More odd news, 4/1/05

So, what do you do the night before a big hearing that features an old enemy agitating for a new job they are unfit for. I know, PARTY!

FEVER PITCH, the Film 85 Years in the Making -for Red Sox Fans, Anyway- Breaks Curse of the Bambino... Celebrates with Gala Premiere at Fenway Park
Business Wire 04-01-2005

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2005--The new motion picture FEVER PITCH began production last year. But many Red Sox fans feel like it's been 85 years in the making, since the romantic comedy starring Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon could have helped break the infamous Curse of the Bambino.

So it seems only natural that the "curse-lifting" film has its gala premiere at Boston's fabled Fenway Park, on April 6, in front of thousands of cheering Red Sox and movie fans.

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Other notables expected to attend the event are Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.), Boston mayor Thomas M. Menino, Boston natives Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, players from the New England Patriots and Boston Celtics, plus Bill Murray, Johnny Knoxville and Aerosmith. ESPN's Steve Levy will emcee.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/01/nyregion/metrocampaigns/01hillary.html

Clinton Supporters Gear Up Against 'Swift Boat' Tactics
New York Times, Late Edition - Final, Sec. B, p 2 04-01-2005
By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ

WASHINGTON, March 31

With 19 months to go before the elections and no opponent in sight, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign is nonetheless warning her political supporters that she is the prime target of "the right-wing attack machine."

In a fund-raising e-mail message sent out on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton's campaign also said her critics were preparing an advertising campaign against her similar to the one orchestrated by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that attacked Senator John Kerry's Vietnam service during the presidential election.

"The right wing is already getting ready, naming Hillary as their 'No. 1 target' and boasting about their 'Swift Boat' style ads," said the e-mail message, which was sent by Ann F. Lewis, the director of communications for Mrs. Clinton's campaign committee, Friends of Hillary. "Help us show the right wing that we will be ready and able to fight back."

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/search/search_results.htm?pubName=beaconjournal&orderBy=date&pageStart=1&sitesToSearch=beaconjournal&pageSize=10&fieldsToSearch=HEADLINE%2CFORSEARCH%2CLEAD%2CBYLINE&queryType=all&searchSelect=article&query=Stephen+Dyer

Analysis points to election `corruption'
Akron Beacon Journal, 4X, Sec. B, p 4 04-01-2005
By Beacon Journal staff writer By Stephen Dyer

There's a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday.

Exit polls in the November election showed Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., winning by 3 percent, but President George W. Bush won the vote count by 2.5 percent.

There's a one-in-959,000 chance that exit polls could have been so wrong in predicting the outcome of the 2004 presidential election, according to a statistical analysis released Thursday.

(Well, I'm, gobsmacked. Someone covered this!)

"Last year, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee committed to investigate whether Bush Administration officials misused intelligence. The failure of the report issued today to examine this important issue only serves to increase the need for the chairman to keep that commitment." _ Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.

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"This report is much more than a wake-up call. Not only was the intelligence dead wrong about Iraq, but with growing threats in Iran and North Korea we must take deadly seriously the commission's conclusion that we know disturbingly little about the weapons programs of hostile nations." _ Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, Democratic candidate for president in 2004.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050401/ap_on_go_pr_wh/intelligence_commission_quotes_2

He's always looking forward. And his remark is precisely why this matters. Iran will be the same problem: too little intelligence, too much supposition.

Having fun ,while being a good Senator visiting his constituents.