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 Who Cares About Israel, Anyway? by Joshuapundit, and Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks by The Huffington Post.  All members, please be sure to link to both winning entries (and to the full results of the vote) in a post.  Cheat Seeking Missiles 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
4	Who Cares About Israel, Anyway? Joshuapundit
2	Party Like It's 1980 All Over Again Right Wing Nut House
1  2/3	Obama As Marley Wolf Howling
2/3	Are You Ready To Be a Democrat? Bookworm Room
2/3	I Have a Nightmare Soccer Dad
2/3	Death and the Madam Done With Mirrors
1/3	Fatal Energy Policies Cheat Seeking Missiles
1/3	Whither? The Glittering Eye

Votes	Non-council link
4  2/3	Losing Our Spines to Save Our Necks The Huffington Post
1  1/3	Iraqis Begin to 'Despise' the Mahdi Army in Baghdad's Rusafa District The Long War Journal
1  1/3	Escape From A Brooklyn Mosque Atlas Shrugs
1	The Liberal Imagination of Frederick Douglass The American Scholar
2/3	Another Gaza Media Moment Confederate Yankee
2/3	Turning the Juggernaut Round EU Referendum
1/3	Israel's 60-Year Test The Wall Street Journal
1/3	Rough Time for the Left in the US Dodgeblogium
1/3	If I Didn't Like Hillary Before... [UPDATED] AmbivaBlog
1/3	Outlawing the Pig Israpundit

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.