Pelosi’s First Test – Promotes Anti-War Murtha Over Hoyer

So now that the Democrats have won the House of Representatives they are forced to make leadership decisions. Thus, the newly minted “moderate” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is forced to choose between anti war John Murtha or the present house whip Steny Hoyer for the House Majority Leader position.

Well folks, she has choosen anti-war Murtha, even with a majority of the Democrats already saying they will support Steny Hoyer. So the “moderate” Pelosi is going to fight a likely losing battle to get her anti war candidate Murtha elected Majority leader. That sounds very moderate, doesn’t it.

It all happened with a five-paragraph letter circulated to the press on Sunday night. The current number two in House leadership, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), says he has enough votes to score the majority-leader slot when Democrats meet on Thursday. But he has been challenged by Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.), a decorated Vietnam War veteran who stunned colleagues last year by calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Pelosi wrote a letter endorsing Murtha, noting pointedly in the first sentence that he had asked for it. Praising his “courageous leadership” on Iraq “strong voice for national security,” she wrote that she is “pleased to support” his candidacy.

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Tourism Down, Inflation Up in Aruba according to the Central Bank of Aruba for September 2006

The Central Bank of Aruba has posted its monthly report for September 2006; even though the report mentions that the information about the number of sojourn tourists and the number of days they stayed is not yet available for the months of August and September, conveniently enough. However, here is the damaging information that they report does mention.

• The average inflation pace on a yearly basis was also 4.1 percent, which means an acceleration of 0.9 percent point compared with same period a year ago.
• price index figure for the family consumption in September was 4.1 percent higher that in September of 2005
• The number of sojourn tourists and the number of days they stayed has dropped with respectively 10.2 and 7.2 percent in the first seven months of this year.
• According to CBS, the room occupancy of the hotels show a drop of 2.5 to 66.6 percent for September, compared with last year.

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Daily Commentary – Monday November 13th, 2006

Dana Pretzer in his morning update discusses

• Veterans Day and Rememberance Day
• Remember Police Officers Lost in the Line of Duty

BIFF … TWACK … POW. The Dynamic Duo Batman and Robin Catch Drug Suspects

Truth is always stranger than fiction, this story is no different. These guys also get an “A” for originality.  The Caped Crusaders to the rescue. The Dynamic Duo … Batman & Robin, Sgt Tony Smith and PC Mike Holman put on the masks, tights and utility belts to catch some bad guys. They pretended to be drunks looking for a costume party, how funny is that?

They pretended to be drunks looking for a fancy dress party and knocked on the door of the suspect’s home.

Those inside refused to answer the door to the loud, comically dressed visitors – which was what the officers wanted.

Batman and Robin then went around the back of the property in Weymouth, Dorset, while seven uniformed officers went to the front door.

Then the super hero’s took action. Don’t mess with Batman and all his gadgets. Leave it to the Caped Crusader to chase the villain and jump over a fence in costume. Sgt Smith (Batman) even commented,  “the Batman costume was quite comfortable and not too restricting”. Why, why did now one have the video camera running?

However, one of the men inside the house ran out of the back door on seeing the policeman – to where the superheroes were waiting for him.

Batman – Sgt Smith – gave chase, jumped over a fence and BIFF, POW, THWACK, arrested him. (The Daily Mirror)

Cat Stevens, or should we say Yusuf Islam involved in financing terrorism? … Hardly Seems Like “The Peace Train”

Wow, this cant be good. The Jawa Report is stating that Yusuf Islam, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens “Financed Terrorists, Tied to Radical Clerics”. Guess, “The Morning has broken” for the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens.

Read the full story at The Jawa Report.

Past article from the Weekly Standard, “Is Cat Stevens a Terrorist?”