Sep 4, 2015

Actress and Author Elinor Donahue: The Cat Who Re...



The Cat Who Read the Mail - Donahue, Elinor







Actress and Author Elinor Donahue: The Cat Who Re...: Publicity photo of actress Elinor Donahue from an appearance on the television program Goodyear Theater. (Photo credit: Wikipe...

Actress and Author Elinor Donahue: The Cat Who Read The Mail

The Cat Who Read the Mail - Donahue, Elinor



Publicity photo of actress Elinor Donahue from...
Publicity photo of actress Elinor Donahue from an appearance on the television program Goodyear Theater. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)















Do you love watching Elinor Donahue on Cozi, Me and Antenna TV, too..........

She was always one of my favorites growing up.......her beautiful voice and personality still shine right through the television screen.

Not only is she a good cook but she loves animals, too.......and she loves chatting with her furry children, as well.

Thanks, Elinor, for telling us about your experiences with cats and sharing your favorite recipes--Good job and well done.


The Cat Who Read the Mail

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"The Cat Who Read the Mail" sixteen amazing stories about our mysterious bond with animals Can a dog understand the grief and loss of 9/11? Can a cat expose a cheating husband? Can a research dog let his rescuer know he wants to be called 'Rexy"? Absolutely! And here are the stories to prove it. These are accounts of extraordinary interactions between people and pets. Stories that surprise, perplex and move us. But The Cat Who Read the Mail is not simply another collection of 'amazing" animal stories. Instead, animal writer and columnist Elinor Donahue explores the interaction between people and pets when it moves beyond amazing and becomes inexplicable, mysterious, profound. She's interviewed dozens of ordinary people who have anything but ordinary stories to tell.





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Here, told in a lively, journalistic style, are the most compelling encounters with the unexpected through an animal. Samson the cat began chewing and ripping the mail - selecting only the mail addressed to the husband of the house. He'd then deposit the remains at the front door where the wife would see it when she came home. Samson was on to something. Annie, the 12-pound therapy dog at Ground Zero, gathered the gazes of a circle of bereaved men a few days after 9/11 - whereupon each of them spilled out, one by one, whom they lost there. 'My mother." 'My brother." 'My sister." When Malibu the dog died, her housemate cat, Whip, watched in fascination -- and the next day took on Malibu's daily habits, including opening the kitchen cabinets to forage for dog treats. 

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While each story in this entertaining and fast-reading book stands on its own, the narratives gather momentum as acollection, suggesting there is more mystery and meaning here than our limited vantage can account for. However, Donahue does not attempt to explain or interpret. She simply showcases these special pets and the ordinary people who have glimpsed the extraordinary because of them. The Cat Who Read the Mail offers 16 stories that, in quick and glancing style, suggest that animals are in on the play of the universe in ways beyond our imagining. Still, each episode is real and occurred in the ordinary life of a grounded human being. The people in these stories never expected or sought the unexplainable event they experienced. Donahue has interviewed each of these individuals in depth, selecting the most compelling stories. Like Joel, the optometrist who dealt only in rational fact. He wasn't expecting that an eerie howl from the cat would precede the apparition of Baxter, his recently deceased dog. And a renowned dog trainer found that indeed it matters what you call your dog. When it hears the name it really wants, like 'Jazz," the animal will respond far more readily than when the moniker is a misfit, like 'Daisy." Though not sentimental heart warmers, these are stories for the good. That is their power. These occurrences can't be explained-and because of that they make their way into the crevices in our thinking. They take us to the moment of inswept breath-the aha! that catches us unaware. And they're fun to read!


copied from alibris.com


here is the wiki page about Elinor Donahue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Donahue


Elinor Donahue Interview on the Archive of American Television:

http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/elinor-donahue











Sep 3, 2015

Roland Martin Calls Out Bill O'Reilly

Bill O'Reilly self-absorbed with his own brand of Catholic guilt.......it even might be more accurate to use the terms of limited social mobility or poverty to describe certain situations that exist in out country, but after watching Bill O'Reilly carefully choose his words and statistics to make his point for several years one may also want o apply the label of racist to his nightly rant.





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Roland Martin: Bill O’Reilly Should 'Shut The Hell Up' About #BlackLivesMatter

"I don’t recall you, Bill O’Reilly, ever saying that you’re going to take out police brutality."

Fox News has been branding the Black Lives Matter movement as a "hate group" and a "murder movement" -- and TV One's Roland Martin isn't having it.
The host lashed out at Bill O'Reilly, who on Monday called the Black Lives Matter movement a hate group and promised to put them "out of business."
"I don’t recall you, Bill O’Reilly, ever saying that you’re going to take out police brutality … but all of a sudden you want to take out the Black Lives Matter movement because you don’t like the fact that they’re out there protesting,” Martin said Wednesday on TV One.
He went on to say he'd be happy to debate O'Reilly or Fox News host Megyn Kelly on their respective shows, and concluded that O'Reilly should "shut the hell up!"
Fox News has been on a crusade against the Black Lives Matter movement since the network ran an onscreen banner during Monday night's episode of "Fox & Friends" referring to it as a "murder movement."
The station's hosts appear to put some blame on the movement for the death of Deputy Darren Goforth of Harris County, Texas, who was fatally shot while pumping gas in a Houston suburb on Friday night. Goforth was white, and the man who police believe killed him, Shannon Miles, is black.
That said, O'Reilly has been against the movement for months. Let's not forget the time hecompared Black Lives Matter to the Gestapo.
But hey, Fox News' ratings were off the charts last month.
 Also on HuffPost: 

Anthony Defends Huma: Political Beauty and Hillary Clinton Aide

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political beauty:  Huma Amedin

Anthony Weiner fires back at Donald Trump: 'Outrageous'



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Washington (CNN)Former congressman Anthony Weiner fired back Tuesday night at Donald Trump, who days ago launched a volley of attacks at Weiner and his wife, a top aide to Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Trump suggested during a campaign event Friday that Clinton's close aide Huma Abedin shared classified information with Weiner, who resigned his seat in Congress after he was caught sending sexually explicit tweets another woman. Trump on Friday also called Weiner "a perv" and "one of the great sleazebags of our time."
"I think it's pretty outrageous," Weiner said Tuesday night on New York's NY1 news channel. "I think the idea to take someone who's served in government for 20 years and impugn her in that way is outrageous. I mean he wants to make me a campaign issue. I'm not going to indulge that."
Weiner added that Trump had "no evidence at all" to back up his allegations.
"Anyone who's ever worked with her knows that not only is she eminently qualified, but she does her job with skill and with grace and has done it for a very long time making enormous sacrifices for our country," Weiner said.
Trump has refused to back off his accusations, instead firing off a series of tweets on Monday digging in on his position, calling Abedin "a major security risk" as the "wife of perv sleazebag Anthony Weiner."
    Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill had slammed Trump's comments about Abedin as "disgraceful" and said "there is no place for patently false, personal attacks toward a staff member."

    copied from google news and cnn.com