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Self-selection automatically makes any poll worthless.

Well unfortunately that sounds a lot like Scott's Tots from the Office! If in fact Mr Foglesong has screwed up the charity so much that they have reneged on the kid's scholarships, that is by far his worse offense to date. Too bad the President contributed to it (if it really is as bad as you say). FWIW, President Obama actually donated money to 10 different charities, with the most ($250,000) going to Fisher House Foundation. They definitely DO deserve the money.

If stating the obvious puts me in the minority, count me in too. It's the President's money, he can do what he wants with it. Apparently he wants kids to go to college. He split the money among four different ethnic groups because that's what he has to do. Does anybody know anything about Foglesong's charity? I don't, either. Maybe, just maybe, it's actually a worthwhile organization that gives kids from the poorest part of our nation some money for college. I doubt that it was chosen because the President likes his vans lined up in a certain way. Something also tells me that if the President had put all of his Nobel money on the bar at your squadron you guys would still find a way to get pissed about it.

Reserved for a "2" response to slacker, along with his entire post (including page-length pictures) quoted all over again. I will also question the sexuality of anyone who posts any picture which isn't as provocative as his. I'll probably also add a signature block quoting his post for good measure.

This is retarded. It would make a lot more sense to unblock online email (like Gmail & Hotmail) first before letting in all of the gayness that exists on Facebook and My Space. Just block all of the attachments called chinese_sortie_tracker.exe and we'll be fine.

Agreed, when it works. It was broken for the first half of the week, at my base anyway. It's ridiculous that random systems are broken for days at a time (like the local network, email, AF Portal, LeaveWeb, ADLS, you name it). That would never happen in civilian life. I've never seen a major website go down for more than a few minutes, much less days.

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The T-6As on our ramp seem to always be in some state of slightly broken. We treat ours pretty well, how likely is it that the AT-6B will be any more durable in combat from a forward location? Can the AT-6B land on unimproved strips? I bet the Sky Tractor could.

I got my wife's engagement ring from diamond.com. It was around one third the price of mall stores. They get all of their diamonds from Steinmetz, and they're all GIA graded. The particular diamond I got was a 1.25 carat, F color, SI1, Ideal emerald cut and it was $4,000 (the .75 carat setting I chose was $1400). A similar loose diamond from Zales was over $10,000 and it was a J color with I1 clarity. Note that the prices have gone up a bit as the dollar's value has fallen over the past two years. I found that Zales and the other mall stores don't even offer 1 carat diamonds that were better than H color, at least where I was looking. The salesmen act like diamonds in the colorless range don't even exist. I would recommend going to a store and finding one you like, get a feel for the carat size and cuts of different diamonds and settings, then purchasing at diamond.com or bluenile.com. I do the same thing with electronics.