Just HAVE to watch Movies

**Updated. See below**

I was going to blog something else this morning, but Renee Eve changed my mind. She mentioned in a comment on yesterdays blog how she has to watch Grease and Urban Cowboy when they come on. I love those movies! I'm the same way with those two and more. Others that I have seen dozens of times are Beautiful Girls, Sleeping with the Enemy, Practical Magic, Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightly version), Becoming Jane (even though it is fairly new I have seen it a lot!), Gone With the Wind, Ten Commandments, Sound of Music and Willy Wonka (the original, not the crappy new one). I could sit and watch all of those movies back to back to back! A whole weekend movie marathon!
I don't know what it is about movies that draw me to them. I think sometimes it is the soundtrack. Just look at Grease and Urban Cowboy for instance. What fantastic sound tracks. I love the music in Beautiful Girls too. Practical Magic has Stevie Nicks. Stevie Nicks! And you can't go wrong with Julie Andrews. Willy Wonka is just so much fun. And of course with the others, well they are period movies. I love period movies. The costumes, the way they speak. I love that. I think I was born a couple hundred years too late!
But then again, maybe I did live through those times and that is why I am so drawn to it. But that is a whole other blog!
So we know what movies Renee Eve HAS to watch. What about you???

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Going to get a little political....
WASHINGTON – A Saudi militant who was released from Guantanamo Bay after six years of confinement is now a top figure in the Yemeni branch of al-Qaida, a U.S. counterterrorism official confirmed Friday.
Said Ali al-Shihri was released in 2007 to the Saudi government for rehabilitation. He re-emerged this week, identified by a militant-leaning Web site as a top deputy in "al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula," a Yemeni offshoot of the terror group headed by Osama bin Laden.
The Yemeni branch has been implicated in several attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Yemen's capital Sana.

Do they think we are stupid? Of course something like this is going to come out right after President Obama has signed a paper for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. He has said, if I am not mistaken, that there will be investigations into all detainees to look into either releasing them, or moving them to another facility for a real trial. Why are they trying to make it look like terrorists are being "released" from Guantanamo. And for the record.....the guy was released under one President Bush....see above date of 2007.