Riddle Me This...

Watching all the high school kid organized, completely grass roots, organic, not backed at all by national anti-gun lobbies run by middle aged billionaires, protests stemming from the Parkland Fl. school shootings has raised a very basic question and reveals some very flawed logic from the gun grabbing left.

One of the demands for increased gun control from the screeching crowd is to raise the minimum age to purchase and/or own a firearm to 21. This, presumably will make us safer. But why exactly?

Let's examine further. Raising the age to 21 would suggest that those under 21 are not mature enough to responsibly own a gun. But, the ones supposedly demanding this change are high school age kids?

Hmmm... So what they're saying here is basically, "We're too immature to own guns, but we're mature enough to shape public policy on guns."

Some are even calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16- because these kids are "so wise and should have a voice".

Does this glaring chasm in logic bother anyone else?

Under 21- responsible enough to-

• Vote at 16.
• Drive at 16.
• Live on your own at 18 (or less if you have emancipated minor status). 
• Enter into legally binding contracts.
• Get married.
• Serve in the military at 18 and be trusted with full auto rifles (real assault rifles), tanks, grenade launchers, etc.

But not responsible enough to-

• Own a rifle, shotgun, or pistol.
• Have a beer.
• Smoke a joint (if legal in your state).

Makes perfect sense.

Of course the Democrats are all for this. Anything for more Dem votes, damn the social cost.

Fast Food Employees Closer To Extinction (Fight For $15)

Remember the good old days when a job at a fast food restaurant was an entry to the working world, not a final destination?

Remember when the fast food joints were staffed by eager fresh faced high school kids earning their first paychecks and gaining valuable work experience? OK, so maybe they weren't all that eager to be there, but they knew it was just "paying your dues" before moving onward and upward to a real career.

Today's reality is that your average fast food employee is more likely to be older, foreign born, uneducated, unmotivated, and harboring a great deal of resentment at having to work for a living in the land of plenty.

This sense of entitlement and lack of ambition has led to the "workers of the world, unite!" socialist attitude that spawned the "fight for $15" movement for a so called living wage for minimum wage employees.


The marketplace, as it always does however, is adapting to the rising labor costs and lowering labor quality by moving steadily toward automation.

For example I saw this today: Hamburger-making robot company raises $18 million

From the article: "Founded in 2009, Momentum Machines is developing food-preparing robots, the first one of which supposedly can prep hundreds of made-to-order hamburgers in an hour ― from raw ingredients to packaging. In other words, it might be the future of fast-food prep work."

The next time you're at Burger King and the person taking your order can barely speak English, and you get your Whopper looking like some gorilla was playing soccer with it, just remember things will change soon.

"Mahk" Destroys Millenials

This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in quite a while.

If you're not familiar with this YouTube video series, this guy plays a based Boston working class guy named Mark, or pronounced in the Boston accent - Mahk. Mahk is inserted into commercials, mainly from Chevy, and he plays a real life participant who tells it like it is.

This episode had me rolling. Mahk destroys Millenials and Hipster culture.

Subscribe to this guy's YouTube channel: Zebra Corner  Updates are infrequent because of the production values involved in the videos, but it's worth the wait.

More Of Fast Food's Answer To The "Fight For $15"

The Future

This is becoming a theme on this blog.

Yesterday Wendy's announced they will be rolling out self service ordering kiosks in 1000 stores in the near future. This is clearly a response to the increasing pressure from minimum wage workers for an unrealistic "living wage" of $15 per hour.

If you want my explanation of why this movement by minimum wage workers is ultimately self defeating, check out my previous post on it here: https://shipoffoolsx.blogspot.com/2016/11/why-for-15-is-idiotic-and-self-defeating.html 

These kiosks initially will be placed in addition to fully staffed stores, but it will only be a short time before all of the live cashiers will be replaced with these terminals. There will be perhaps only one person left in the front of the stores to assist the small number of customers who are too stupid to use them.

My prediction is that not too long after these kiosks go mainstream, other methods of automation will be rolled out to handle many of the food preparation tasks in the back of the store as well. I wouldn't be surprised if the average fast food restaurant chain reduces their staff by 50% or more within the next 10 years.

Triumph Mocks PC Culture On Campus

Triumph the insult comic dog takes a piss on political correctness at the University Of New Hampshire.

Hilarious video.

I'm amazed that Robert Smigel (Triumph's puppeteer) got away with this. There must not have been any faculty handlers around to stop it. I'm also amazed all these kids stayed for the full treatment. As you can see, many of theme were clearly not amused.