Boomer's Buzz: Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Posted April 30, 2008, 5:20 am by Growing Bolder


Today is Wednesday, April 30, 2008. There are 245 days left in the year and 187 days left until Election Day.


Race For the White House:
Today on The Presidential Campaign Trail (AP)
Howard Dean: Obama or Clinton Must Drop Out in June (The Huffington Post)
Obama Breaks With Former Pastor (NY Times)
Obama to 82-Year-Old, "Will You Be My Running Mate?"



Developing News:
Alleged Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape to be Released (AP)
Idols Do Diamond (LA Times)
Albert Hoffman, Inventor of LSD Dies at 102 (Telegraph)

Latest Health News:
Exercise Cuts Women's Risk of Health Disease (WashingtonPost)
Low Thyroid Output Tied to Heart Attacks in Women (Reuters)
New Genes For Osteoporosis May Help Guide Treatment (Reuters)

By the Numbers:
21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs (10e20)

Pic of the Day: Vancouver




Video of The Day: Not your typical prison yard. 1,500-plus inmates of a prison in the Philippines practice their Michael Jackson Thriller routine.


This unique approach to rehabilitation has been so sucessful that 8 prison facilities in the Philippines have now adopted it. How about one more number? Here's the gang dancing to "Jump" by the Pointer Sisters.



Today's Celebrity Birthdays:
Actress Cloris Leachman is 82. Country singer Willie Nelson is 75. Talk show host Gary Collins is 70. Actor Burt Young is 68. Singer Bobby Vee is 65. Actress Jill Clayburgh is 64. Actor Perry King is 60. Actor Paul Gross is 49. Basketball Hall of Famer and former New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas is 47.

On This Date:
In 1927: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.

In 1939: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to appear on TV during the World Fair's opening ceremonies broadcast.

In 1939: The New York World's Fair, billed as a look at "the world of tomorrow," opens.

In 1997: ABC airs the "coming out" episode of the sitcom "Ellen," in which the title character, played by Ellen DeGeneres, admits she is a lesbian.

In 2004: Michael Jackson pleads not guilty in Santa Maria, Calif., to a grand jury indictment that expanded the child molestation case against him. He is later acquited.

Today's Thought:
"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson




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