Boomer's Buzz: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Posted March 12, 2008, 4:10 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Wednesday, March 12, 2008. There are 294 days left in the year and 236 days left until Election Day.

Race For the White House:
Obama Wins Mississippi Primary (NY Times)
Ferraro Under Fire for Obama Race Comment (CNN)
Clinton's Pensylvania Plan (Wall Street Journal)
Romney Would Be "Honored" by VP Slot (Boston Globe)

Developing News:
Fed Offers Banks $200 Billion Loan Rescue, Stocks Soar (AP)
1 in 4 Teen Girls Have STD (AP)
Gilligan's Mary Ann Makes Plea Agreement on Drug Charge (USA Today)
Billy Crystal Signs One-Day Deal With Yankees (Truemors)

Latest Health News:
Study: Depresssion Can Promote Heart Failure (USA Today)
Health Emergencies Rise Quietly With Older Fliers (USA Today)

By the Numbers:
9 Ways to Jumpstart Your Writing Goal (DumbLittleMan)

Pic of the Day:
If Celebs Moved to Oklahoma (Wintrest)

Video of the Day: Pink Floyd and The Whiz -- Fact or Myth?




Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members Pamela Frederiksen and Ben! Click on their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Playwright Edward Albee is 80. Civil rights leader Andrew Young is 76. Singer, actress Liza Minnelli is 62. Former Massachusetts Governor and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is 61. Singer James Taylor is 60. Actor Jon Provost ("Lassie") is 58. Jackson Five member Marlon Jackson is 51. Actor Jerry Levine is 51. Baseball player Darryl Strawberry is 46.

On This Date:
In 1894: Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.

In 1930: Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as Dandi March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.

In 1947: President Harry Truman establishes what became known as the Truman Doctrine to help Greece and Turkey resist Communism.

In 1961: At RCA's Nashville studios, Elvis Presley records his entire upcoming album, "Something For Everybody," in less than twelve hours.

In 1974: John Lennon and Harry Nilsson are thrown out of the Troubador nightclub in Los Angeles for heckling the Smothers Brothers. To find out what the Smothers Brothers are up to now, listen to the interview with Dick Smothers on the GB Radio Show!

In 1980: A Chicago jury finds John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of the murders of 33 men and boys.

In 1987: The musical "Les Miserables" opens on Broadway.

Today's Thought:
"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it."
-- Alexander Graham Bell



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