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		<title>Join Kristen Bell: Go One Day Without Shoes for Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join Kristen Bell Today: Go Barefoot Today for Children Without Shoes Kristen Bell goes barefoot today, 8 April 2010, to help TOMS help millions of children worldwide who go without shoes. In fact, for One Day Without Shoes, thousands (millions?) will participate, in an effort to increase &#8211;in a small way- our awareness of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physician&#8217;s Letter to Obama: This One I Like</title>
		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/physicians-letter-to-obama-this-one-i-like</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For every Starner Jones in the medical community, who wore his despise for the allegedly system-abusing patient he treats as a badge of pride, I believe there are scores &#8211;hundreds, thousands(?)- like Dr. Ana M. Malinow, MD. The Houston pediatrician wrote a much more loving, caring, humanitarian letter to our commander-in-chief, telling a story that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Loathing in Jackon: Dr. Jones&#8217; Over-Quoted Letter Quoted Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mania that Pervades Jonathan's Soul]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately, I&#8217;ve noticed Dr. Roger Starner Jones&#8216; careless letter &#8211;of 23 August 2009 to the Jackson, Mississippi Clarion Ledger- making the rounds of the anti-healthcare-reform blogosphere. Jones, an ER physician University of Mississippi Medical Center. During my last shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Need A Government Option for Healthcare</title>
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		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/why-we-need-a-government-option-for-healthcare#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mania that Pervades Jonathan's Soul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health plan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[single payer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialized healthcare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read and hear so many wrong things about the proposed healthcare reform bill. I would love to find a reasonable response to it, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to exist. Faux News Channel spews so many false statements daily, that somewhere a counter must be spinning. There are way too many Americans that have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday Saint Charles Show a Benefit for John Halverson Bone Marrow Fund</title>
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		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/saturday-saint-charles-show-a-benefit-for-john-halverson-bone-marrow-fund#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I learned about the John Halverson Bone Marrow Fund. After contacting the Fund, we agreed to have a bucket for donations, as well as donating 50% of all CD sale proceeds to the Fund, at Saint Charles Coffeehouse, this Saturday&#8217;s show. Halverson is a father of three, living with leukemia. Recently, he&#8217;s found a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madahooping: Saint Louis Musicians and Hoopers to Raise Funds for Local Musician&#8217;s Medical Bills</title>
		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/madahooping-saint-louis-musicians-and-hoopers-to-raise-funds-for-local-musicians-medical-bills</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/madahooping-saint-louis-musicians-and-hoopers-to-raise-funds-for-local-musicians-medical-bills#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amputation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hula hoops]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just ran across this on Myspace. It begins with the horrific story of how Saint Louis musician Dan Hamm lost his leg in a complicated series of vehicle events in January 2009. After losing control of his car in icy conditions, Dan got out of his car to check the damage. As he was [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/this-is-awesome-moliere-portia-de-rossi-apologizes-for-her-gay-marriage</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/this-is-awesome-moliere-portia-de-rossi-apologizes-for-her-gay-marriage#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[california]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes. That&#8217;s right, folks. Neocons everywhere can rejoice at the late-but-apt apology that Portia De Rossi delivered on Jimmy Kimmel. They no longer must live in fear and pain because of the horrors beset them by the erstwhile unapologized marriage of Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres, and the many other gays and lesbians who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Lennon Interview</title>
		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/john-lennon-interview</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/john-lennon-interview#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Better World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the risk of seeming to become a Beatles fansite, here&#8217;s a great video animation of Jerry Levitan meeting with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. It&#8217;s fun, beautiful, and an excellent take on the material. Source: http://current.com/items/89598104/i_met_the_walrus.htm. Peace]]></description>
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		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/572</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/572#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come on. Come on. Please, please come down to Saint Louis for the White Album 40th Anniversary Tribute Show at Natural Fact Deli in Webster Groves. My friends Rachel Brandt and Brad Johnson of The Nancy Boys will join me to help perform the entire iconic double album from &#8220;Back in the U.S.S.R.&#8221; all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote Today: Don&#8217;t Let This Happen to You!</title>
		<link>http://jonathanramsey.com/vote-today-dont-let-this-happen-to-you</link>
		<comments>http://jonathanramsey.com/vote-today-dont-let-this-happen-to-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonathan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[go vote]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[move on]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re still haven&#8217;t voted, and you&#8217;re sitting around wasting all your time, reading my stupid blog, get the *$%# off your bed, couch, or bean bag chair, and drag your arse to your polling place. Being an American is hard work, whether you were born here, or are naturalized, but somebody has to do [...]]]></description>
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