Rails Gone Wild and Diesel Knocking

If and when a society becomes unable to govern itself, its justice becomes unjust, and its civility turns against the masses, what choice does a society have other than to seek to rule itself?  If the written laws penned by the founding fathers are ignored, and tyranny becomes law, what choice does a society have other than to seek to rule itself?  Extremism, like North Korea's leader, is a petulant, irrational, psychotic child seeking emotional pleasure.  Terror is the same, an aberrant, ignorant, ineffective means to seek to rule one's self.  If extreme terrorism were intelligent and effective, unlike its attacks on the twin towers, it would seek out and target those processes which undermine governance and justice in America.  We have yet to see such activity.  Instead we see random acts of juvenile vandalism.  If processes were implemented by intelligent beings seeking to reestablish the fair governance of America, they not would be violent callous acts of cowardice.  They would be precisely measured intents to balance the unbalanced scales of justice.  Injustices of society easily are targeted.  We face them each day, yet Americans continue like docile and apathetic cows.  Other countries have had their revolutions.  Why should America be different?  If we are a country of immigrants, then Russian, French, and Irishmen should know the way.  American history seeks to disguise these truths to protect her immoral flanks.  The rich shall rule.  These tasks are so simple. They are so plain.  The injustices of American society are rife.  If anyone with a conscience, reverence for God, and integrity were to seek to find justice in America, it would be easy.  Instead staged, innocuous, random messages of cowardice are wielded by angered animals.  What is with America? 

Television Barf-O-Mmercials

After making it through what must have been the longest Maundy Thursday of my life, I have no other recourse except to point out that current television commercials are the devil.  Back in the day advertising, like other serious vocations in America, had substance.  It was recognized that human consumption was tangible and necessary for survival.  Consumption in ways keeps up alive.  There is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.  We require food and shelter, health, and companionship.  The millennium of 2000 has transformed the human race into robots.  Adolescent millennials watch fantasy.  Their lives have been so neglected by America, that facing the great vacuum of our existence is too painful.  I suffer from the same ill.  Each day I wake up and look around, what I have been plated almost is not worth it.  America is responsible for most of it, and that means Raleigh and Washington DC and their great lobbying machinations.  America is a pale, poor, and polluted shadow of itself.  Americans are sick, maladjusted, cows.  Helping with this definition is the television commercial.  Briefly when I reflect on influences of our society including newspapers, magazines, and television, the television commercial emerges as the most innocuously inconspicuous putrid mind filth.  They have no basis in any kind of reality, except to brainwash the viewer into tuning out.  How could one do anything else?  Television commercials are not realistic.  They do not represent mainstream human beings.  They represent mindless android robots who smile and purchase with nary a thought for their own true needs.  I understand the roots of television, and I understand the roots of American entertainment.  Minstrels were a basis for American entertainment, and often they were satirical representations of slavery and European opera.  Black face was a common form of humor, a white man smearing his face with shoe polish to appear Negro.  This is America, and no where in that lineage can be found any concept of current television commercials.  They are shallow, fake, miniature teleplays that should be eradicated from existence.  They have no bearing on human life, and the human life they attempt to represent is so ignorant and insulting that they should become inflammatory.  We should feel both insulted and invaded by their nonsense.  Television, a staple of American culture, is laced with these vile mind polluters.  Not only is their production poor, cheap, and unprofessional, their message can not be challenged for worthlessness.  If a product manufacturer decided to respect their buyers rather than patronize and outsmart them, then  consumers would have a rational choice of whether to buy their product.  The way it stands now, ukelele music seems to be the best way to incite mass suicide.  

The Ongoing War Machine

I find it extremely timely that Facebook saw fit to include an advertisement for the Union Pacific Railroad in my newsfeed.  The major railroads in America would have us believe that the world would stop spinning if it weren't for them.  Also as the Federal Railroad Administration has been a lame duck like the now defunct EPA under Donald Trump, the railroads have created ad campaigns that suggest their industry is a pinnacle of conservation.  Norfolk Southern has come up with a paint scheme to suggest they actually care about traffic fatalities related to grade crossings.  Locomotives are not green, and never will they be.  Locomotives burn fossil fuels which creates global warming.  I suggest this.  President Obama was in favor of a carbon emission tax.  Air burning industries such as the airlines and railroads burn the earths oxygen at an alarming rate for free.  With each and every tree that is felled in the name of progress (urban sprawl), there is less oxygen left for us to breathe.  Why should these industries be allowed to burn the earth's naturally made oxygen for free?  Of course our automobiles do the same, but they do not produce 4,400 horsepower.  If the FRA actually did their job by policing the railroads for wrongdoing, then it would become apparent what a rogue industry they are.  Now freight has become Fortune 500, hence no one cares how their practices effect conservation.  It's all about the bottom line for the shareholder.  America's armed forces no longer are for our national defense.  They are to protect the interests of corporations who seek to imperialize the world.  America is in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria for their natural resources.  Any other reason is absurd.  It will not be long before our military will be turned on the citizens of America.  Heroin use and subsequent overdoses have risen exponentially in the last two years, as America's military tools up to begin a war with North Korea.  In North Carolina alone heroin use has flourished as high school drop outs train to kill.  We do not know who the enemy is.  Is is Putin?  Is it Assad?  Is it ISIS?  American corporations abroad are orchestrating the insurgency to destabilize the world and capitalize on the ensuing chaos.  Cheney comes to mind.  When 50,000 men and women are training with weapons of mass destruction a few miles from our homes, churches, and schools, it is difficult to muster up the Christian faith of the Easter season.  It is difficult to find a positive emotion without the artificial aid of alcohol, drugs, or sexual activity.  If our natural environment is stripped of its God-given ability to create peace and harmony for the human race and instead practices war on a daily basis, then it should be no surprise that anodynes are needed to make it through the day.  When returning troops land at Fort Bragg, the trauma they experience is not dealing with their past deployment.  It is dealing with the war machine rumbling underground at Fort Bragg.  

History Repeats Itself

Not only am I angry, I am depressed.  I can't pull myself out of the hole.  My brain and my emotions cannot be conned this time.  Both they cry out for the truth.  The truth is America has regressed to a time when the railroads ruled the country.  They took your property.  They spewed coal dust on your belongings.  They fill your homes with invasive and unwanted electricity.  I have wondered why the Norfolk Southern Railroad did not invest in AC traction when it became available.  The other large rail companies did, because they were concerned with hauling timber out of the Pacific Northwest and coal out of the Appalachian Mountains.  AC traction is more efficient than DC for these applications.  Norfolk Southern did not purchase AC locomotives at the onset.  Now they have.  They are rebuilding their DC locomotives into AC's.  For the layman that means a C40-9W at 4000 horsepower now becomes 4,400 horsepower replete with a power inverter (insulated gate bipolar transistor, or thrysistor), a device that with the aid of a PC processes electricity.  I have described this phenomenon before.  Instead of utilizing traditional direct current traction motors, with the now available technology of Siemens and GE, locomotives can use alternating current.  To move the train AC current must be processed by the computer to change its frequency.  It does not remain consistent like AC current in our homes.  (60 cycles)  The frequency of the AC current is the speed of the motor and thus the locomotive.  When it travels slowly low frequency AC current is required.  Therefore as a train "switches" or moves car, constantly it is speeding up and slowing down.  AC current constantly is being produced at varying frequencies most of them low.  When the train reaches traveling speed, the AC current increases.  For the life of me I cannot figure out why Norfolk Southern sends two of these behemoth AC locomotives to Fayetteville.  Back in the day, in a time of modesty, conservation, and honesty railroads would use a small switching locomotive to put trains together.  I have seen two DC traction locomotives pull a large military train out of Fort Bragg with no problem, and yet N/S 9408 and 9745 putt into downtown Fayetteville to pick up one car.  Mind you that is 8,800 horses, 4,400 HP apiece.  Other than the AC 6000 these are the most powerful freight locomotives in existence.  Why would Norfolk Southern be using these in Fayetteville?  The answer is irresponsibility, arrogance, and ignorance, the same adjectives which describe Washington, DC.  How is it possible that a pathological liar was elected president?  It is because the electoral college is antiquated and false.  The "popular" vote, the actual vote of Americans should decide who is president.  Two million people thought Hillary Clinton should have become president.  An electoral college, a group of people whom we know nothing about, elected Donald Trump president.  Who are these people?  How are they chosen?  Why was the future of America in their hands?  Why is America in the hands of incompetent lawmakers in Washington, DC?  Both my brain and my emotions want to scream at the injustice in America today.  My house is filled with vibration and electricity from CSX-T, Norfolk Southern, the Aberdeen and Rockfish, the Cape Fear Railway, and the U.S. military.  Trump wants to start a war with North Korea, the way W. started a war in Iraq to save face for his daddy.  These are not smart people, just like the people that own and run the railroads.  We better start understanding that our lives are at stake, as they always have been in America.  We are fighting for our lives, and not against ISIS.  We are fighting the rich.