Global Warming Is Baloney

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'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 dispute began to sizzle last week, when a local newspaper reporter in Memphis, Tennessee, noticed the signs outside two restaurants in the city and contacted the corporation to establish if the message represented its official viewpoint. Burger King's headquarters in Miami said it did not, adding that it had ordered MIC to take the signs down.

But a few days later readers of the Memphis paper said they had seen about a dozen Burger King restaurants across the state displaying the signs and that some had yet to be taken down. Media attempts to contact MIC to establish why it was taking an apparently defiant stance were rebuffed, but the Guardian managed to grill MIC's marketing president, John McNelis.

"I would think [Burger King] would run from any form of controversy kinda like cockroaches when the lights get turned on," said Mr McNelis. "I'm not aware of any direction that they gave the franchisee and I don't think they have the authority to do it."

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."

He continued: "Burger King can bluster all they want about what they can tell the franchisee to do, but we have free-speech rights in this country so I don't think there's any concerns."

The Guardian sent a transcript of the interview to Susan Robison, Burger King's vice-president of corporate communications.

She responded: "The statement that was posted on several restaurants' reader boards in the Memphis area, and the view expressed by the franchisee on this issue does not reflect Burger King Corp's opinion … BKC has guidelines for signage used by franchisees [which] were not followed. We have asked the franchisee to remove the signage and have been told that the franchisee will comply."
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Bologna is Global Warming.
Meat tastes good, but livestock eats a lot of grain and drinks a lot of water.
What can an over-populated species like us do to feed ourselves?
Soylent Green!
 
This morning we've got partly cloudy skies and 55 degrees. Wind is out of the N 16 mph gusting to 30 mph. It's beeyoutiful!

Oh, yeah. Coffee's percolating. And I'm frying up some bacon and eggs!
 
MMMmmm- bacon and eggs- two things I'm gonna miss if the SHTF.
Thank Thor for homegrown maters and Soylent Green!
 
I had a bratwurst and french fries for breakfast. I normally do not do that but I only fire up that deep fryer on occasion so I thought what the hell?!?
 
It's going to be 60ish 70ish today and partly cloudy.

BTW Global Warming is a theory that has neither been conclusively proven nor dis-proven, for those of you who are still lost on the matter, Jim....
 
JTP said:
"Layers of smoke in the atmosphere
have made the Earth too hot to bear
Earth might be a desert soon
America has left the moon"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGyeULvpQdY
Damn, I'd hate to have to emigrate to cold old Mars just to find water!
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and the Mars dust storms? you'd have to get your car repainted like every few months, cuz it's gonna get scratched up like a champ
 
Oooh, my little hungry one, hungry one
Open up a package of my bologna
Oooh, I think the toast is done, the toast is done
Top it with a little of my bologna

Never gonna stop, eat it up, such a tasty snack
I always eat too much and throw up
but I'll soon me back for my yi yi yi yi woo!
M-M-M-My bologna

Spreadin' on the mustard now, show me how
Spread it on a little of this bologna
Hopin' that we don't run out, don't run out
If we do I'm sure that I'll miss bologna

Never gonna stop, eat it up, such a tasty snack
I always eat too much and throw up
but I'll soon me back for my yi yi yi yi woo!
M-M-M-My bologna

[solo]
[belch]

Goin' to the market now, market now
I'm the city's biggest bologna buyer
Walkin' down the shopping aisles, shopping aisles
Fillin' up my basket with Oscar Mayer

Never gonna stop, eat it up, such a tasty snack
I always eat too much and throw up
but I'll soon me back for my yi yi yi yi woo!
M-M-M-M-M-M-M-My yi yi yi yi woo!
M-M-M-My bologna!
M-M-M-My bologna!
M-M-M-My bologna!
M-M-M-My bologna!
 
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