Trap-Jaw Ants Break Speed Records With Jaws

Ant writes to tell us UC Berkeley News is reporting that a species of Ant native to Central and South America is setting speed records with their jaws. The trap-jaw ant has been clocked closing its mandibles at between 78 and 145 miles per hour, said to be the "fastest self-powered predatory strike in the animal kingdom". In addition to blinding speed the ants have also been taped using their jaws to fling themselves into the air.

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John McCain: Beltawy Bandit Part 2 +1, Helpful

[Anonymous Coward]

I am writing on behalf of myself and a few of my friends to state that John McCain is hardly the first proponent of namby-pamby, indelicate clericalism and he is unlikely to be the last. In the first place, if we take McCain's prevarications to their logical conclusion, we see that one day, McCain will sell quack pharmaceutical supplies (and you should be suspicious whenever you hear such tell-tale words and phrases as "breakthrough", "miracle", "secret remedy", "exclusive", and "clinical studies prove that..."). I feel that he has insulted everyone with even the slightest moral commitment. McCain obviously has none, or he wouldn't cure the evil of discrimination with more discrimination. Unless he can ignore rules, laws, and protocol without repercussion, it is simply wrong to conclude that he acts in the public interest. His stances are like an enormous expansionism-spewing machine. We must begin dismantling that structure. We must put a monkey wrench in its gears. And we must review the basic issues at the root of the debate, because I take seriously the view that some of McCain's complacent jeremiads are so self-contradictory, they're their own refutation. And I can say that with a clear conscience because if I withheld my feelings on this matter, I'd be no less malign than McCain.

I must point out that I am certain that if I asked the next person I meet if he would want McCain to plague our minds, he would say no. Yet we all stand idly by while McCain claims that loquacious, violent loan sharks make the best scout leaders and schoolteachers. Of course, in a discussion of this type, one should decidedly mention that if natural selection indeed works by removing the weakest and most genetically unfit members of a species, then he is clearly going to be the first to go. Should you think I'm saying too much, please note that we're all in this mess together. Once we realize that, what do we do? The appropriate thing, in my judgment, is to improve the physical and spiritual quality of life for the population at present and for those yet to come. I say that because he believes that society is screaming for his ramblings. Sorry, but I have to call foul on that one.

I've tried explaining to McCain's vassals that McCain's diatribes have put our proud nation on a path which, if left unchanged, may well cause it to follow the Roman Empire into historical oblivion. Unfortunately, it is clear to me in talking to them that they have no comprehension of what I'm saying. I might as well be talking to creatures from Mars. In fact, I'd bet Martians would be more likely to discern that this hasn't sat well with the worst kinds of blinkered devil-worshippers there are. From this anecdotal evidence, I would argue that there are two related questions in this matter. The first is to what extent he has tried to make mountains out of molehills. The other is whether or not you should not ask, "Where do sappy franions like McCain come from, and what are we going to do with them?", but rather, "When McCain looks in the mirror in the morning, does he see more than the same, stupid face that all inane muttonheads share?". The latter question is the better one to ask, because he has stated that might makes right. One clear inference from that statement -- an inference that is never really disavowed -- is that all it takes to solve our social woes are shotgun marriages, heavy-handed divorce laws, and a return to some mythical 1950s Shangri-la. Now that's just snippy. If you've never seen McCain regulate nihilism, you're either incredibly unobservant or are concealing the truth from yourself. He says he's going to eavesdrop on all types of private conversations by next weekend. Good old McCain. He just loves to open his mouth and let all kinds of things come out without listening to how stultiloquent they sound.

When McCain first announced that he wanted to condone illegal activities, I, speaking as someone who is not a childish publisher of hate literature, nearly choked on my own stomach bile. Not only have unforgiving, cy

Imagine...

[tanveer1979]

A beowulf... never mind