Clockmouse of Ages

Three Blind Mice,
three blind mice,
see how they run,
see how they run.

Hickory Dickory Dock,
the mouse ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,
the mouse ran down;
Hickory Dickory Dock.
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You know, sometimes the really BIG things that occur in a Country serve to take our focus off the really SMALL things that occur in a Country.

Here is a story that has the potential to help us WAKE UP to the utter incompetence that can eventually cause the destruction of a culture, a people, a country, a world.

I will tell you now from where I'm lookin' - the implosion of the U.S. of A. is not occuring by some vague and undefined "terrorist" threat. Nope. It is occurring by events such as the human incompetence, greed, power madness, and lust for control that these three little mice are showing us via their Houdini routine.

We ask for it too - this need to be controlled. We can scream as a collective for rights and freedom, but still beg to be cushioned and protected in mammy's bosom. Who wants rights with their inherent privilege but does not want the responsibility that comes with such? Think about those who demand such. They're everywhere.

Run, little mice, run! And when you find the field - bite that farmer's wife right in the ass.

Mice Infected With Bubonic Plague Missing 2 hours, 2 minutes ago

NEWARK, N.J. - Three mice infected with the bacteria responsible for bubonic plague apparently disappeared from a laboratory about two weeks ago, and authorities launched a search though health experts said there was scant public risk.

The mice were unaccounted-for at the Public Health Research Institute, which is on the campus of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and conducts bioterrorism research for the federal government.

Federal official said the mice may never be accounted for. Among other things, the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error.

If the mice got outside the lab, they would have already died from the disease, state Health Commissioner Fred Jacobs said.

The possibility of theft prompted the institute to interrogate two dozen of its employees and conduct lie detector tests, The Star-Ledger of Newark reported Thursday.

The FBI said it was investigating. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is also investigating, the newspaper reported.

[I am *so* comforted] [sarcasm]

University officials did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday morning.

The mice were injected as part of an inoculation and vaccination experiment, investigators said.
Health officials say 10 to 20 people in the United States contract plague each year, usually through infected fleas or rodents. It can be treated with antibiotics, but about one in seven U.S.
cases is fatal. Bubonic plague is not contagious, but left untreated it can transform into pneumonic plague, which can be spread from person to person.

[See - The Stand - S. King]

The incident came as federal authorities investigate possible corruption in the school's finances.
The FBI is reviewing political donations and millions of dollars in no-bid contracts awarded to
politically connected firms.

[possible corruption at the U.S. Public Health Institute? Possible?? Gosh, I'm stunned. lol]
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