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 The Contranomics of Global Jihad by Big Lizards, and Four Years In by American Digest.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Only one member was unable to vote this week, but was unaffected 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	The Contranomics of Global Jihad Big Lizards
2  1/3	Muslim Cashiers Refuse to Touch Pork The Colossus of Rhodey
1  1/3	The American Ideon: Its Decay and Restoration Eternity Road
1	Skills, Employment, and Energy Use The Glittering Eye
2/3	The Bad Seed: 13-Year-Old Andrew Riley The Education Wonks
2/3	Cappuccinos for Peace? Soccer Dad
2/3	Scandal Hysteria Grips the Capitol Right Wing Nut House
1/3	Move It, Yah Big Baboon! -- Or, Scenes from the Class Struggle in South Africa... Joshuapundit

Votes	Non-council link
2	Four Years In American Digest
1  2/3	Muslim Violence -— Crime or Jihad? Gates of Vienna
1  1/3	A WWII Hero That History Almost Forgot Webloggin
1  1/3	The Iraq Insurgency Has Ended, Which Opens a Path to Peace Defense and the National Interest
1	The Quadrant Lecture Melanie Phillips
1	Quote of the Day, and Is CAIR Paying Lawyers to Intimidate Air Travelers? Power Line
2/3	A Call for Segregation Alpha Patriot
2/3	The Slanted Economist Rubicon3
1/3	Good News Never Sells Kobayashi Maru

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.