Obama in St. Louis on 10/18

For those of you interested, Barack Obama with be at the Change We Need Rally in downtown St. Louis, under the Gateway Arch at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Memorial Dr. & Market St.) on Saturday, October 18th. Gates open at 10:15AM and the Program starts at Noon. The event is free and open to the public, with no tickets required. You can RSVP, if you would like at "http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/mobostlouis".

I'm almost certain it's going to be crowded, as it is estimated that there will be around 50,000 people there. I'm planning on being there and expect to have a really good time. I think it is going to be a once in a lifetime event.

For those of you in the St. Louis area, regardless of your views and opinions, come and see history taking place. I've personally never been to a rally and probably won't get many chances to, but I can definitely make this one.

Alfred E. Smith Memorial Roast with McCain and Obama

I was recently referred to the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Roast and found that both candidates did a fabulous job. They were downright hilarious and definitely worth a watch. Click on the links below to both of their comedic styles from MSNBC.com

John McCain's Standup
Barack Obama's Standup

My Reply to Russ Carnahan

Hi Russ,

I'm so very glad to receive your message and I am extremely excited that you're backing The Picken's Plan. I think, at this point, this is our best avenue for success in getting the economy back on track and bringing jobs back home and also in creating new jobs and sources of revenue. In my previous email that I had sent to you, I had mentioned of recycling and reducing our landfills by cleaning them up and pulling out the recyclable materials, which can create a commodities revenue, create more jobs and fund alternative/renewable energy research, development, and installations.

Please give this a thought, as this process can be started NOW, without R&D and financial deployment. I feel that there should also be a push and incentive to all of the "waste management" companies to provide a "recycling" service within all of our counties.

I was recently informed by a friend who lives in Arnold, MO that his waste service is now providing large recycling containers and will take ALL of the recyclable materials. Unfortunately, my local waste company does not provide this service, thus I utilize my local recycling center located in Byrnes Mill, MO, once per week. I have reduced my actual output of "trash" from 2-3 trash cans down to one that is only half full and recycle two trash cans full of materials per week. I think if we can get more consumers to begin recycling, we can lessen our impact on the environment, as well as creating, as I had mentioned, a commodities revenue to assist with the alternative/renewable energy projects that would benefit our great state of Missouri.

Thanks for all of your hard work!

--Ken Stulce
kstulce@gmail.com
http://altenergypolitics.blogspot.com

A recent message from Russ Carnahan

Today, I received this email from the Missouri Democratic Congressman Russ Carnahan and it's looking like he's totally backing the Picken's Plan. Way to go Russ!

Dear MR Stulce:

Thank you for contacting me in regard to America's energy needs. I appreciate hearing from you and I welcome the chance to respond to you.

In order to address this energy crisis, we need to fundamentally change the way America powers itself. While the United States has almost 3 percent of the world's oil reserves, we use 24 percent of the world's oil. We have more oil wells than any other country on Earth. And no matter how many more we drill, we will never again pump as much as we did during the1970s. Even self-described oilman, T. Boone Pickens said, "This is one emergency we can't drill our way out of." I agree with this statement, and believe that we must address the root of the problem - America's addiction to oil.

As you are aware, Pickens has developed a plan calling for the replacement of 20% of our energy requirements, currently supplied by foreign oil, with wind energy. Using wind energy also frees up our vast stores of natural gas which can then be used to power our cars with significantly lower carbon dioxide emissions and allows us more time to develop new cleaner energy sources. His plan is consistent with the plans supported by the Democratic Congress - break the grip of foreign oil while developing our own vast natural renewable and clean energy resources. Developing our own energy resources keeps our money and our jobs here and makes America more secure.

Please be assured that since coming to Congress, I have been working hard for all of my constituents to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, bring down record gas prices, and launch a cleaner, smarter energy future for America that lowers energy costs while creating hundreds of thousands of good paying green jobs and securing America's future.

Please know that I will continue to support and encourage legislation that will achieve these goals. Once again, thank you for contacting me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future on this or any other issue of concern.

The Wrong Palin

With all of this ecstatic debating and political upheaval spreading throughout the lands, I just have to take a moment and put out a message:

The Republicans settled for the WRONG PALIN!

Here's who they should have picked: "http://www.michaelpalinforpresident.com/".

Sorry, Tension Break....It had to be done!

Call To Action - Join the Pickens Plan

The more and more I read information about The Pickens Plan, the more I think it is a really good idea. At this point, T. Boone Pickens is one of a very few, highly publicized individuals who are actually actively promoting ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil. He takes a completely neutral stand on politics, as far as I can tell, in his approach to promoting his plan.

If you think about it, at this point are there any better alternatives? Not really. In the current state of economics in America, his plan would benefit immensely.

Please, take a moment of your time and navigate over to http://www.pickensplan.com, click on the heading "ThePledge" and then click on the link "Click here to email Congress now". The form will auto-populate, based on your registration information, your Congressional representatives contact information and will generate a letter to them. All you have to do is take a minute of your time. After you've completed ThePledge, please forward it to as many people as you can. The more registered pledgers that he has, the louder we speak and the easier it will be for Congress to "hear" our cry!

Thanks for your consideration and effort.

--Ken

The FairTax Act

In researching everyone's take on the horribly miscalculated tax rebate plan for the $85 billion to bailout AIG, I ran across something that I think really needs to be considered.....The FairTax Act. This plan actually makes LOTS of sense and could possibly end a fair percentage of the corruptness which revolves around Federal taxation. Keep your entire paycheck and only pay taxes for the items that you purchase. A plan like this would allow the penny pinchers to invest the money that they would normally spend in income taxes. Not everyone has the willpower to due this, but those that do could definitely come out ahead and it could possibly increase small business development.

Of course, I definitely need to research this more, but wanted to mention it to those of you interested in alternatives to our current situation.