Holy Moly! More bugs in the LipsYard. Those pesky paper wasps (Polistes dominulus) were building this nest (flung to the ground in a panic,) under the gutter cover. Paper wasps build clusters of hexagonal paper cells. Mixing masticated (chewed) wood pulp with adhesive saliva, these paper nest cells act as larval nesting chambers for the young wasps.
Here's a juvenile peeking out of it's cell. Creepy.
Even more creepy is the Hornet's nest (or are they rats?) stirred up in Congressional hearings on Blackwater, the private contractors we've hired to do the military's work in Iraq. AsRep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) stated, "We're paying them more than our troops, and getting less. Privatizing is working exceptionally well for Blackwater. The question for this hearing is whether outsourcing to Blackwater is a good deal to the American taxpayer, whether it's a good deal for the military and whether it's serving our national interest in Iraq."
Not to mention the fact that civilians keep getting killed whenever they're conducting operations.
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