The Center for Disease Control today issued a national health care alert, Code Red, informing parents to warn their children away from watching Republicans talk about health care issues.

The CDC cautioned that virtually all Republican Congresscritters are exhibiting symptoms of zombie-like behavior, with rapid deterioration of the brain functions that control honesty, empathy and common sense.

The FDIC seized 3 more banks yesterday bringing the total for the year to 40. The FDIC’s estimate of the cost to the Deposit Insurance Fund? $11 Billion and counting.

And we all know that we’re nowhere near done with this.

Here are some pretty little yellow flowers from one of my cherry tomato plants. It’s putting out fruit like gangbusters — lots of round green berries about an inch wide so far; they should start turning red by this time next week. The other plant is producing in a similar fashion.

In his weekly address, President Barack Obama explained the necessity of his proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. It is clear that one of the major causes of the current economic crisis was a breakdown of oversight leading to widespread abuses in the financial world. The Consumer Financial Protection Agency will have the sole job of looking out for the financial interests of ordinary Americans by banning unfair practices and enforcing the rules. This is the type of reform that will attack the causes of the current crisis and prevent further crises from taking place.

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What are we to do when the problem isn’t the other side? What do we do when the problem is on our side?

That’s right, how do solve a problem like uh, Blanche. . . or Kay. . . or Kent?

Norm’s staffers bailing as the MN Supreme Court decision looms…

Fox News says they didn’t receive the letter from John Ensign’s cuckold. By that, they mean they didn’t get it in the mail, they got it attached to an email.

Lost in debates about Sotomayor’s “ethnic allegiances” and what they consider the story of her rise from poverty, are the contributions of the silenced majority living in and beyond the Bronxdale projects: the Puerto Rican community whose political thought and action made Sotomayor’s rise possible.