Saturday, October 07, 2017

The Fort Bragg Lava Lamp and Timothy McVeigh

Fayetteville is back on the weather map being the hottest city in North Carolina for a reason.  It is not because we are in a depression.  It is not because we are in the Cape Fear River Valley.  It is not because of all of the tall pine trees and white sand.  It is not because of all the murderous violence.  It is because of trains.  I took a drive out to Fort Bragg the other night, because I was curious why my ears continuously have been ringing.  It is suspect that there were no running locomotives in the Milan Yard.  That is unusual especially for the weekend.  Sundays at the Milan Yard are meant for assembling trains.  What better way to spend church day?  My ears have been ringing non stop for over a week, and I have an idea why.  It can drive you crazy, because they are clever, clandestine, and covert the way Special Forces should be.  Special Forces train other armies, but they still operate incognito, stealth, and silent.  This is the modus operandi.  Fayetteville is getting a billion dollar inner loop all because of Fort Bragg.  It is the best road we ever have had, smooth black pavement seemingly in the middle of nowhere.  Murchison Road magically turns into a highway ushering you past Simmons Army Air Base and around the trunk line that services the post.  That was the major impetus of the expansion.  Of course it is to get all of those active duty military personnel in and out more quickly.  They don't tell us the numbers anymore, how many troops are deployed.  How many troops are stationed here.  There was a list in the Fayetteville Observer the other day of the generals stationed here.  I guess they are afraid.  They buttoned up Fort Bragg like a loose hem.  I was interested to drive out there, and upon doing so rolled down my driver side window and took a whiff.  That's all I could take.  Driving by Fort Junction the diesel micro dust was so thick you barely could breath.  Supposedly the army uses GenSet N-ViroMotive locomotives manufactured by National Railway Equipment Company located in Mt. Vernon, Illinois for their in yard operations.  Funny, Mt. Vernon used to be known for their Bach Stradivarius trumpets.  Now they place Cummins diesel engines in locomotive bodies.  It sounds like a good idea, but their website says only seven are being used in the Army.  I have several Google Map screen shots of the red Army locomotives in use at Fort Bragg, but I have not been able to match it to a model.  From breathing the air at Fort Junction and having watched plumes of black smoke rising from the Honeycutt Marshalling Yard, I can assume the Army has succumbed the same way Norfolk Southern did.  General Electric pitched them the same spiel about the GPS tracking of engine systems via microwave transmission from the engine.  "We can turn a three day repair into a three hour repair because of wireless engine diagnostics."  GE tracks their 30,000 ES44AC's via satellite.  If I were to extrapolate from the army's battlefield communication system, I would say these locos don't quite have enough juice (!) to get that signal into the stars.  They use an intermediary, a little gray plane with a transceiver which accepts the signal and rebroadcasts it to the desired destination.  Maybe.  Saying an ES44AC doesn't have enough juice is like saying the sun is not hot.  It is a rolling nuclear reactor, so to speak.  Without the use of plutonium, the GE 7FDL-16 is the next best thing.  GE for a short period of time had eyes to utilize their own GEVO engine in the ES44AC.  Survey says that stopped quickly and the tried and true 7FDL was used instead.  The GEVO slipped GE under the EPA's radar for the required period of time, and they went back to business as usual.  Strap a massive dildo on a C40-9W and head to Hollywood.  I mean swap out the DC traction motors for AC drives and install NORAD control in the auxiliary cab.  You could command all of America's Ground Forces from that control room, and that they do in CSX-T's facility in Jacksonville, Florida.  No one much cares what they do, except when Fayetteville suddenly becomes the hottest city in North Carolina.  No one has said it, but I guess Stephen Paddock really didn't like the music of Jason Aldean.  If you want a roaring good time at your party, book Jason Aldean.  I can't believe what I am seeing and hearing in response to America's most heinous war crime.  With Trump in the White house it is inescapable that the media are bought and paid for from the top down.  The coverage of the Las Vegas shooting is the worst in America's history, because Washington is in denial.  Should not a red flag go up when America's medical establishment calmly is accepting mass genocide?  This is Trumpism.  Trumpism is the process of diverting mass chaos induced by political negligence by condoning Communism.  That is all the far right is.  It dawned upon me when I was thinking in bed last night being harassed by ES44AC's.  The Far Right, Political Correctness, and the NRA are all Communism.  They have been trying to sterilize the human being for decades in lieu of a mindless, conformist, frigid population of droids.  We have become that, receiving our commands from our iPhones and staring blankly into space.  Trumpism is interviewing a Wake Med official accepting the first major maneuver of war on American soil in our recent history.  The ramifications of Stephen Paddocks actions are illimitable.  The brains of American droids, like Trump's cabinet, are not capable of rationalizing such an event.  Not Terrorism?  What the fuck is terrorism?  Of course the massacre in Las Vegas was an act of terrorism.  The wealthy political regime that runs America is trying to save the face of America's playground.  Want a roaring good time at your party?  Rent Las Vegas and hire Jason Aldean.  I guess Stephen Paddock really didn't like his music.  So far the Philippine connection has been ignored.  Is it because they are an ally of the United States?  All of those Philippine soldiers working on Navy ships which mysteriously collide with cargo vessels?  Something is awry in the case of Stephen Paddock, and Washington and the mainstream media are covering it up.  News reporting at its best.  "We should expect more war crimes, more genocide in the near future in America."  That is what the Wake Med official seemed to be saying.  "We can expect more of this kind of activity.  Afterall it is for what we train.  We like to work.  We like to treat penetrating gunshot wounds, especially in children."  ?  Our lovely contingency of politicians in Washington are unable to reach a rational conclusion about any issue, because their responsibility has become anarchy.   Anarchy fuels the fire, diverts American attention away from the American Dream, and keeps the wealthy in power.  Timothy McVeigh is a distant memory.  While grotesque in appearance the biography of Timothy McVeigh’s convictions through hundreds of hours of recorded cassette tapes on MSNBC offers a telling expository narrative of a post traumatic Desert Storm veteran. Skilled and cunning McVeigh was indoctrinated by none other than the American armed forces during Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. After viscerally living a life of combat against terrorist forces, McVeigh found despondency returning to the continental United States. A mundane life of daytime television and fast food could not meet the expectations of a tried and true war veteran. After suffering a year’s tenure of depression and post-traumatic stress, McVeigh in a futile attempt began to conceive his own vigil based upon the mistreatment of the Branch Dividian followers of David Koresh at the Mount Carmel property near Waco, Texas.   In McVeigh’s eyes the 168 human beings murdered during his bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building were martyrs intended to represent the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims persecuted by an increasingly fascist American government. Posthumously his own execution was a Socratic touché vehemently objecting to his own hypocritical indoctrination during the United States military’s war against Iraq. It was a plea for peace.  That was his story.  I guess Stephen Paddock really doesn't like country music.  Washington does not like to look inward, because in a Godless society only human beings are to blame.  If politicians as a whole still accepted Jesus Christ, then it would be reasonable for Satan to assume some responsibility.  As it is now, in Godless America, only Washington is to blame.  It is their job to oversee socioeconomics.  Their job is to assure the well being of the American Dream, economic mobility, opportunity, and happiness.  The Trump White House operates the only way it knows how, like a two bit real estate firm with no moral or ethical scruples.  A sitting American President throwing rolls of paper towels to Puerto Ricans in the midst of a humanitarian crisis?  No longer can I listen to a word Trump says.  Michael Collins would have something to say, and we all should listen.