Boomer's Buzz: Saturday, March 15, 2008

Posted March 15, 2008, 4:09 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Saturday, March 15, 2008. There are 291 days left in the year and 233 days left until Election Day.
Race For the White House:
Today on the Presidential Campaign Trail (AP)
Democratic Rivals Agree to Play Nicer (AP)

Developing News:
Bear Stearns Crisis Shocks Stock Markets (WSJ)
Atlanta Braces for Another Severe Storm (AP)
Cleaning Out the Garage -- "Let's Sell That Complete Mastadon Skeleton on eBay" (Reuters)
Florida Passes 'Droopy Pants' Law (Yahoo News)
"Hell No!" 83-year-old Woman Foils Purse Snatcher (Yahoo)

Latest Health News:
Toxin Found in "Natural," "Organic" Items (WashingtonPost)
FDA Testing All Supplies of Blood Thinner (Baltimore Sun)

By the Numbers:
Vatican's 7 New Mortal Sins (NPR)
10 Hard Ways to Make Your Life Better (lifehack)

Pic of the Day:
New Portrait of Mozart Found (Telegraph)
Possibly the Worst Invention Ever (PhotoBasement)

Video of the Day: Awareness Test. This is a commercial that is very interesting and makes a great point.




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

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Country singer Carl Smith is 81. Jazz musician Cecil Taylor is 79. Rock musician DJ Fontana is 77. Astronaut Alan Bean is 76. Actor Judd Hirsch ("Taxi") is 73. Rock musician Phil Lesh ("The Grateful Dead") is 68. The Beach Boys' Mike Love is 67. Rock musician Sly Stone is 65. Actor Craig Wasson is 54. Model Fabio is 49. Rock singer Mark McGrath (Sugar Ray) is 40.

On This Date:
In 1913: President Woodrow Wilson holds the first open presidential news conference.

In 1956: The Lerner and Loewe musical "My Fair Lady" opens on Broadway.

In 1964: Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton get hitched.

In 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

In 1982: Bob Dylan is inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame during a ceremony held at New York's Hilton Hotel.

In 1985: The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com, is registered.

In 2005: Former WorldCom chief Bernard Ebbers is convicted in New York of engineering the largest corporate fraud in U.S. history. (He is later sentenced to 25 years in prison.)

Today's Thought:
"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about."
-- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer



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