Making a Statement

Via Drudge, Mary Ann Akers blog post "No Harm, No Fowl:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) returned from a four-day trip to Iraq and Afghanistan Monday night to a bizarre, Hitchcock-ian scene -- a beady-eyed, black bird flying around her posh Georgetown apartment.

No news whether her bust of Pallas sustained any damage. Presumably when Nancy gazes on Pallas she views the goddess. Other descriptions of Pallas are an "epithet for Athena". You choose. Maybe the bird was making a statement.