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Posted on 03/16/2008 9:28:09 PM PDT by perfect stranger

There was an article on FR a few years ago about a California college professor that fell for the 419 scam.

He was a big critic of Ronald Reagan, citing diminshed intelligence or something like that.

After trying all the relevant key-words and also using the advanced search options on both AltaVista and Google without success, I ask Freepers if they can help.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Reference
KEYWORDS: 419; academia; gottschalk; reagan
This has been driving me nuts for the past 2 days because it's my own comments that I'm looking for.
1 posted on 03/16/2008 9:28:10 PM PDT by perfect stranger
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To: perfect stranger

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588389/posts


2 posted on 03/16/2008 9:32:18 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
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How the heck did you do that!? I’ve been searching for 45 minutes for that.


3 posted on 03/16/2008 9:34:53 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: perfect stranger

This one?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588389/posts

UCI Psychiatrist Bilked by Nigerian E-Mails (had claimed Reagan had diminished mental ability)
Los Angeles Times ^ | March 2, 2006 | William Lobdell,

Posted on 03/02/2006 6:01:17 AM CST by Cincinatus’ Wife


4 posted on 03/16/2008 9:35:00 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: perfect stranger

Oops, sorry for the duplicate - the other one wasn’t there when I went searching!


5 posted on 03/16/2008 9:36:05 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rte66

ping to post #3


6 posted on 03/16/2008 9:39:36 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: perfect stranger
There are a few tricks for effective searches with Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, etc.

To restrict the search results to this site, add -

site:freerepublic.com

- to the search terms.

Also, it helps to use quotation marks around phrases in the search terms, like -

"419 scam"

If one search engine doesn't find the right result, try another one. The Yahoo search engine found the article you were looking for. Google didn't have it.

7 posted on 03/16/2008 9:48:09 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
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Yahoo?!

I used the terms as you said with exception to "419 scam". I didn't put them together as one search term.

Thanks , that must have made the difference.

8 posted on 03/16/2008 9:54:57 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: perfect stranger

Man, that’s a sweet thread. I couldn’t remember seeing it then I looked at the date. I was on deployment.


9 posted on 03/16/2008 9:55:54 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY (Your parents will all receive phone calls instructing them to love you less now.)
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To: perfect stranger

Luckily, this was the one night I was able to use Google - I have terrible virus probs with my computer and haven’t been able to do much of anything, so just got lucky tonight.

I used the “advanced search” option in Google, then where it asked to restrict to which domain to search, put in “freerepublic.com” - then all I did was put in “reagan” and “419” as two words, no connectors or quote marks, and it was the first thread hit result that came up.


10 posted on 03/16/2008 9:58:38 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: GATOR NAVY
Thank you for serving. You have my utmost respect.
11 posted on 03/16/2008 10:02:13 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: Rte66
I tried the same but it gave me no results.

Google and Alta Vista showed nothing. But Yahoo did.

12 posted on 03/16/2008 10:07:52 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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Louis Gottschalk fell for a 419? Oh, that’s rich. Very prominent guy in the psychiatric field. Besides his professional props, he made the news after Reagan’s Alzheimer’s announcement by saying he’d suspected for years, in particular based on Reagan’s debate performance against Mondale.

I knew Gottschalk’s wife (also a physician) years ago. Sharp, opinionated, brusque, witty, delightful lady. Passed away some time ago. I can only imagine how much he must miss her.


13 posted on 03/16/2008 10:08:06 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast ([Fred Thompson/Clarence Thomas 2008!])
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he made the news after Reagan’s Alzheimer’s announcement by saying he’d suspected for years, in particular based on Reagan’s debate performance against Mondale.

By his own standard, he is no where near equal to the intelligence of our great President Ronad Reagan.

I can only imagine how much he must miss her.

While I can feel for his loss, it doesn't change the fact that he was incredibly ignorant of the same forces for which he faults Reagan.

14 posted on 03/16/2008 10:41:07 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
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To: perfect stranger

I think it might have been search term 419 that did it. ??


15 posted on 03/17/2008 1:39:43 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
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