Friday Funny – Mann's Hot Seat

Or Liar, Liar pants on fire.

Great cartoon but his head is out of proportion. It’s way too small!

Not sure how he got into my home-made chili.

Perhaps M Mann will be subject to the Streisand Effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
One can only hope for a satirical frenzy

Mikey likes it hot! Umm…are those horns starting to grow out of his head? Or just cow (bull) licks?
Lots of other bull stuff from Mikey…hard to tell.

Is he going to mann up?

for Eugene WR Gallun :

With best wishes

The Hockey Stick Blues
http://www.reverbnation.com/kencoffman/song/9363502-the-hockey-stick-blues

Love it

The artists has got it wrong –
There is a Human Head where there should be –
A BIG FANNIE !

Years ago I read a book called “Dr Panto Fogo” , or Dr pants afire. It was written by an engineer from South Africa who, on a train in central/south America, sat by an open window, napping. Now, these were old-style locomotives which ran on coal and emitted numerous flaming sparks that could (and in this case, did) sweep into the passenger cars. He awoke to find his pants smoldering from one such ember much to the enjoyment of his fellow passengers . Who gave him the sobriquet “Dr Panto Fogo”.

What a piece of work is Mann!

Lessig v Liberation Music has just settled their fair use dispute with Liberation Music paying Lessig damages.
Briefly, Liberation Music discovered that an individual named Larry Lessig had used a portion of one of their copyrighted songs in a presentation that Lessig gives. Liberation Music’s lawyers fired off a letter to Lessig threatening to sue. Apparently these lawyers were not the sharpest tool in the shed and didn’t realize that Larry Lessig is Harvard’s Professor Lawrence Lessig, one the country’s top copyright lawyers and scholars. Lessig fought back. Per the article:

Liberation Music eventually backed down. But Lessig decided to invoke another part of the copyright law, “which basically polices bad-faith lawsuits,” he says — threats made fraudulently or without proper basis.

So Lessig sued Liberation for money damages and eventually Liberation Music settled and is now paying Lessig big bucks for their misadventure.
Not good for Mann. From the settlement:
“Too often copyright is used as an excuse to silence legitimate speech. I’ve been fighting against that kind of abuse for many years, and I knew I had to stand up for fair use here as well. Hopefully, this lawsuit will send a message to copyright owners to adopt fair takedown practices — or face the consequences.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/02/27/283554774/a-win-for-fair-use-after-a-record-label-picked-wrong-guy-to-sue

@ R Shearer
I stand corrected. He would actually be converting one ghg to 2 others, C02 and H20 in the form of water vaport, I believe.

Nice.
But I feel that overwhelming ego, the way it weighs the mann down, needs representation.
One must be careful in todays poisonous political correctness, failing to give the manns overwhelming ego equal time, will have it suing one and all.
Sadly that comment does not require a sarc tag.

RHS says:
February 28, 2014 at 7:01 am
If the global warming is in his pants and hot enough to combust his pants, we should really find some water because he is the last person I want to see moon me or anyone else!
That would even traumatize an ER nurse!
Thanks RHS
Now I will have to go and wash out my minds eye with Bleach

Looks like he finally got that rectalcephalectomy….

Charlie Johnson (@SemperBanU) says:
February 28, 2014 at 7:41 am
Only thing better than parody is inadvertent self-parody
Nothing confounds many conservatives like #science and #reserach. Someone should do a study on this.—
David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 27, 2014
Moar reserach!
Oh, that is soooooo schweet!!!!

“Build a man a fire, and you’ll keep him warm for the rest of the evening. Set a man on fire and you’ll keep him warm for the rest of his life…..

Why did the song we sang as kids instantly come to mind…….
Liar, Liar pants on fire!
Very nice rendition Josh!

no appropriate thread for the following, so posting it as a funny. apparently some amusement in the comments, but they won’t even show for me, so i leave it to others who can access them:
28 Feb: Guardian Science: Rescue from Antarctica
After a month aboard a Russian research ship, Alok Jha and Laurence Topham found themselves trapped in the grip of the ice – and an international row over whether the expedition should have been there in the first place
• As Antarctica opens up, will privateer explorers be frozen out?
• Australian Antarctic Expedition – in pictures
Report: Alok Jha, video and photographs: Laurence Topham
What caused the massive breakout of old ice from the edge of the continent, which moved and trapped the Shokalskiy, is still unclear. “We’re looking at the satellite information, we’re working with colleagues in Germany and elsewhere to try and get a feeling for what happened there,” says Turney. “Whatever it was, something happened which mobilised this massive amount of very old thick ice, and then basically caught us and then built up progressively over the next 40 hours.”
But for veterans, the unexpected nature of Antarctica is part of life there. “We were in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Mortimer says. “We were not in that situation irresponsibly; we were in that situation wittingly. And we have dealt with it extraordinarily well, with ship, crew and passengers sane and healthy. It’s hard, sitting in your lounge, in a gentle part of the world, to understand the forces that are at work. But they’re much bigger than puny human efforts. They have been in the past, and they will be in the future.”…
http://www.theguardian.com/science/antarctica-live/2014/feb/28/-sp-rescue-from-antarctica

looks like no-one’s listening to Mann & Co any more:
28 Feb: Trust.org: Reuters: Barbara Lewis: EU summit to focus on industry rather than climate-draft
A European Union summit in March billed as a step in the bloc’s efforts to combat climate change will focus on strengthening Europe’s industrial base, a draft document seen by Reuters shows.
The draft is likely to increase worries among the environmental lobby, which fears its argument that green jobs are the best way to shore up Europe’s fragile economy is being ignored.
The summit “will seek ways to enhance the European industrial base as a driver for economic growth and jobs,” the document says, and adds that concerns about EU industrial competitiveness should be woven into debate on all policy, including climate…
“The regulatory framework both at European and national levels must be made more conducive towards investment and innovation and the reshoring of manufacturing jobs,” the document adds, referring to a drive to reverse a trend of losing employment to other regions of the world…
Germany is a major exception as its industry generates nearly 22 percent of economic output and it has led calls for the manufacturing base to be protected…
The renewable sector, meanwhile, says it will suffer and green jobs will disappear without stronger policy…
http://www.trust.org/item/20140228171542-z031u/?source=hpbreaking

We’ve found the missing heat!

John Whitman 6:22pm
Mr. Whitman, I apologize. Your post consisted of a fun use of Shelly’s poem that mocked Mann. I enjoyed reading it.
My post was not referencing to your post at all but to Shelly’s original poem. I went off on a topic that had nothing to do with your use of Shelly’s poem. I have always had an interest in figuring out what some of the lines which our older poets wrote actually meant. What I wrote was “way off topic” for this thread. The topic of this thread is Mann not Shelly’s poem — and I wrote about Shelly’s poem. i let my own parochial interests come to the fore when I should have just given your post a thumbs up and kept my speculations to myself about what those old lines of Shelly meant.
I apologize again.
Eugene WR Gallun

Is the anti-abortion video by Admad at 6.22 relevant to this post?