Posted on 11/03/2006 1:44:15 PM PST by delacoert
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Haggard tells reporter:
:/ I know whatcha mean.
IMO, it's not likely to be the drug that someone who has never used recreational drugs before in his life would just decide to start taking.
I'm trying to imagine a situation that would fit the little snippets of information Haggard has teased us with:
Haggard is staying at a hotel in Denver to give him the quiet that he needs to write. He has been traveling here from his home in Colorado Springs for many years. It's far enough away from home to give that needed respite from the everyday grind, and close enough to make it an easy commute.
Haggard is staying at one of the dozens of hotels that he has tried in Denver. Unlike most people, who return to the hotel they like, he goes to a different hotel every time. One evening, he decides that his long hours of sitting in his lonely room writing have earned him the privilege of a comforting massage. This is the first time he has ever decided to get a massage, so he phones the front desk of the hotel he can no longer remember, and asked for the name of a good masseuse.
During the relaxing massage, the topic of recreational drug just happens to come up. Since Ten is pretending to be a guy named Art, he manages to pretend he also interested in buying drugs. One thing leads to another and he's buying meth from a drug-dealing, homosexual, prostitute, masseuse.
According to mental health workers, police and research scientists, the people who use crystal meth include:
- Large numbers of rural and small town poor across North America.
- Some young people in the rave and dance scene.
- Some young people who want to lose weight.
- Gay males involved in the dance scene or who frequent bathhouses (read more below)
Crystal Meth and the gay community
In recent years, crystal meth has become the drug of choice in the gay men's party scene. Like the mainstream use of the drug, this trend spread from west to east - San Francisco to New York and Vancouver to Toronto. At "PNP" parties (shorthand for "party and play" - meaning sex and drugs), crystal meth, known as "tina," increases energy and reduces sexual inhibition. And the superhuman feeling that often comes with a crystal meth high means the sex is often unprotected.
Seriously, this sounds like major denial to me...
Met with a gay escort but only had a massage?
*Bought* crystal meth then *threw it away*?
His story really fails to pass the stink test.
You're suggesting there's something *gay* about paying a homosexual prostitute for a massage? As if any normal person would, I don't know, go to a licensed therapeutic massager instead?
If any of you are interested in finding out what the new head of the Christian Coalition, Joel Hunter, might have to say about the Haggard resignation, you may want to watch the live webstream of his sermon at 5PM today (Saturday). I would imagine he will have a comment.
Go here http://www.northlandcc.org/ and click on webstream worship in the featured links on the right side of the page. Then right click on the word "here" and click "open" at this hot link: View the Webstream here.
If you miss the live video today, you can catch it at one of the other times listed below:
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bttt
In Haggard's voicemail recording he said something to the effect of, "I'd like to buy another $200 worth"...the word "another" is significant. It wasn't his first time.
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