The Awesome Jon Stewart on our “Dependency on Foreign Oil”

October 11, 2010 by Leave a comment

This is one of the best segment of the Daily Show I’ve  seen – funny, genius, and well put!

With our president promising a plan to move America toward a non-petroleum based future, Jon Stewart took the time to give a little history lesson on the show last night. As he pointed out, Obama is certainly not the first President to come on TV and talk about a plan for energy-independence. No, no. It seems that going as far back as Nixon, every President has broadcast the same, if not similar, pledge. Read more of this post

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Did The Tension Between Tehran & Washington Really Start In 1979?

December 30, 2009 by Leave a comment


As the events in Iran have taken the center stage for several days now, I thought it’d be good for us all to get a little education on the context all this is happening in.

The current resistance in Iran is part of a struggle going back more than one hundred years, and has gone through lots of ups and downs along the way. And as you can probably guess, like always, are good ol’ US of A also has had a lot to say along the way.

And, as you probably also guessed, oil has been a major game maker since the beginning and keeping our tanks full and our SUVs running was as big of a deal back then as it is now.
But wait, there’s more

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