Fargo, and that the the names and short biographies of the pageant judges have not been listed, especially where the judges are from.

If you are unhappy with the Miss North Dakota USA pageant, do not participate in it, do not sponsor it, do not cooperate with it.

Who Judged Miss North Dakota USA?

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The Miss North Dakota USA pageant was held in Fargo, North Dakota on November 19th & 20th.  I found out about a week prior to this year’s pageant, that a girl I like, Codi Miller, was going to be a pageant contestant.  I thought to myself, “Oh great, she will probably win.  I wish that she would stop.  I wish that she would be just plain Codi.  If she wins, she won’t stop.  Oh well, maybe she will eventually get this out of her system.”

I wrote a blog post, contemplating why women compete in beauty pageants.  I was concerned that trying to be a beauty queen and a princess takes young women out of reality and normalcy, and will inevitably make them unable to deal with real life.  After I thought about the women journalists Diane Sawyer and Joanne Nosuchinsky who had won beauty pageants, and later went on to have successful careers, I conceded that pageants might help some women.  Maybe some women just wanted to use the pageants as a stepping stone in their career.

I then looked up and read more about the Miss North Dakota USA pageant: the organizers, the history, past winners, frequently asked questions & answers, the Miss USA Pageant Contestant Contract.  I wrote two more blog posts about the Miss North Dakota USA pageant, making observations, comments, and suggestions.

It was not until late in the day on Friday, November 18th, that all of the pageant contestants were listed on the Miss North Dakota USA website.  The listing just showed the contestants’ first name, first letter of last name, one photograph, and their sponsors.  I would have liked to have seen the last name of the contestants, and a short biography, at least where they were from.

The girl that I liked, Codi, I saw her latest pageant photograph, and I thought that she would win.  As I already said, I didn’t want her to win, I wished that she would stop.  Codi was Miss North Dakota Teen in 2009, and Miss Rodeo North Dakota in 2014.  I had already seen from previous pageant photographs that she has perfect calves, perfect thighs, bottom, stomach, breasts, shoulders, arms, neck, all perfect.  Her latest photograph shows that she looks even better now.  I showed other people the Miss North Dakota USA pageant contestants’ photographs, and they all said, “Oh wow, look at her.”, pointing out Codi, they didn’t have anything to say about the other contestants.  I thought that there was no contest.  I thought that it was embarrassingly uneven.

When I finally saw the Miss North Dakota USA Pageant winners on late Sunday November 20,  I said, “What the Fuck!  God Dammit!  What the Fuck!”

I am going to say what everybody in North Dakota outside of Fargo is thinking!  First of all, “What the Fuck!”  Second, “What the Fuck happened!”  Third, “Why the Fuck are two Latinas Miss North Dakota USA, and Miss North Dakota Teen?  Who the Fuck were the God Damn judges?”

North Dakota is about 92% White.  About 95% of the land area in North Dakota is farming and ranch land occupied by white farmers.  The entire history of North Dakota is about ranching and farming.  North Dakota is made up of hundreds of small towns where people farm, ranch, herd cattle, and ride horses.  No young lady represents North Dakota more than Codi Miller, who grew up on a third generation North Dakota farm out in the badlands.  Going to a rural school with only forty kids in the entire school.  Riding horses and rounding up cattle.  Competing in High School rodeo.

God Damn!  Do Latinas from the city of Fargo represent North Dakota?  No, they don’t represent North Dakota at all!

I had already read that the company Future Productions based in Minneapolis, organizes and produces the Miss North Dakota USA pageant.  Minneapolis is a very liberal, large city.  Minneapolis has a completely different ideology, culture, and values than 95% of rural North Dakota, with the exception being Fargo.  Where did the judges come from?  Did the judges come from Fargo or Minneapolis?

Both before and after the pageant, I looked on the Miss North Dakota USA website, and I could not find any mention of who the judges were.  I could not find out who the judges were anywhere.  Shouldn’t this be plainly stated?  Why aren’t the judges identified, with some information about where they are from, and their occupations?

I have looked at many of Codi Miller’s photographs from various sources, and I have looked at many of the pageant winner’s photographs from various sources. I believe that Codi Miller was the best looking, most attractive, most feminine, most perfectly proportioned, most dignified contestant, and the best representation of North Dakota.  I think that there are many, many North Dakotans that are wondering why Codi did not win.

In order to not be sued for libel, I can not explain why I think that Codi did not win.

In my next blog post, I will plead with North Dakotans to de-fund, not sponsor, not cooperate with, and not participate in Miss North Dakota USA.

List Of Attractive Women In Dickinson, North Dakota

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Recently I have written three blog posts about Miss North Dakota USA, making comments, recommendations, speculations, and criticisms.  I thought that maybe I should shut up about the pageant, not because my comments are stupid, but because I complain so much about the scarcity of attractive women in Dickinson.  One of the few things that may help inspire women in North Dakota to care about their appearance, bearing, and demeanor is the Miss North Dakota USA pageant.  If anything, I should have nothing but praise for the Miss North Dakota USA pageant.

In writing the three recent blog posts about Miss North Dakota USA, I thought about the contestants, their work, the competition, how they would be judged, what the judges would be looking for, the goal of the organization.  I searched for, and read the twelve page Miss USA Pageant Contract, which gave me a tremendous amount of insight into what the organization was looking for.

The Miss USA pageant was looking for a woman who would always be a positive role model for other women, would make people think highly of the competition and the organization, and would not damage the reputation of the competition and the organization.  The end goal, it appears, is to effectively promote women and women’s interests.

In addition to me writing comments about the Miss North Dakota USA pageant which are possibly not completely helpful, I very often write about the scarcity of attractive women in Dickinson.  In order to be fair and truthful, I want to acknowledge that there are some attractive women in Dickinson.  Below I have written a list, in alphabetical order, of women in Dickinson who meet the criteria of attractiveness, civility, respectability, demeanor, bearing, and dress:

Mrs. Judy Anderson, Dickinson (the accountant)

Miss Haley Anderson, Dickinson

Mrs. Kjersti Armstrong, Dickinson

Mrs. Kathryn Helgaas Burgum, Bismarck

Mrs. Bethany Devlin, Watford City

Miss Mariah Ficek, Dickinson

Mrs. Kathy Fisher, Dickinson

Mrs. Brenda Fong, Dickinson

Mrs. Marinna Marsh Fuchs, Dickinson

Dr. Nicole Marie Wilson-Hall, Dickinson

Miss McKenzie Joy Hilsen, Dickinson

Miss Geliza Hoese, Dickinson

Miss Jessica Hoherz, Dickinson

Miss Kaycee Hutzenbiler, Belfield

Miss Megan Jorgenson, Dickinson

Miss Jordan Kass, New England

Mrs. Marchell Kubas, South Heart

Miss JoLea Kukowski, Dickinson

Miss Melissa McDermott, Dickinson

Miss Codi Miller, Amidon

Miss Kit Miller, Amidon

Miss Molly Miller, Dickinson

Mrs. Bernice Mueller, Dickinson

Mrs. Janilyn Murtha, Dickinson

Miss Tracy Nash, Dickinson

Miss Kayla Paluck, Dickinson

Mrs. Kamal Patel, Dickinson

Mrs. Kristi Schwartz, Dickinson

Miss Ali Sorenson, Dickinson

Mrs. Jessie Veeder, Watford City

Mrs. Lindsey Ybarra, Watford City

Miss Kira Zastoupil, Dickinson

No, you can’t be removed from my list.  Keep up the good work.

I may be able to add a few more women to my list in the future.  The attractive women in Dunn County hide 95% of the time.  There I go again, they aren’t “hiding”, they are just staying at home.

Update 11/25/2016:  Many of the women on the list above remind me of the IDF women of Israel.  I recommend that the women on the above list, and the readers, go look at IDFwomenofisrael on Facebook.

Looking At Israeli Women On Facebook

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Yet again I am telling you that there is very little to do in Dickinson, North Dakota.  There is a shortage of women, and a scarcity of attractive women.  I have written many times that living in Dickinson is like being in prison, though I haven’t done anything wrong.  Every day now, several times a day, I think to myself that I can’t believe I am living my last years like this.  Other places, and other times in history people have been caught in a wasteland like this, famines and wars, but this is different.  The people who live in western North Dakota, and the mostly poor and uneducated people who moved here, can’t even name what is missing.  I sure as hell can, and it is painful and miserable.

While watching one of my neighbors continuing to lose his mind on Facebook, and threatening to kill all of his neighbors every day, I saw that he had some very, very attractive women “friends” on Facebook.  I looked at all of his very attractive female “friends” on Facebook, and many of them were in Israel.  I don’t want to talk about this neighbor, but to explain briefly, he was going crazy, several of us neighbors tried to get him help, the police had to be called many times, and we all look at his Facebook page to follow his posts about killing all of us.

Escaping the misery in Dickinson, North Dakota, I looked at some beautiful women in Israel.  My most favorite woman now, probably even more favorite than Marinna Marsh, even more favorite than Codi Miller, is Sharon Rozenfeld in Beersheba, Israel.  You can go look at her on Facebook too, and you will see what I am talking about.  Sharon has about twenty photographs of herself, and I love every one of them, except the cyclops one.

Her hiking photo shows that she is skinny, rugged, and tom boyish.  Her U.S. Embassy photo is my absolute favorite, she is wearing the most beautiful dress that I have ever seen, and she looks glamorous and sophisticated.  Her photo in her Israeli military uniform shows another aspect of her.  Her mirror photo accidentally on purpose shows her breasts and she is very sexually attractive.  Each photo shows something different about her.

In Israel, military service is compulsory for both men and women.  Because the Israelis are completely surrounded and greatly outnumbered, they take military preparedness, training, and military duty very seriously.  From an early age, all Israeli men and women are taught that their very survival depends on all men and women training and performing with 100% effort and commitment.  Sharon Rozenfeld, though she is as beautiful as a glamour model, and she may be a glamour model, she had to spend years as a teenager, out in the desert, tearing down assault rifles and pistols, reassembling them; carrying mortars, setting them up, launching mortars; firing grenade launchers; digging trenches and living in trenches for days at a time.  Though she looks feminine and vulnerable, there is a different side to her that is strong and fierce.

Though Sharon is my favorite, there are other very attractive women in Israel on Facebook that served in the Israeli army.  Why this is so interesting to me, is I know that from a very young age that the families and schools in Israel did not allow their children to be stupid, lazy, foolish, irresponsible, whining, complaining, weak, gluttonous, or sloven.  In Dickinson, I hardly ever see or meet young women that are healthy and in good physical condition, let alone mentally sharp, strong minded, and strong willed.  Seeing these attractive Israeli women reminds me that I am missing so much living here in Dickinson.

Update 11/25/2016:  I highly recommend looking at IDFwomenofisrael on Facebook.  Israeli Defense Force women of Israel.