I am four posts backed up in my “drafts” file on Blogger. I want them all to see the light of day as they deal with what I consider to be very important issues.

And yet, after having visited AB Freedom’s blog and watching a video he linked on a post, I feel compelled to post that video link here. Thanks, and a very nice hat-tip to ABF.

Be aware: this video is 47+ minutes, and you should have a rather speedy connection to view it properly. I myself have a dial-up running at 54 Kbps and the thing took roughly 7 days and nights to download.

But, ladies and gentlemen, the video is THAT IMPORTANT — sufficiently important that I put all my other drafts on hold in order to feature this video, hosted by the Heritage Foundation and entitled: “How Modern Liberals Think” featuring a man named Evan Sayet.

Watch the video. Then please leave comments.

I reviewed the movie 300 and recommended that everyone see it.

To date, it earned two to three times more money in its opening weekend than anyone predicted, garnering a $70 million dollar take with indicators that, finally, it will acquire domestically and internationally half a billion dollars.

On a $60 million dollar investment.

And who says military or historical movies can’t make money?

Seen this anywhere on the DEM (Defeatist, Elitist Media)?

From the MetroActive website in the Fornicalia San Francisco, San Jose area:

SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum’s ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

Did you read this closely? Do you understand that Diane Feinstein has been purposely lining her husband’s (and consequently her) pockets because she chaired the committee responsible for APPROVING contracts worth billions of dollars awarded to her husband’s companies?

She may as well have reached into your checkbook and forced you to write checks to her account.

And yet, the MainStreamMedia (MSM) are COMPLETELY SILENT on this.

Page one news, above the fold!

No? No news? All you hear are the crickets chirping in the fields?

And where is the GOP on this? Where are their critiques?

I hear, instead, a deafening silence.

WHY IS THAT?

Is John McCain thinking of changing from a big R to a big D?

He evidently considered crossing the aisle in 2001.

From The Hill:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was close to leaving the Republican Party in 2001, weeks before then-Sen. Jim Jeffords (Vt.) famously announced his decision to become an Independent, according to former Democratic lawmakers who say they were involved in the discussions.

In interviews with The Hill this month, former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and ex-Rep. Tom Downey (D-N.Y.) said there were nearly two months of talks with the maverick lawmaker following an approach by John Weaver, McCain’s chief political strategist.

Question: why has this been revealed to The Hill at this point, by Democrats, with McCain seeking the GOP nomination? Does someone not want to run against McCain? And if so, why sink McCain?

In Washington, no one does anything absent an agenda.

On November 4th, 1979, the American embassy in Tehran was seized by Iranian “students.” Out of the roughly 90 embassy workers, 52 of them were held by Iran for 444 days.

One of those “students” was named Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: “Several former hostages and the former President of Iran have identified Ahmadinejad as one of the key individuals holding Americans inside the embassy.”

Keeping well to form, Iran is holding 15 UK sailors and soldiers hostage, insisting they were trespassing in Iranian waters (see map above). UK’s Tony Blair said, after his military personnel were paraded about on Iranian state TV, that it was time for the UK to “ratchet up” pressure on Iran.

After first indicating the female sailor was to be released Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki recanted and said that Britain must now admit that its 15 sailors and marines entered Iranian waters — in order to resolve a standoff over their capture by Iranian authorities.

Meanwhile, UK authorities continue to issue harsh language (to include phrases such as “very concerned” and “completely unacceptable”) and have already gotten to the point where they are actually considering the utilization of serious sarcasm or belittling in order to resolve the issue.

This does nothing but prove to Islamists that any and all Western countries are Paper Tigers, and guarantees that this kind of action, and much worse, will continue unabated.

Note to Britain: pull out, say, one or two Invincible class aircraft carriers and float them over to the Arabian Sea. Zip out a flock of Harrier GR7s, perhaps augmented by a Spirit or three, and drop some precision ordnance onto a number of very important Iranian oil pipelines. Destroy their petroleum infrastructure. Take out several refineries for good measure. Target oil facilities at Iranian ports. I suggest that this may actually acquire Iran’s attention.

Or, you can violate both common-sense diplomatic tenets. . .

1. Respond to words with words;

2. Respond to actions with actions.

. . . and do nothing.

Clue to Britain (just in case they’re still considering belittling as a viable option): we’re talking about actions here, folks.

I just remembered: does anyone recall the Mayaguez being taken by Khmer Rouge Cambodian gunboats on May 12th, 1975? This ship, in the Gulf of Thailand, had its 40 sailors physically captured and taken to a nearby island? President Ford gave the Cambodian government 72 hours to return the sailors and ship. When this did not occur, he sent the USS Midway and USS Coral Sea into the area. On May 15th, 175 US Marines assaulted the island, and US aircraft bombed the Cambodian airfield at Ream and the port of Kampong Som. All the sailors were subsequently found in a boat earlier set adrift by the Cambodians.

Hey Blair: looking for any kind of precedent? Here it is.