Bob McCarty Writes

Editor’s note: The post below was written and published by my friend, Skunkfeathers, at his blog of the same name.  While I’ve condensed it slightly to reduce its carbon footprint (just kidding), I have not changed the flavor of the piece, ensuring it stays in line with previous Skunky posts, all of which have to [...]

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If officials with Citibank are not bright enough to prevent Nigerian e-mail scammers (a.k.a., “419 scammers”) from hustling them out of $27 million, should they — or their parent, Citigroup — be trusted with $45 billion in bailout funds?  That’s the too-little-too-late question I asked myself after reading a report in The New York [...]

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Though I can guarantee you 100 percent of the content at BobMcCarty.com is written by a man (i.e., me), the analysis tools behind the new Gender Analyzer site concluded that only 80 percent of the content at BobMcCarty.com is written by a man.  Should I feel insecure about that?  Not exactly, considering the following:

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Less than 24 hours after publishing E-mail Scammer Offers Qur’an Signed by Obama, a post that provided a blow-by-blow description of a three-day exchange involving yours truly, my Colorado-based scam-baiting expert friend Skunkfeathers and some unscrupulous scammers in Kenya, an e-mail “admission of guilt” arrived from a person claiming to be the perpetrator:
Gentlemen, you win. [...]

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During this presidential election season, I’ve written my fair share of posts about Barack Obama, his involvement with unscrupulous characters and the possibility that he isn’t even a legal citizen of the United States.  Now, it seems the Democratic Party presidential nominee has become a magnet for trouble on an international scale as evidenced by [...]

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