. . the latest claim must have struck President Medvedev as a little bizarre: he has been urged to investigate whether a regional politician passed official secrets to a group of aliens.

The request came after Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the millionaire President of Kalmykia, claimed on state television that he had been visited by aliens at his Moscow apartment several years ago and had spent hours in discussions with them on board their spaceship.

The head of the republic said that the humanoid figures wore yellow spacesuits and gave him a tour of their craft, which he described as a "semi-transparent half-tube". They had brought him home in the morning, just as his worried driver and two advisers were about to call a citywide search after finding his apartment empty.

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We didn't realize until the autopsy that his constipation was as bad," he said, noting that when he died there was waste in his colon that was several months old.

"We found stool in his colon which had been there for four or five months because of the poor motility of the bowel," Nichopoulos said.

Elvis, he told Fox News, suffered from a hereditary condition called bowel paralysis, which made it difficult for him to go to the bathroom.

"He would get embarrassed," he said. "He'd have accidents onstage. He'd have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation."

Although they were aware of the problem in the early 1970s, Elvis was reluctant to treat it. At the time, it would have required a procedure called a colostomy, which would involve removing part of the colon.

"He thought he was really a man's man and he wasn't going to let something like this ... he thought that this was a sign of weakness and he wasn't going to be weak," Nichopoulos said.

However, he said if they had treated it Elvis could very well still be alive today.

"If they had done the colostomy then, he'd probably still be here," Nichopoulos said.

Two Republicans, Tom Corburn and Richard Shelby, voted in favor.  A whole slew of Democrats voted against: Akaka, Baucus, Bayh, Bennet, Carper Conrad,, Dodd, Feinstein, Gillibrand, Hagan, Inouyue, Johnson, Kerry, Klobuchar, Kohl, Landrieu, Lautenberg, Lieberman, McCaskill, Menendez, both Nelsons, Jack Reed, Schumer, Shaheen, Tester, Mark Udall and Warner. link  

As for the LibDems, I doubt if they've presented a stronger leader or platform in decades, yet they stand to actually lose ground in Parliament.   Nick Clegg stood strong, was impressively articulate and likable, and had appeared to have earned significant forward momentum for his party, yet the end result is no gains.  Go figure.