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November 4 2006

But Did He Inhale

This is the first time since my move to Canada that I am not voting in one of the important US elections. I can still vote in Missouri, as an ex-pat, but it doesn't feel quite right to do that anymore. It's just too local to be any of my business.

As hotly contended as the Missouri senate race is, and, from my perspective, as important as it is to send Jim Talent back home, where he can do far less damage than he has in Washington, it still didn't feel right to me to cast an absentee ballot. I just hope that my Canadian citizenship application is approved before they call an election here in the spring.

That doesn't mean I haven't been watching the antics going on in the US during this most recent silly season. We get US television stations, and the blitz of negative ads has been astounding. And lucky us, there is new fodder for the machine now.

From the LATimes:

Just a massage, pastor says
By Stephanie Simon
Times Staff Writer

November 4, 2006

COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. — One of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders admitted Friday that he visited a male prostitute for a massage and bought methamphetamine for personal use — though he said he threw the drugs away without using them.

The Rev. Ted Haggard denied the prostitute's allegation that the two men met for sex as often as every month for the last three years. But he did say that he had visited the prostitute for a massage and later called him more than once to buy methamphetamine — a drug used in some gay circles to heighten sexual sensation.

"I never kept [the drugs] very long," Haggard told a TV reporter who questioned him as he was leaving his home in Colorado Springs, a short drive from his 14,000-member mega-church. "I was tempted. I bought it. But I never used it."

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