Dear friends...

[Doktor Howl]

I still have the shred of faith.  I have to.  I've got these two kids who have to live in it after I kick the bucket.

They'll have to muddle along, just like we did.  My kids pay too much attention to the state of things, and they have announced their intention to beat me when I'm old.

I mean, fuck, this shit is so insane that the GEICO announcer just got canned because he said shit about the fucking Tea Party.  

Who the fuck cares what the GEICO guy thinks or says?  

That's some funny shit.  Do you perchance have a link?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/geico-announcer-fired-for-calling-tea-partiers-retarded-potential-murderers/

My browser keeps dropping the page.  Could you post the relevant bits, please?

[Thurnez Isa]

You'd think people learned that if Rahm Emanuel can't get away with it, it's probably best not to use the word. Lance Baxter, AKA "D.C. Douglas," the voice actor most notable for his work in GEICO commercials, has been dismissed from his job for using his highly recognizable voice to leave a voicemail in the mailbox of Tea Party group Freedomworks asking how many of its members were "mentally retarded" and what the response would be when a member inevitably killed someone.

Douglas responded to his removal with a blog post that is now offline but partially reproduced on PRWire.com:

    "I called as a private citizen to make a complaint," explains Mr. Douglas. "Racism and homophobia are my Achilles heal, but unfortunately my message included inappropriate words and I am sorry for that. However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions."

He also says on his Facebook page that he is going to "take tea bags and make lemonade" and thanks fans for being "NICE" and "REASONABLE."

It's worth noting that GEICO is not exactly in the Tea Party movement's pocket, either, as it was one of many companies to boycott Tea Party darling The Glenn Beck Program when its host claimed Barack Obama had a "deep-seeded hatred of white people, or the white culture."

This world has gone fricken insane

[AFK]

Here's a better link:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/geico-fires-dc-douglas-vo_n_546038.html

But I'll C+P too, just in case.

Lance Baxter, better known as D.C. Douglas but perhaps best known as the voice of certain Geico commercials (primarily as the tag announcer of a 2007-2008 celebrity ad campaign) has been fired by the insurance company after leaving a voicemail for Tea Party group FreedomWorks.

Douglas asked FreedomWorks in his voicemail what "the percentage of people that are mentally retarded who are working for FreedomWorks and who are following it," or as he has since put it, he "inquired as to their intelligence level."

In the voicemail, Douglas also questions how FreedomWorks will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens."

In the aftermath, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe published a post on the conservative website biggovernment.com, providing readers with a recording of the voicemail -- which included Douglas's personal phone number -- and encouraging people to call both Douglas and Geico to "[l]et them know that you, in fact, are not a mentally retarded killer."

According to a press release from Wednesday, Geico held auditions to replace Douglas the next day.

Douglas has since acknowledged such an impulsive move was "STUPID!," but says he was impassioned by the "slurs the Tea Party crowd angrily yelled at Barney Frank, et al," during the climax of health care reform.

He also holds no grudge against his former employer, saying in the press release: "I don't blame GEICO for protecting themselves. They have a business to run and can't waste time getting caught up in FreedomWorks' circus. And they've been very good to me in the past."

[NotPublished]

This world has gone fricken insane

No its seemingly average

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?

People have pretty much stopped flying things to the moon and seem to have taken up flying things into buildings instead.

[Doktor Howl]

Here's a better link:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/geico-fires-dc-douglas-vo_n_546038.html

But I'll C+P too, just in case.

Lance Baxter, better known as D.C. Douglas but perhaps best known as the voice of certain Geico commercials (primarily as the tag announcer of a 2007-2008 celebrity ad campaign) has been fired by the insurance company after leaving a voicemail for Tea Party group FreedomWorks.

Douglas asked FreedomWorks in his voicemail what "the percentage of people that are mentally retarded who are working for FreedomWorks and who are following it," or as he has since put it, he "inquired as to their intelligence level."

In the voicemail, Douglas also questions how FreedomWorks will "spin it when one of your members does actually kill somebody, wondering if you've got a PR spinning routine planned for that or are you just gonna take it when it happens."

In the aftermath, FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe published a post on the conservative website biggovernment.com, providing readers with a recording of the voicemail -- which included Douglas's personal phone number -- and encouraging people to call both Douglas and Geico to "[l]et them know that you, in fact, are not a mentally retarded killer."

According to a press release from Wednesday, Geico held auditions to replace Douglas the next day.

Douglas has since acknowledged such an impulsive move was "STUPID!," but says he was impassioned by the "slurs the Tea Party crowd angrily yelled at Barney Frank, et al," during the climax of health care reform.

He also holds no grudge against his former employer, saying in the press release: "I don't blame GEICO for protecting themselves. They have a business to run and can't waste time getting caught up in FreedomWorks' circus. And they've been very good to me in the past."

Whoops.  I guess I won't ever be using Geico.  I can't stand spineless companies (or people).

[AFK]

You'd think people learned that if Rahm Emanuel can't get away with it, it's probably best not to use the word. Lance Baxter, AKA "D.C. Douglas," the voice actor most notable for his work in GEICO commercials, has been dismissed from his job for using his highly recognizable voice to leave a voicemail in the mailbox of Tea Party group Freedomworks asking how many of its members were "mentally retarded" and what the response would be when a member inevitably killed someone.

Douglas responded to his removal with a blog post that is now offline but partially reproduced on PRWire.com:

    "I called as a private citizen to make a complaint," explains Mr. Douglas. "Racism and homophobia are my Achilles heal, but unfortunately my message included inappropriate words and I am sorry for that. However, telling their members to harass my employer to get me fired is an egregiously disproportionate response to my actions."

He also says on his Facebook page that he is going to "take tea bags and make lemonade" and thanks fans for being "NICE" and "REASONABLE."

It's worth noting that GEICO is not exactly in the Tea Party movement's pocket, either, as it was one of many companies to boycott Tea Party darling The Glenn Beck Program when its host claimed Barack Obama had a "deep-seeded hatred of white people, or the white culture."

This world has gone fricken insane

And they post his PI.  I mean, yeah, it was probably kind of stupid for GEICO guy to leave his phone number like that, but still. 

[Thurnez Isa]

This world has gone fricken insane

No its seemingly average

I feel like Im at a circus watching a monkey ride a dog, just slightly less stimulated

[Doktor Howl]

Where's my goddamn vacation on the moon?

People have pretty much stopped flying things to the moon and seem to have taken up flying things into buildings instead.

That's something, I suppose.  But it isn't enough.

[Doktor Howl]

I feel an urge to fuck with Matt Kibbe, in some horribly sneaky fashion.

[Thurnez Isa]

Also if someone called me to inform me they are not a "mentally retarded killer" I would automatically assume they were in fact a "mentally retarded killer".

[AFK]

This world has gone fricken insane

No its seemingly average

I feel like Im at a circus watching a monkey ride a dog, just slightly less stimulated

It gets better.  The woman that is running against Harry Reid, who is beating him by 10 points in the polls, is proposing the solution to affordable health care is patients paying for their care in chickens.  Yep, she is 100% seriously proposing people pay for health care by bartering with chickens.  

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/20/sue-lowden-draws-fire-repeating-health-care-barter/

Lowden was recently the subject of late-night humor after saying health care costs would be lowered if health consumers paid with cash and bargained down prices with health providers. She called it "bartering," a term normally referring to a trade of one good or service for another.

Lowden defended her remarks Monday on the "Nevada Newsmakers" TV show.

"You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house," she said. "I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system."

[Freeky]

This world has gone fricken insane

No its seemingly average

I feel like Im at a circus watching a monkey ride a dog, just slightly less stimulated

It gets better.  The woman that is running against Harry Reid, who is beating him by 10 points in the polls, is proposing the solution to affordable health care is patients paying for their care in chickens.  Yep, she is 100% seriously proposing people pay for health care by bartering with chickens.  

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/apr/20/sue-lowden-draws-fire-repeating-health-care-barter/

Lowden was recently the subject of late-night humor after saying health care costs would be lowered if health consumers paid with cash and bargained down prices with health providers. She called it "bartering," a term normally referring to a trade of one good or service for another.

Lowden defended her remarks Monday on the "Nevada Newsmakers" TV show.

"You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor, they would say I'll paint your house," she said. "I mean, that's the old days of what people would do to get health care with your doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I'm not backing down from that system."

Wait. WAIT. NO FUCKING WAY.

Has the American dollar become so worthless that bartering with chickens at the doctor is more reasonable than paying money?

THIS IS THE BEST NEWS I HAVE EVER HEARD EVER. END OF WORLD.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

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That's a tall Pike Place at Starbucks, bitches!!

[NotPublished]

Whats progressive?