Boomer's Buzz: Monday, May 5, 2008

Posted May 5, 2008, 5:34 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Monday, May 5, 2008. There are 240 days left in the year and 182 days left until Election Day.

Race For the White House:
Latest Indiana and North Carolina Polling Averages (Huffington Post)
Will Age Be Just a Number in Election? (Yahoo News)
Poll: Flap Over Pastor Hurts Obama (USA Today)
Republicans Gleeful Over Obama's Rocky Period (AP)

Developing News:
Sea Lions Shot Dead on Colmbia River as Salmon Battle Rages (AP)
Yahoo CEO Facing Possible Rebellion After Spurning Microsoft (AP)
Iron Man Debuts With Staggering $104M Weekend (AP)
Illinois Man Orders Custom Beer Can Coffin (Yahoo)

Latest Health News:
Who Should MDs Let Die in a Pandemic? Report Offers Answers (AP)
10% of U.S. Kids Use Cough Medicine Every Week ( LiveScience)

By the Numbers:
10 Typos The Grammar Slammer Would Catch (Oddee)

Pic of the Day: Doggy Exam



Video of The Day: Best Wedding Toast. Ever.




Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members Zoo Babe, Margie Writes and Ketey! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Actress Pat Carroll is 81. Rock musician Ace Cannon is 74. Actor Michael Murphy is 70. Country singer Roni Stoneman is 70. Actor and comedian Michael Palin is 65. Actor Roger Rees is 64. MTV personality Kurt Loder is 63. Rocker Bill Ward is 60. Actor Richard Grant is 51. Broadcast journalist John Miller is 50. NBC News anchor Brian Williams is 49.

On This Date:
In 1891: Carnegie Hall (then named Music Hall) opens in New York City.

In 1955: The baseball musical "Damn Yankees" opens on Broadway.

In 1961: Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. becomes America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

In 1985: President Ronald Reagan attends a wreath-laying ceremony at a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany. The visit drew worldwide condemnation because 49 members of the Waffen SS were buried there.

In 2002: French President Jacques Chirac is re-elected in a landslide victory over extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Today's Thought:
"Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."
-- Orison Swett Marden



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