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 Black Liberation Theology by Joshuapundit, and 5 Years, 1 year by Acute Politics.  One member was unable to vote this week, but was unaffected by the 2/3 vote penalty.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  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

Votes	Council link
2  1/3	Black Liberation Theology Joshuapundit
2	Another UN Obscenity (Updated) Wolf Howling
1  1/3	The Messiah-Shtick Bookworm Room
1  1/3	Can We Just Walk Away From Iraq? Right Wing Nut House
1  1/3	Sticks and Stones Soccer Dad
2/3	CD22 Runoff -- Shelly Sekula Gibbs Vs. Pete Olson Rhymes With Right
2/3	The Moral Blindness of the Left Hillbilly White Trash
2/3	Answering Yasmine Cheat Seeking Missiles
1/3	Interpreting the Events In Basra The Glittering Eye
1/3	Or Not Done With Mirrors

Votes	Non-council link
2	5 Years, 1 year Acute Politics
1  2/3	NY Times Reporters Try To Defend Grave Mistake -- Of Course Fail The Strata-Sphere
1  1/3	Preventing Nuclear Terrorism Oliver Kamm
1  1/3	Safe at Home Interviews Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser Family Security Matters
1  1/3	Disgrace: UN Human Rights Council Endorses Ban On Religious Defamation Hot Air
1	Avian Chorus The Paragraph Farmer
2/3	Tribalism Classical Values
2/3	Marash Quits English al Jazeera Over the (British) Anti-Americanism Augean Stables
2/3	Thoughts About This Article From The Observer Abu Muqawama
1/3	If You Can't Beat Them, Threaten to Behead Them... Immodest Proposals

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.