The Relationship between Iran and Britain

I’m glad the Iranian government finally released the captured British marines and sailors. This entire hostage situation with the captured British marines and sailors in Iran could have come out entirely different. Even after the British government apologized, the Iranian government could have refused to release the prisoners or could have killed the prisoners.

However, the Iranian president agreed to release the soldiers after receiving an apology from the British government, and he kept his word. On Gazette.com, the April 7, 2007 article “Iranian: U.K. Can Help Mend Relations” stated: “Ambassador Rasoul Movahedian told the Financial Times newspaper in an article published Saturday that Iran had ‘showed our goodwill’ by freeing the Britons. ‘Now it is up to the British government to proceed in a positive way,’ he was quoted as saying.” Personally, I can’t see the British feeling very friendly and helpful towards Iran at the moment, though. Not only did Iran take the marines and sailors captive on the grounds that the British had strayed into Iranian waters, but it appears that the British sailors and marines didn’t even commit the act for which they were condemned.

First, British technology allowed the government to view exactly where the British soldiers were taken captive, making it clear that the British weren’t even in Iranian waters. Also, according to the same article mentioned earlier, “Iranian: U.K. Can Help Mend Relations,” the soldiers were forced to admit having strayed into Iranian waters. With these two facts, I don’t think the British are going to be very cooperative with Iran at the present moment.

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Never In a Million Years

“…Much of today's scientific orthodoxy came out from yesterday's unpopular heresies. It is the mark of a good scientist to not be afraid to question what has been taken for granted by others.” (Barry Setterfield.) What if the earth could be proven to be 6,500 years old? This is possible with recent discoveries that the speed of light, long known as a constant on which is based much scientific fact, is actually in a state of decline. Perhaps inconsequential to most, such a discovery would indeed be a scientific and evolutionary shake-up of epic proportions.

I am a smoker, yet I still believe that smoking by and around others is wrong.

At (PPCC) there are designated areas for smoking, I believe there are too many. Many studies that show second-hand smoking can affect others. Personally I will not smoke outside any place that is used frequently by others.

Smoking in the Quad or outside of doorways should be prohibited by PPCC because these areas are used mainly by non-smokers. There should be fewer areas designated to smoking, or have these areas where non-smokers will be less prone to pass by.