Taking a page from President Bush’s longtime playbook, presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani is only appearing before crowds he knows will be friendly.  Ah, nothing like no backbone in a man who wants to be president.  Of course, it certainly hasn’t hurt President Bush.

This may be the most un-PC thing to say, and someone may call me racist for saying it, but considering how far too many Americans feel towards Muslims, are they the new Black (and I’m speaking of race here)?  The recent example of a ninth grade teacher allowing a religous group to come into his class and hand out literature that says Muhammad was “demon-possessed” and instructs girls not to marry Muslim men just brings that point home.  This is the kind of bullshit you would have heard about fifty or sixty years ago in the deep South.  The old phrase is right, “everything old is new again.” 

This may be an unintended side effect of the new x-ray scanners being tested in airports, but considering what they will show, Americans may find more incentive to get in shape.   You gotta feel a little sympathy for the TSA employees who will have to man these machines.  Speaking from personal experience, not every body is going to be a nice view.