Watcher of Weasels:

The Council Has Spoken!

First off...  any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here,  and here.  Die spambots, die!  And now...  the winning entries in the Watcher's Council vote for this week are Iraq: Quit or Commit by Right Wing Nut House, and Bad Faith by 3AM Magazine.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Two members were unable to vote this week...  but Right Wing Nut House was the only member affected by the 2/3 vote penalty.  Thanks to everyone for all the great entries this week...  I'm eager to see next week's entries!  Here are the full tallies of all votes cast:

Votes	Council link
3  1/3	Iraq: Quit or Commit Right Wing Nut House
2  1/3	The Nation-State vs Anarchy and Imperialism Gates of Vienna
1	On Meaning ShrinkWrapped
2/3	The Knucklehead of the Day: Teacher Dan Holden The Education Wonks
2/3	Antisemitism for Fun and Profit Soccer Dad
1/3	Bring Them Home. Now. The Sundries Shack
1/3	Dem Nominee Quality Control Unlikely to Improve Socratic Rhythm Method
1/3	Transcript of the Mike Wallace Ahmadinejad Interview Joshuapundit
1/3	Iran Shells PKK Bases The Glittering Eye

Votes	Non-council link
2  1/3	Bad Faith 3AM Magazine
1  2/3	Terror War Michael J. Totten
1  1/3	The Kurds Go Their Own Way Reason
1  1/3	The NSA Decision: Judging Without Facts or Law Baseball Crank
1	The Elusive War The Belmont Club
2/3	Historians: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Was Overreaction The People's Cube
2/3	WaPo: Half the News That's Fit to Print Crossing the Rubicon2
1/3	USS Clinton Sirius, the Canine Pundit
1/3	Of Bodies, International and Celestial Alpha Patriot
1/3	Racism in All Its Glorious Forms Politopics

I thought it would be best to leave out the entries that didn't receive any votes at all.  The fractions come from the splitting of the votes...  primary choices counted as 2/3 of a vote and secondary choices counted as 1/3.  Both counts for primary and secondary choices were then added all together.  I could have avoided using fractions, but it would have put the results on a completely different scale...  I'd rather that the total reflect how many people actually voted.  Please send any questions, comments, complaints, criticisms, crude insults, or thinly-veiled threats to this address.