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12:31 pm
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Heroes Sixty-Five Years On
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01:42 am
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THE FEDERAL GOV'T SHOULD WANT TO BUY GUNS FROM YOU, NOT TAKE THEM
I think a massive, federally-funded gun/firearm buyback is in order right about now. If the gun’s clean, you’re good, no questions asked. The more firepower, the bigger the pay-out. You’ll receive an attractive offer…boosted by $100 if you bring in housing, utility, or health care-related bills to be settled electronically right then and there out of the buyback proceeds. Or you get an additional $50 if you take payment in the form of a Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Visa/MC, etc., pre-paid card. (The companies kick in the fifty for the privilege of getting the whole card balance; no fees or expiration allowed.) The hard-core gun zealots won’t sell. The anti-Obama/government paranoid fringe won’t sell. The mentally disturbed won’t sell. The bad guys won’t sell. But the (family) guy hard up for cash to pay some bills just might. And that means fewer firearms laying around. Less temptation and less opportunity in moments of rage and/or despair. Seems like a good thing….not difficult to imagine the hard times continuing, if not worsening, for quite a hwhile, as they say on Family Guy. Buy back 1 million weapons at $1,000 per weapon = $1 billion If the average pay-out is $500 = 2 million weapons back for $1 billion It’s not "The government wants to take your guns away from you!" It’s, THE GOVERNMENT WANTS TO BUY YOUR GUNS FROM YOU!!!! --Stormin
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12:44 am
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HOORAY FOR GAY MARRIAGE IN IOWA
Way to go, Iowa Supreme Court! I want to make an Iowa farm boys "outstanding in your fields" joke but I write to praise not mock you.
Thank You! Your decision to legalize gay marriage and the reasoning behind the decision will go far in helping the rest of the nation see the light once and for all on this issue. Bravo.
--Stormin
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12:08 am
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SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, OBAMA'S DOING A HELLUVA JOB
I am greatly impressed by President Obama. We're watching an amazing phenomenon. A history maker and a world changer. Sure, we gotta dial back his budget (deficits) and this and that, but on a macro level, hats off to Obama. And to First Lady Michelle. I really dig how these two are rolling so far!
--Stormin
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01:42 am
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OBAMA’S KATRINA MOMENT…..TIMMY’S DOIN’ A HECK OF A JOB
Hats off to Paulette Altmaier of Cupertino, CA, for hitting the nail on the head with her letter to the Editor in Wednesday’s New York Times. "President Obama may not realize it yet," Ms. Altmaier began, "but his Katrina moment has arrived."Oh. Oh. Yes. Bingo. I’d been head-drafting a letter to the President for the past couple of days…basically a you-gotta-get-rid-of-Treasury-Secretary-Tim-Geithner-ASAP note. But Ms. Altmaier beat me to the punch, brilliantly, with her wake-up-and-smell-the-debacle message. So let’s build on it. George W. Bush had Brownie, "Doin’ a heck of a job". Barack Obama has Timmy (pronounced: TIMMAY!!!), and "Nobody's working harder than this guy." But just like with Brownie and Katrina, nothing’s getting done, or getting done right, with Timmy, in the aftermath of the present, unnatural, financial, disaster. Brownie was, like Timmy is, overmatched. Brownie, because he was a political hack who knew nothing about managing emergencies. Timmy, because he's a Wall Street hack who apparently knows nothing about managing emergencies. With each passing day, Timmy's "Turbo Tax let me down" confirmation hearing excuse for being a big-time/long-time tax cheat sounds more credible...it's smelling more and more like we’ve got a befuddled dumb-shit "running" Treasury. One who can't even assemble a team to help him figure it out.
I think it’s fair to say Timmy is a disastrous appointment, an even worse one than Brownie turned out to be. Why? Because George W. Bush, although warned about the 9/11 attacks in advance, had no idea that a Hurricane Katrina was in the offing when he appointed Brownie as FEMA head. And no one can say Brownie had a hand in brewing up the hurricane that smashed New Orleans and other points along the Gulf Coast back in August 2005. Mother Nature did that. But Timmy… that’s a different story. The current financial Katrina was already raging when President Obama decided that the only man who could save the day at Treasury was…..Timmy. Timmy, former head of the New York Federal Reserve, and ex-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulsen’s right hand man last fall when the AIG’s of the world were getting their no-questions-asked bailout billions and bonus millions. Timmy, in other words, helped birth the current disaster. Or, looked at another way, failed to stop it. That's one abortion everybody would have cheered: Dough b. Saved rather than Roe v. Wade.
And while the former President famously and obliviously vacationed during Katrina, pedaling his exercise bike and stinking up the Crawford air while New Orleans drowned, the current crisis finds President Obama on ESPN’s SportsCenter this week, filling out his NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket and talking like someone who's been watching a boatload of games. Talk about your March Madness...The Audacity of Hoops... What The F, Mr. President? What next? A remedial Air Force One plane ride over Wall Street to survey the damage and get up to speed? Be sure you get a window seat!
Obama better lose Geithner, and fast. Otherwise we’ve got two dumb-shits on our hands, in critical positions, at a crucial time. And while you’re at it, Mr. President, get over the college hoops -- grow up! And if you’ve got any political smarts left, you’ll cancel your "Tonight Show With Jay Leno" appearance scheduled for Thursday night. You’ve got far more important things to do. Starting with….TIMMAY!!!
--Stormin
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01:03 am
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1, 2, CHUCKLENUTS GOOFED....3, 4, STARTED A WAR...5, 6, STILL AIN'T FIXED...
5 years after Iraq's 'liberation,' there are worms in the water
Baghdad's water still undrinkable 6 years after invasion
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12:18 am
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Respect For His High-Ness
 Starring Rush Limbaugh
as "Don Veto Chortleone"
with
Michael Savage as "Sunny" Sean Hannity as "Michael"
Marc Levin as "Tom Hagen" Peggy Noonan as "Kay"
Michael Reagan as "Fredo" Rich Lowry as "Enzo the Baker"
Pat Buchanan as "Capt. McClusky" Bill O'Reilly as "Sollozzo"
...and ANN COULTER as "Luca Brasi"
Rated PG-1600 (Partisan Gamesmanship)
for Language/Grown-Ups Strongly Desired
Current Mood: rushed
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12:44 pm
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TODAY'S THE DAY
OBAMA.
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10:05 pm
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IF I WERE AN END-TIMER I'D BE ALL OVER THE McCAIN-PALIN TICKET....BUT I'M NOT
The Hope of the World is Obama
A yang to the yin of Osama A humble-born secular Lama A light in the darkening drama
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That sad little man John McCain
An also-ran circling the drain
A run built on personal pain
His loss is America's gain
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Most of us don't row our ducks
Most of us don't have big bucks
Most of our future's in flux
Maybe we'll live in our trucks
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03:44 am
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I HAVE TO BELIEVE WE'RE AT LEAST AS SMART AS A 5th GRADER. I HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT.
COME ON, PEOPLE, THIS ISN'T THAT HARD!
AMERICA (from "West Side Story" by Bernstein/Sondheim)
Chorus: We’re not too bright in America,
Driven by fright in America,
Can’t get it right in America,
Looks like it’s night in America… Some voters say they like Old John…
I say what drugs are those folks on?
People say he’s a big hero…
I say the guy’s a big zero… Chorus: Easily fooled in America,
Images rule in America,
Shortage of truth in America,
Many home-schooled in America… Some say they like that new Palin
I say what are they inhalin’?
Doesn’t know squat but she’s pro-life --
Why don’t she just mind her own five? Chorus: Voting for Life in America,
Hard Christian Right in America,
Ready to fight you America,
Waiting for Christ in America Some say Obama is scary!
I say stop acting like fairies!
Some are opposed ‘cause the guy’s black…
I say then vote for the White half… Chorus: We can be bright in America,
Getting it right for America,
Shining a light from America,
Don’t be so frightened America
--Stormin
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01:59 am
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IGNORE THE WOMAN BEHIND THE IRONY CURTAIN
Rice Slams 'Aggressive' Russian Policies in Speech
Seven-and-a-half years later, she finally gets to make her big Soviet Union Russia Speech....
and Condi had harsh words for:
A country that is "increasingly authoritarian at home and aggressive abroad..."
A country with leaders who seem to believe "that if you pressure free nations enough -- if you bully, and threaten, and lash out -- [they] will cave in, and forget, and eventually concede..."
A country that needs to understand it's "on a one-way path to self-imposed isolation and international irrelevance..."
File under "TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE (Been There, Done That)"
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01:11 am
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401k..... 301k..... 201k..... 101k............ MY THOUGHTS ON THE ECONOMY / WALL STREET THING
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11:48 pm
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THANKS, FRANK RICH, THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN RANTING ABOUT TO FELLOW CUBE-DWELLERS AT WORK
New York Times columnist Frank Rich has been the superstar of this entire Presidential season, the clearest-eyed observer around. His column on the GOP ticket in Sunday's Times lays it all out in stunning and chilling detail... I hadn't grasped all the implications of the Truman thing from Palin's convention speech...but Frank lit it up. If you missed it:
From the Sept 14, 2008 New York Times: "The Palin-Whatshisname Ticket" by Frank Rich
And more about the Wasilla Gorilla, also from Sunday's NYT: Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes
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11:04 pm
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"JOHN" AND "SARAH" UPDATE
"John's An Older Man" reached #13 on the soundclick.com comedy charts this weekend...and hit #2 on the soundclick.com parody "sub-genre" chart! 'John' is down to #21 and #5, respectively, as of tonight....but I'm not complaining. What a hoot...thanks to everyone who checked it out on soundclick.com and maybe even gave it a thumbs-up!
Meantime I wanted to post my Sarah Palin parody of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" to the awesome song parody/music site www.amiright.com, but I had only written lyrics to the first part of that massive Meatloaf opus in my earlier nag post, and amiright requires a complete parody or else it's relegated to the 'fragments' section. So Friday night I went insane and wrote the rest of the parody, including a take-off on the Phil Rizzuto baseball play-by-play section in the middle. Even if you're not a big song parody fan or up on Meatloaf/Paradise, you might want to check it out for the "Larry King" show in the middle of the deal, with guests David Gergen, James Carville, and Jeffrey Toobin....enjoy. As of tonight, no nattering nabobs of negativity have appeared to trash the effort...they may yet show up, politics ain't beanbag... but the first group of amiright "Sarah" reviewers/commenters blew me away and made my day!
"Sarah Shines With the Whackjob Right" by Stormin Norman the nag at amiright.com
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02:22 am
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STRIKE A POSE: IT'S ALWAYS IN VOGUE WITH THE G.O.P. (Grand Older Posers) Party
Pose verb assume a particular attitude or stance, esp. with the hope of impressing others; present oneself insincerely
Poser noun a person who poses
Reality noun that which is real; an actual thing, situation, or event POSE: A frugal, savvy public servant who made a profit for taxpayers selling a wasteful state-owned jet on eBay
POSER: Sarah Palin
REALITY: Tried to sell it on eBay; failed miserably. Paid someone else to sell it at a big loss. POSE: A frugal, noble public servant who told Congress to keep its pork-barrel, $230 million Bridge to Nowhere
POSER: Sarah Palin
REALITY: She supported the bridge until it became clear the project was doomed; still kept the $230 million
POSE: A candidate who puts “Country First”
POSER: John McCain
REALITY: Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin
And the biggest pose of all, now heading into its eighth year:
POSE: Decision to “go on offense” in War on Terror has kept the homeland from being attacked again since 9/11
POSER: The G.O.P. Party
REALITY: Al-Qaeda in no hurry to hit us again as we’re still reeling from 9/11; Iraq remains a costly, bloody mess
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08:43 am
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Lance is coming back and so is "Lance"....
Armstrong coming out of retirement for Tour
"Lance" is back, too.....
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11:19 pm
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FIRST PICTURES, NOW SOUND...THIS INTERNET THING IS THE CAT'S MEOW
High quality playback, download at my soundclick page stormin norman the nag
See my sad old age mea culpa and song rationale below the lyrics. --Norm
JOHN’S AN OLDER MAN
("On the Road Again" by Willie Nelson)
John’s an older man
I’m just saying that John’s an older man
He was born the year that Jessie Owens ran
Vote John McCain if you want an older man John’s an older man
He’s twelve years older than the Marshall Plan
He’s got a decade on the State of Pakistan
Vote John McCain if you want an older man CHORUS 1:
John’s an older man
Life is grand without that information highway
Sending telegrams
And wishing that the world would run the old way, like in the old days John’s an older man
I’m just saying that he’s an older man
The wife he loves is making sure he gets his bran
Vote John McCain if you want an older man CHORUS 2:
John’s an older man
Life is grand who needs that information highway
Send those telegrams
Keep wishing that the world was like the old days, with those old ways John’s an older man
I’m just saying he’s quite an older man
The wife he loves is making sure he gets his bran
Vote John McCain if you want an older man
Or vote John McCain if you’re a President Palin fan
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Age is a funny thing. A relative thing. I heard a radio commercial last week with a cough in it. The coughing woman who recorded the spot is the producer of "The Mike Malloy (radio) Show" and also Mike's wife. The commercial is for some anti-aging skin cream. As an old radio guy, I thought, jeez, was Kathy in a hurry to record that to get out of the studio and back home last night? Kind of amateurish, the cough and the 'excuse me'....shooting for some kind of Radio-verite, or what?
So a couple of days later, I was driving my kids, a teen and a tween, to the orthodontist for their regular eight-week tune-up. The radio in the hip and happening Grand Caravan was tuned to AM1480 KPHX, the Nova M (commie/liberal, pinko-fag) station here in Phoenix for listeners with a brain and a political conscience, and the coughing spot came on just as I pulled into a parking space at the medical plaza. "Check this out!", I said to the kids. "The woman who recorded it was in a hurry or something and she coughs right in the middle of it! It's wacked!"
The spot ended and as we scurried into the office, the kids were insistent that it was I who was wacked and that the cough was part of the script. No, I said, no.... still in denial. The matter was forgotten as we walked into the orthodontist's office and the kids signed in on that new-fangled computer touch screen thing on the wall. They got their braces checked and adjusted and we piled back into the minivan.
As we pulled out of the lot, radio on, the coughing ad came on yet again. Rush Limbaugh may be beating would-be advertisers off with a stick, but on the liberal side of the radio house, it's slim pickings, and the lefty listener tends to hear the same three or four advertisers' spots over and over. "Okay!" I said, "Let's listen again! We'll see who's wacked!"
I heard something like, "Now that I've reached the age of *cough* forty, excuse me, I yada yada..."
Oh. Teen: "Do you get it now, Dad? She's embarrassed because she's old, so she's coughing to cover it up."
Oh. Tween: "Forty's old, Dad."
Oh. I didn't know. I thought forty was pretty young, seeing as I passed it many moons ago when these now-snickering creatures were three years old, and in the womb, respectively. I wish I were still forty. I'd take it in a heartbeat. Damn. Guess I'm not an old radio guy, I'm just plain old. Ouch.
Anyway I'm not just taking a cheap shot at John McCain with this song here...72 isn't that old, in and of itself. I hope to be as spry as (okay, even more spry) than McCain if and when I'm his age. But chances are I won't be running for one of the most grueling, grinding, and stressful jobs on the planet at 72, and I'm pretty sure I won't be carrying the physical and mental wear and tear of five-and-a-half years of beatings and torture at the hands of North Vietnamese captors. As for the cancer thing, I hope I'm still stuck on one minor brush with it when it comes to toting up my Big C experiences when I'm 72, and not up to four like McCain.
Bottom line, it's hardly a lock that John McCain would be up to the rigors of four years in the Oval Office if he were elected. Things happen. They happened to Woodrow Wilson...Ronald Reagan...Warren Harding...just to name three. Meaning whoever's #2 behind McCain could become #1 or at least the acting #1 at any point along the way.
Making Sarah Palin a real cause for alarm and not merely a real crack-up.
--Stormin
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04:25 am
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IF TINA FEY'S BUSY, PEGGY HILL CAN DO THE IRONY
 
Peggy once ran for the school board ... In a classic example of her self-aggrandizing nature Peggy treats her run for local school board as though she were a candidate for national office, using a backgammon set as a fake briefcase and answering her cellphone with "War room". In the end, [she] lost to a Christian zealot, who planned to get rid of biology, geometry, the after-school program, and all "offensive" encyclopedias.
(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Hill)
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03:26 am
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THEN & NOW....AND THINGS THAT GIVE YOU CHILLS OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER
THEN....
2000 Pessimist: George W. Bush doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground and he’s going to really screw things up.
2000 Optimist: At least an experienced old hand like Dick Cheney is there to keep George W. Bush from really screwing things up.
2000 Cynic: Boy, that Bush is such a dim bulb that Dick Cheney’s probably going to be running this country for the next four years. Now there’s a scary thought.
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2008 Pessimist: John McCain has war in his frigging DNA and after he bomb-bomb-bombs Iran he’ll probably start World War III over some piss-ant country like Georgia. If he lives that long.
2008 Optimist: John McCain’s been to war and knows how horrible it is so he won’t start any unnecessary conflicts. His mother’s about 150 and she looks great, and he’s only like 112, so he’ll probably make it another four years.
2008 Cynic: Boy, that old cancer-ridden semi-crippled goat McCain is so close to death’s door that Sarah Palin’s probably going to be running this country for some part of the next four years. Now there’s a scary thought.
Good Chills:
"We are the ones we've been waiting for." --Obama
Not so good:
"She's the one they've been waiting for!" --Me
Good Chills: "ENOUGH!" --Barack Obama
Not so good: "Lipstick." --Sarah Palin
Good Chills: An Obama smile
Not so good: A McCain smile
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12:26 am
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"Hockey Mom"? Ha. "Hockey Goon" is more like it: My take on Sarah's coming out party
Monday 9/15/2008: Check out the entire "Sarah Shines" at amiright.com!
Thursday Night 9/4/2008: I got a quick response apparently re: Bristol the pregnant daughter after I sent out the first part of "SARAH SHINES WITH THE WHACK-JOB RIGHT" by email this afternoon that I want to share with you along with my response. Because if someone wants a debate on this subject, that's a debate I want to have...the fact that Sarah Palin put her political ambition above her 17-year old daughter's privacy struck me as very telling...and not in a good way. I further dug into this in the balance of the parody, which I wrote tonight (the portion in blue):
"Even Obama thinks that a candidates family should not be targeted. I am surprised at you Norm."
"You'll have to color me unrepentant. Sarah Palin put her unwed pregnant teenage daughter in play. I then made reference to the situation. Here's what I didn't do: *I didn't announce my 17-year old daughter's unwed and apparently unplanned pregnancy to the world, thereby destroying her privacy, simply to knock down an internet rumor about me *I didn't tout my pregnant teenage daughter's decision to get married and have the baby in order to score points with my party's religious base for "doing the right thing" and help them get past the fact my daughter "did the wrong thing" in the their eyes in the first place *I didn't waltz my pregnant daughter and her impregnator onto that airport tarmac to meet John McCain and the national media Wednesday afternoon, and I didn't use them as TV props for my Convention speech that night Sarah Palin and/or her campaign did those things. Sarah basically threw her daughter under the bus, because apparently nothing can stand in the way of the ambitious, nasty witch from Wasilla. I'd watch out if I were John McCain. Because Sarah wants it all." SARAH SHINES WITH THE WHACK-JOB RIGHT
("Paradise by the Dashboard Light" by Jim Steinman/Meatloaf)
I remember every little zinger Like I heard it only yesterday Barking in a place Where there were hardly any brothers in sight And I never saw a gal Stooping any lower than she did All the Dittohead tools They were thinking she was sweet that night And wow their party’s so old so gross and white They didn't look too good they didn't look real bright But now they’re foaming like they’re mental for the eskimo’s wife Foaming like they’re mental for the eskimo’s wife C’mon! Holy cripes! C’mon! Holy cripes! Though she’s cold and homely when she wields that knife I can see Sarah shines with the Whack-job Right Ain’t no doubt about it She was badly tressed And her girl of seventeen Could barely fit her dress Ain’t no doubt about it Amy Winehouse musta been shouting Ain’t no doubt about it She was badly tressed And her girl of seventeen Could barely fit her dress
The Lady doesn’t have a heart
She lost it downing all those caribou
She’s been waiting so long
To shoot up all the rungs and be the one
And God she oughta know
Oh, you bet she should regret it
So low to publicize a daughter’s big surprise
But her dream could die
Had to knock the crazy rumors down
Check out the entire "Sarah Shines" at amiright.com!
--Stormin
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