"Israel out of the Middle East!"

Demonstrators march past the Washington Monument in Washington, DC. Thousands of people demonstrated outside the White House to protest Israel's US-backed military operations in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition hosted yet another "Tribute to Goebbels" March this past Saturday, complete with Burka-clad grandmothers and kids wearing Olive Garden tablecloths. I ran into it by accident, as I got caught in the middle of the march while jogging through DC. Over my mp3 player I heard the distant chants of "Israel out of the Middle East" and the favorite "Money for jobs and education, not for war and occupation!" I walked up 15th St. and ran into some people from Free Republic who were counter-protesting. Things got heated, and cops were guarding them from the crowd. Many of the marchers, eager to show their peaceful nature, shouted "Come over here, you coward!" and "I'll kick your Zionist ass!" Overall, it was cheaper than buying Syriana but I got the same message: blame the Jews, Bush is Satan, and the more of your body that's covered, the more street cred you have. Pics at the link below:

Age of Hooper (The)

Three Cheers for the Moderate Iranian Students

Iranian students attend in a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N office in Tehran, Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006. An Iranian student holds a poster of Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in center. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)

You is Retarded

An Iranian female student attends an anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N. office in Tehran August 12, 2006. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN)

A Wet T-Shirt Contest I Never Wanted to See

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan pours water on herself to keep cool after marching in the Texas heat towards the ranch of U.S. President George W. Bush in Crawford, Texas August 6, 2006. Sheehan, whose military son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, recently purchased land near President Bush's ranch and has sought to meet with Bush since starting her peace vigil last year. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

More "Moderates"

A man holds up a poster of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a demonstration supporting Hizbollah outside the Palestinian Authority headquarters during Rice's visit in the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 25, 2006. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES)

Memoirs of an Al-Geisha

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clad in a Tajik national robe, attends the opening of a mountain tunnel north of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, on Wednesday, July 26, 2006. The tunnel, built with the Iranian financial assistance, will fascilitate travel between the Tajik capital and the country's northern provinces. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

I'll have "Not Funny Former Contestants" for $200 please, Alex

'Jeopardy' champ Ken Jennings blasts show
AP- Tue Jul 25, 8:55 PM ET
"Jeopardy!" ace Ken Jennings, who won $2.5 million during his 74-game winning streak, has a few unkind words to say about the show — and dapper host Alex Trebek.

"I know, I know, the old folks love him," Jennings writes in a recent posting, titled "Dear Jeopardy!" on his Web site.

"Nobody knows he died in that fiery truck crash a few years back and was immediately replaced with the Trebektron 4000 (I see your engineers still can't get the mustache right, by the way)."

Jennings also takes aim at the show's "effete, left-coast" categories and "same-old" format.

"You're like the Dorian Gray of syndication," he says. "You seem to think `change' means replacing a blue polyethylene backdrop with a slightly different shade of blue polyethylene backdrop every presidential election or so."

In a "correction" posted Monday on his Web site, Jennings offers an apology of sorts.

"We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a `cyborg,' not a `robot.'"

Edward Scissorhands has found a wife...

Dancer Sarah-Jayne Howard uses scissors as prop during a dress rehearsal of the show 'Black Milk' by New Zealand choreographer Douglas Wright at the Sydney Opera House in Sydney Wednesday, July 19, 2006. Wright uses black humor with themes of love, fear, memory and death in the show that runs at the Opera House from July 19 to 29. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

New NAFTA

In a photo provided by the Miss Universe Organization, contestants, from left, Priscila Perales, Miss Mexico 2006; Tara Conner, Miss USA 2006; and Alice Panikian, Miss Canada 2006; pose in their BSC Swimwear Thailand swimsuit at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in Los Angeles, Monday, July 17, 2006. They will compete for the title of Miss Universe 2006 during the Live NBC broadcast of the 55th annual Miss Universe competition from Los Angeles, July 23, 2006 at 9 PM (ET/delayed PT). (AP Photo//Miss Universe L.P., LLLP., Darren Decker)

Awkward

Angie lets Bush hold her hand, but she's not too happy about the end result...


REUTERS/Chris Wattie- AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Are you there God? It's me, Angie!

German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures while Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) watches as they get ready for a family photo of G8 leaders and guests in St. Petersburg July 17, 2006. REUTERS/Chris Wattie (RUSSIA)

Merkel brings back the Iron Cross

German Chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the plane as she arrives to take part in the G8 Summit on Sunday in St.Petersburg's Pulkovo airport, July 15, 2006. REUTERS/www.g8russia.ru/Pool (RUSSIA)

Be mein valentine

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) welcomes U.S. President George W. Bush in the Baltic town of Stralsund July 13, 2006. Merkel hosts U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday in a visit intended to solidify their ties and likely to focus on Iran and her concerns about the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay (GERMANY)

Merkel goes back to the future

Wind blows in the face of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as Marine One takes off with U.S. President George W. Bush on board after a barbecue in the north-eastern German village of Trinwillershagen at the German Baltic sea July 13, 2006. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

"Never do that again!"

France's President Jacques Chirac speaks with France national soccer team captain Zinedine Zidane (L) at the Elysee Palace in Paris July 10, 2006. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer (FRANCE)

BERLIN, July 10 (NYTIMES)- While Italy welcomed home its triumphant World Cup champions on Monday, France awaited a full explanation of why its national team captain, Zinédine Zidane, head-butted an opponent in the chest and was ejected from Sunday’s championship match here.

Zidane has yet to say anything publicly about the incident. But family members, in telephone interviews, said they believed the Italian defender Marco Materazzi had called Zidane, the son of Algerian immigrants, a “terrorist.”

“We think he either called him a terrorist or a son of Harkis,’’ said Mokhtar Haddad, one of Zidane’s cousins, who with friends and family studied the pivotal scene on a big screen in the family’s home village Aguemoune, 160 miles east of Algiers.