January 29, 2008
Submitted for Your Approval
First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote.
Council links:
- Complicit
Soccer Dad - A Shot in the Dark
Done With Mirrors - Orwell's Britain Is Halal Toast
Wolf Howling - About Those "Lies"
The Colossus of Rhodey - How to Lie About Lying
Big Lizards - The Media, Richard Scaife, and the Never Ending Soros Connection
Bookworm Room - State of the Union, 2008
The Glittering Eye - Quote of the Day: Prez Bill Edition
Cheat Seeking Missiles - Energy Independence -- What It Am And What It Ain't
Joshuapundit - Repeal the Twenty-Second Amendment
Rhymes With Right - The ACLU: Senator Craig's Newest Pals
The Education Wonks - The GOP Comes A’Courtin’
Right Wing Nut House
- On Term Limits and Government Power
Somewhere On A1A... - A Moral Core for U.S. Foreign Policy
Hoover Institution - Britain's Top 9 New Names For Islamic Terrorists
The Nose On Your Face - Big News: Indonesia's Largest Muslim Group Vows to Combat Misunderstanding of Islam!
Jihad Watch - John McCain's Open-Borders Outreach Director: The Next DHS Secretary?; Update: A "Non-Paid Volunteer"
Michelle Malkin - The Audacity of Questioning Obama's Commitment to Israel
American Thinker - Treaties and Executive Agreements
Outside the Beltway - Capitalism Doesn't Work, Mr. Gates?
Rasmussen Reports - The Muslims of Europe Charter
Gates of Vienna - A List of Regional Pizza Styles
Slice - The Conclusion We Dare Not Face
Dr. Sanity - Be a Victim! Or Else!
Classical Values - BDS as an Occupational Hazard
The Paragraph Farmer - Thoughts on Froggy Billion Fraud
Dodgeblogium
Council members should email me their votes by Thursday at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. By the way... anyone that wants to review the updated version of the council rules can do so by clicking on the image at the top of my right sidebar, which is attached to every page on this site. To peruse my archives, click the image at the top of the other sidebar.
Only two bloggers took me up on my most recent offer of link whorage... so there won't be any spillover into honorable mentions this week.
January 27, 2008
The Coalition of the Willing
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around... though I don't actually vote unless there happens to be a tie, I do get to choose two of the non-council nominations for each vote held. When I choose two blogs to nominate for next week's vote, I will limit myself to considering those who do the following:
- You must make a post containing 4 required links -- your qualification post must link to the most recent winning council post, the most recent winning non-council post, the results of the latest vote, and that vote's posting of the nominees.
- Then send me an email with "LINK WHORAGE" as the subject and include a link to the post you want me to consider nominating... also, please include a link to your post required by the previous step.
- Please follow the previous two steps before Tuesday's nomination deadline of 8 PM, Eastern Standard Time.
I will look at all the submissions and then nominate the two posts that I like the most. When I post the full list of nominations, I'll also list below them up to ten more submitted posts that I feel are the most deserving of an honorable mention... this list of ten extra posts can't be voted on by council members, but it should help you to garner some attention.
I made the same offer last week, but not many bloggers took me up on it. Keep in mind... if you are only one of a dozen (or fewer) people who follow the instructions above, then you are pretty much guaranteed an honorable mention at the very least. As usual, I will be reposting this announcement on a weekly basis.
Update: To make things easier on yourself, just go ahead and copy the HTML code from this box when making your qualification post.
January 25, 2008
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 Liberal Fascism by Done With Mirrors, and Bylines of Brutality by Iowahawk. 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 |
|---|---|
| 2 2/3 | Liberal Fascism Done With Mirrors |
| 1 | Grim Choices Confront GOP Right Wing Nut House |
| 1 | 'I Have A Dream' -- The Democrat's Version Joshuapundit |
| 1 | Hillanomix 101 Wolf Howling |
| 1 | The Radicalization of American Politics The Glittering Eye |
| 1 | Di Caprio Lies and Hustles Bucks Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 1 | Our Out of Control Borders: Who's Accountable? The Education Wonks |
| 1 | What Is "Freedom"? The Colossus of Rhodey |
| 1/3 | Rose Colored Rudy Soccer Dad |
| 1/3 | The Problem With Obama's Race Bookworm Room |
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 4 | Bylines of Brutality Iowahawk |
| 1 2/3 | It's All Israel's Fault Gates of Vienna |
| 1 2/3 | About the Anarcholibertarians The QandO Blog |
| 1 1/3 | Doctors and Death and Doctors Death The IgNoble Experiment |
| 1 | The Navy's Failing China Policy Pajamas Media |
| 1/3 | Let's End the Cold War and Get Rid of Marxist BS Once and for All Dr. Sanity |
| 1/3 | Pondering the Google Slap Dodgeblogium |
| 1/3 | A Relatively Scientific Experiment Power Line |
| 1/3 | Media Lens Tries History, Yet Again Oliver Kamm |
Weekly Roundup of Weekly Roundups
King of Fools hasn't put together this week's Carnival of the Carnivals, and quite possibly never will again, but the show must go on:
January 23, 2008
Submitted for Your Approval
First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote.
Council links:
- What Is "Freedom"?
The Colossus of Rhodey - The Radicalization of American Politics
The Glittering Eye - Liberal Fascism
Done With Mirrors - Hillanomix 101
Wolf Howling - If Ever We Needed a Special Prosecutor (BUMPED)
Rhymes With Right - Rose Colored Rudy
Soccer Dad - Di Caprio Lies and Hustles Bucks
Cheat Seeking Missiles - The Problem With Obama's Race
Bookworm Room - 'I Have A Dream' -- The Democrat's Version
Joshuapundit - Mike Huckabee for Minister in Chief?
Big Lizards - Our Out of Control Borders: Who's Accountable?
The Education Wonks - Grim Choices Confront GOP
Right Wing Nut House
- Media Lens Tries History, Yet Again
Oliver Kamm - About the Anarcholibertarians
The QandO Blog - Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters
The Onion - The Navy's Failing China Policy
Pajamas Media - Texas Landowners Refuse to Give Up Their Land
Shadowscope - Doctors and Death and Doctors Death
The IgNoble Experiment - Bylines of Brutality
Iowahawk - Let's End the Cold War and Get Rid of Marxist BS Once and for All
Dr. Sanity - It's All Israel's Fault
Gates of Vienna - A Relatively Scientific Experiment
Power Line - The Guy Who Wasn't In Last Night's Debate (But Might As Well Have Been...)
Classical Values - What Might Have Been... And What Was
BobKrumm.com - Ex-Congressman Tied to Many Current and Former Congressmen Indicted in Scheme to Aid Terrorists
Webloggin - Pondering the Google Slap
Dodgeblogium
Council members should email me their votes by Thursday at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. By the way... anyone that wants to review the updated version of the council rules can do so by clicking on the image at the top of my right sidebar, which is attached to every page on this site. To peruse my archives, click the image at the top of the other sidebar.
Only two bloggers took me up on my most recent offer of link whorage... so there won't be any spillover into honorable mentions this week.
January 20, 2008
The Coalition of the Willing
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around... though I don't actually vote unless there happens to be a tie, I do get to choose two of the non-council nominations for each vote held. When I choose two blogs to nominate for next week's vote, I will limit myself to considering those who do the following:
- You must make a post containing 4 required links -- your qualification post must link to the most recent winning council post, the most recent winning non-council post, the results of the latest vote, and that vote's posting of the nominees.
- Then send me an email with "LINK WHORAGE" as the subject and include a link to the post you want me to consider nominating... also, please include a link to your post required by the previous step.
- Please follow the previous two steps before Tuesday's nomination deadline of 8 PM, Eastern Standard Time.
I will look at all the submissions and then nominate the two posts that I like the most. When I post the full list of nominations, I'll also list below them up to ten more submitted posts that I feel are the most deserving of an honorable mention... this list of ten extra posts can't be voted on by council members, but it should help you to garner some attention.
I made the same offer last week, but not many bloggers took me up on it. Keep in mind... if you are only one of a dozen (or fewer) people who follow the instructions above, then you are pretty much guaranteed an honorable mention at the very least. As usual, I will be reposting this announcement on a weekly basis.
Update: To make things easier on yourself, just go ahead and copy the HTML code from this box when making your qualification post.
January 18, 2008
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 Ed. Schools: They're Awful (for the most part) by The Colossus of Rhodey, and Kangaroo Court by Ezra Levant. 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, 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 |
|---|---|
| 4 2/3 | Ed. Schools: They're Awful (for the most part) The Colossus of Rhodey |
| 1 1/3 | The Race Card, Liberal Guilt and Our Next President Wolf Howling |
| 1 | 500,000 Iraqis Did Not Die Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 1 | Paul of Mises; or How the New Republic Bewitches the Right Big Lizards |
| 2/3 | Idenity Politics Then and Now Bookworm Room |
| 2/3 | Tribes With Gods Done With Mirrors |
| 2/3 | You Be the General The Glittering Eye |
| 2/3 | Bush In Ramallah -- The Road To "Peace In Our Time" Joshuapundit |
| 1/3 | Disenfrancisement Example Is Actually Vote Fraud Queen -- And a Tax Cheat To Boot! Rhymes With Right |
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 5 1/3 | Kangaroo Court Ezra Levant |
| 1 | Ashamed to be Canadian! Covenant Zone |
| 1 | Barack Obama -- I'm Sure We've Seen Him Somewhere Before Guardian Unlimited |
| 1 | The Media Does It Again Winds of Change |
| 2/3 | Ms. Magazine Refuses to Publish Ad About Israel's Most Powerful Women Yourish.com |
| 2/3 | CNN Reporter as Terrorist Enabler Seraphic Secret |
| 1/3 | A Defining Moment For Republicans Captain's Quarters |
| 1/3 | Ron Paul's Blithe Reaction to 'Newslettergate' Pajamas Media |
| 1/3 | Hillary... I Am the Reason the Surge Has Worked! Radio Vice Online |
| 1/3 | Hillary Without Tears Salon.com |
Weekly Roundup of Weekly Roundups
King of Fools hasn't put together this week's Carnival of the Carnivals, and quite possibly never will again, but the show must go on:
January 16, 2008
Submitted for Your Approval
First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote.
Council links:
- You Be the General
The Glittering Eye - The Race Card, Liberal Guilt and Our Next President
Wolf Howling - Ed. Schools: They're Awful (for the most part)
The Colossus of Rhodey - Tribes With Gods
Done With Mirrors - 500,000 Iraqis Did Not Die
Cheat Seeking Missiles - Shavit's Prescription
Soccer Dad - Idenity Politics Then and Now
Bookworm Room - Bush In Ramallah -- The Road To "Peace In Our Time"
Joshuapundit - Paul of Mises; or How the New Republic Bewitches the Right
Big Lizards - A Solution for the Pop-Tart's Problems
The Education Wonks - Disenfrancisement Example Is Actually Vote Fraud Queen -- And a Tax Cheat To Boot!
Rhymes With Right - Those Who Live By Identity Politics...
Right Wing Nut House
- Kangaroo Court
Ezra Levant - Ashamed to be Canadian!
Covenant Zone - Celebrities: Ruining Everything
Whatever - Hillary Without Tears
Salon.com - Barack Obama -- I'm Sure We've Seen Him Somewhere Before
Guardian Unlimited - Ms. Magazine Refuses to Publish Ad About Israel's Most Powerful Women
Yourish.com - CNN Reporter as Terrorist Enabler
Seraphic Secret - Mitt Happens: Prominent Hezbollah Supporter/Funder in Romney Camp, Ditto for Bad News Political Hack
Debbie Schlussel - Hillary... I Am the Reason the Surge Has Worked!
Radio Vice Online - A Defining Moment For Republicans
Captain's Quarters - The Media Does It Again
Winds of Change - Ron Paul's Blithe Reaction to 'Newslettergate'
Pajamas Media - Gay Rights Versus the US Post Office
TFS Magnum - Dodgey Column: Primary Season Fun
Dodgeblogium
Council members should email me their votes by Thursday at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. By the way... anyone that wants to review the updated version of the council rules can do so by clicking on the image at the top of my right sidebar, which is attached to every page on this site. To peruse my archives, click the image at the top of the other sidebar.
Only two bloggers took me up on my most recent offer of link whorage... so there won't be any spillover into honorable mentions this week.
January 15, 2008
The 2007 WOW Awards
With a new year upon us, it's time to look back at the Watcher's Council weekly voting results for all of 2007. And, just as I did the last time around, I've decided to keep a running tally of votes for each blog that won (or tied for first place) on any given week... I could have kept track of all the vote-getters instead of just adding up the winners, but such a list would have been enormous and taken forever to compile. Anyway, the leading winner in the council category was Big Lizards, and the leading non-council winner was Michael Yon. Huzzah and kudos! Here is the list of all the weekly winners for 2007:
| Votes | Council link |
|---|---|
| 29 | Big Lizards |
| 25 + 1/3 | Bookworm Room |
| 22 | Right Wing Nut House |
| 17 + 2/3 | Joshuapundit |
| 13 | Done With Mirrors |
| 7 + 1/3 | The Colossus of Rhodey |
| 6 + 2/3 | Eternity Road |
| 6 | Soccer Dad |
| 6 | Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 4 + 2/3 | American Future |
| 4 + 1/3 | Wolf Howling |
| 2 | Rhymes With Right |
| 1 + 2/3 | ‘Okie’ on the Lam |
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 20 + 1/3 | Michael Yon |
| 10 + 1/3 | Small Wars Journal |
| 7 + 2/3 | Michael J. Totten |
| 7 | The Belmont Club |
| 6 | Pajamas Media |
| 5 | Blackfive |
| 4 + 2/3 | Austin Bay Blog |
| 4 + 2/3 | Gates of Vienna |
| 4 + 1/3 | Dr. Sanity |
| 4 | Silver Bullets |
| 4 | INDC Journal |
| 3 + 2/3 | Seraphic Secret |
| 3 + 1/3 | TCS Daily |
| 2 + 1/3 | The QandO Blog |
| 3 | The Dissident Frogman |
| 3 | The Van Der Galiën Gazette |
| 3 | View From a Height |
| 3 | Dan Simmons |
| 3 | American Future |
| 3 | The Huffington Post |
| 2 + 2/3 | Wolf Howling |
| 2 + 2/3 | Acute Politics |
| 2 + 2/3 | Hugh Hewitt |
| 2 + 2/3 | Iraq the Model |
| 2 + 2/3 | Websurdity |
| 2 + 1/3 | Pierre Tristam's Middle East Issues Blog |
| 2 + 1/3 | Eternity Road |
| 2 + 1/3 | Dumb Looks Still Free |
| 2 + 1/3 | ShrinkWrapped |
| 2 + 1/3 | History News Network |
| 2 + 1/3 | American Thinker |
| 2 + 1/3 | TigerHawk |
| 2 + 1/3 | Laurie Kendrick |
| 2 + 1/3 | City Journal |
| 2 + 1/3 | Sigmund, Carl and Alfred |
| 2 + 1/3 | From My Position... On the Way! |
| 2 + 1/3 | Confederate Yankee |
| 2 | The Ornery American |
| 2 | National Review Online |
| 2 | Publius Pundit |
| 2 | The Atlanta Journal Constitution |
| 2 | American Digest |
| 2 | Cross-Currents |
| 1 + 1/3 | Daled Amos |
January 14, 2008
The Coalition of the Willing
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around... though I don't actually vote unless there happens to be a tie, I do get to choose two of the non-council nominations for each vote held. When I choose two blogs to nominate for next week's vote, I will limit myself to considering those who do the following:
- You must make a post containing 4 required links -- your qualification post must link to the most recent winning council post, the most recent winning non-council post, the results of the latest vote, and that vote's posting of the nominees.
- Then send me an email with "LINK WHORAGE" as the subject and include a link to the post you want me to consider nominating... also, please include a link to your post required by the previous step.
- Please follow the previous two steps before Tuesday's nomination deadline of 8 PM, Eastern Standard Time.
I will look at all the submissions and then nominate the two posts that I like the most. When I post the full list of nominations, I'll also list below them up to ten more submitted posts that I feel are the most deserving of an honorable mention... this list of ten extra posts can't be voted on by council members, but it should help you to garner some attention.
I made the same offer last week, but not many bloggers took me up on it. Keep in mind... if you are only one of a dozen (or fewer) people who follow the instructions above, then you are pretty much guaranteed an honorable mention at the very least. As usual, I will be reposting this announcement on a weekly basis.
Update: To make things easier on yourself, just go ahead and copy the HTML code from this box when making your qualification post.
January 11, 2008
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 Britain's Prosecution of The Blogger Lionheart for Criticism of Islam by Wolf Howling, and Andy Olmsted by Obsidian Wings. 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 |
|---|---|
| 5 | Britain's Prosecution of The Blogger Lionheart for Criticism of Islam Wolf Howling |
| 2 | Getting a "Clue" Soccer Dad |
| 1 1/3 | The Cotton Candy Candidacy Right Wing Nut House |
| 1 | Honor Killings? What Honor Killings? Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 1 | Major Andrew Olmsted, R.I.P Joshuapundit |
| 2/3 | Death and the Moonbat Bookworm Room |
| 1/3 | Major Papers Oppose Justice For Murderers Rhymes With Right |
| 1/3 | The Cop on the Beat The Glittering Eye |
| 1/3 | Dixville Notch This! The Education Wonks |
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 6 2/3 | Andy Olmsted Obsidian Wings |
| 1 1/3 | Orchestrated Circuses and Clowns Dr. Sanity |
| 1 | Sen. Obama's Calls for Unity Are Not What They Seem Townhall.com |
| 1 | 'Iron My Shirt': Media Fooled By Radio Stunters at Hillary Stop Stop The ACLU |
| 2/3 | Seeking Support Rocky Mountain News |
| 1/3 | An Amusing Greenie Attack on the Inhofe Report A Western Heart |
| 1/3 | Enlightened Selfish Interest Oliver Kamm |
| 1/3 | The Disturbing Barack Hussein Obama Flopping Aces |
| 1/3 | On Hope: Audacity and Pandora ShrinkWrapped |
Weekly Roundup of Weekly Roundups
King of Fools hasn't put together this week's Carnival of the Carnivals, and quite possibly never will again, but the show must go on:
January 09, 2008
Submitted for Your Approval
First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote.
Council links:
- The Cop on the Beat
The Glittering Eye - Getting a "Clue"
Soccer Dad - Growth Potential
Done With Mirrors - Closed Loop or Branching Streams?
The Colossus of Rhodey - Britain's Prosecution of The Blogger Lionheart for Criticism of Islam
Wolf Howling - Honor Killings? What Honor Killings?
Cheat Seeking Missiles - Death and the Moonbat
Bookworm Room - Major Andrew Olmsted, R.I.P
Joshuapundit - Dixville Notch This!
The Education Wonks - Major Papers Oppose Justice For Murderers
Rhymes With Right - Nix On "Negative" Nomenclature
Big Lizards - The Cotton Candy Candidacy
Right Wing Nut House
- Andy Olmsted
Obsidian Wings - Before We Get Too Excited About Iowa, Let's Remember The Score
The Sundries Shack - Seeking Support
Rocky Mountain News - Enlightened Selfish Interest
Oliver Kamm - An Amusing Greenie Attack on the Inhofe Report
A Western Heart - The Disturbing Barack Hussein Obama
Flopping Aces - An Open Letter to all Conservatives, Evangelicals, and Homeschoolers
Blogs for Fred Thompson - On Hope: Audacity and Pandora
ShrinkWrapped - Orchestrated Circuses and Clowns
Dr. Sanity - 'Iron My Shirt': Media Fooled By Radio Stunters at Hillary Stop
Stop The ACLU - Sen. Obama's Calls for Unity Are Not What They Seem
Townhall.com - The Puny and the Great
Eternity Road - Implosion Near?
Captain's Quarters - The Debates -- My Take
Dodgeblogium
Council members should email me their votes by Thursday at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. By the way... anyone that wants to review the updated version of the council rules can do so by clicking on the image at the top of my right sidebar, which is attached to every page on this site. To peruse my archives, click the image at the top of the other sidebar.
Only two bloggers took me up on my most recent offer of link whorage... so there won't be any spillover into honorable mentions this week.
January 07, 2008
Andrew Olmsted, Rest In Peace
I never really got to know Andrew Olmsted all that well, only from reading his blog and interacting with him during his short time as a Watcher's Council member... but he always struck me as just an all-around great guy, even when I disagreed with him. The last thing I can remember saying to him was thanking him for his service and wishing him a safe return from Iraq... sadly, that wish didn't come true. While reading Andrew's final blog entry, written to be posted in the event of his death, I was trying to comprehend what it would be like to sit down and write something like that... all I could think was that mine would probably be a much shorter post than his. Anyway, here is one of the final requests made in that post:
“What I don't want this to be is a chance for me, or anyone else, to be maudlin. I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.) I had a pretty good life, as I noted above. Sure, all things being equal I would have preferred to have more time, but I have no business complaining with all the good fortune I've enjoyed in my life. So if you're up for that, put on a little 80s music (preferably vintage 1980-1984), grab a Coke and have a drink with me. If you have it, throw ‘Freedom Isn't Free’ from the Team America soundtrack in; if you can't laugh at that song, I think you need to lighten up a little. I'm dead, but if you're reading this, you're not, so take a moment to enjoy that happy fact.”
See what I mean? What a guy. Ok, Andy... this one's for you:
The Coalition of the Willing
As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher's Council hold a vote every week on what we consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around... though I don't actually vote unless there happens to be a tie, I do get to choose two of the non-council nominations for each vote held. When I choose two blogs to nominate for next week's vote, I will limit myself to considering those who do the following:
- You must make a post containing 4 required links -- your qualification post must link to the most recent winning council post, the most recent winning non-council post, the results of the latest vote, and that vote's posting of the nominees.
- Then send me an email with "LINK WHORAGE" as the subject and include a link to the post you want me to consider nominating... also, please include a link to your post required by the previous step.
- Please follow the previous two steps before Tuesday's nomination deadline of 8 PM, Eastern Standard Time.
I will look at all the submissions and then nominate the two posts that I like the most. When I post the full list of nominations, I'll also list below them up to ten more submitted posts that I feel are the most deserving of an honorable mention... this list of ten extra posts can't be voted on by council members, but it should help you to garner some attention.
I made the same offer last week, but not many bloggers took me up on it. Keep in mind... if you are only one of a dozen (or fewer) people who follow the instructions above, then you are pretty much guaranteed an honorable mention at the very least. As usual, I will be reposting this announcement on a weekly basis.
Update: To make things easier on yourself, just go ahead and copy the HTML code from this box when making your qualification post.
January 04, 2008
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 The Freddys Seven by Soccer Dad, and Exploding Myths by Treppenwitz. 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 |
|---|---|
| 2 2/3 | The Freddys Seven Soccer Dad |
| 2 | America Derangement Syndrome -- Or, Yes, You Can Call Them Unpatriotic Bookworm Room |
| 1 2/3 | The Best Years of Their Lives: Hollywood and Franklin's War Big Lizards |
| 1 2/3 | Did Bush Get Jamie Lynn Pregnant? Cheat Seeking Missiles |
| 1 | Witness Done With Mirrors |
| 1 | Politics Anonymous Right Wing Nut House |
| 2/3 | Ron Paul Tripped Up On "Meet the Press" Despite Making Good Points The Colossus of Rhodey |
| 2/3 | Primary Scenarios The Glittering Eye |
| 1/3 | The State Department's Unilateral Foreign Policy Wolf Howling |
| 1/3 | Our Wish List For 2008 The Education Wonks |
| Votes | Non-council link |
|---|---|
| 3 | Exploding Myths Treppenwitz |
| 2 | Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2007 Patterico's Pontifications |
| 1 2/3 | The Wodehouse Primary The Debatable Land |
| 1 1/3 | Ms. Hillary Does Pakistan Power Line |
| 2/3 | Obsession to the Point of Dementia Power Line (2) |
| 2/3 | Bennie Bhutto Firedoglake |
| 2/3 | Loser of the Year: Pelosi Don Surber |
| 2/3 | 2007: A Global Assessment of the Confrontation American Thinker |
| 2/3 | In the Name of the Father... Newsweek |
| 1/3 | Dallas Morning News Names "The Illegal Immigrant" as their 2007 Texan of the Year Webloggin |
| 1/3 | Thoughts on 2007 Dodgeblogium |
Weekly Roundup of Weekly Roundups
King of Fools hasn't put together this week's Carnival of the Carnivals, and quite possibly never will again, but the show must go on:
January 02, 2008
Submitted for Your Approval
First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote.
Council links:
- Witness
Done With Mirrors - Ron Paul Tripped Up On "Meet the Press" Despite Making Good Points
The Colossus of Rhodey - Primary Scenarios
The Glittering Eye - The Best Years of Their Lives: Hollywood and Franklin's War
Big Lizards - The State Department's Unilateral Foreign Policy
Wolf Howling - Did Bush Get Jamie Lynn Pregnant?
Cheat Seeking Missiles - The Freddys Seven
Soccer Dad - America Derangement Syndrome -- Or, Yes, You Can Call Them Unpatriotic
Bookworm Room - Our Wish List For 2008
The Education Wonks - An Open Letter To Rep. John Davis
Rhymes With Right - Politics Anonymous
Right Wing Nut House - Al-Qaeda's Strategy Revealed In New Bin-Laden Tape
Joshuapundit
- In the Name of the Father...
Newsweek - Foreign Policy Goes Glam
The National Interest - The Wodehouse Primary
The Debatable Land - Patterico's Los Angeles Dog Trainer Year in Review 2007
Patterico's Pontifications - Loser of the Year: Pelosi
Don Surber - Ms. Hillary Does Pakistan
Power Line - Exploding Myths
Treppenwitz - Obsession to the Point of Dementia
Power Line (2) - Getting Pakistan Wrong, Democrat-Style
Captain's Quarters - Bennie Bhutto
Firedoglake - 2007: A Global Assessment of the Confrontation
American Thinker - Assessing Fred Thompson -- My Somewhat Contrarian Position
The QandO Blog - Dallas Morning News Names "The Illegal Immigrant" as their 2007 Texan of the Year
Webloggin - Thoughts on 2007
Dodgeblogium
Council members should email me their votes by Thursday at 8 PM Eastern Standard Time. By the way... anyone that wants to review the updated version of the council rules can do so by clicking on the image at the top of my right sidebar, which is attached to every page on this site. To peruse my archives, click the image at the top of the other sidebar.
Only two bloggers took me up on my most recent offer of link whorage... so there won't be any spillover into honorable mentions this week.
