Taking a look at the Top 5 fast-food burger chains

Whataburger

To go here is a true treat. The zestiest and freshest establishment as far as fast food is concerned; it still has some negative qualities. For instance you really only go here when relishing in that PHAT check. Not only will you be paying a months’ worth of wages for a burger&fries you typically end up waiting 45 minutes behind some d-bags dully. Aside from those unfortunate draw backs the experience is generally pleasant, the workers friendly, and the bathrooms free from syphilis.


McDonalds

McDonalds is probably the worlds most established fast food chain. Millions have flocked through its arches to satisfy their stomachs desires. The major benefit of going here is the expedient nature of receiving your food and being on your way. What else is to be expected when you have a legion of indentured servants slinging patties 15 hours a day? Although somewhat satisfying, like eating  Chinese food you will end up being hungry in  an hour. This will give you plenty of time to scavenge for better substances elsewhere. In the meantime much down on 50 McDoubles for a buck, sip on tea with 10 lbs. of sugar, and abuse the free Wi-Fi.


Burger king

Going here is just a bi-product of laziness and geographic location. No one every truly tells themselves they want Burger King- they just settle. They do have decent fries and for children, better toys that lack lead based paint! Despite a slight rise in popularity with its creepy and satisfyingly awkward king faced mascot, BK is virtually on the cuffs of non-existence in the minds of the people.


Jack in the box

Jack in the crack as some call it, is an  establishment located on the  lowest ring of the fast food latter. Virtually last in every conceivable category it still seems to thrive financially. Despite its financial success and having the funniest mascot it still is a place where you only eat the food if you’re under the influence of say, weed! A franchise owner of this place really has to begin to reevaluate their life’s ambitions.


In-and-out burger

This place is heaven and to say otherwise is blasphemy! The only complaint most have is that California hogs it like they do everything else. Solution, invade California. Take its spoils and weather. Then retire with 2Pac and Elvis on fantasy island. 



Hey... its fast food …not Javier’s 5 star dining with complimentary gold bullion. To some extent they each satisfy a need for a demographic of people. Personally, I don’t like to bust out the grill and spend 3 hours of prep work to make myself a meal. So I am thankful for the level of convenience they sometimes offer. This, despite my insides turning into gelatinous goo, ensuring a lonely night on the john.

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Kids are pawns: ethics fall by waist side

          Kids are immensely powerful beings. They seem to have the unequivocal ability to bypass our fortified cognitive dissonance and b-line right to our emotional housing. Unfortunately, it is because of that fact that a lot of advertising agencies and brand companies have utilized their appeal as a means to attract attention and in some ways influence their target audience. No one is saying children involved in social issues or messages are an inherently unethical idea, but when is it crossing the line?

Was it unethical for the Democratic Party in 1964 to show the Daisy TV ad? How about using kids in the old cigarette commercials? These are the questions that have been raised especially with today’s surplus of media outlets.  A video created by the group FCKH8T in which little girls pay a 2 minute homage to vulgarity and profanity to spread the message of gender equality has started to go viral. Some things they say include “What the fuck?”, “I’m not some pretty fucking helpless princess in distress”, and “Women are paid 25% less than men, for the exact same fucking work.” Finally another girl adds, “I shouldn’t need a penis to get paid...Here’s a hot tip! Stop telling girls how to dress, and start teaching boys not to fucking rape.”

 At the end of the video two adult women condone the language and the use of these young ladies’ image. Next they blast society telling it to essentially get its moralities straight. Now kids say the darndest things, but I doubt these young ladies (ages 6-12) would ever be on the fabled show that was hosted by Bill Cosby. No one is going to argue that equal rights should be a staple point of our society but in this scenario do the ends justify the means?

 One of the needs of humankind is critical significance. The fastest way people or groups satisfy this need is through violence or fear. You see this all the time (whether physical or emotional) with dictatorships, abusive spouses, and fanatical groups due to their lack of “resourcefulness” (Robbins, A. 2009) This is not what we need- the significance generated crumbles overtime anyways. A better way people reach critical significance status is through connection and love. Some of the most profound social revolutionary changes occurred from public figures preaching not hate, not violence, not intimidation, but rather peaceful resistance, love, and kindness.  These people include MLK Jr, Gandhi, and Rosa Parks just to name a few.

 This strategy is typically the hardest to carry out, but the reward is much sweeter and the change that is generated sticks. Human progress is then raised to another level with compounding resilience against hate and intolerance. When there is a violent ambiance to a message, the meaning gets lost. People are not focused on the idea of improvement, but rather their own moral conundrum to the tactics used in the delivery of the message. This dissects the audience generating irrelevant debate. 

With the profanity video, not only does it further harm the already fanatical image of the feminist movement and by extension gender equality, but the young girls involved as well. It robs them of their innate innocence. Kids at their age cannot fully comprehend the words they say nor  the ramifications sometimes. By creating a condition in which this behavior is tolerated and empowering it can affect their ability to solve problems and voice opinions in a way that truly creates everlasting change.

          If you stand a certain way on a particular issue, know that it is not always the loudest that is heard. It is Compassion and integrity that resonates exponentially in both mind and spirit.

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Todays adventures

Well today ended up being more productive than I thought. I was woken up by this little guy because he was hungry only to have him fall back to sleep 10 minutes later. I guess that's how it goes with pets. 

Needed to get a couple of t-shirts for work tomorrow and decided to hit  Club Ross. Their Mens section is a joke in case any guy had a sudden urge to make a Ross run. The only thing it really caters to are xxl men and lumberjacks who have an unhealthy relationship with plaid. I did see this, for what it's worth. It clearly depicts the average drama queens...right?

After clothes shopping I went to check out Barnes and Noble and walked out with this (paid for of course..this time). After listening to a lot of his audio feeds I decided to invest in what he is selling :P

Megan's (my girlfriend) mother decided to treat us to lunch so we decided to kill some time at Party City. There are a lot of interesting novelty costumes there to keep immature people like myself busy for hours.  If you have any mentally  deranged children there is a plethera of youth gore costumes paying homage to blood and guts!  Side note, I found these rats..idk why I took their picture but here they are.

After lunch we decided to check out this frozen ice cream place called "Sub-Zero" I feel like if you're going to take the name of one of the greatest Mortal Kombat characters you better have a product that will blow my mind with tantalizing tastes fit for a Nordic god. This place apparently didn't get the memo so I settled for a side of cherries. Their gimmick is they freeze the ice-cream mix in front of you with liquid nitrogen, which is cool I guess. It did make me imagine a scenario where the liquid nitrogen container explodes and we all turn out like the bad terminator in T2 did when Arnie crashed the nitrogen truck.

Finally back home we found this little guy in a bush! Turns out his mother was in the area bathing. So Megan took the little one and sat him on the sidewalk  where the mother could see it. She trotted right over and ushered her kitty to follow her to a secret hideout. Who would of thought!

 



Its about time for the new episode for The Flash so ...byebye


-joncary faubion

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Motivation: fuel your life and live your dreams

     I welcome you to the first official Motivation Monday segment! So what better way to kick of this week than by discussing motivation itself?  It can be argued that motivation is at the very root of all success and has the unequivocal power to bring into existence heavenly wonders…and hellish nightmares! This is why it deserves the meticulous attention that it does. Unfortunately

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10 annoying things about the gym

1. Overzealous gym staff

The staff sometimes get a large chunk of their change from commission. Hey, no one is faulting them for trying to make a living, but when I say for the 10^th time I don’t want personal  14^th century Austrian elephant throwing lessons it becomes a drag on my day.

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RED ALERT: How red influences some areas of your life.

     Has there ever been a time you were consciously aware of how color affects your mood, your actions, and your ability to make choices?  Once in a while maybe, but more often than not the affects fly under the radar. A quote by Wassily kandisky reads. “Color is a power which directly influences the soul”. Think about that for a second. For me it truly resonated and I felt compelled to dig for available research into its awesome power! For this segment red will be taking the stage and the findings were interesting, particularly in 3 areas: social interaction, mental and physical stability, as well as career.

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3 ways to rid yourself of fears.

Fear is a MENTAL hiccup that we all have struggled with at some point in our lives. It is important to understand that whether it is fear in public speaking, spiders or even flutes (aulophobi in case you are in the mood for a light Google search) there are remedies and therapy techniques that have shown to drastically reduce the anxiety.

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Should you hold out on intimacy?

The age old question of should you engage or not engage in a premarital sexual relationship has plagued minds and egos for years. It is interesting to note that although a biological necessity the context of sex has taken on a role as an indicator of relationship sustainability and fulfillment.

A cross-sectional study performed by the School of Family Life at Brigham Young provided some very tantalizing details. The study itself included 10,932

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So you settled for your life...

When we were kids we had the most astronomical goals set for our future selves. How many times did you say “I’m going to be a doctor…I’m going to be an astronaut…I’m going to a millionaire”? As time went on reality set in. That reality being- Life is hard.  You see, when you are a child most of your conscious brain activity is spent imagining. It is an amazing aspect of our thinking; the ability to imagine possibilities without limitations. We become older though and some of us get churned into the systematic ideology of checklists as well as the pros and cons of every situation.

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Perception

We are told time and time again by society that stress is EVIL. They say stress will ultimately lead to you having an unhealthy life which may in some cases cause mortality.
Kelly Mcgonigal, a health psychologist, gave a short presentation concerning stress, but in a different perspective. Throughout the speech she cites studies showing an increase in mortality with those who experienced moderate amounts of stress as opposed to those those who did not.

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The beginning of now

Good evening,  I welcome you all to the kickoff of my first blog. They say no man (or woman) is an island... and that much is true. We as a collective society like to be heard... to be seen...to be loved! It is in that truth that magical things have the potential to happen. Things that touch the lives of everyone we encounter, that give us purpose, that give us meaning! The very core of this belief of course is creation. We create every second that we are on this earth and those creations are a bi-product of the choices and decisions that we make. For some those choices and decisions are clear and concise, for others,  shrouded in uncertainty. By expanding our minds and hearts we can rid ourselves of this uncertainty and begin to truly improve the quality of our lives. The first step is to be curious. It was curiosity that led you to this page. That action alone has now exponentially guided your existence to many different possibilities and outcomes. The journey starts now and what I hope for you to get out of my posts from here on out is to challenge your archaic perceptions of the world. To quote Jeff Taffer "I'm here to change the way you think... and if i can change the way you think... I cant help but change what you do , can I?"

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