Boomer's Buzz: Thursday, April 3, 2008

Posted April 3, 2008, 5:09 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Thursday, April 3, 2008. There are 272 days left in the year and 214 days left until Election Day.

Race For the White House:
McCain Compiles List of Possible Veeps (Newsday)
Dean Predicts Florida Delegates Will be Seated (LA Times)
Obama: I'd Hire Gore (Salon)
Obama Picks Up Two Superdelegates, Trims Clinton Lead in Pa. (AP)

Developing News:
FAA Investigates Four Airlines Over Safety Concerns (Houston Chronicle)
Mariah Tops Elvis With 18th No. 1 Hit

Not Exactly The Italian Job. This may be the dumbest criminal ever. Watch it all. It just keeps getting better.




Latest Health News:
Researchers Find Genetic Link To Lung Cancer (LA Times)
A Good Night's Sleep the Key to Staying Slim (Telegraph)
Research Debunks Health Value of Drinking Lots of Water (Reuters)

By the Numbers:
11 Bizarre Hotels That Will Knock Your Socks Off (vagabondish)
Good List: 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School (PositivityBlog)
Five Things You Didn't Know Google Could Do (WebUpon)

Pic of the Day:
Argentine Family Photographs Themselves Once A Year Since 1976 (ZoneZero)

Video of The Day: From the GB Classic Archive: Legendary Drummer Beats His Way Through History.




Today's GB Birthdays:
Happy birthday to GB members E and MFrost! Click their names to send them a birthday greeting!

Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Actress Doris Day is 84. Actor William Gaunt is 71. Actor Eric Braeden ("The Young and the Restless") is 67. Actress Marsha Mason is 66. Singer Wayne Newton is 66. Singer Tony Orlando is 64. Country musician Curtis Stone is 58. Actor Alec Baldwin is 50. Actor David Hyde Pierce ("Fraiser") is 49. Actor and comedian Eddie Murphy is 47.

On This Date:
In 1924: Actor Marlon Brando is born in Omaha, Neb. He's best known for his role in the "Godfather."

In 1948: President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

In 1953: TV Guide debuts, giving new meaning to the phrase "channel surfing."

In 1968: Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech to a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tenn., less than 24 hours before he is assassinated.

In 1973: Capitol Records issues two Beatles' greatest hits packages -- "The Beatles: 1962-1966" and "The Beatles: 1967-1970." Fans call them "the red album" and "the blue album."

In 1993: Ray Charles becomes the first performer to have hits on Billboard's charts in six different decades when his version of Leon Russell's "A Song For You" entered the R&B singles chart.

In 2000: A federal judge in Washington rules that Microsoft Corp. had violated U.S. antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on competitors during the race to link Americans to the Internet.

Today's Thought:
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."
-- Dale Carnegie



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