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Update On My Journey to Health and Fitness

A World Without America

Where the Heck Have I Been??

Where the Heck Have I Been?
Put simply I have been preoccupied losing weight and documenting my progress. I know that is not as exciting as tracking down media bias or volunteering for my local political campaign, but there it is.

I realized if I didn't start going in a different direction I was going to be a big dead fat guy. The news media would report how a fat right wing blogger was found dead in his apartment.... So, I have been getting very serious about it.

Check out my progress http://www.johnbrownsbodyjourney.com/

I have not abandoned this site and I will post from time to time, wish me luck. Thank You.

Puff Piece on Terrorist Suspect by Peoria Star Journal

Andy Kravetz of the Peoria Star Journal wants us all to feel sorry for a man sleeper agent sent to the United States to disrupt the country's computer systems and help with a second wave of attacks... He was also running a credit card scam to help fund Al Queda. He states:

...Hafetz, of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, said this week the nearly five-year detention without trial "is both unconstitutional and unprecedented in American history."...

...Hafetz added that al-Marri "will continue seeking to vindicate his right, and the right of all Americans, to due process of law, a right denied by the President through the stroke of a pen declaring him an 'enemy combatant.'"...

...His build was slight and he sported a broad smile. Yet, authorities say he's dangerous...

...But if someone is in need, the community helps, and when al-Marri's wife made it known she needed help getting food and supplies - she had no driver's license - area Muslims pitched in. That is until the FBI began to question people and, gradually, the family became more isolated....Read the rest

Here are a couple of things Andy Kravetz did not bother to mention:

U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd wrote in a 16-page order filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Charleston that the government had proved that Ali Saleh Kahleh al-Marri was an "enemy combatant," and therefore could be held indefinitely by the military...

Furthermore, Floyd held the former West Peoria man's insistence of not presenting any evidence to rebut the government's contentions were his downfall. "The court finds that (al-Marri) has received notice of the factual basis supporting his detention and has been afforded a meaningful opportunity to rebut that evidence. As a review of that evidence does not indicate that an 'erroneous deprivation' has occurred, this petition should be dismissed," the judge wrote.

My advice to Mr. Kravetz is if he wanted to make a point regarding this case he should have kept his "reporting" to the op-ed page. The fact that this man's family suffered is his fault (not George W Bush).

I also have a question for Andy Kravetz. During WWII, were there are were there not POW camps in central Illinois (Camp Washington, Camp Ellis...)? Were the prisoners held there given lawyers and tried in a court of law? Or were they held indefinitely without trial until the end of hostilities? Let me know.

Atlas Shrugs Proclaims "EU on Verge of Collapse"

Atlas Shrugs Proclaims "EU on Verge of Collapse" and I have to agree with her. She details on her site how wishy washy the EU is with regards to Iran. It is shocking to think that we cannot even get a "strongly worded letter" a la "Team America: World Police" from these people. You know we are in trouble when over top satire is not as absurd as real life.

Head on over there are read a little of what she has to say.