Individual Liberty — Individual Responsibility 

Iran Is Pushing It

 Iran has been pushing it's luck for quite some time now. Hyping up the rhetoric against the West. Enriching uranium in defiance of U.N. resolutions.

Not that U.N. resolutions mean much.

Now they've captured a group of British Sailors that were inspecting a boat for contraband. From the BBC:

Fifteen British Navy personnel have been captured at gunpoint by Iranian forces, the Ministry of Defence says.

The men were seized at 1030 local time when they boarded a boat in the Gulf, off the coast of Iraq, which they suspected was smuggling cars.

The Royal Navy said the men, who were on a routine patrol in Iraqi waters, were understood to be unharmed.

The Foreign Office has demanded the immediate and safe return of the men, who are based on HMS Cornwall.

Iran took some British sailors hostage back in 2004 too, claiming then, as now, that the sailors were in Iranian waters. It's possible I suppose, but I still have to wonder.

The incident comes at a time of renewed tensions with Iran over its nuclear programme, which Western powers fear could be used to develop a nuclear weapon.

British Army Colonel Justin Maciejewski, who is based in Iraq, said most of the violence against UK forces in Basra is being engineered by Iranian elements.

Col Maciejewski said Iran was providing "sophisticated weaponry" to insurgents and "Iranian agents" were paying local men to attack British troops.

Iranian officials have in the past denied such claims.

In 2004, Iran detained eight British servicemen for three days after they allegedly strayed over the maritime border.

The UK claimed the men were "forcibly escorted" into Iranian territorial waters.

With the hard-line government in Iran now, this seems even more likely this time. Iran has a history of taking people hostage.

We've really got to stop treating their government as if they're rational. Their leaders have been terrorists since the 1980s.

Safer on the racetrack open trackback weekend

I've been forgetful at times. I think most of us probably have. But how can you forget your car when you get off the ferry?

I guess it's true what Rush says. Some cars really do have minds of their own. How else to explain this headline... Car veers of road in Bellevue, killing driver? Apparently while the 24 year old man was driving, his car decided to veer off the road and kill him.

A 26 year old woman must have been really thirsty Saturday morning, when she drove her car into a tavern. Calls to the business were not answered Saturday.

Another woman's car must have been framed on Friday. She was just trying to  park at a grocery store, but her car went though the frame shop's wall.

The smell should have tipped him off. Jason Scott Collins was facing a sentence for possession of a stolen car. His sentence was supposed to begin in April. On Wednesday, he was caught stealing a "bait car".

A woman from Kelso let her boyfriend's 12-year-old son drive her car on February 26th. Now she's facing first degree manslaughter charges because he lost control of the car causing a fatal accident. Fatal to the 12-year-old.

I'm telling you. It's safer on the racetrack than on the highways these days.

If you agree, why don't you consider buying this beautiful 1979 Corvette. It runs the quarter mile in just under 11 3/4 seconds, crossing the finish line at around 114mph, from a standing start. It runs straight as an arrow, and I've never yet had an accident racing it... Leave me a note in the comments, or send me email at this address: perri @ perrinelson dot com.

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