The Colin ad kicked ass.

He thinks that by admitting to the meth and some "innocent' contact with the prostitute, he can deny the rest of the allegations.

Totally. He probably is saying he bought it and threw it away to save some poor drug addict.

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Whohooo! Congratulations msbelle! Yay for Mac!

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Jesse, that's pretty much it by now.

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We just came across someone in the files who spells her first name with a lower case letter. My coworkers were like, "WHY?!?" I confessed to knowing someone else who spells her name that way, but not the exact "why" of it. I said she just likes it. Right, ita?

we had a professor who spelled her entire name with lowercase letters. I asked her about it, and she told me several times, but I can't ever remember. Something about the politics of identity, as I recall.

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He claims that he never used the meth, that the threw it away.

Right about the time I graduated from high school a minister here was arrested for soliciting sex from a male police officer. He was caught in a sting at a park that was known for male prositution and hook ups. The minister claimed that it was all a mistake and the police officer had it wrong (or was lying), he wasn't there trying to get sex he was there in a pastoral duty to try and save the lost.

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It reminds me of the "but I didn't inhale" excuse.

When he was on Oprah, Clinton said that story was taken the wrong way -- that he "didn't inhale" not because "I'm so pure and wonderful and would never do such a thing," but because "I started coughing really badly and couldn't get the smoke down and it was so embarrassing I never tried it again." (Which I think is actually kind of adorable, even if it is a major after-the-fact retcon.)

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The minister claimed that it was all a mistake and the police officer had it wrong (or was lying), he wasn't there trying to get sex he was there in a pastoral duty to try and save the lost.

Reminds me of that Onion article, "Why do these gay men keep sucking my cock?" or WTTE....

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Jesse, that's pretty much it by now.

OK, good. I didn't want to misattribute your intentions. The thing that especially blew their minds was the capital letter on her last name, which, who knows why.

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So, the allegations that the preacher admitted to are that he bought meth from the prostitute and got a massage [link]

He claims that he never used the meth, that the threw it away. @@

Oh honey, don't. Nobody buys meth out of the blue. The closest this statement could be to the truth is that you were a meth addict or some sort of speed addict (etc.), at some point in the past, even if you "threw" these particular purchases "away" when you bought them from this particular supplier. No 49 year old, squeaky clean preacher says, "Hey, I think I'll try some of that there meth." Come clean. About all of it. You'll feel so much better, after.

I know! He thinks that by admitting to the meth and some "innocent' contact with the prostitute, he can deny the rest of the allegations. He's going to go into rehab soon, mark my words.

Yeah, I think so, too.

Is there like some handbook of public confessions? If there is, I'm thinking it reads:

1) Deny

2) If the allegations refuse to go away, then cop to as little as possible

3) Check into [rehab, therapy, whatever is relevant]

4) Make a public, tearful, "full" confession where you mostly talk about how you were making a cry for help, how important your family is to you, and how you are now so firmly entrenched in your recovery.

5) Write a book

Don't get me wrong. I feel badly for him. Just trying to imagine the level of denial he must have had to maintain, daily, to be as involved with the neo-conservative agenda as he is, blows my mind. You just see this stuff though, and you wish people would be like that politician Jesse was talking about, this morning, "Yep. I did it. My fault."

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This is what Rush Limbaugh had to say:

"They're just pouring it on the evangelicals. They're trying to get you to question everything -- everything...up to and INCLUDING GOD!!!!"

Yeah. OK.

[link]

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