BRUSSELS — European leaders pressed Iran Friday to stick by a deal that would limit its uranium enrichment, voicing “grave concern” over the country’s nuclear program.
Western diplomats said this week that Tehran had rejected a plan proposed by International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei at talks involving Iran, the U.S., Russia and France.

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U.N. nuclear inspectors, headed by Herman Nackaerts, left, arrive at Vienna’s Schwechat airport, on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, from a visit to a previously secret Iranian uranium enrichment site. What the inspectors saw, and how freely they were allowed to work, will be key in deciding whether six world powers engaging Iran in efforts to reduce fears that it seeks to make nuclear weapons seek a new round of talks with Tehran. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)

The plan calls for Iran to export most of its enriched uranium, offering instead to enrich it to a higher level inside the country under U.N. supervision. Iran missed an initial deadline of last Friday to respond, and instead this week offered to enrich its uranium to a higher level inside the country under U.N. supervision.
EU leaders expressed “grave concern over the development of Iran’s nuclear program, and Iran’s persistent failure to meet its international obligations,” according to a draft statement circulating on the second day of a two-day EU summit in Brussels.

Saturday, I get to herd them through trick or treat time. That is always a kick. I have two Great Grandkids just now walking and the older Grandkids are fighting to see who gets to “escort” them. The camera will get a workout Saturday night!

I still laugh though at how the conned are so oblivious about the message.

Remember when Saint Ronnie decided to purloin Springsteen’s Born in the USA?

The Big Government RepubliPuritans and the Fraud Morality crowd had no freaking clue what the song was even about.

And had they been the type with any shame, they would have been sorely embarrassed when somebody finally told them.

For me personally, I could never be a conned.

I could never listen to, much less put money in the pockets of musicians who excoriated my most important beliefs and heroes. But somehow these right-wing squares are able to “separate the artist from the music”.

Sound so Islamic or third world.

I guess they’re just that desperate that they’ll dance to something musically decent as opposed to the trash music that extols Georgie, etc…

Sometimes I simply must tip my cap to the eloquence, and thank the good Lord for giving us this national treasure, Redneck Convert.

So people like @@ and Sister Dusty and the Whiner and other godly Conservatives will be working for the guvmint longer starting in 2011. I don’t see why we can’t borrow some more money from China and make the tax cuts stay. It’s free money.

I’m good and mad and I think I’ll hit some potholes this a.m. and break a few bottles of beer. Thanks alot, libruls. You done made my day.

well, it sounds like that 7-year-old is one lucky tyke to have such a proud and loving grandpa!!

“I went to my Granddaughter’s last futbol game yesterday evening and while her team suffered their first loss, it was announced that she made the All-Stars”

heyHEY!! great news – and, yes, you deserve to crow about it and say that talent obviously runs in the family … she just couldn’t help herself!!

dB –

thanks for the link – I’ll give that a read over lunch – my pre-read opinion is that I’m happy for their use for intel-gathering, but for offense? I think that we’ve ruined enough weddings to last a lifetime.

AmVet –

I have no problem with artists of either stripe stating their opinions about current events – that’s their right as much as it is ours. in most cases, it makes me like them that much more (especially when they stand up and say, “no, thank you, I’d rather you didn’t play MY music at YOUR campaign event”)