Firefighter of the week – Battalion Chief Battalion 8 Thomas P DeAngelis

By Dan Samaria
Publisher/GCC
Sept. 23, 2009
In the Thick of Things
Five years ago, when Thomas P. DeAngelis was promoted to battalion chief in the New York City Fire Department, his wife, Patty, told him: “You’ve been running into burning buildings for 22 years. But you’re a battalion chief now, so you won’t have to do that anymore.”
In [...]

Firefighter of the week – Battalion Chief Battalion 57 Denis A Cross

By Dan Samaria
Publisher/GCC
Oct. 1, 2009
Running for a Memory
The race seemed more important than ever. For 18 years, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, Dennis Cross competed in the Turkey Trot, a 5- kilometer race held in Flushing Meadows, Queens, where firefighters ran for charity. Now he would be absent.
His wife, JoAnn, used to operate a fitness [...]

No Need to Fear the Big, Bad Wolf

By KNG
Sept. 30, 2009
In the story of the three little pigs, the one who built his house of straw did not fare well; the big, bad wolf huffed and puffed and blew his house down.
But builder Michael Furbish, who made his own home from bales of straw and an elementary school of the same material, [...]

Saucy Apple Pork Roast

By Better Homes
Sept. 30, 2009
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3 cloves garlic, cut into thin slices
1 3-1/2- to 4-pound boneless pork top loin roast (double loin, tied)
3 medium apples, cored and cut into wedges
1/4 cup apple juice or apple cider
1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
1 teaspoon coarse salt or salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice
2 teaspoons dry mustard
1 teaspoon [...]

Black Bean Lasagna

By Better Homes
Sept. 29, 2009
 
Ingredients:
9 lasagna noodles (8 ounces)
2 15-ounce cans black beans, rinsed and drained
Nonstick cooking spray
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped green sweet pepper
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 15-ounce cans low-sodium tomato sauce or tomato sauce with seasonings
1/4 cup snipped fresh cilantro
1 12-ounce container low-fat cottage cheese
1 8-ounce package reduced-fat cream cheese (Neufchatel)
1/4 cup [...]

Alan Grayson on GOP Health Care Plan: “Don’t Get Sick! If You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!”‘

Another Obama Group – Gamaliel Foundation

By Fox Nation
Sept. 30, 2009
 
 
The Gamaliel Foundation is an organizing institute that brings together communities of people living out our faith and values to bring about justice and collectively transform our society. We hold that all people are part of a sacred community, intended by God to realize their own dignity, worth, power and voice.
 
We [...]

CRI Press Conference

America Wins: On Government Health Care Option

By Investors
Sept. 29, 2009 
Health Care: The rejection of the Democrats’ attempt at reform includes a particular distaste for the public option. Yet the Democrats likely won’t give up on it. Why? They know something bigger’s at stake.
If Congress didn’t learn during the August recess that the public doesn’t care for the Democrats’ scheme to turn [...]

Weapon in America’s Revolution

By Chuck Norris
Sept. 29, 2009
On Sept. 28, 1781, Gen. George Washington led a combined force of 17,000 French and Continental troops upon Yorktown, Va., and encircled British Gen. Charles Cornwallis and his regiment of 9,000 British troops. Washington bombarded Cornwallis and crew day and night for three weeks with artillery and cannon fire, until Cornwallis [...]