Remember our little lady spider friend from an earlier blog? READ HERE. The Black and Yellow Argiope (Argiope aurantia) is doing well in the Day Lillies (Hemerocallis) ...
...and recently layed this egg sack, now attached to the garage siding.
With the recent outbreak of mosquitos (Diptera Culicidae,) its nice to see one caught in the web.
Speaking of caught in the web, here's a shot of General David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, testifying in the first of three hearings this week on the future course of the unpopular 4-year-old Iraq war.
A recent New York Times/CBS News Poll found that Americans trust military commanders far more than the Bush administration or Congress to bring the war in Iraq to a successful end. Five percent of Americans said they most trust the Bush administration to resolve the war, the poll found; 21 percent said they would most trust Congress; and 68 percent expressed the most trust in military commanders.
A separate poll shows that an overwhelming numbers of Iraqis say the U.S. troop buildup has worsened security and the prospects for economic and political progress in their country. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed in a poll conducted by ABC News, Britain's BBC, and Japan's public broadcaster NHK said they want American forces and their coalition allies to leave the country immediately. This was 12 percent more people than harbored those views in a March poll, just as the troop increase was beginning.
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