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		<title>When will Saturday Night Live Stop with the Outdated Lame New Jersey Jokes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was posted on AboutNewJersey.com&#8217;s MySpace blog on May 14th, 2009.  I thought it would be good to repost it on our official blog, especially in light of  MTV&#8217;s so-called reality show &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221;.

Once again New Jersey was the butt of Saturday Night Live&#8217;s Weekend Update jokes.
They made jokes regarding anything from the supposed smell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2009/11/20/when-will-saturday-night-live-stop-with-the-outdated-lame-new-jersey-jokes/</link>
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		<title>MTV&#8217;s &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221; Makes a Mockery of the REAL Jersey Shore</title>
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 Cast of MTV&#8217;s Jersey Shore ©MTV
What is it about the negative media and constant negative erroneous stereotypes constantly being laid on New Jersey? From Saturday Night Live, to late night talk show hosts such as Conan O&#8217;Brien, to now MTV, New Jersey is under siege. Let me just say this right from the start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2009/11/19/mtvs-jersey-shore-makes-a-mockery-of-the-real-jersey-shore/</link>
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		<title>New Jersey&#8217;s Image &#8211; NJ pride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well this is a speech I gave 5 years ago concerning New Jersey pride for the first Celebrate NJ Day.  I just found out yesterday while googling, that it was required reading for a  New Jersey History class at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Fairleigh Dickinson University  Chris Rasmussen
New Jersey History
History 2443, section 21 History House (135 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2009/11/18/new-jerseys-image-nj-pride/</link>
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		<title>Letter to Governor-Elect Chris Christie &#8211; Tourism and the Image of New Jersey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr Christie -
I wanted to congratulate you on your win. Hopefully now we can make some very necessary changes to New Jersey, and I hope for the better.
I did want to point out to you the importance of tourism and the image that New Jersey portrays to the world. Everyone goes over the numbers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2009/11/17/letter-to-governor-elect-chris-christie-tourism-and-the-image-of-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>The Exporting of New Jersey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing &#8211; people get upset and say stop the exporting of America.  The labor unions in particular are very supportive of this mantra.  However, when it comes to our own state &#8211; everyone is silent.  Of course most people don&#8217;t look at this particular issue as &#8220;Exporting of New Jersey&#8221;, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2008/07/10/the-exporting-of-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>4th of July and New Jersey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As some people know, in addition to the founder of AboutNewJersey.com, I am also the VP of the Princeton Battlefield Society &#8211; the official friends group of Princeton Battlefield State Park and I also do the website for the Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area. I am very involved with educating non-New Jerseyans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2008/07/03/4th-of-july-and-new-jersey/</link>
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		<title>NJ Devils Draft Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well on Friday June 20th I took a ride up to Newark for my first ever NJ Devils Draft Party at the Prudential Center.  This was the first draft party to be hosted at the Devils new arena and I have to say it was fantastic and it was really made into a family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2008/06/22/nj-devils-draft-part/</link>
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		<title>Lakewood BlueClaws Soccer Night with the New Jersey Ironmen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I decided to go to the BlueClaws game. I&#8217;m not sure how many games I have attended this year, but I do really enjoy going to the games. In 2006, the year they won the South Atlantic League Championship against the Augusta GreenJackets, I attended nearly all the games.  My cousin said [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2008/06/20/lakewood-blueclaws-and-new-jersey-ironmen/</link>
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		<title>Funding Cuts to NJ Arts, History and Tourism &#8211; 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well the legislature is considering severe cuts in the funding for NJ arts, history and tourism.  Some people may on the face of it it say that these are frivolous expenditures anyway when we have so many other pressing issues in this state.  The thing is &#8211; these investments, and yes they ARE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2008/06/13/funding-cuts-to-nj-arts-history-and-tourism/</link>
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		<title>Beach, History and Celebrities &#8211; only in NJ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Trish came out May 1st to 5th.  We&#8217;ve known each other since college and she&#8217;s been out to NJ many times.  I like to take her to things that she hasn&#8217;t been to before.  Well this time had a special reason, because I was attending the New Jersey Hall of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.aboutnewjersey.com/2008/06/13/beach-history-and-celebrities-only-in-nj/</link>
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