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Come on!  Tornados in Maine and New Hampshire?!?!?  Aren’t the long brutal winters enough?  Now we have tornadoes?  What is this, Wisconsin?

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Comedian Juston McKinney joined us in the Coast Studio this morning—he’s headlining the Comedy Connection this weekend.  Juston is a Maine native, who became a Maine State Trooper at the age of 19, who gave it up to become a comedian in Los Angeles.  He’s featured on the new “Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Next Genmeration” DVD with Bill Engvall and others.  You’re thinking “Blue Collar Comedy,” isn’t that a Southern redneck thing?  Listen, you don’t have to from the South to be a redneck. He’s a former state cop who was raised in a trailer park in Saco—doesn’t get much more redneck than that!

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We really don’t try to hide where our preferences are for the upcoming presidential elections—we’re both Mamas for Obama.  But we both felt a little bad for John McCain yesterday.  Here was Barack Obama, speaking to 200,000 Germans (and a worldwide TV audience) at the Berlin Wall, while John McCain was talking to about 20 customers at a German Waffle House somewhere in Ohio.  Obama’s talking to the world, McCain’s talking to the waitress, asking for more syrup.  Check, please!

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No shirt, no shoes...service! Restaurants in New York City are accommodating a group of diners who prefer to eat totally naked. About 50 nudists rent out city eateries for monthly dinner parties. There is no dress code, but there is one rule: no hot soup! They're served by a regular clothed restaurant staff. "We've never had a restaurant say no to us, and the waiters think nothing of it," said John Ordover, 46, who organizes the dinner parties. He adds: "If you work in a restaurant in New York City, the chances are you've seen a lot more shocking things than a room full of naked diners." Hope they wash the chairs after they leave!

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Notice anything wrong with this newspaper from New Hampshire?