DollyCali

olly

Christian, divorced, vegetarian,
into "natural health & healing",
Presently living in NE Ohio
And caregiving Invalid mom
Too many interests, Too Little time

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RIP sweet Cali - July 28, 2007
Senior Feline in DollyCali household
Orphaned at 10 days in 1988

A Few of My
Favorite Things...

Son Jeff and his family (w/DollyCali)

Brother Duane and his family

My Pets.. here I am w/pooch Oliver

Thread about his rescue

Good bye Dolly ~
Good Bye Oliver

Look not where I was
For I am not there
My spirit is free
I am everywhere
In the air that you breathe
In the sounds that you hear
Don't cry for me Dolly,
My spirit is near
I'll watch for you
From the other side
I'll be the one running
New friends by my side
Smile at my memory
Remember in your heart
This isn't the end
It's a brand new start
You will join me soon
We will never be apart again.

Kayaking

Tubing

Biking

Cross Country Skiing

Exploring the Unknown

Anything/Everything Patriotic

FReepers and FReeping

DollyCali - JimRob - Kristinn - Diogenesis

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unks

Fun in nature

Miscellaneous Thoughts

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.~~ Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

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Friedrich Nietzsche - "God is Dead" (1882)
God - "Nitschke is Dead" (August 25, 2000)

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Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.~~ Al Capp

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The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"~~ Sigmund Freud

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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.~~ Redd Foxx

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A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.~~ Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)

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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.~~ Harry S. Truman

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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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"To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing." —Theodore Roosevelt

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. ~~Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)

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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli
. George Bush , U.S. president (41) Dubya's dad, 1990

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Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.~~ Colin Powell

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The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.~~ Alexander Haig

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A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than a minute. But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, it is longer than any hour. That's relativity.~~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.~~ Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.~~ George Santayana (1863-1952)

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.~~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"Sitting in church every Sunday does not make you a Christian anymore than sitting in the garage makes you a car." ~~ Glenn Beck

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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return." Mary Jean Iron ~~ Borrowed from FR Mozart Lover

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“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intelligence.” ~~ Dr. Samuel Johnson

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“I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.”~~ Will Rogers

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Eat a live frog first thing every morning
and chances are that will be the worst thing that
will happen to you for the rest of the day. ~~ DollyCali

I Am the Flag
Of the United States Of America

My name is Old Glory.
I fly atop the world's tallest buildings.
I stand watch in America's halls of justice.
I fly majestically over institutions of learning.
I stand guard with power in the world.
Look up and see me.

I stand for peace, honor, truth and justice.
I stand for freedom.
I am confident.
I am arrogant.
I am proud.

When I am flown with my fellow banners,
My head is a little higher,
My colors a little truer.
I bow to no one!

I am recognized all over the world.
I am worshipped - I am saluted.
I am loved - I am revered.
I am respected - and I am feared.

I have fought in every battle of every war for more then 200 years.
I was flown at Valley Forge, Gettysburg, Shiloh and Appomattox.
I was there at San Juan Hill, the trenches of France, .
in the Argonne Forest, Anzio, Rome and the beaches of Normandy.
Guam, Okinawa, Korea and KheSan, Saigon, Vietnam know me. .
I'm presently in the mountains of Afganistan
and the hot and dusty deserts of Iraq .
and wherever freedom is needed.

I led my troops, I was dirty, battleworn and tired,
But my soldiers cheered me and I was proud.
I have been burned, torn and trampled .
on the streets of countries I have helped set free.
It does not hurt for I am invincible.
I have been soiled upon, burned, torn and trampled
in the streets of my country.
And when it's done by those Whom I've served in battle -
It HURTS!.

But I shall overcome - for I am strong.
I have slipped the bonds of Earth and stood watch over.
the uncharted frontiers of space from my vantage point on the moon.
I have borne silent witness to all of America's finest hours.
But my finest hours are yet to come.
When I am torn into strips and used .
as bandages for my wounded comrades on the battlefield,
When I am flown at half-mast to honor my soldier,
Or when I lie in the trembling arms of a grieving parent
at the grave of their fallen son or daughter,

I am proud

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

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The ballot is stronger than the bullet

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What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

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Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

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When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

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Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. “

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It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. “

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Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack

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A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.

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Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. .

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Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

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If man does his best what else is there?

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Give me an Army of West Point Graduates, and I'll win a battle... give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war!!

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When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.

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The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

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Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details.

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I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.
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If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax..

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

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We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

HE HAS EARNED OUR RESPECT

The average age of the Infantryman is 19 years. He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country. He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either.

He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an verage student, played some type of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away. He listens to rock and roll or hip hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm Howitzers.

He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk. He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less... in the dark.

He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must. He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional. He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march.

He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without spirit or individual dignity. He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry. He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle. He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts.

If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food. He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low. He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life... or take it, because that is his job.

He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay, and still find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death then he should have in his short lifetime. He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them. He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed.

He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away' those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking.

In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he defends their right to be disrespectful.

Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is paying the price for our freedom. Beardless or not, he is not a boy. He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for over 200 years.

He has asked nothing in return, except for our support and understanding.

Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration with his willingness to pay the price with his/her blood.

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An elderly Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life.

He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf is evil --- he is fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, competition, superiority, and ego.

"The other is good --- he is joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.

"This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too."

They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

“Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem. Ronald Reagan, 1985

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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Saturday Evening Post, 1965

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“Trust, but verify“

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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

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Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.

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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

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"A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state. If you practice a religion, whether you're Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, or guided by some other faith, then your private life will be influenced by a sense of moral obligation, and so, too, will your public life. One affects the other. The churches of America do not exist by the grace of the state; the churches of America are not mere citizens of the state. The churches of America exist apart; they have their own vantage point; their own authority. Religion is its own realm; it makes its own claims. We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. We command no worship. We mandate no belief. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave it bereft of belief. All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who believe must be free to speak of and act on their belief, to apply moral teaching to public questions“

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The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'

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Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

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Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

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My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.Ronald Reagan, Said during a radio microphone test, 1984

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Movies are one of my many interests. And about any type -- domestic as well as foreign -- Independents as well as big studio -- Documentary as well as Historical Fiction., Sci Fi, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, war, Comedy, Have loved them since quite young attending with friends as a child to matinees and often to drive in with my parents growing up. My brother & I would be in back seat & quickly fall asleep after the drinks & gobbling up the large bags of popcorn mom would prepare. In High school & college movies were a reasonable & enjoyable date! My dates quickly learned that drive ins were okay, BUT we would be watching the movie!!!

Not currently being into TV (understatement) many of my evenings are spent at theater. I have a large DVD & video collection & great equipment to view them, but to me one cannot match, yet alone beat the quality picture, sound and comfort of a Cinemark or similar theater.

Granted, I don’t agree with the politics of many of the stars that I support with movie attendance, BUT I also don’t agree with the politics of my dentist, auto mechanic, restraunteers and other professions that I patronize.

Rotten Tomaotes Site where I hang out a lot!

Old movies & the older” classic” stars are fun.. WAY back to the silent & Charlie Chaplain. BUT, the new wave of stars offer a great deal of talent & I LOVE the special effects and all that our technology can make happen on the theater screen. To those who miss the movies of the past with lots of dialog, no effects etc, there IS LIVE THEATER. And there are videos and there are some filmmakers who do some things in the older (word would be cruder) manner. At the theater or with DVDs there is truly a movie for everyone!

I don’t really care if each “historical” movie is accurate to the diddle. Or scientifically feasible. Or politically acceptable…. I go to be entertained. I have found some of the movies I have enjoyed the most the past couple years, were critically trashed (Luther, The Passion of the Christ, Million Dollar Baby, Flightplan, Transporter(both), The Great Raid.. Just to give a few - or pooh, poohed by Conservatives here at FR.. Those things do not defer me!!!!

Now, I do have some limits. MICHAEL MOORE is one I do boycott. After his “little Oscar speech” he became a hero to MANY but a slob to me.. And a slob whom I will NOT patronize.

There are many great screenwriters but I truly like the quirky way that Charlie “does his stuff”. And I have a very LONG list of favorites for movies. To make it a fav movie??? Well, they would be ones that I would see again & no doubt saw SEVERAL times on big screen & prolly also have either a video or DVD.

8MM, 7 Years in Tibet, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 21 Grams, A River Runs Through It, Air Force One, Apollo 13, An American President, Absolute Power, About Schmidt, A Summer Place, Adaptation, A Few Good Men, Alien (all), A Beautiful Mind, Almost Famous, AI, Antz, Airplane,Babel, Batman(all), Bend it Like Beckman, Being There, Big Fish, Black Hawk Down, Bugs Life, Birdcage, Back to Future, Babe, Ben Hur, Borat, Bridges of Madison County, Bravehart, Bonnie and Clyde, Bill and Ted’s Most Excellent Adventure, Big, Bourne Identity, Bourne Supremacy, Being John Malkovich, Butterfly Effect; Calendar Girls, Catch Me if You Can, Chicago, Changing Lanes, Chaplin,Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Cinderella man, Coach Carter,Children of Men, Crash, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Cast Away, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Dial M for Murder, Driving Miss Daisy, Dead Man Walking, Darkwater, Day the Earth Stood Still, Departed, Doctor Zhivago, Dirty Dozen, Die Hard, Dirty Harry, Dances with Wolves, Dr. No, DOA, Dragnet, Dressed to Kill, Dick Tracy, Dreamgirls, Deliverance, ET, Enemy of the State, Erin Brokovich, English Patient, Eyes Wide shut, Evita, Emma, Elephant Man, Enchanted April, Ever After, Escape from Alcatraz, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Exorcist, Flightplan, Frida, Fairytales, Finding Neverland,Flags of Our Fathers, Flyboys, Friday Night Lights, Face Off, Frequency, Fargo, Field of Dreams, Far From Heaven, Four Brothers, Fried Green Tomatoes, Full Monty,

Green Mile, Gaslight, Ghost, Girl Interrupted, Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters, Grumpy Old Men, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, Gladiator, Gangs of NY. Good Shepherd, Great Raid, Happy Feet, Harry Potter(all), Hours, Head of State, Hide and Seek,Hollywoodland, Howard's End, Haunting, In-laws,Howl's Moving Castle , Insomnia, Italian for Beginners, Indiana Jones, Insider, In The Bedroom, Lilo & Stitch, Lord of Rings(all), LA Confidential, League of their Own, Little Princess, Lorenzo’s Oil, Lawrence of Arabia,Last King of Scotland, Last Dance, Legends of the Fall, Little Children, Longest Yard, Love Story, Les Miserables, Lethal Weapon, Last of the Mohicans,Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events , Little Miss Sunshine,

March of the Penguins, Matrix (all), Monsters, Inc., Midnight Cowboy, Mars Attacks, Magnificent Seven, Master and Commander; Monster House, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mullhuland Drive, Mutiny on the Bounty, Million Dollar Baby,` Moulin Rouge, Mystic River, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Pet Semetary, Patriot, Piano, Pirates of the Caribbean(both); Prince of Egypt, Prince of the Tides, The Pianist, Pearl Harbor, Pursuit of Happiness; Psycho, Phantom of Opera, Quiet American, Radio, Rainman, Rushmore, River Runs Through It, Reversal of Fortune, Robocop, Robots, Rosemary’s Baby, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Rules of Engagement, Remains of the Day, Rocky, Rocky IV, Real Women Have Curves, RainMaker,Redeye; Road to Perdition,Rocky Balboa, Royal Tannenbaums, Rookie, Remember the Titans, Rudy, Runaway Jury

Seabiscuit; Shrek, Sixth Sense, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants , Sling Blade, Sky Hight;Snakes on a Plane, Spartacus, Strictly Ballroom, Shrek, Shining, Serpico, Six Degrees of Separation, Scent of a Woman, Sleepless in Seattle, Shawshank Redemption, Sense and Sensibility, Splendor in the Grass, Summer of 42, sister Act, Sneakers, Sideways, Somewhere in Time, Sleepers, Schinlinder’s List, Silence of the Lambs, Shadowlands, Saving Private Ryan, Secondhand Lions, Spirited Away, Superman (all but esp the first couple), Somewhere in time, Syriana, The Island, The Others,The Queen,The Devil Wears Prada, The Illusionist, The Missing; Titanic, Talented Mr. Ripley, The Lake House, The Interpreter, The Passion of Christ; Toy Story,The Aviator,

Traffic, A Time to Kill, Twister, The Graduate, The Guardian, The Last Samurai; The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Terminator, Tombstone.The Holiday, Terms of Endearment, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Natity Story, To Sir With Love, Troy, Triplets of Bellville, True Grit, Untouchables, Unfaithful, Volver, Wag the Dog, Waking Ned Divine, Wizard of Oz, Wayne’s World, Whale Rider, When Harry Met Sally, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, War of the Roses, War of the Worlds, War Games, Wedding Crashers, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, What About Bob?, Witness, World Trade Center,

List updated: January, 2007.

Star Wars. If I had to give a favorite movie(series) this would no doubt be top, but followed closely by Lord of the Rings. I do enjoy fantasy and special effects.

Here is a link to a thread I did here at FR when the last movie was released in spring of 2005. There are a lot of graphics & links for star war fans. Star Wars Thread

and I like about everything that Mel does!

Riends

FUZZY & OTHERWISE

Paul, DC; Bill, Nancy

John, Oliver, Tippy & Chance

John(2) and Sasha

Karen and Dolly Cali

Mark and DollyCali

John(3), Snowflake and Oliver

Paul(2) and DollyCali

Akron Zonta Gals

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FReepers join the fun at a spring support
the troops rally in Cleveland Ohio

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DollyCali & Oliver join DC Freepers at Reagan Funeral

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Freepers Meet at Stan Hywet in Akron
(front) JustAmy, Dr.Deb, PrissyMissy, MollyPitcher, DollyCali
(back)ohioWfan, Commiewatcher, BoxerBlues; Dubyaismypresident,Mama_Bear

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WVNan; ohioWfan; Dr.Deb; Molly Pitcher; DollyCali;Mountaineer get together in Columbus

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DollyCali visits Buffalo Freepers at Jimmy Macs

FReeper Inaugural Ball 2005

ATRWers - BMWCyle; DollyCali; Prairiebreeze; Redleg Duke

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OneLoyalAmerican at his Chief promotion with his betterhalf

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Ohio & WV FReepers meet in Newark

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Oliver in Cuyahoga River finds a fawn to swim/play with. I was kayaking with friend John & his dog.
The fawn did NOT want to play. Oliver is very gentle.

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Oliver & Cali May 2005

"Mr Perch" at Cuyahoga River at Towpath Carriage Trail

Mr Perch overlooking the Canal at national park

Looking "pretty" in a neckscarf

Cali & Oliver after hike from home to canal at Milepost 16

Mothering one of the meow mix gang

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