Ironhold

The big issue with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch is that there's a rights issue. The movie rights to the mutant and Inhuman characters resides with Fox rather than Disney. Both characters are mutants, and so technically Disney shouldn't even be able to use them in the movies or their television shows. This put Disney in a bind, as The Scarlet Witch has been associated with The Avengers since the 1980s. What we saw in "Age of Ultron" was Disney trying to finagle a way they could still use the pair. This is also why Sunfire and Silver Samurai couldn't be used in Big Hero 6: they're mutants, and so Disney can't touch them, either.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/27/annual-easter-egg-hunt-ends-after-adults-cause-mayhem/82322972/ PEZ was forced to cancel their annual Easter Egg hunt when numerous parents rushed the fields before the scheduled start times in order to grab as many eggs as they could for their kids. Although most people have been sympathetic to PEZ over the issue, some individuals have blamed them for not having enough people in place to stop the rampage.

IMHO, at this point Warner Brothers should leave adapting the comic book stories to their animated direct-to-video features, where they have a competent staff who know how to handle these things in the appropriate fashion.

Also just got out of Batman / Superman. The writing team tried to cram too many story lines into too short a film, which is why the film's as disjointed as it is. Warner Brothers is moving at a stupidly fast pace to try and catch up with Marvel's own movie universe, and so this film was the side effect. A lot of kids were actually very upset in the theater today thanks to the ending that the film had to have.

If memory serves, Faust was a lawyer, judge, and corporate board member at various points in his career. A guy like that *would* have the bling to get a Mercedes.

I myself drive a third-hand Buick (inherited from a grandmother who bought it used) and am still wearing the same Timex I got back in high school. I allot myself $20 - $40 in "luxury" spending a month, but only after first ensuring that I've got enough in the bank to pay for my bills and my necessities. Yes, even though I live with family I still buy a fair amount of my own groceries and sundries so that I'm not taking advantage of them.

Also, remember that President Uchtdorf was a corporate vice president before he joined the Brethren. The watch in question could easily be an artifact from his days in that position, either purchased in order to maintain the required appearance of a corporate executive or gifted to him by someone so that he would maintain the appearance. And yes, there's actually a fair amount of pressure for people at the top of the ladder to look the part. Higher-end suits, higher-end watches, higher-end vehicles, et cetra. Much of it is subconscious, but sometimes it's also enforced after a fashion. I remember hearing about one incident, for example, in which a higher-up at a firm decided to buy a more fuel-efficient vehicle and drive that around instead of the fancy luxury car he was used to driving due to his position; his boss was so flabbergasted at the concept that the boss initially presumed that some random low-level employee had stolen the man's parking space. After a few words with the boss, the person went back to driving their luxury car to work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/24/someone-wrote-trump-2016-on-emorys-campus-in-chalk-some-students-said-they-no-longer-feel-safe/?tid=sm_fb College students are going into hysterics because someone grabbed chalk and wrote pro-Trump messages all over their campus.

This was the first one - http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Driver-Dies-When-Car-Crashes-Into-Local-Building-Bursts-Into-Flames-204849911.html#storyVideo . I was at the newspaper office when the vehicle in question plowed into the building next door; I was in the front of the building and so I heard it all. I can't find a link to the article with the autopsy results, but toxicology found large amounts of alcohol, marijuana, and xanax in his system; I showed the article to a guy at church who was a retired Army medic, and he indicated that with the quantities they found, the kid was so blitzed out of his mind that even if he was awake when he hit (he was doing 80 in a 40 zone) he didn't feel a thing. The second one took place along a "main road" that connects several residential zones. In that case, the driver was likewise drunk when she was going past, and due to the way the road is (she was coming up an incline) she didn't see that a vehicle had stopped in the middle of the road so that its occupants could talk with someone who was in front of a house. There weren't any fatalities this time around, but one of the people who was in front of the house had to be hospitalized, the vehicle - a brand new Corvette - was totaled, and a brick mailbox was destroyed.

IMHO, this woman should lose her professorship over this. Not only did she declare that she hasn't been reading the e-mails that are being sent out, she's also declaring that she'll abuse the emergency services system for her own ends.

I was the first person on the scene at two drunk driving accidents in an eleven-month period and made the initial emergency services call in both instances. Between that and a number of other incidents, dispatch kinda knows me. In that sense, I can sympathize with the guy.

Frankly, I just use Keebler brand if I don't simply get a pie that's pre-made. Keebler is one of several brands affiliated with Kellogg's, and so most of their products are eligible for the Kellogg's Family Rewards program: https://www.kelloggsfamilyrewards.com/en_US/home.html Not only does Kellogg's offer a large quantity of coupons via their website and their frequent e-mails, you can use the points you get from buying product to either purchase more coupons or purchase merchandise from their store. I use the points to get codes that let me legally download music from an affiliated website; this is letting me replace some of my old, worn vinyl and audio cassettes for free.

Fun fact: Sandy Peterson, the guy who designed 1/3rd of the total levels in "Doom" and "Doom II", is a member of the church.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/432971/melissa-click-university-missouri-protests-fired?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=56ef122204d3015337df9cb9&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=facebook Melissa Click says that she shouldn't have been fired over what happened, as she didn't know that the journalist had the right to be there.

In my case, I'm making fair wages for my area; I just can't get enough hours at my present job. I'm only getting 15 hours a week or so plus stringer rate, which isn't enough for me to live on my own. And sales at my Half.com store bottomed out last year; it went from being a third paycheck to hardly worth the time to maintain. That's why right now I'm just trying to save to get the money to relocate elsewhere. If I can't get more hours, if not a different job, then it'll be my only option. Until then, I'm stuck living with family.

"Mormon" is the term that the general public uses when dealing with the church, and so saying that they're Mormon too would generate more confusion than is necessary.

That last anecdote makes it seem like you're questioning the guy's sexual preference.

Just saw Miracles From Heaven. They show a fair bit of detail concerning the medical treatment, so it's not for the squeamish.

Waco Stake? Waco was actually split off of Killeen after it got too difficult to get everyone together for stake events.

I've come to the realization that so long as I'm still in the stake someone is going to do their darndest to keep rubbing it in my face. Enough people are still around after all this time to remember that I never went, and we've had more than a few toxic members rotate into the stake due to their involvement with the military; some hold opinions similar to those expressed earlier, while others are on ego trips because of their own missions and don't value those who didn't go.

MBA time here. Do you want to know why diamonds cost so much, folks? 1. Hype 2. Oligopoly on supply Diamonds are nothing more than carbon that have been subjected to the proper conditions of heat and pressure. Every so often both DC Comics and groups spoofing DC will even go so far as to show Superman making a diamond out of coal in order to get himself out of trouble with Lois. That's both how common the base material for diamonds are and how common the knowledge of this is. Cubic zirconium is actually rarer than diamond, but costs less because the demand is less. After all, diamonds are the "proof" you love her, while cubic zirconium is "proof" that you're a cheapskate. There are actually places in this world (I understand there's quite a few of them in Arkansas) where you can rent a patch of land and spend the day searching for diamonds; from the sounds of it, diamonds are almost as common in Arkansas as trilobite fossils are here in Texas. As you can imagine, we had a few discussions about this in both my business and geology classes in college. Basically, the whole diamond industry as we know it is a big honkin' scam. It's an even bigger scam than the gold industry, folks.

1. When I went in for a temple recommend a decade back, the person who was stake president at the time shot me down cold. He said that he was told to only give temple recommends to people who were going on missions, getting married, or at a stage in their life where their finances were absolutely secure. Until I met one of those three criteria, it was a lost cause regardless of how I lived. College blew my finances apart, such that I'm still trying to rebuild. I never went on a mission, so that's out. And because I never went on a mission, I'm not getting married any time soon, so that's out. 2. I've got a master's degree in business administration. Before the recession hit, I would have been making six figures a year at this point. Unfortunately, the big white-collar jobs left the region after that, and given my financial state I don't have the money to follow them. So I'm in sort of a vicious cycle right now. 3. See above. The B-school I attended made a major snafu that resulted in my being denied financial aid through no part of my own, and so I had to pay for an entire calendar year's worth of classes out-of-pocket. This and the time I spent unemployed with the recession (I was laid off from what was a good entry-level office job) destroyed my finances; I'm still trying to rebuild. 4. I'm a movie reviewer for a local newspaper, so yes I'm up on the arts. 5. Back when I was at my peak I could push Buicks around like lawnmowers. Nowadays, I've got a few injuries that are slowing me down because I was never off my feet long enough for them to heal right; I was having to work my way through school just to try and keep from going into even more debt than I was already in. 6. You do realize that Vin Diesel is on the list of rich & famous who routinely play Dungeons & Dragons, right? That in and of itself is no impediment.

I keep trying to let it go. People keep throwing it in my face. It doesn't matter that I was spreading the gospel online before LDS.org was even fully operational. It doesn't matter that I've dealt with ministers, writers, and journalists of all stripes (including some fairly big names). It doesn't matter that I'm an openly religious person in a field where there aren't a whole lot of openly religious people. I never wore a name tag, and so far too many people don't care about anything else I've done.

I keep trying to let it go. People keep throwing it in my face. It doesn't matter that I was spreading the gospel online before LDS.org was even fully operational. It doesn't matter that I've dealt with ministers, writers, and journalists of all stripes (including some fairly big names). It doesn't matter that I'm an openly religious person in a field where there aren't a whole lot of openly religious people. I never wore a name tag, and so far too many people don't care about anything else I've done.

As a mid-single? I'm single because when I was growing up, stake leadership drummed "All young men must go on a mission, and any young man who does not go on a mission is not worthy to be a husband and father" into the heads of as many people as they could. I stayed home because my family needed help caring for a mentally ill relative. Sure enough, I never got a second look from anyone in the stake. I never went, and so I wasn't worthy. At most, I'd get stuck in the "friend" zone and that would be it. Am I bitter about that? Better believe it. I'm basically being punished because I decided to put others ahead of myself. I haven't had a date in 10+ years, and that was with a woman who was from another stake (things didn't work out due to an error on my part, unfortunately). At this point, I have better odds of a random anime girl coming out of my TV than of getting a real-life girlfriend who's in my age bracket.