Boomer's Buzz: Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Posted March 25, 2008, 5:29 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Tuesday, March 25, 2008. There are 280 days left in the year and 223 days left until Election Day.


Race For the White House:
Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail (AP)
Clinton Calls for $30 Billion for Home Mortgage Crisis (NY Times)
McCain Says U.S. Succeeding in Iraq (AP)
Clinton 'Misspoke' About '96 Bosnia Trip (Yahoo News)
Carville Refuses to Apologize for 'Judas Remark' (BostonGlobe)

Developing News:
Endeavour and Crew Leave Space Station (AP)
Google's Plans for the 'White Space' Between Your TV Channels (BusinessWeek)
MLB Season Opens Today in Japan (Kansas City)
Sirius and XM Merger Gets Go-Ahead (BusinessWeek)
Tiger's Unbeaten PGA Streak Ends at Doral (LATimes)
Dog Prays at Japanese Zen Temple (AP)

Latest Health News:
Operating on 'Inoperable Cancer': Doctors Remove 6 Organs and Then Tumor (Reuters)
Mexico Is Now 2nd Fattest Country, After U.S. (Yahoo)
Man Declared Dead Says He Feels 'Pretty Good' (CNN)

By the Numbers:
The 12 Most Horrible Words in the Engligh Language

Pic of the Day:
Elevision: Camera Attached to Elephant's Trunk Captures Amazing Jungle Pics (Daily Mail)

Video of The Day: They Don't Ride Like This Anymore



Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members GladysRenee, Dale and Johninfl! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Astronaut Jim Lovell is 80. Movie Critic Gene Shalit is 76. Author Gloria Steinem is 74. Legendary R&B singer Aretha Franklin is 66. Author Paul Michael Glaser ("Starsky and Hutch") is 65. Elton John is 61. Actress Mary Gross is 55. Actor James McDaniel is 50. Rock musician Steve Norman is 48. Actress Brenda Strong ("Desperate Housewives") is 48. Actress Marcia Cross ("Desperate Housewives") is 46. Actress Lisa Gay Hamilton is 44. "Sex and the City" actress Sarah Jessica Parker is 43. Baseball player Tom Glavine is 42.

On This Date:
In 1961: Elvis Presley appears in concert at a benefit for the U.S.S. Arizona memorial in Hawaii. Following his 17-song set, the King does not play another live date for the next eight years.

In 1965: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. leads 25,000 civil rights activists to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala. after a four day, 50-mile march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

In 1969: During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace in the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).

In 1979: The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to be prepared for its first launch.

In 1996: The redesigned $100 bill goes into circulation.

Today's Thought:
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
-- Franklin Roosevelt



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