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		<title>Top 10: Health Care Policy Demands</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/top-10-health-care-policy-demands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister, who spent a career in medical education &#38; research administration, gathers a top 10 list. Call your senator or representative now, tell them you want real change NOW. You can bet people making huge $$ off the current system are lobbying hard for the status quo.<img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-358" title="guest" src="http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/guest.jpg?w=103" alt="Today's Author" align="right" width="51" height="75" /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=371&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Senator Hagan: Stop blocking, start leading on health care reform</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/dear-senator-hagan-stop-blocking-start-leading-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[health policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public option]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Hagan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A letter from a constituent to Senator Hagan of North Carolina.<img title="Senator Kay Hagan" src="http://blueridgeoutdoors.com/uploads/article_image/October%202008/src/KayHagan-headshot_FIX.jpg" alt="Senator Kay Hagan" width="125" height="180" align="right"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=366&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/dear-governor-schwarzenegger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[public policy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schwarzenegger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter from my sister to her Governator. Her idea would work in my state and others, too.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=364&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe I fell asleep in highschool logic class,</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/maybe-i-fell-asleep-in-highschool-logic-class/</link>
		<comments>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/maybe-i-fell-asleep-in-highschool-logic-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[income disparity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My sister provides a guest post, pointing out a few situations that seem to be highly illogical.<img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-358" title="guest" src="http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/files/2009/06/guest.jpg?w=103" alt="Today's Author" align="right" width="51" height="75" /><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=357&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burps, not farts!</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/30/burps-not-farts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 02:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[caprice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cow burps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GHC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Drat. Sounds like all the fun is gone. <a href="http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein_archive?month=04&#38;year=2009&#38;base_name=burps_not_farts">Ezra Klein blog says cows do most of their damage from burping</a>.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=355&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Eating Local Matter?</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/does-eating-local-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study shows that most of our food's carbon footprint happens during production. Not so much getting from the farm to your fork.<img alt="Local variety" src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/04/18/fd_locavore18_jane_1.jpg" title="Locavore cornucopia" width="144" height="221" align="right"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=350&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cookstoves and Scooters: Modest tech takes on huge 3rd world issues</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/cookstoves-and-scooters-modest-tech-takes-on-huge-3rd-world-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cookstoves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[direct injection retrofit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Envirofit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eslisabeth Rosenthal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greenhouse gas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Replace cookstoves and retrofit scooters to improve standard of living, health, and environment. <img alt="Envirofit S-2100" src="http://www.envirofitcookstoves.org/files/sidegallery/S2100_2.jpg" title="s-2100" width="87" height="111" align="right"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=341&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cow Farts and Global Warming</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/cow-farts-and-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/cow-farts-and-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Sagan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cattle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flatulence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[methane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Rep. Boehner, cows do fart. Snicker all you want, but this releases a lot of methane, and that's an even worse  greenhouse gas than CO2. Intestinal humor is no reason to ignore the climate change...<img alt="Cartoon from www.ohiomm.com" src="http://www.ohiomm.com/blogs/bok/wp-content/uploads/boktrans/061214boklores.jpg" title="Cow fart cartoon" width="210" height="140" align="right">Cartoon from www.ohiomm.com<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=327&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Leadership or Electoral Gamesmanship?</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/national-leadership-or-electoral-gamesmanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cuba]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethanol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some national policies, whether right or wrong, have clearly been followed for the wrong reasons. Our national government should govern for the national interest, not to pander to narrow interests that happen to be well-placed in the electoral college.<a href="http://knitspics.blogspot.com/2007/09/its-bird-its-plane-its.html"><img title="Flying pigs, by the Kniterpreter" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KYBWq2T9zdI/Ru85lFcdX8I/AAAAAAAAAFk/CrhQgoax-zY/s400/flying_pigs.jpg" alt="When pigs fly, maybe" width="84" height="62" align="right"></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=322&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is that tea spiked?</title>
		<link>http://almostprofound.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/is-that-tea-spiked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jvk55</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["People should remember that while they have the right to their opinion, they are not entitled to be taken seriously. That only comes from having credibility gained by the correct presentation of facts and analysis and a willingness to be even-handed--criticizing one's own side when it is wrong and not only speaking up when the other party does the same thing." - Bruce Bartlett, in Forbes.<img alt="HuffingtonPost image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/1391/slide_1391_20048_large.jpg" title="Teabag Spelling Winner - HuffPost image" class="alignright" width="132" height="100" align="right"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=almostprofound.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6599936&amp;post=317&amp;subd=almostprofound&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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