That's the Fact Jack (about Fayettenam)

While I penned a prospectus about the mayoral race in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I failed to lay out the specific issues key to this election.  It has become the status quo in America and particularly of the GOP to have NO issues.  Openly this anachronistic quorum based their republican campaigns on "mojo."  It is as if they feel all things are right and good in America, because they are wealthy and powerful.  Why change?  If they took the time to listen or observe their constituencies, a different picture would emerge.  Representing the people, once a core tenet of the Constitution, now has mutated into oligarchy.  This transformation was not at the behest of the American people.  This faction rebelled against the people, and they are traitors.  If we look more closely, foreign influences would emerge.  Chinese buying parcels of land around American military bases.  The sale of American corporations like Monsanto and Chemours to the Chinese.  This should be disturbing, because although we have not had a domestic war recently, this covert attempted coup is at full throttle through corporate America.  When a company wants to get out and get rich, they sell to the Chinese.  It is opportune.  It is a mistake, and we are paying.  Three major things have degraded the quality of life in Fayetteville, North Carolina.  The first I have been blogging about for two decades, and only has it continued to erode everyday life for the citizens of Cumberland County.  It is railroad, and it began with John Snow and the merger of Seaboard Coastline with Chessie into CSX-T.  (which now is CSX)  He built America's spaghetti bowl system into a monster and used AC traction to do it.  When Hunter Harrison, the railroad magnate who transformed the Canadian National, was hired by CSX-T, he brought with him "Precision Scheduled Railroading."  Life has not been the same since.  He died shortly after, but his predecessor is hard at works raping and pillaging the American landscape and collecting stock dividends for share holders.  Profuse, unmitigated, unregulated freight railroading has ruined the quality of life in America.  "I'm sorry, I can't hear you.  There is a three mile long freight train blocking every grade crossing.  Better not have a heart attack, because you will die, because the ambulance cannot get to you."  In addition the implementation of "Locotrol," remotely- controlled diesel/electric locomotives spread throughout a long train, further has polluted America with infrasound, vibration, and electromagnetic radiation.  They are playing with Lionel .027 gauge toy trains, but the consequences of the pollution from these trains is the most severe thing ever to effect American quality of life.  Yes, some locomotives are EPA Tier 4 compliant, but when asked to study the intermodulation of radio signals atop a Dash 9 locomotive, it was impossible.  The antenna rails are so full of high powered transmitting and receiving devices, there was no way even to recognize a commercial radio signal.  These trains are ambulant  power generating plants and tranmitters that can power small cities,  yet they have free access to every nook and cranny of our lives.  Their infrastructure is upon what cities are built.  When they exploit these resources with no thought for American life, who most likely don't use their products, it is an atrocity.  My ears never stop ringing from tinnitus, and now instead of a consist passing and moving on, it is spread out over the length of the train.  When the software fails, America will stop ticking.  Fayetteville never had commercial aircraft strafe the city until Piedmont reemerged with their hub in Charlotte.  Now their direct flights to Charlotte have grievous consequences for the resident of Fayetteville.  It is up to the mayor and the city council to mitigate a set of rules for the airport, and we have none.  Fayetteville is a whore for Piedmont and the Aberdeen and Rockfish shortline railroad.  They should rebrand themselves the Aberdeen and Fayetteville, because here is where they do business with their antiquated, two stroke, turbo-charged GP jalopies.  Once it was a train a day at 10:45 a.m. and 1:45 p.m.  Now they begin shunting cars at 4:30 a.m. beside Manna Church to downtown.  I assume they believe everyone who lives near Cross Creek Mall is in the military, so they get up at this hour.  For the rest of the average citizens, their vibration is disruptive and annoying, the knock of these two stroke, turbo-charged, prime movers from the 1960's.  Likewise I am sucking on the jet exhaust of an Embraer ERJ-145 flying at 3000 feet above most of the affluent neighborhoods in Fayetteville beginning at 5:00 a.m.  This particular "Red Eye" flight thinks you are asleep in your bed, so he doesn't take the time to climb to a suitable altitude after take off.  I am violently shaken out of bed every time the pilot does this.  This did not used to happen in Fayetteville when Ed Grannis was living.  Whose great idea it was to bring an Apache attack helicopter firing range to Fort Bragg?  Twin turbo shaft engines ten at a time with millimeter wave targeting systems?  They never have to fire a round, because the radiation from these sensor arrays is a non-lethal weapon.  You know they are there, and they like it.  Life in Fayetteville is a continual war zone, and "That's the fact, Jack!"