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Jeff Norton, Kenosha, WI
March 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Regular readers may well be aware of my post “Some people are just born to be theives” about Jeff Norton of Kenosha WI.
Well, at the beginning of February Jeff contacted me full of apologies, offering to set things to rights. He offered to repay me the money he stole in instalments starting the 26th of February, and on the same date subsequently.
He also requested I remove a comment about his ex-wife made by another aggrieved client of his. In good faith I hid this comment. I have now put it back.
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Who exacly are these ‘Internet Entrepreneurs’
Have you ever wondered about all these people who send you emails claiming to be ‘Internet Entrepreneurs’ and ‘Successful Internet Marketers’ who are going to help you to make a million? You’ve seen them I’m sure – they pull you to a single web page and show you pictures of (probably of other people’s) fancy cars and houses bought with their Internet millions – just like you can have too if you do what they say – and screen grabs of their bank statements or on-line payouts (how hard would they be to fabricate?). They offer ‘information’ (most of which is freely available if you know where to look). The page offers substantial discounts on their ‘products’ if you BUY NOW. The vague descriptive – call to action text – makes it extremely difficult to define exactly what they are selling until you have parted with your hard earned cash!
Well, my guess is that most of them are people who’ve never had an original business idea in their life! And I’d stake money on it that many of these business opportunity ‘gurus’ (sic) are pseudonyms, or even pure works of fiction by deranged failures in the back bedroom of mum and dad´s place somewhere in the mid-west of the US.
There are few mysteries and hardly any ‘secrets’ that are going to make you a million – and hell, if there are, lets be realistic nobody is either going to give or sell them to you… Perhaps their ‘secret’ is getting you to buy, and re-sell whatever feely available information it is they are selling to you!
Caveat Emptor!
Perhaps the best way to make money is to use the vehicle many of these guys use to actually sell something worth having. If you have a piece of software, some information, or anything else that can be download that may be of value to others you can easily market your own wares by becoming a Clickbank publisher.
As the old saying goes… Here’s one I got earlier… Read the rest of this entry »
The Law of Attraction
I was recently persuaded to watch a ‘movie’ about the Law of Attraction called ‘The Secret’. I won’t mention any names – you know who you are – I know you’ll read this! 
What a load of crap! A bunch of people described as meta-physicians (new age types), and ‘entrepreneurs`(of course it didn’t mention how they made their supposed millions) rattling on about how you can have or achieve anything you want pretty much simply by visualizing it.All this interspersed with mysterious pictures of great people who supposedly used their system – ancient Egyptians (though obviously not the ones who must have visualized being slaves and building pyramids), Isaac Newton, Einstein and others.
With there being no mention of how exactly they made their cash, bought the fast cars, and everything else they claimed to have – and, as you’d expect, almost to a man (and woman) telling rags to riches stories. I can only imagine that they have made their fortunes peddling crap like this to gullible people – as many have over the decades via spam, classified sites, and small ads for millions of spurious business opportunities.
It also struck me that this seems almost ‘religious’ in the way it claims to be the path to enlightenment… It looks from outside a lot like a multi-level marketing version of the Church of Christian Science.
Fuc*#*g “Christians”
Rather sadly I’m a big fan of the likes Jeremy Kyle (I was always a big Springer fan too) these things are cathartic viewing…. This is not for the faint hearted, its called “The most hated family in America” – I’m just off out to buy a gun having watched it for the second time: No, no, not a gun – an axe – that would be far more fun…. No, no, not an axe a couple of large lengths of 4×2 and some nails would be even better…
Has Hitler finally won?
Schools drop Holocaust lessons to avoid offence
This is offensive to the intelligence of every human being in the United Kingdom (and on the planet) irrespective of race or religion. It’s absurd, it’s 1984, its communism at its worst, its national socialism – how the bloody hell are we as a species going to learn from history if certain knowledgeable (sic) politicians and academics censor it….
Once upon a time…
Once upon a time long-long-ago the Internet used to be a wonderful place… What the hell happened to it. The global village truly existed – it was like ham radio (must make me sound like a geek to say it, but its true), it was possible to go online and randomly talk to decent people all over the world. There were no pictures, it was just text, there was very little commercial presence – if any – and most of the people you met were intelligent! There was a choice of a couple of ISP’s in the UK, a state-of-the-art modem ran at 2400 baud, advertising and marketing online was nothing more than a glint in a few people’s wallets. Read the rest of this entry »
McClaren must go…!
What a ridiculous farce tonight’s Euro 2008 qualifier turned out to be. Why on earth did Steve McClaren replace Robinson with Carson? Let’s face it, McClaren has to go now…
Al Qaeda
We English have been the victims of their attacks too, and one of my favourite quotes ever was by Ken Livingstone the Mayor of London after the Attacks on 7th July 2005… (It applies equally to the events of 911 too…)
“I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at presidents or prime ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners— black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old— indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for caste, for religion or whatever. Read the rest of this entry »
911
It´s hard for anyone to let this date pass without remembering what happened. I guess this will, to use an English reference, be written into history like the gun powder plot. Now there’s a thought, lets go and burn some effigies of Bin Laden… They seem to like burning our Union Flag and the Stars and Stripes, lets return the compliment.
The murdering scum who committed the atrocities on 911 will no doubt rot in their own version of hell for their deeds… Read the rest of this entry »
Some people must just be born to be thieves….
Just sat here pondering an experience ealier in the year….
Should anyone reading this come into contact with a certain Jeff Norton of Kenosha WI. Do not ever contemplate dealing with this man. He is a liar and a thief, he stole money, which in turn cost me time with my children.
Jeff. Should you be reading this. Rot in hell you sad piece of shit! PRAY you never meet me in person…. Read the rest of this entry »
