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 A Short Hitch by Done With Mirrors, and Changing the Organizational Culture (Updated) by Small Wars Journal.  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	A Short Hitch Done With Mirrors
2	The Most Ridiculous Story of 2008? Part 2 Cheat Seeking Missiles
1  2/3	I'd Have To Ask?? The Colossus of Rhodey
1	Good Immigrant, Bad Immigrant Bookworm Room
2/3	Obama Disparages the Military & Gets a Pass On Iraq From Fox News Wolf Howling
2/3	The Anti-McCain Republicans The Glittering Eye
2/3	Why Should We Care Whether Hillary or McCain Wins? Big Lizards
2/3	Cutting Off Berkeley Rhymes With Right
2/3	Campaign Consultant Kang Speaks Soccer Dad

Votes	Non-council link
3	Changing the Organizational Culture (Updated) Small Wars Journal
1  2/3	"Mass Producers of Distortion" EU Referendum
1	The Coming Meltdown for the Democrats Captain's Quarters
1	The Terribly Mixed Record of Alan Greenspan The Provocateur
1	Our Policy In Iraq Oliver Kamm
1	Pandora's Box Global Guerrillas
2/3	GOP 2008: The Jackpot from the Trifecta of Stupid [Karl] Protein Wisdom
2/3	The Wing Has Lost Its Nuts (And Bolts), Indeed Washington Hotlist
1/3	The Power of Myths Houston's Clear Thinkers
1/3	No Fat People Allowed: Only the Slim Will Be Allowed To Dine In Public! Junkfood Science
1/3	Intransigent Huck Voters Hugh Hewitt

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.