Congress assembles today for the new session so be sure to tell them how best to represent us the the coming year.
History 101: January 3rd, 2003: NASA's rover, Spirit, touched down on Mars.
Music History 101: January 3rd, 1987: The first female solo performer ever was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was Aretha Franklin.
The 101 number one song of the day was recorded by a guy who was suffering from a bad case of laryngitis but that didn’t keep it from winning an Oscar. His doctor ordered him not to use his voice for two weeks but the singer pleaded with him to give him something to lubricate his throat because he had a recording session the following day to do a song for a big movie that was about to be released. The doctor finally relented and when the session was finished one of the studio executives commented that he sounded a lot like the movie’s star – Paul Newman. A few weeks later, his throat healed and he recorded the single version which you’re about to hear. But the raspy voiced version stayed on the film’s soundtrack and won an Academy Award. On January 3, 1970 it rose to number one on Billboard’s Hot 100 and it’s today’s 101 number one song of the day – B.J. Thomas “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head”
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Buddify Me is the new incarnation of My Mighty Team, a free online service for connecting you with a support team to help you make sure that this year you keep your New Year’s resolutions. You can easily and quickly invite friends, family or co-workers to join your team and help you make progress. The teams are private and invitation-only, so what’s shared with your team stays with your team. There are communication tools that let you and your teammates blog, text, and get updates through e-mail or cell phone. In addition to the private team pages, they also have public pages on the most popular resolutions such as “I Will Exercise More,” “I Will Quit Smoking,” or “I Will Find a Job.”
Lake Superior University in Michigan came out with their annual list of over-used and abused words and phrases that should be forever banned from our language. These are the words they say need to be banished. ‘Wow factor’, ‘Aha moment’, ‘viral’, ‘back-story’ and ‘BFF’. In a special tribute to Sarah Palin, they’ve had enough of ‘refudiate’, ‘mama grizzlies’ and ‘man up!’. They say politicians way overused –‘the American people’. They get a little crazy when they hear people using ‘Facebook’ and ‘Google’ as verbs. And they say you can’t ‘live life to the fullest’….something is either full or it’s not.
Outgoing Governor Bill Richardson refused to pardon 1880’s outlaw Billy the Kid on his last day in office.
The story goes Billy the Kid was originally offered a pardon by the New Mexico governor in 1881 in return for his testimony about a string of murders. But the governor reneged on his deal – and the Kid was eventually shot in 1881 by Pat Garrett. Richardson said he couldn’t determine why the old governor didn’t honor the deal – so he couldn’t tell if there was a good reason.
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