One of the pleasures of being an adult is that I don’t have to justify my record defending human rights and all the work I have done on a volunteer basis over the years in human rights activism does not need to be justified to someone who refers to a disabled man as “Stumpy” and African-Americans as “darkies.”

You’re no longer worthy of my contempt.

Randy: Because I deal largely in current events

The post and comments you referenced were made over three years ago.

Surely you are not so willfully dense to not understand that when I wrote that I deal largely in current events, I was talking about my blog postings.

Randy, there are double standards in what you, reg, and Celeste post – one for Democrats and another for Republicans, just as the mass liberal media has.

And we are expected to believe that you are a paragon of objectivity?

Randy, when you make a legal distinction regarding torture, but intentionally skip the moral distinction, then no one is putting words in your mouth.

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Randy: The coup took place in 1964, six months after JFK’s death.

Randy, don’t play stupid. The coup couldn’t have been set up in less than six months, and there is too much documenation that this was clearly JFK’s program. But, why not blame the failures of Camelot’s royalty on others? Yeah, Eisenhower was really to blame for the Bay of Pigs fiasco and LBJ was to blame for Vietnam. Who gets blamed for Kennedy’s tax cuts?

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Randy: employees and contract employees of our government was not committing the torture during those years.

This is your lamest attempt yet at trying to make a distinction between Democratic torture and Republican interogations. First, you don’t know where the CIA money was going or whom was being paid. Second, when does it make a difference when we train someone versus do it ourselves? If that’s no problem, then you shouldn’t have a problem with sending terrorists to other nations for torture.

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Randy: you attacked me here for criticizing the support of past torture by Henry Kissinger

Attacked? I think that I was extremely cordial. Here was my comment that you referenced as an attack:

In seeing Randy Paul’s entry (and, despite possible perceptions, I respect Randy’s positions based on his ideology rather than politics), I noted that two paragraphs related the horrors of the dictatorship, one paragraph indicated progress and help by nations other than the U.S., and three paragraphs (50% of the entry) were dedicated to attacking the U.S. by negatively focusing on a report about one individual in our government through myopic lens.

Essentially, the entry, in sum total, was not an attack on the dictators who committed the terror but the entry was an attack on the U.S. It described the horrors, gave praise to other nations (back-handed slap to the U.S.), and directly criticized our government. No where has there been any mention of any noble deeds of our nation and our charities in helping the people of South America. No where were there any examples of our policies or actions that helped people to live.

To those on the left, it seems that everything about the U.S. is negative. It gets quite tiresome to hear that side blaming our goverment when there is little criticism of the real culprits–the dictators.

No disrespect intended, Randy, but the conclusion that easily led people would reach from your entry is a conclusion that lacks reason and fairness; and, thus, the entry does a disservice to properly educating people and to our nation and it is deserves little consideration by rational people.

That’s my opinion. No sources required.

I wasn’t taking up for Kissinger and I wasn’t criticizing you. I expressed my interpretation of your post and took it to a level higher than one person. But, lberals call me a racist when I disagree with Obama and call me an attacker when I say something to anyone who criticizes Kissinger. You and reg are the ones who made it personal.

(BTW, Marc needs to cutoff commenting at some point, as most of the later comments are spam.)

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Randy: Because I deal largely in current events

The post and comments you referenced were made over three years ago.

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Randy, there are double standards in what you, reg, and Celeste post – one for Democrats and another for Republicans, just as the mass liberal media has. That point has been supported in my comments and analyses.

Since Celeste likes shoes and fashion articles, here is a small but typical example of those double standards:

Michelle Obama was stylin’ in her $540 French sneakers during a volunteering photo-op at a Washington, D.C., food bank this week. Her suede and patent trainers from the house of Lanvin are apparently all the rage among the celebrity set. Who knew there were sneakers out there that cost as much as many Americans’ monthly rent?

Don’t misunderstand: I don’t begrudge the first lady her fashion options. But I do begrudge the Obamas for their double standards when it comes to the flaunting of wealth — and the earning of it.

Obama’s supporters at the liberal Huffington Post website devoted an entire slideshow to John McCain’s $520 Ferragamo loafers. CNN piled on with a feature on McCain’s “well-heeled campaign.” The “report” contrasted McCain’s Italian footwear with Obama’s “average guy” shoes.

Will they show the same indignation toward the first lady?

During the campaign season, President Obama sneered at McCain’s houses. …

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I’m confused. I can’t be both Gomer and Goober? I’ll accept the title of being right.

Don’t put words in my mouth.

How convenient, though, that you blamed LBJ rather than Kennedy for what Kennedy started and without mentioning either JFK or RFK.

The coup took place in 1964, six months after JFK’s death.

Why haven’t you shown any outrage in current comments regarding the parallels of torture then and now?

Because I deal largely in current events. The torture in the 1960’s and 1970’s I have discussed before on my blog, but here is the difference you ignore: employees and contract employees of our government was not committing the torture during those years.

In any event, you attacked me here for criticizing the support of past torture by Henry Kissinger. Why didn’t Henry Kissinger’s support of such activities like Operation Condor not bother you and cause you to leap to his defense?

Your attacking me now is only a lame attempt to obtain a partisan advantage and that dog won’t hunt, Gomer. I’ve participated in human rights efforts concerning counties on left and right. My commitment to the issue has been free of partisan basis.

You and the other wingnuts here have been trying to justify torture. You have no moral credibility taking others to task for shortcomings that do not exist.

Yank that mote out of your own eye, Goober.

Oh! So, then you have no problem with the morality of torture…just if it’s illegal…even when the legality is still being debated.

BTW, I don’t seek obscure sites to find what you posted over five years ago. Why haven’t you shown any outrage in current comments regarding the parallels of torture then and now?

How convenient, though, that you blamed LBJ rather than Kennedy for what Kennedy started and without mentioning either JFK or RFK.

You have hardly overcome my points and only prove that you’re incapable of hiding your hypocrisy. I haven’t intended to “land blows,” but it is clear, especially now, that waterboarding outrage is insincere and that you’re not man enough to admit it.

Phony concerns over waterboarding and scaring with caterpillars are proof of your BDS and are distructive to the U.S., but it at least takes the eyes off of Obama’s greater distruction of our private sector.

Woody,

One wonders how far the level of your butt-stupidity can go. Here’s a post by yours truly from April 2004 about recently declassified documents concerning the Johnson administration’s support for the 1964 coup in Brazil.

You couldn’t even be bothered to look that up, peckerwood.

Since there is no sincere outrage, or any outrage at all, over torture by Democrats, then any outrage that you show over waterboarding is worthless.

Just more tu quoque nonsense from you. Your arguments are routinely filled with logical fallacies. It makes one wonder if you have a thing for phalluses or just like to behave like a dick.

Your silly-assed arguments also lack one essential fact: Bush’s implementation of torture was initiated after the Torture Statute became law.

You’re punching above your weight and landing no blows.

Since there is no sincere outrage, or any outrage at all, over torture by Democrats, then any outrage that you show over waterboarding is worthless.

On the other hand, reg probably feels that having “his penis wrapped in wires and connected to a battery-operated field telephone” is just another fun daytrip to San Francisco.

“purely for political posturing rather than out of true concern”

No shit…