His Phoenix

Ashes? We don’t need no stinkin’ ashes!

Phoenix’s Favorite Recipes – Part I

Over the next few days, I will be sharing some of my favorite recipes… you know, the ones that everyone around these parts feels the need to brag upon.
Today I will share with you how to make perfect Teriaki Wings AND Hot Wings. The recipes are similar so you get a double dose!
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Fathers Day

Fathers Day. This is a day that should be celebrated with the man that helped to bring you life. I wish that could be so… or not. You see I can’t be sure of how I feel about this day. You see my dad was never there for me. Ever. He missed many things because [...]

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Don’t Ever Change

Our 500th post. Wow. Pleasure comes in many forms, yes?
Sing along with the Beatles tune…
You come to read us in this place,
Friendships we could never erase.
You’ve always got the means
Even on Sunday.
So please don’t ever change,
No don’t you ever change.
We kind of like you
Just the way you are.
You always come and take a [...]

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Our Constitutional Rights (and my opinion, of course)

You know, the older I get, the more philosophical I get. This can be a good thing, except when I am dealing with my younger soldiers, you know, the ones that don’t think about what they are saying, but they expect me to understand it anyway. But, I digress.
All of the people that [...]

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Drama or Dramatics?

There seems to be plenty of both in my house these days. Yes, I am still alive but the activities at home and work have kept me quite busy.
Work has been very busy with stores stocking up our product for the impending holiday in 2 weeks. I have to not only send out the [...]

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Give me a HOO-RAH

Oh yes, I am ready.

I have registered to play in the
PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!
This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem
event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 4247557

Anyone care to join me for a bit of fun? Anyone? Double dare you!!!

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Heh… Maybe we need more of these

Kinds of Judges!
Rock, paper, scizzors Judgement
Just out of curiosity I searched the rules for this popular childrens game.

The Rules
Rock, Paper, Scissors is a game for two players typically played using the players’ hands. The two players each make a fist with one hand and hold the other open, palm upward. Together, [...]

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Do sexy photos “objectify” women (or men for that matter)?

I would have to say, conditionally, no. Obviously, the conditions are simply that the photos are taken voluntarily and that the subject (model) was not coerced, pressured, manipulated into being in them.
The reason that I have started in on THIS subject is that I have a friend of mine that poses for some pretty [...]

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Thursday Thirteen #19 – Updated with answers

Thirteen Things About
Phoenix (You have to guess which ones are true!)

1. I used to sell grave plots as a telemarketer.
Yes, this one is true. I was 16 or 17 and had to dial out on a rotary phone. My fingers stayed sore. The “office” I worked out of was a [...]

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Things that make you go hmmm… wokay…

Mon Jun 5, 8:31 AM ET
KIEV (Reuters) – A man shouting that God would keep him safe was mauled to death by a lioness in Kiev zoo after he crept into the animal’s enclosure, a zoo official said on Monday.

“The man shouted ‘God will save me, if he exists’, lowered himself by [...]

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