The barely reported highlight of Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran for the Caspian Sea summit last week was a key face-to-face meeting with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

A high-level diplomatic source in Tehran tells Asia Times Online that essentially Putin and the Supreme Leader have agreed on a plan to nullify the George W Bush administration's relentless drive towards launching a preemptive attack, perhaps a tactical nuclear strike, against Iran. An American attack on Iran will be viewed by Moscow as an attack on Russia.

Third breasts are real?

In one recent, well-documented case, a 22-year old grew an extra breast on the bottom of her foot.  It was small in terms of breast tissue but came complete with a nipple/areola.

Why is that you guys are so obsessivly fixated on those who are generally bearly struggling to stay above water while those able to pull off the trick of outsourcing millions ofjobs overseas and being rewarded for it, never even warrent an notice.

OH, and the article is about military spin and the right wing blogs.

I received this morning an unsolicited email from Col. Steven A. Boylan, the Public Affairs Officer and personal spokesman for Gen. David G. Petraeus (see UPDATE III below). The subject line of the email -- which I am publishing in full, unedited form here -- is "The growing link between the U.S. military and right-wing media and blogs," which is the title of the post I wrote earlier this week regarding the politicization of the Army in Iraq, as evidenced by its constant coordination with, and leaking to, the likes of Matt Drudge, The Weekly Standard, and the most extremist right-wing blogs -- in the TNR/Beauchamp case and also more generally.

Michelle Dallacroce was hopping mad when she received a letter from Mothers Against Drunk Driving demanding she change the name of her organization, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens.

There are dozens, if not hundreds, of organizations that use the name "Mothers Against," including Mothers Against War, Mothers Against Cancer, Mothers Against Guns and Mothers Against Medical Error.

Why MADD would single out MAIA isn't clear, although Mrs. Dallacroce has her own theory. She contends that MADD fears running afoul of immigration advocacy groups, and at least one MADD official agrees with her.

Virginia Faircloth, president and founder of MADD's York County, S.C., chapter, resigned last week.....

She said she was told by national leaders to remove a link on her Web site to the Jackson-Avery Foundation, an organization she started with a friend whose husband was killed by an illegal alien driving drunk.

"They said their biggest concern was they didn't want anyone to think MADD was taking a stand on illegal immigration,"

That same year, actor Edward James Olmos, a Hispanic, and Raul Yzaguirre, then president of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, joined MADD's National Advisory Board. The plan was to help MADD reach out more effectively to Hispanic communities.

MADD's critics say the result has been to ignore the connection between illegal aliens and drunken driving.

"You've got La Raza infiltrating MADD. MADD's now into seatbelt safety instead of deporting illegal drunk drivers," Mrs. Dallacroce said.

In an interview this weekend, Barzani had threatened that any Turkish incursion would "mean war."

"I feel that I have done what Secretary Rice and President Bush asked of me by transforming public diplomacy and making it a national security priority," Hughes said.

However, opinion polls around the world continue to show high levels of anti-Americanism, which the Pew Research Center in Washington says is strongest in the Muslim world.

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I'm not kidding.  They rolled one out the other day to show to the press.

Barack Obama, St. Louis MO, Union Station 10-26-07

I joined the campaign over the summer, but this is the first time I've seen Obama in person and it was an awesome experience. I can now say without reservation that he is the real deal. He should be the next president, because the American people deserve the very best this country has to offer and as far as I'm concerned, no one else even comes close.

I had a press pass, but it was hard to keep myself focused on the photography because Obama is such an enthralling speaker. There were about 3000-4000 people at the rally and they were just going nuts. It really did remind me of a rock concert, everyone was so excited, and they all just loved him. I couldn't sleep last night because I was still so excited.

I've never join a political campaign before, I only did so because I genuinely believe in Barack Obama. America desperately needs this man in the White House.

Cheers