October 19, 2007

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 Carrolling by Done With Mirrors, and The Problems and Course of Rebuilding in Iraq by Dumb Looks Still Free.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  There was actually a tie in both the council and non-council categories this week...  very good posts all around, but I ultimately cast my lot with Callimachus' post in the council vote and A Jacksonian's post in the non-council vote.  Big Lizards 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:

VotesCouncil link
3Carrolling
Done With Mirrors
2Texas Gang Rape and Murder Case Puts America's Sovereignty In Jeopardy
Joshuapundit
1  2/3NY Times, Al Gore and the "Stolen" 2000 Election
The Colossus of Rhodey
1  1/3Private Anti-terror Efforts
Soccer Dad
1  1/3Gore Derangement Syndrome?
Cheat Seeking Missiles
2/3Isolationism Watch: Let's Alienate Turkey!
The Glittering Eye
1/3The Shia Awaken
Big Lizards
1/3Retired General Sanchez Blasts Press -- No One Reports It, Natch!
‘Okie’ on the Lam
1/3Headlines Vs. Content
Rhymes With Right
1/3Catch 'Em Being Good
Bookworm Room

VotesNon-council link
3  1/3The Problems and Course of Rebuilding in Iraq
Dumb Looks Still Free
2  1/3MSM Bias and Pallywood: Incompetence or Malice?
ShrinkWrapped
2When Heidi Met Mehmet in the Meadow
The Brussels Journal
1  2/3Timeline of the Amazing Disappearing Blog Posts and Comments at the L.A. Times
Patterico's Pontifications
1A Thought Experiment for Civil Libertarians
Atlas Blogged
2/3OK, This... Has... Got... To... Stop...
Blackfive
1/3Will the Left Dominate the 'New Economy'?
Samizdata.net
1/3October 15: 4th Anniversary of the Murder of 3 Americans By Palestinian Terrorists
Daled Amos
1/3Classical Liberalism Is for Kooks!
Classical Values

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.

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