To quote Cool Hand Luke
‘Global warming is baloney’ signs put the heat on Burger King
A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming “global warming is baloney”.
The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, has described Burger King as acting “kinda like cockroaches” over the controversy. MIC says it does not believe Burger King has the authority to make it take the signs down.
The Guardian shoved in as many cooking allusions as it could - which they shouldn’t have, but it’s forgivable - but the, ah, meat of the matter is that the Burger King spokesman says that they have the right to shut down this kind of signage on the part of its franchisees, and that the franchisee has agreed to take down the signs; while the franchise spokesman says that Burger King doesn’t have the right to shut down these signs, and that Burger King can… deal with it. The word ‘cockroaches’ was used in the latter’s response, as was an explicitly cheerful willingness to drag it out in court for the next ten years.
[[John]] McNelis added: “The [restaurant] management team can put the message up there if they want to. It is private property and here in the US we do have some rights. Notwithstanding a franchise agreement, I could load a Brinks vehicle with [rights] I’ve got so many of them. By the time the Burger King lawyers work out how to make that stick we’d be in the year 2020.”
Which is why I figure that somebody’s getting fired. You usually don’t have people in marketing making statements that are that direct unless they’re either sure that they won’t get fired, or that they’re sure that they will…
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Glorious Day
lukematthews Sunday, June 7th at 3:43PM EDT (link)You better bet the feds will be on a jet flying a breakneck speed to find some kind of infraction to charge these people with. How dare they question the Great Prevaricator and his precious agenda? This is outlandish. This is criminal.
This is great. Gotta love America
Not gonna do much for the Burger King brand to have cockroaches associated with it.
penguin2 Sunday, June 7th at 3:58PM EDT (link)Good for Mirabile Corp. About time someone called the Obamies out on all of their baloney. Have to start somewhere!
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin
Global warming cause is still unclear
tp3000 Sunday, June 7th at 3:56PM EDT (link)Why is it, the least informed people do most of the talking when it comes to global warming. It was funny when Burger King international not only over ruled the Memphis Burger king franchises but was “publicly embarrassed.”
Global Warming is happening, its a fact. The debate is over if its man caused or not. Some think that the earth is naturally warming, because if one were to look at the geological record, you could see there are natural warming and cooling periods.
Facts Schmacts....
rcov092 Sunday, June 7th at 6:41PM EDT (link)your statement is only half correct “global warming is occurring” should have been “global warming is occurring when it is and is not when it is not”. Data show no cooling in last eight years. The religious zeal with which believers tout the “data of last 100 years ” is so rediculous when viewed against a natural history of over 4.0 billion years. The ones screaming the loudest are the ones who have already spent the money they expect to come their way from promoting the phallacy. Science, unfortunately has become the last vestige of snake-oil purveyors.
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Phallacy???????????
mbecker908 Sunday, June 7th at 7:31PM EDT (link)That’s probably the best description I’ve heard for AGW theory.
If that's not an official word, it should be -nt-
bs Sunday, June 7th at 7:51PM EDT (link)Decorum is fo’ suckas
Sort of describes
Jack_Savage Sunday, June 7th at 8:02PM EDT (link)What is happening to America. We’re the victims of a phallacy. A sandpaper phallacy.
Absolutely agree with this
Jack_Savage Sunday, June 7th at 6:59PM EDT (link)“…the least informed people do most of the talking when it comes to global warming…”
Al Gore came immediately to mind.
Actually as far as anyone can tell it stopped 11 years ago
Joliphant Monday, June 8th at 10:14AM EDT (link)And that is despite the “Fair and Impartial” people at NASA who “Have no interest except scientific accuracy” adjusting the data in ways that always seem to be biased towards the warming hypothesis.
Its really hard to do longer term comparisons. You have to use proxies for anything more than two centuries back, and even the more recent data is questionable, even the U.S. data for the twentieth century has systematic bias. So when you are making comparisons on the basis of 1 tree ring representing a century and you get to pick and choose which proxies you use for what time period, well what you get isn’t all that useful.
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.”
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
"isn't all that useful" - the understatement of the year brought to you by JOLI' - where have you been brother?! - nt
Mike gamecock DeVine Monday, June 8th at 10:31AM EDT (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com, Charlotte Observer and The Minority Report columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” - Andrew Jackson
He's probably been rebuilding his energy
wennejunk Monday, June 8th at 10:15PM EDT (link)Gonna need it for the next few election cycles.
I’ve missed him as well.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis
I really liked the chutzpah of McNelis. Most of the time you get
janis Sunday, June 7th at 3:58PM EDT (link)carefully worded lawyer-speak, but this guy just gave Burger King the finger while he giggled. Hope he sticks to his guns and Burger King has to shut up.
Long after man is gone
izoneguy Sunday, June 7th at 5:05PM EDT (link)the earth will cool and heat up in a constant cycle. The “Climate Change Mafia” is in it for the money. And if you believe anything else you are a fool. There is nothing man can do to change the cycle.
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Can you post somewhere I can get info on your side of the argument?
leftylurker Monday, June 8th at 10:51AM EDT (link)I’m genuinely curious.
Would you believe 1+1=2
Right Reason Monday, June 8th at 1:01PM EDT (link)or do you need a web link?
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
Ummm
leftylurker Monday, June 8th at 2:22PM EDT (link)I would kind of like some sort of info.
I’m sincere about this. A web link would do, or a book or something would be cool as well.
How about this?
Finrod Monday, June 8th at 2:24PM EDT (link)I happened to still have a tab open to this page, so here you go:
NASA Study Shows Sun Responsible for Planet Warming
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Nice link about Global Warming.
molybdanthan Monday, June 8th at 2:29PM EDT (link)I especially like that cartoon.
Thank you!
leftylurker Monday, June 8th at 2:36PM EDT (link)I’m going to read it. Appreciated.
Fair warning, it's written by people that don't believe in AGW. (n/t)
Finrod Monday, June 8th at 3:05PM EDT (link).
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