I know I always look to my local Burger King's sign for the most accurate political and scientific commentary.

And this why they work at Burger King...

This doesn't surprise me. Its not to uncommon for one person/entity to own multiple franchises/locations in a region. About half the McDonalds around here are operated by the same family. What is crazy is that someone thought this was a good idea, even in Tennessee. The real question is if Burger King's franchise agreements give them any real power to do something about this other than a nasty phone call.

The signs now read:

CANT
GET PREGNANT
WHILE STANDING

But it IS baloney...

Well I fully support them. The owner will be vindicated with time.

You know what else is baloney? The massive deforestation of the rain forest to make room for cattle grazing.

Oh wait, that's true.

Can you imagine what would it be like to be an employee there? To have to work for a boss that's obviously a moron?

Oh wait. I think we've all been there before.

Can you even order baloney at Burger King?

@pb5000: Also, that's quite possibly the best tag ever, "Global Flamebroiling" he he

@TacoDave: No rational scientist or thinking person who can look at a thermometer is in denial about global warming. The earth is getting warmer.

Now Al Gore's version of global warming where we all have to buy Priuses and buy carbon credits? That one IS baloney.

In summary: Global warming is real, man having a significant impact on it is not (unless our greenhouse gasses are reaching Mars - which is heating up at about the same rate).

Oh corporate, just wait for the e-mail I send you. And little franchisee, understand that the full crown of BKs wrath will descend upon thee.

Burgerville in the NW where I live is the opposite. They're very much into seasonal, local foods with a changing menu, they support alternative energies, etc. Hell, one recently decided to add beer and wine to their menu. Yeah, I know! We're almost fully-grown adults with the ability to make choices!

@jacques: The number of trees in the world has been increasing since 1900.

Also, you can't make a delicious steak out of a tree.

Oh and one more think, for every 13 trees saved by recycling, 87 don't get planted tree farms. So if you want more trees, buy more non-recycled paper and throw it in a landfill.

@INsano: Ha! Love it. Beer at the BK? Awesome - now that's a big kids club.

@sam1am: No, Al Gore's version is NOT baloney. 300,000 people a year are dying from the deliciously euphemized "climate change":
[www.cnn.com]

This is a no winner. Anyone who points to standard solar cyclical temperatures will just get jeered. ... but I'm telling ya people; "global warming" is an industry now, and a LOT of people have a vested interest in keeping that pretense going.

"The two restaurants where these signs appeared are independently owned and operated and were not authorized to display this statement."

I'm confused - if they are independent, why can't they put up the sign? It doesn't say it is a corporate opinion. Or would that just be assumed?

Now SAYING it's corporate policy, that's wrong if it aint so.

@sam1am: I love looking at old photos. In almost everyone, no matter how old it is, when ever I see hillsides they are almost always bare. And now there are trees everywhere. And ducks and geese in the sky everyday.

But the world is a much worse place.

@HalOfBorg: They're independently owned and operated but they still have to answer to corporate. That's the downside of owning a franchise. The positive is you're buying in to something that has a built in customer base, but you can't make many decisions on your own.

I saw the sign Tuesday at the Atoka BK, about 20 miles North of Memphis. Just hadn't gotten around to writing the letter yet.

@sam1am: Also, I'd like to know where you got those statistics, because they're completely bogus.

@youbastid:
I'm sorry, but CNN hasn't published a non-biased news story for 10 years, along with 90% of american news stations. If you want true un-biased information, don't live in the states, or check out something from Canada or the good areas of europe.

@HalOfBorg: Anecdotal evidence = scientific proof! Yay!

@jdmba: Yeah, like all those SCIENTISTS, doing, whaddya call it, uh... RESEARCH! PFFT! Eggheads, HAH!

@Steeldrumhero: Is the AP too biased for you? [www.google.com]

Or maybe The Guardian? England is a good area of Europe, right?
[www.guardian.co.uk]

I was about to write something derogatory about southerners, but fuck that, I'm sure there are a lot of decent, level-headed people living in Memphis, just like there are a lot of dipshits living up here. I try to maintain the belief that most people are decent; the assholes are just louder or more visible.

This sign also seen:

MARRIED QUEERS
ARE COMING TO
TAKE YOUR GUNZ

@xthexlanternx:

extreme sarcasm ftw

@takes_so_little: ding ding ding

@youbastid: Yea, nice one. Read my post again. I do not deny that the climate is changing, I just deny that me driving my car like a gas-guzzling maniac had anything to do with it.

Overlay the number of sunspots per year with the average temperature and it makes more sense than any zoomed in graph missing a Y-axes or frame of reference that Gore can come up with.

@HalOfBorg: Agreed.

I live in SLC and when the pioneers came here in 1850 or whatever it was pretty much a barren desert. Everything outside of the Salt Lake valley still is pretty much. But I work up on the foothills and as I'm looking over Salt Lake City right now all I can is green trees.

@sam1am: Only a moron would deny the climate is changing. You just have to be smart enough to separate that from faith-based religion of which Al Gore is the prophet.

This is an outrage. I think all that don't believe in Global Warming (or Climate Change as it has been rebranded) should be rounded up and kept in camps where they are forced to do hard labor. We can't have anyone questioning the un-questionable.

@xthexlanternx: Just you wait until my groundbreaking paper on the $2.99 Whopper and Fry combo gets published!

Sign should say "Baloney is a better choice than one of our burgers".

If I ever eat at BK, I end up tasting it all day. That flame broiled flavor just doesn't leave you. Blech!

@sam1am: Read the "biased" news facts:

"The report said 99 percent of all people who die due to climate-change related causes live in developing countries, even though those countries generate less than 1 percent of total emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming."

Got that last part of the sentence? "...emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming". This was a conclusion. From scientists. Who are well versed and educated in the subject of biology, chemistry, and geology. Who have spent years studying tiny, teeny, infinitesimally small changes and finding patterns in them. And you think you know better than they do. Classic.

We skeptics are beyond reach at this point. Climate change believers, I implore you to save yourselves. Build a space transport and carry all believers away to safety and environmental utopia, leaving the skeptics to die horrible deaths on this doomed planet!

@youbastid: Don't know how this got down here, that was supposed to go on jacques' post.

Bologna. BOLOGNA. BOLOGNA! NOT BALONEY! BOLOGNA!

@sam1am: Read the "biased" news facts:

"The report said 99 percent of all people who die due to climate-change related causes live in developing countries, even though those countries generate less than 1 percent of total emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming."

Got that last part of the sentence? "...emissions of greenhouse gases responsible for global warming". This was a conclusion. From scientists. Who are well versed and educated in the subject of biology, chemistry, and geology. Who have spent years studying tiny, teeny, infinitesimally small changes and finding patterns in them. And you think you know better than they do. Classic.

And again, please show where you got your statistics about the 87 and 13 trees and the what not.

@youbastid: The laws of supply and demand would at the very least suggest that the number of trees would increase. Trees are grown as a crop and they are a renewable resource. Same with chickens - the more chicken you eat, the more chickens get produced.

Consider this: "Between 1990 and 2000, United States of America gained an average of 364,600 hectares of forest per year. The amounts to an average annual reforestation rate of 0.12%. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate of forest change decreased by 56.9% to 0.05% per annum. In total, between 1990 and 2005, United States of America gained 1.5% of its forest cover, or around 4,441,000 hectares. United States of America lost -1,086,000 hectares-0-of its primary forest cover during that time. "

So over the last 19 years while we've supposedly been blindly clear-cutting forests to make way for cows according to you, our forests have increased by quite a bit. We created 4 million hectares and cut down 1 million hectares.

Statistics can be found here: [rainforests.mongabay.com]

The US logging industry plants 3 trees for every one they cut down. More trees have been created than destroyed since the 1940s.

The US department of land management is the one who claimed there are more trees now than 100 years ago.

If you use Google I'm sure you can find lots of supporting evidence!

@sam1am: Let's see...
A) Climate is changing.
B) An increase in CO2 is a significant contributor to that change
C) Fossil fuel burning is a significant source of CO2 in the atmosphere.
D) We burn a lot of fossil fuels.

You're right. We have nothing to do with this at all.

@takes_so_little: AND ABORT YOUR BABIEZ.

@sam1am: You mean how average temperatures have fallen every year since 2000?

(I'm not a climatologist, but I am a physicist and understand chaos theory and statistics. I plant global warming firmly in the "possible but not proved" category because most of the figures used by both sides don't mean what they say they mean. All the while, of course, many of the same goals pursued by those who are pushing "climate action" could have been championed as reducing other, known types of pollution, and most everyone would have been on board.)

@sam1am: No one said we've been clear cutting forests in the US to make way for cows. We have plenty of grazing land. It's the rainforest land in south america that's being cleared. The very site you cite will not back you up.

[news.mongabay.com]

@takes_so_little: Um, actually, yes. Speaking as a scientist, there's a tremendous pressure to publish the kind of "research" that gets you funding, and on an issue like this, the funding is thoroughly politicized.

Global warming is a farce. their signs were correct. Give me a piece of evidence that it is real and i'll give you one that it isn't.

Global warming is a farce dreamed up to creat tens of thousands of jobs. Polution is real, but global warming is a natural cycle of the earth. Watch the great global warming swindle (I think thats correct) that was put out on the BBC. Top scientists are saying this with evidence. They also have evidence that shows that Al Gore is a tool who fakes his info for the sake of a message!

The meat is bologna. Nonsense is baloney.

@youbastid: They're inferring a lot with the little add on at the end of that sentence aren't they? I'll admit I only scanned the article, but I didn't see any mention of scientists. The news reporter is saying that, not a scientist.

Here's a scientist saying that global warming is not a threat: [climatedepot.com]

Here's some more scientists who claim that climate change is - GASP! - natural: [www.scoop.co.nz]

We have 4.5 billion years of existence and about 100 years of good solid data. I'm not ready to be baptized by Gore's religion.

Here's an article I wrote some time ago that shows a clear correlation between temperature and sunspot activity.