Drudge has picked up on the story that was the buzz of the blogosphere over the weekend.

Click here for full Myopic Zeal coverage of Newsweek’s culpability in the protest deaths.

And Danny Carlton over at JackLewis.net has a different look at the issue.

Most bloggers have focused on what rectal openings the “journalists” at Newsweek are for publishing such a story, and then for offering such a tardy and wimpy “apology” I want to look at something else.

Let’s take two scenarios:

Scenario #1: A copy of the Koran is flushed down a toilet

Scenario #2: A person holding the Koran shoots and kills an innocent person.

Which defiles the Koran more? If the Koran is an object to be worshipped (an idol), then Scenario #1 would. But if the Koran is a source of information to be honored and obeyed, Scenario #2 would defile it more (if part of that message was to respect life and not shed innocent blood, which most Moslems claim it does)

So even if some interrogator flushed a copy of the Koran, if the Koran is the book of wisdom Moslems keep telling us it is, then those who’ve murdered in the name of the Koran have done far, far worse

More people are commenting today. Michelle Malking is all over it. Captain Ed has the following to say about Newsweek’s attempt to blame the Pentagon:

The Pentagon does not issue knee-jerk denials for stories on which they have no information, nor should that be their fallback procedure. If Newsweek chooses to run stories about military procedures based on a single anonymous source after hearing from the Pentagon that they have no record of any such activity, that hardly puts the onus on the Pentagon. Whitaker and Newsweek have started a sleight-of-hand attempt that amounts to a claim that the Pentagon should have stopped them before Isikoff and Baker libeled Gitmo personnel, when the use of single anonymous sourcing should have ben enough for Newsweek to spike the story until it was properly confirmed.

Not only have Isikoff and Baker, and Whitaker, put American soldiers and Marines in further danger, now they blame the military for not censoring them. It’s pathetic, it’s ridiculous, and Newsweek should be ashamed of themselves for this offensive defense of its incompetence and abjectly biased reporting.

LaShawn thinks that even if it’s true, Newsweek should not have reported it.

UPDATE: Clayton Cramer, via Instapundit, has some great points. Michael Williams laughs at the threat of holy war [ED: See comments for clarification]. And Jay Tea, while admitting that the violent protests may have been predictable, wonders if they should have been predictable by reasonable people?

So, bring on the abuse, the sanctions, the penalties for Newsweek. Ban their reporters from covering events. Contact and boycott their advertisers. Pillory them in public. Blame them for the damage to our diplomatic efforts. Mock them. Deride them. Taunt them. Make them stand in the corner at press events while wearing silly hats. Use back issues as toilet paper.

But don’t hold them liable for the deaths. To do that is to excuse the real people to blame — the rioters themselves.

It’s a good point.

Artwork Angers Calif. Immigration Foes:

The artwork, called “Danza Indigenas,” has a 20-foot-high arch with inscriptions that read, “It was better before they came” and “This land was Mexican once, was Indian always and is, and will be again.”

From SOS:

Taxpayer funded and situated on public land, the monument promotes the radical and militant belief in the “reconquista of Aztlan.

Nice headline. “Immigration foes.” More correctly, “opponents of illegal immigration. ” Though there tactics are definitely aggressive.

SaveOurState.org is a grassroots non-profit organization founded in 2004. Our members are committed to educating California’s citizens about the disastrous effects of illegal immigration and creating positive change through aggressive activism and advocacy.

more…

Sadly, California is filled with these “sunshine patriots” who are weak and unwilling to wage battle against the Mexican racialists and the vast open borders lobby. Years of inculcation by the doctrines of political correctness have left you emasculated and impotent, silenced by the thunderous chants of “racist” and “bigot.” And there you stand and watch, paralyzed by fear, as your community is ravaged by the illegal alien invasion and turned into a Third World cesspool.

Find your voice. Find your will to fight.

Here’s a first hand account of the rally and the ensuing chaos.

And there is lots more at the Immigration Blog, which points out (presumably from the photos):

Note that not all of those on the wrong side were Hispanic, and that reportedly 1/3 of those on the right side were Hispanic.

If you speak spanish, here is more commentary here, which equates the Minutemen and these SOS protestors with white supremecists, KKK and neoNazis. (If you don’t speak Spanish, Google does).

Here’s a terraserver shot.

Stephen Ayer wonders when we became so “intolerant and stupid.”

Flight Pundit links to more pictures here, here and here.

Oregon State University

How we did it
It was Wednesday night when several of us were throwing around ideas as to what we could possibly do for the 50 million download contest. After thinking of a bunch of ideas, we thought of using chalk to draw a huge Firefox logo on the quad outside the Memorial Union Building at Oregon State University. The idea was pretty cool, but, being students, we couldn’t really find the time during the week. Finally, Friday arrived, and we were itching to do it. Time: 2315.

Sidewalk chalk is expensive, and for the size of our project, quite inadequate. Instead we used a mixture of corn starch, food coloring, koolaid, and water. We bought all, 19 pounds, of the bulk cornstarch at the discount grocery store in town. We thought that would be enough, so we set to work. Time: 0000.

The first step was to divide the logo into a 20x20 grid that we temporarily put on the concrete with lots of string. We then transfered the outlines from the paper to the full-scale grid using sidewalk chalk. Time: 0100.

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LSU Student no one has heard of enter’s the NBA draft by declaring himself eligible.

“It was a pretty lengthy process,” Heroman said in a phone interview from his home last week. “It took well over a month. I had to fill out a lot of forms. There was a lot of work back and forth.”

His former high school coach says:

He was thin, and there was a problem with his stamina. But he was as good as anybody for two or three minutes.

From the UK:

Skool xams definitly aint what they used to be. Concern about the nation’s spelling abilities may have spawned a best-selling book and a television series, but for today’s pupils, ignorance of “i before e except after c” is no barrier to success.

Examiners marking an English test taken by 600,000 14-year-olds have been told not to deduct marks for incorrect spelling on the main writing paper, worth nearly a third of the overall marks.

The rule, issued by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, means that pupils could spell every word wrongly in the most significant piece of writing that they are required to do and yet still receive full marks.

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