Don’t listen to the critics about this stinker. Though it received 86% on RottenTomatoes.com, it’s boring as hell.

Don Lapre — the boyish infomercial shyster who lulled millions of insomniacs into pants-wetting states of catatonia via the relentless repetition of the phrase “tiny classified ads!” — has committed suicide inside an Arizona prison cell. Lapre, 47, was facing 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and promotional money laundering in connection with his latest snake oil scam, “The Greatest Vitamin in the World,” which parted 220,000 suckers with $52 million.

Faced with anywhere from five to 25 years in a federal prison, Lapre instead opted to to take his own life — which TMZ reports involved “self-mutilation” and the discovery of a “large amount of blood” in his cell on Sunday morning.

Lapre’s personal website bears what might now be considered a suicide note. In it, he insists, “I have been accused of something I did not do,” and that he was facing a legal battle “that will for sure destroy what energy I have left inside.” Beneath it are photos of the homes his pyramid-scheming bought (”never stop dreaming…”), and, disturbingly, the young children he left behind (”My 3 best friends:-)”). Suicide Note

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By Mike Flacy - Digital Trends – Sat, Sep 24, 2011

Assuming that a user has already enabled the new Timeline profile page on Facebook, there’s a feature built into the Timeline that allows to users to view how many friends were added each year. Go to the Timeline page and choose a year on the right side of the page. Scroll through the posts and locate the “Friends” box. Within the Timeline, Facebook groups actions that occurred over the course of the year including new friendships, photos uploaded, events attended and new likes. On the “Friends” box, click the “Made X New Friends” link and this should load a pop-up window that lists all friendships created during that year.

Scroll through the list and anyone that terminated the friendship will appear with an “Add Friend” button rather than a “Friends” button. However, the “Add Friend” could also mean that the user terminated the friendship. Users that deleted their profiles at some point over the years won’t appear on this list and users that have been blocked won’t appear here as well. For instance, an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend won’t appear within this list if the blocking feature was enabled to completely cut out that person from a user’s social network….full article

If at any point you find yourself about to emulate a Jonathan Silverman movie — don’t.

“Weekend at Bernie’s” is a 1989 cult classic; it is not a blueprint for an actual night of fun and shenanigans. But don’t tell that to Robert Young and Mark Rubinson, two Colorado men who thought it was a smart idea to honor their deceased friend by defaming his corpse Bernie-style.

Young claims to have found his 43-year-old friend Jeffrey Jarrett deceased in Jarrett’s Denver home. Young, along with his 25-year-old cohort Rubinson, then placed Jarrett’s corpse in the back of an SUV and hit the town.

Young and Rubinson hit up multiple bars and used Jarrett’s credit cards to pay the tabs. Additionally, they spent $400 dollars of Jarrett’s money at a gentleman’s club. The worst part? Jarrett’s corpse was in the car the whole time.

At the end of the night, Young and Rubinson were considerate enough to notify authorities of Jarrett’s death. What good friends.

Also (and we have to ask), where was that guy looking when they took his mugshot?

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… for being the braindead peddlers they really are…

How do you compromise with a group who’s goal is to make the middle class of America fail and then blame you for it???!

This to me is the billion dollar question for Obama. From the stimulus to healthcare reform to wall street reform to so much else, the compromise position taken by Obama has always made the policy demonstrably worse for the country as a whole than the original plan. This is not a mere difference in ideology at work here. Compromise can only truly occur when two parties share the same goal, eg, for the economy to improve for the middle class. We just don’t have that here.

For over 30 years, Republicans have adopted policies intended to weaken the middle class as a means of weakening the Democratic party. Even the so-called balanced budget that Clinton accomplished with a Republican congress was done mostly on the backs of welfare recipients and was achieved largely due to revenue increases brought on by the dot com bubble, which was a direct consequence of letting the rich keep too much of their money to gamble with (yet another Republican, middle-class-destroying policy) .

Today that policy is on steroids and the Republicans, cheered on by the imbecilic racists in the Tea Party, have basically stated that they not only intend to block any government effort to assist middle class (in this recession they created), but also that they intend to do away with every social safety net they can get their hand on. Again this is all so they can even further weaken the middle class (and thereby weaken Obama and the Dems) and so they can then hand that savings over to the super rich in the form of more tax breaks.

To compromise with the Republican agenda IN ANY WAY, therefore, is nothing short of a betrayal to the middle class, period end of story.

Can somebody explain why Obama doesn’t seem to get this????

Is he stupid, or is he just a Republican playing a liberal Dem? I honestly can’t figure it out.

Jeez Obama is starting to really suck, isn’t he?

Can this guy get any closer to a living, breathing human turd? I think not!