About me: A general party-boy. Has respect for the finer things in life, and consequently keeps his distance from them to avoid their destruction. Requires constant supervision. Wants more than he can possibly achieve. Strives for greatness, but settles for the United States.
After having cancelled Duck Hook, Nixon believed "it was important that the Communists not mistake as weakness the lack of dramatic action on my part in carrying out the ultimatum." In a bizarre move designed to compensate for the aborted Duck Hook operation, he set in motion the "Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test," an elaborate and secret global military exercise carried out between October 13 and 30, 1969, that was tantamount to a nuclear alert. The origins of the idea for the alert may lie in an implicitly nuclear-related question posed in the "Important Questions" attachment to the October 2 report to Nixon on Duck Hook (see document 2I): "What military actions should we undertake concurrently, e.g., should we alert our strategic and/or the various theater forces?"
One of the largest secret military operations in American history, the exercise included a stand-down of training flights to raise operational readiness, Strategic Air Command ground alerts and "maintenance readiness" procedures, heightened readiness postures for overseas air units, stepped-up naval activity, increased surveillance of Soviet ships en route to North Vietnam, and a nuclear-armed B-52 "show-of-force" over Alaska. The purpose of the alert was to "jar" the Soviets and North Vietnamese into making negotiating concessions-perhaps by indicating to them that it was the preparatory phase of Duck Hook and/or a readiness operation in anticipation of Soviet reaction to massive U.S. bombing. The nuclear alert failed to intimidate either the North Vietnamese or the Soviets before the November 1 deadline, but it did have an unintended consequence: it caused the Chinese to go on alert-either in reaction to the U.S. alert or to steps the Soviets might have taken in response to the U.S. alert.
fuckin paranoid he's paranoid thought they were watching his myspace page he felt them looking in his ears staring into his eyes are they dilated? is he high? paranoid fuckin paranoid writing notes for a map a way back to his mind runnin round town lookin for what he could find he thought his phone was tapped they were sleeping in his bed following him through the darkness demons flyin out of his eyes thought the guitar was a weapon to exorcise the demons fuckin paranoid they lived in his fridge microphones everywhere watched him while he shat paranoid fuckin paranoid
i was actually in mauston...jus went road trippin...drank beer...got drunk ;o)...you know! that usual...whats bout you?...ill be in mauston saturday..so TRY to get ahold of me!!:)
you witnessed the plans for the weekend, now it's down to alcohol, violence and sex. the order of which they happen only makes for an interesting sunday.
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