Each week the Watcher of Weasels has a contest to find the most link-worthy posts in the blogosphere. Last week, the Sundries Shack won the Council-member’s category with I Despair while Winds of Change.net won the non-member’s category with al Qaeda Attacks: A Flash Presentation.

The Watcher lists all posts that received a vote from all of the entries made.

You should consider participating.

The Watcher of Weasels has put together a Watcher’s Council
composed of 12 rather good bloggers that participate in a “best post”
contest. Each week they submit one of their own as well as a
non-council member post. The entire Council then votes to choose the
best posts of each category.

For instance, out of the posts submitted last week were these two winners:

• Beautiful Indifference by Doctor Sanity
• Kos Says U.S. Torture ‘Equal’ To that of Saddam Hussein (A comparison) from The Jawa Report

Each week, the Watcher chooses two posts submitted by boggers after they follow his instructions.
I recommend that you do so as it gives great exposure to new bloggers.
Or even old bloggers – as an ex-Watcher myself I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.

Congratulations to Rymes with Right for securing my position on the Watcher’s Council. Appropriately enough, the first post submitted to the Council is A Sign of Things to Come and concerns a protest in The Land of Weasels France centered around same-sex marriages and the Catholic Church.

The list of submissions this week is worth a read. Nice stuff.

The Watcher of Weasels has put together a Watcher’s Council composed of 12 rather good bloggers that participate in a “best post” contest. Each week they submit one of their own as well as a non-council member post. The entire Council then votes to choose the best posts of each category.

For instance, out of the posts submitted last week were these two winners:

• A Killer in the Shadows by Right Wing Nut House
• Taking Islam Seriously from Bloggledygook

Each week, the Watcher chooses two posts submitted by boggers after they follow his instructions. I recommend that you do so as it gives great exposure to new bloggers. Or even old bloggers — as an ex-Watcher myself I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.

BTW, I haven’t seen that the Watcher has filled the vacancy left by my resignation as of yet. Perhaps it’s not too late to apply. I highly recommend it.

After all, you can see how long I could stay away.

Due to other priorities, I am attempting to scale back my blogging activities and have therefore resigned from my seat on the Watcher’s Council, which I have held for the past 21 months. With this resignation, only two of the 12 founding members remain — Smarter Cop and e-Claire.

Thus the Watcher is accepting applications to fill this void. Run on over and read the offer.

In the most under-reported story of the year is the recent revalations of circumstances surrounding the Madrid bombing. Gates of Vienna covers it well, saying:

As Gaffney says, one could reasonably infer that if this report is true, then Tedax, the Spanish police bomb squad was, at worst, involved in the bombing itself.

For more on the story, check out The Adventures of Chester’s post, Strange Coincidences in Madrid.

BTW, the Gates of Vienna won this week’s Watcher’s Council with this very excellent post.

There was a tie for second place. Little Red Blog posted Neither First Nor Last, which is about media-elite Linda Foley, President of the Newspaper Guild, and her comments about the U.S. military targeting journalists in Iraq. The Education Wonks posted From The Political Correctism Run Amok Files: Private Parts Galore At Roger Williams University , an absolute must-read-to-believe entry concerning a day dedicated to celebrating The Vagina Monaloges on college campuses and the suppression of an effort to dedicate a day to newly-created The Penis Dialouges.

The Indepundit (who is blogging from Kuwait these days) takes first place in the non-member category with Blood and Justice, a bit of history behind Saddam’s bloody reign.

Second place is taken by No Oil for Pacifists with The Left Isn’t Liberal.

All posts that received votes are available on the Watcher’s site.

Somehow I overlooked posting the winners of the 13 May Watcher’s Council. I do so now:

“Please Don’t Run, Newt,” the Rightwing Nuthouse begs in a post that clearly lays out why Newt is unelectable. Nicely done, and clear winner of this week’s Watcher’s Council.

Second place is taken by The Glittering Eye with Intellectual Property and the Trade Deficit. Must read.

Verifrank takes first place in the non-council members category with I Got Your Desecration Right Here Pal, a open letter to Muslims from murdered hostage Fabrizio Quattrocchi. Imaginative and spot on.

Austin Bay Blog takes second in this category with The Press’ Abu Ghraib: Newsweek Apologizes, After 15 People Are Dead.

All entries that earned votes this week are listed on the Watcher’s Site.

To participate in next week’s contest go see the Watcher of Weasels.

Carpe Bonum has some very good ideas about how to fight terrorism and posts them in Hostages: Time for America to Act. How good? They won this week’s Watcher’s Council.

Second place was a three way tie. Glittering Eye fisks a French military report. Gates of Vienna compares anti-American peace-at-all-costs protesters to Lebanese freedom demonstrators in Where Angels Fear to Tread. And the learned Dr. Sanity tells us why those obsessed are not suffering from obsessive compulsive disorder — no, they’re paranoid.

In the non-Council member category, New Sisyphus takes first with a dire and timely warning in The Great Islamic Warrior:

Make no mistake about it: a new world war is brewing. And, as before, we in the liberal west are sleepwalking towards it, not really daring to state the terrible and unbearable truth.

There is no co-existence possible with the Islamic Fascists. It’s them or us.

Done With Mirrors took second place with Wilsonians, part I, a fascinating comparison of Bush and Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policies.

All posts that received a vote are available on the Watcher’s site.

The Gates of Vienna addresses the terrorist “practice run” on Northwest Flight 327 reported by Annie Jacobsen. The Gates does a credible job of rebutting a post by Rev. Sensing. The post easily won this week’s Watcher’s Council.

Second place was a three-way tie. The Glittering Eye writes another in the China series, this one addressing the ticking bomb that is China’s banking system. Rightwing Nuthouse writes about a disturbing trend in Russian Revanchism. And the Sundries Shack has a Bible lesson for Kerry.

In the non-Council member category, Blue State Conservatives takes first place with Los Angeles Marketed as Part of Mexico by LA Hispanic Station. Second Place is taken by American Future with a quite educational piece called The EU and the Arabs IV — War, Oil, EAD.

All posts that earned votes are listed on the Watcher’s site. There’s some incredible posts there — peruse and enjoy.