Syphilis Returns To Europe

Because teaching young adults about abstinence is definitely a stupid thing to do:

LONDON - Syphilis is back: The sexually transmitted disease long associated with 19th Century bohemian life is making an alarming resurgence in Europe.

Syphilis used to be a very rare disease," said Dr. Marita van de Laar, an expert in sexually transmitted diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. "I'm not sure we can say that anymore."

Most cases of syphilis are in men, and experts point to more risky sex among gay men as the chief cause for the resurgence. But more cases are being seen among heterosexuals, both men and women, too.

Syphilis was the sexual scourge of the 19th Century, and is believed to have killed artists like poet Charles Baudelaire, composer Robert Schumann, and painter Paul Gauguin. But the widespread use of penicillin in the 1950s all but wiped it out in the Western world.

In the last decade, however, syphilis has unexpectedly returned, driven by risky sexual behavior and outbreaks in major cities across Europe, including London, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.

Hillary's Brother Is Deadbeat Dad

The men in Hillary's life just keep turning out to be such huge disappointments:

December 20, 2007 -- Owe, brother!

Hillary Rodham Clinton's youngest sibling is a deadbeat dad who owes tens of thousands of dollars in child support to his politically connected ex, The Post has learned.

In a disclosure that could prove embarrassing for his sister, Anthony Rodham has stiffed his former wife, Nicole Boxer, out of $75,000 in child support, as well as $55,000 in alimony, a source close to the case said.

Including interest and various fees and expenses, the presidential candidate's brother now owes Boxer - the daughter of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) - more than $158,000, the source said.

The revelation that Rodham is delinquent with his payments won't be a welcome development for Hillary Clinton, coming as the too-close-to-call battle for the Democratic presidential nomination reaches a fevered pitch and with the first votes to be cast in Iowa in exactly two weeks.

Barbara Boxer has not endorsed a candidate in the race.

Guess Who's Back? Why It's John McCain!

Don't count the grumpy, old geezer out just yet:

WASHINGTON -- Arizona Sen. John McCain has surged in New Hampshire in the past month and is now tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the state race for the Republican presidential nomination, a poll showed on Thursday.

The survey by the American Research Group found McCain, a strong backer of President George W. Bush's Iraq war strategy, had 26 percent support, up from 11 percent in a poll in late November.

He was tied with Romney, who had dropped 10 percentage points since the last survey.

New Hampshire is one of the hotly contested early primaries in the state-by-state process to pick the Democratic and Republican candidates who will face off in the November 4, 2008, presidential election.

Just three weeks before the January 8 vote, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani dropped to 16 percent from 22 percent, according to the poll of 600 likely Republican primary voters living in New Hampshire.

Jamie Lynn Spears Is 16 And Pregnant

Well, I guess the apple really doesn't fall too far from the tree:

Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of the popular Nickelodeon series “Zoey 101” and the sister of the troubled singer Britney Spears, 26, said she was 12 weeks pregnant by her boyfriend, Casey Aldridge, The Associated Press reported. “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected,” Jamie Lynn told OK! magazine. “I was in complete shock, and so was he.”

Her mother, Lynne Spears, said: “I didn’t believe it because Jamie Lynn’s always been so conscientious. She’s never late for curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby.” Jamie Lynn said she planned to rear the baby in her home state, Louisiana, “so it can have a normal family life.”

In a statement, Nickelodeon said: “We respect Jamie Lynn’s decision to take responsibility in this sensitive and personal situation.” The third season of “Zoey 101” ends on Jan. 4. Filming of the fourth season, beginning in February, has been completed.

While Jamie Lynn should be commended for choosing to have the kid, there's a lot of irony here that speaks directly to how liberals treat teen sex, while running away from the consequences that come with it. First, in reporting this story the media has made it clear that they care less about the father's role in all of this, not to mention that because he's 18, he could be arrested for statutory rape. Then of course, there's the clueless parents who for years stood by and watched eldest daughter Britney toss aside all sense of values to exploit sex (to the delight of perverts everywhere) for financial gain . . . one can only wonder how Britney's still very public and troubled life has effected Jamie-Lynn (and only an idiot would equate their kid making "curfew" to not having sex). Plus, let's not forget Hollywood role in the sex-saturated culture that teenagers are engrossed with now as well as the liberal media's role in consistently bashing abstinence-education. It all ads up to why teenagers like Jamie Lynn Spears growing up faster then they should have to. But hey if you're a liberal what do you care? After all it's not your 16-year-old kid that's about to deliver a child into this world and become the poster-child for teenage sex everywhere.

Rush Limbaugh Quote of the Day!

“So the question is this: Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?”

- radio personality Rush Limbaugh in response to a photo (above) of a ragged-looking Hillary Clinton posted by Matt Drudge on his website

Rudy Giuliani's Losing Campaign

Stick a fork in him:

With fewer than 20 days until the Iowa caucuses, three men in the Republican Party stand to get their tickets punched out of the Hawkeye State.

While everything is still in flux, those likely winners will be Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.

Notably missing out on Iowa’s political rocket fuel is national frontrunner Rudy Giuliani.

While most political insiders and pundits have known for months that Giuliani had no plans to compete in Iowa, the general American electorate probably does not. Known to not pay attention to the early political pontificating, the average voter may wonder where the former New York mayor is when the big news the next day is not about him.

Giuliani went into the campaign season with an unconventional strategy that quickly became all the buzz: Skip Iowa, be respectable in New Hampshire, then head to delegate-rich Florida. The strategy for his campaign was never about momentum; it was always about maximizing his delegate count.

An unconventional Republican primary candidate, Giuliani knew he would be shunned by the ultraconservative activists in early states. His personal Iowa is Super-Duper Tuesday, Feb. 5, which has the motherlode of delegates, who happen to be moderate Republicans. Sounds perfect, right?

Maybe. If he can hold on. But right now, the Giuliani story is that his gamble is quietly becoming the incredible shrinking campaign.

“From a historical perspective,” says Matt Lebo, a political science professor at State University of New York at Stony Brook, “his strategy is clearly a losing strategy.”

Pamela Anderson Makes A Mockery Of Marriage Once Again

To be fair, when you got idiots like Pamela Anderson running around treating the institution of marriage like changing underwear (she married 1st hubby Tommy Lee, divorced him, then married him again then she married Kid Rock, had a bunch of marriage "ceremonies" with him and divorced him 4 months later and now lasts 2 months with this new dude), it makes it just a little bit harder to talk about the institutions sanctity to yahoos like these. But then, to be fair to Pam, she still has a ways to go before she catches up to that old skank Elizabeth Taylor (8 marriages to 7 different husbands).

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Former "Baywatch" star and pin-up queen Pamela Anderson has filed for divorce from her third husband, less than three months after tying the knot, court documents showed on Monday.

Anderson, 40, filed for divorce from Rick Salomon in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, citing irreconcilable differences just 70 days after the couple got married in Las Vegas on October 6, documents showed.

However, later Monday, in a cryptic message posted on her official website, Anderson hinted that the marriage might yet be saved. "P.S. We're working things out," the message in Anderson's diary remarked, without referring to the divorce. Anderson's spokesperson could not be reached for comment.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 12/17/07

Joe Lieberman To Cross Aisle And Endorse John McCain

New Hampshire Homosexuals Begin Applying For Faux Marriage Licenses

Mike Huckabee Says Liberalism Is A "Cancer" On Christianity

Racial Hoaxes And The NAACP

Newspapers Continue To Not Label Democrats Caught In Scandal

Group Objects To Green Bay Nativity Scene

New Jersey Oks Death Penalty Ban

Majority Of Americans Support Gun Rights

Woah, Jodie Foster Is A Lesbo?!?

Just in case you missed it, longtime overrated actress Jodie Foster finally dispelled rumors and "came out of the closet" in thanking her longtime "partner" at some award ceremony the other day:

LOS ANGELES: After guarding her private life fiercely for 15 years, Hollywood actress Jodie Foster has publicly acknowledged her lesbian partner.

The two-time Oscar winner thanked "my beautiful Cydney" after winning an award at the Women in Entertainment Power 100 breakfast in Los Angeles.

She went on to praise Cydney Bernard, saying the film producer "sticks with me through all the rotten and the bliss".

Foster reportedly met Bernard on the set of the movie Sommersby in 1993. The actress later gave birth to sons Charles, 9, and Kit, 6, but has never revealed the identity of the father or the circumstances of the boys' conception.

Despite more than a decade of speculation, questions over the paternity of her sons and critics calling for her be "out and proud", Foster has refused to discuss her sexuality.

And in other news from Channel Zero: the sun is bright, smoking is bad for your health and liberals are idiots.