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 3 Spies and Six Days by Soccer Dad, and Four Modest Proposals for Getting Out of Iraq by Dan Simmons.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Right Wing Nut House was the only member unable to vote this week, and 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	3 Spies and Six Days Soccer Dad
2	The Six Day War In Real Time Bookworm Room
1  2/3	Smelt Stink Cheat Seeking Missiles
1  1/3	It's Not Dead. It's Resting. Right Wing Nut House
2/3	Tweedle Done With Mirrors
1/3	Almost One of Us The Glittering Eye
1/3	Loyalty and Love: D-Day, 63 Years Later... Joshuapundit
1/3	Well, Y'see, He Has Rights! The Colossus of Rhodey
1/3	Salvation à la Mode Big Lizards
1/3	LA Times Jumps the Shark on Global Warming ‘Okie’ on the Lam

Votes	Non-council link
3	Four Modest Proposals for Getting Out of Iraq Dan Simmons
2  1/3	Six Day War -- Israeli Perspective History News Network
1	The End of the Bushes? Captain's Quarters
1	RCTV Protests Spread To Atlanta, San Francisco, Mexico City Publius Pundit
2/3	The Horror of Russia's "Nashi" Youth Cult, Revealed in English for the First Time Right Here on Publius Pundit Publius Pundit (2)
2/3	“Footprints In The Sand” -- The Al Gore Version The Nose On Your face
2/3	You Are Not Alone (Part 1) Eject! Eject! Eject!
2/3	The Ill Effects of Amnesty Cavalier's Guardian WatchBlog
2/3	Fred Thompson, My Kind of Centrist. Stubborn Facts
1/3	The United States of Alan Alda Is This Thing On?

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.