Interesting....

Just watched a live streamed press conference from Moscow after Obama met with Medvedev. And just set off a tirade, I tell you, TIRADE, because I criticised the fact that his advisors couldn't even train him to pronounce the names of the people he will be talking to, and had talked to. That is disrespectful, and may seem trivial, but it is important. If you 'respect' someone, you at least pronounce their names correctly. You know?

And got yelled at... I was being 'satiric'. I wasn't. It grates on the ears, and drives me crazy to hear someone intelligent pronouncing Putin in such a way it sounds like the German for a turkey schnitzel.

The rest seemed like some sort of a progress toward lessening the tensions between the US and Russia.

But one little factoid will certainly slip between the cracks. One of the agreements reached today was veddy interesting. Russia had banned the import of US beef, for fear of spreading 'mad cow disease'. They now agreed to rescind that, which will bring the US one billion dollars in exports.

It was just a little sentence, but okaaayyyy...

For anyone who reads the blogger Chris in Paris on Americablog, he has often, very often, gone after the food processing plants in the US who consolidated the central slaughter houses and have apalling sanitary conditions.

I hope they have a real good time with it. So...what does the US get in return?