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  1. When you watch it, report back with your thoughts on the below
    [spioler]
    • Blake Lively as Lady Deadpool
    • James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender as Professor X and Magneto
    • Tobey Maguire returning as Spider-Man 
    •  Chris Evans as the Human Torch
    • Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man
    • Austin Butler as the Silver Surfer
    • Timothy Chalamet as Galactus
    • Jessica Alba as Sue Storm



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  2. If you don't want to know then don't click on this
    Spoiler

    Dafne Keen returns as Laura (X-23) all growns up from the Logan film

     


    oh, ok, thanks. Yeah, I saw that one but I guess I was expecting some mind bending, random cameo based on earlier comments.
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  3. One of my best friends wife is a dog trainer.  Won’t accept pits
     
     
    chows can be dangerous 

    yep, echo what’s been said, chows can be huge pricks. Learned that early as a kid after seeing one of my parent’s friends get chomped in the leg by their chow.
  4. 13 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

    When we simply fuck up and bring in Steve Cherundolo, the firing of Berhalter is going to be all for naught and the 2026 World Cup will be a disaster.

    yep, early in the week excite boner is shifting to fear boner...furk

  5. This was the worst year I've ever had dealing with homeowners.  My carrier, Safeco, wouldn't renew because they placed my entire zip code as a high fire risk, when it would need to literally burned like 12 city blocks of homes for a wildfire to reach us.  And I went round and round with others.  Ultimately had to go with a split policy- the California "Fair Plan" which mostly covers just fire, and then a supplemental policy with a company called Bamboo for everything else.  Quadrupled my rate.  It was a royal pain in the ass.

    same, sort of. Been with safeco for a while and they decided it was time to gouge on up upcoming renewal. if we didn’t have a mortgage, I absolutely would probably roll the dice like some are saying..
  6. Big drama in Texas LL
    A lot of Facebook traffic surrounding our Fossil Creek Little League team in the past couple of days.  It has been a whirlwind week for this team, and I am taking to Facebook to hopefully accomplish two things
    1)  Provide clarity around the allegations and accusations that have been thrown at this group of twelve year old boys
    2)  Provide an easily digestible summary that can be easily shared and maybe garner some momentum online to get some justice for this team
    First, and foremost, it should be understood that this team has endured thorough and complete scrutiny from the Little League International Tournament Committee and have been cleared to play in the Little League World Series.  The letter from the committee dated June 12th is provided in this post.   No one on the team, nor the league has been found to be in any violation of any Little League rule.
    The Fossil Creek Little League Majors division entered two teams into the Texas West District 7 Little League tournament (dubbed as "Black" and "Gold" for purposes of identifying each team).  The Black team had just completed a clean sweep of the Jim Sundberg Invitational Tournament capping it on June 8th with an 11-2 victory over the District 7 defending champion and perennial force University Little League.   (FCLL Black also defeated Westside LL 14-0 in the tournament with Harrison Harper pitching a 4 inning perfect game on 41 pitches w/ 7 K's.)  
    This team was VERY GOOD and everyone in the district now knew it.
    Concurrently, and unbeknownst to the team, Fossil Creek Little League had received and responded to a slew of allegations surrounding this team. In short, there were concerns that this team had been an existing "select" baseball team that had come over as a whole entity to play in FCLL and make a run at the LLWS title.  On June 11th, prior to the start of the District 7 tournament, our Head Coach Greg Harper participated in a conference call with representatives from Williamsport (Little League International Headquarters) and Waco (SW Region) to aide in their investigation.  The team and its players were thoroughly vetted and on June 12th were cleared to play in the District 7 tournament.
    It should be noted here that, to our knowledge, this is the last official investigation and official action taken by any Little League official investigating our team.
    FCLL Black defeated FCLL Gold on June 14th in the opening round of the tournament and defeated them 11-0.  We were slated to play University LL the next night in the semifinal.  Due to a declared scheduling error on the part of District 7, we were notified at 7:00am on Saturday the 4:00pm game was postponed until Monday at 6:00pm.
    When our team arrived at the field at 5:00pm on Monday, there was no opponent available.  We were unaware that the District had emailed at 3:30pm suspending the tournament while additional allegations against Fossil Creek Little League were investigated.
    Tuesday around 4:00pm, the tournament website was updated to reflect a 6-0 forfeit score in the FCLL vs University LL.  At 4:30 Greg spoke to Derek Rush, President of Fossil Creek Little League, who advised us that FCLL had "voluntarily" withdrawn our team from the tournament under threat of losing their LL charter and having all teams in all age groups removed from District 7 play.  There was no finding of any violation. We were simply told that "this is what Williamsport wanted".
    The 36 hours since then has been a whirlwind of allegations and accusations, but there has been NO FORMAL FINDING OF ANY RULE VIOLATION presented to the team.  At this time, we have been given no reason for this forced withdrawal.  Our children have been told they have been penalized, but we cannot tell them what violation was committed.
    Numerous calls have been made and emails have been sent to District 7, Southwest Region, and Williamsport.  Not a single response has been provided nor has an acknowledgment of our inquiry been provided by any entity outside of our local LL.
    Little League Baseball has effectively disqualified a team but has provided no reason for their disqualification and has given no indication of any explanation to come.  
    We appreciate any help you can lend to bring awareness to this situation so we can either be reinstated to the tournament, or at least provide a reasonable explanation to a group of 12 year old boys who have worked very hard for many years to achieve their baseball dreams of winning a LLWS title.
    More information to follow in comments (screenshots, letters, etc.)
    Thank you for your support.
    P.s.  We have much information from various sources to provide any news or social media outlet that would like to further investigate.  In the interest of keeping confidence of our sources, I won't lay it all out here, but there is a lot of information behind this.
    *-*-*-*-*-*-UPDATE-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
    Little League International has said that since Fossil Creek Little League President Derek Rush voluntarily withdrew the team from the tourney, they accepted it and moved on with D7 tourney play, it is binding and there will be no reinstatement.
    More info to come throughout the night.
     

    if true, not the first or last to try. Other ways have been tried in the past like brand new charters, etc. If all the kids live within the address boundary and played the minimum regular season games, may be something else going on
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