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Our Watcher’s Council Nominations – Witch Hunt Edition

Watcher’s Council

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Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

This week, Doug Ross, Sheryl Attkisson, and Simply Jews earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have for you this week….

Council Submissions

Honorable Mentions

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Our Weasel Of The Week Nominees!!

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It’s time once again for the Watcher’s Council’s ‘Weasel Of The Week’ nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks’ nominees….


Blah Blah Blah Bill Gates, Global Warming Groupie!!


The Noisy Room : My nomination this week goes to Bill Gates and his carbon tax scam. He wants to spend $2 billion of his own money on it as an investment. That should tell you something. His says the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to get the job done. Bill Gates is not a socialist… he’s a fascist. My husband and I have been in computers forever. We know how Gates got his start. He did write some innovative code, but that’s not how he got where he is today. He did it by standing on the works of others and using people. Global warming, climate change does not exist. It is a monstrous hoax that fiends manipulate and the weak minded flock to. The only one that benefits from government funded technologies in that arena is Bill Gates, who stands to make an ever greater fortune off the misery of others, just as he does in Common Core. The private sector is not inept… capitalism is what grew this nation and entrepreneurship and capitalism is what will save it. Not socialism or more accurately, communism. Gates is a monster who must not prevail.

Gates is a criminal… a very wealthy, elitist one. Anyone who listens to him and follows him is making a serious mistake. He’s for eugenics, for Common Core, for climate change and for a one world government. Under what Gates proposes, we would be taxed into utter submission to the federal and global governments. There would be no free market… no chance to rise up and succeed just as Gates has. That door would be forever shut. He is touting the removal of the Constitution and our freedoms, so that the State may be enabled and put in control. If you oppose him, you are ill-informed and a moron. Listen to the man carefully; he does not hide what he is doing. What saddens and angers me are the many who seem to buy into Gates’ hogwash and follow him blindly. He has his own liberal lynch mob, that given half the chance would imprison and ‘re-educate’ those who disagree with him. Whatever you do, do not follow the Pied Piper of Tech.

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CNBC’s Faux ‘Journalist’ Carl Quintanilla!

Fausta’s Blog: Carl Quintanilla, who came up with “”Congressional Republicans, Democrats and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown, and calm financial markets of the fear that a Washington crisis is on the way. Does your opposition to it show you’re not the kind of problem-solver that American voters want?”‘
On the bright side, it gave Cruz an opening for the best line of the night.

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 The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, Famous For Formerly Being Funny!

The Independent Sentinel : Whoopi Goldberg is my weasel of the week.

After the “ladies” of The View insulted Carly Fiorina’s appearance during the debate, she said if she ever gets invited back onto the show, she’d like to see if they’d say that to her face.

Well, apparently, the catty women on The View didn’t like being called out for being rude. They invited Carly back on Friday and she’s going, but Whoopi, who won’t be present on Friday, took the coward’s way out and insulted her during Monday’s show.

Whoopi Goldberg said the “ladies” of The View raised Carly’s standing and then she actually said that Carly needs to learn when someone is coming for her, someone is paying her a compliment or just making an observation.

Hey, Whoopi, you are demented looking. I’m just making an observation!

Aren’t they the ones who said Trump shouldn’t insult people? Only they can insult people I guess.

I think the “ladies” have gone mad. They are giving women a bad name.

They are the war on women.

Well, there it is. 

What a despicable group of  Weasels…ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum.

And remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted onFriday morning.

It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher’s Council content.

And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that, y’know?

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The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results

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The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

““Is there any point in public debate in a society where hardly anyone has been taught how to think, while millions have been taught what to think?” “ – Peter Hitchens

“The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all.” – CS Lewis, The Abolition of Man

“Schools train you to be ignorant” -Frank Zappa

“Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught falsehoods in school. And the person that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool” – Plato

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This week’s winning essay,Bookworm Room’s Public schools — un-educating Americans, one student at a time is a compelling look at exactly what the Left is doing to indoctrinate children in the K-12 levels to support their agenda. Here’s a slice:

I was livid this morning. One of my children asked me to quiz her about rhetorical fallacies, which she was studying for a test. The teacher had put the examples together himself and they included such gems as saying it’s a logical fallacy to argue that guns are tools in the same way hammers are tools. Another example was that it’s a logical fallacy to argue against gay marriage. To give students an insight into good arguments against logical fallacies, he directed the students to Jon Stewart’s hyper-partisan The Daily Show. Indoctrination much?

When I complained to my resident Leftist, all I got was bewilderment. Guns are evil, gay marriage should be accepted by all, and Jon Stewart was the smartest, most informative man in television — so why am I fussing? The fact that all of those represent partisan views and the principle that they therefore should not be introduced on the taxpayers’ dime completely eluded him. School, after all, is there to teach students how to “think.”

School indoctrination is a sore subject with me, since it’s endemic in Marin, as it is in any school district that has a teacher’s union. Math is tainted both by Common Core and the fuzzy math approach that’s meant to give a pass to women and minorities who apparently struggle with actual math (you know, the kind where the results are correct).
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The week at the Watchers’ Council

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No, it definitely ain’t chocolate, no matter how long the True believers ignore the stench.

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

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Our dear friend Marion Algier of Ask Marion passed away Monday, after a long battle with uterine cancer. She was an amazing person, with the rare combination of strongly held principles and convictions and a sweet and giving nature, and we will miss her a great deal.

During her battle with cancer, she never once gave in or lost her faith and I will always be proud to have known such a brave, heroic woman.

She is now at peace, and may her memory be a blessing.

Selah.

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Terresa Monroe-Hamilton of the Noisy Room enjoyed yet another milestone on her way to blogging superstardom. She got one of her superb articles linked to and quoted by VodkaPundit over at PJ Media, from whence it went viral. Congrats, M’Dear..Council Akbar!

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We have a brand new Council member, someone I’ve been a fan of for some time along with some of my fellow Council members. We’re all delighted to welcome Fausta to our group as she makes her Council debut this week.

If you haven’t read her before, you’re in for a superb treat, trust me on that.

[Note from Fausta: It’s an honor to join you, thank you.]

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This week, The Pirate’s Cove, Gates Of Vienna, Simply Jews and Seraphic Secret earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have for you this week….

Council Submissions

Honorable Mentions

Non-Council Submissions

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!And don’t forget to tune in Friday for the results!

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Weasel of the Week nominations

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It’s time once again for the Watcher’s Council’s ‘Weasel Of The Week’ nominations, where we pick our choices to compete for the award of  the famed Golden Weasel to a public figure  who particularly deserves to be slimed and mocked for his or her dastardly deeds during the week. Every Tuesday morning, tune in for the Weasel of the Week nominations!

Here are this weeks’ nominees….


Walking Dumb Blond Joke And DNC Head Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

 The Noisy Room:My nomination this week is Debbie Wasserman Schultz… again. Not only did the deflecting ditz of the DNC say that Republicans want to deport all immigrants, they want to kick all women out of the country too. I kid you not. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz also dodged questions on Sunday about whether Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ description of himself as a “socialist” would hurt the Democratic Party. She just flat out wouldn’t answer Dana Bash on CNN. This time it wasn’t so much a deflection as an outright refusal to address the question. “He is a self-identified socialist,” CNN’s Dana Bash asked Wasserman Schultz, a representative from Florida. “If he is your party’s nominee, would that social label hurt the Democratic Party’s chances of winning the White House in 2016?” The Debster replied, “This election is going to be decided on what the voters believe is the best choice in their candidate for president who is going to help ensure that their lives can get better. I believe that any one of those candidates is in dramatic contrast to any of the Republican circus performer candidates that are on the other side.” You betcha Debbie! You have your choice of Marxists, communists and socialists for the Democrats.

Wasserman Schultz declared that whoever was the Democratic nominee, they would be president. But she wouldn’t mention Sanders by name. Translation: over our dead bodies will Bernie ascend. I still think it will be Biden and Warren on the election stage for these Marxists. As for wanting to kick all women out of the country, once again, America wants to know if Debbie has been taking some really good drugs or if her curls are too tight. This woman is supposed to be a leader. She’s not. She’s a propagandist – a talking head who never commits to anything. She has the spine of a jellyfish. In other words, she’s your typical Progressive Democrat. Kick all women out… that’s a good one, Debbie. Really. You missed your calling as a clown.

 
Barack Obama’s ‘Spiritual Mentor,’ Anti-Semite And America Hater Jeremiah Wright!

 Bookworm Room :I think this week’s weasel award should go to Jeremiah Wright, for his jeremiad claiming that Jesus was a Palestinian and his announcement that Jews are “Europeans” who “took” the Palestinians’ country. He also called Israel, the only democratic, pluralist society in the Middle East, an “apartheid” society. The man is a vile combination of historic ignorance and antisemitic bile. What makes his advanced weasel-ness so awful is the knowledge that our president was steeped in this stew of stupidity and hate for twenty years.

Understanding Wright’s malignant, uninformed mindset means understanding fully president Obama’s relentless hatred towards Netanyahu and the entire nation of Israel. To the extent Obama has some minimal fealty to Jesus, this fealty is built upon the historically inaccurate premise that Jesus was a Palestinian who, like the Palestinians of today, is being persecuted by colonialist Jews. Never mind that Arabs didn’t come to the Holy Land for some 600 years after Jesus’s death. When you’ve worshiped at Wright’s profane altar long enough, facts are no longer stubborn things that cannot be ignored; they are irritating insects that can easily be swatted away.

The Independent Sentinel :I’m going with Obama’s pastor of 20 years Rev. Wright for his performance at the Farrakhan rally.

It’s not really a surprise to see what Obama’s pastor of 20 years, Rev. Jeremiah Wright sound like an anti-Semite because that’s what he is but he also showed how Marxist he really is during the Farrakhan Million Man March Saturday. Capitalism, he said, is one head on a three-headed demon.

Without mentioning Jews, he said Israel is occupying their country, urging boycott, divestment and sanctions, while accusing Israel of being an Apartheid nation.

He strongly urged blacks to stand with Palestinians against Israel and compared the rioting communist youth in Ferguson with the Palestinians.

Wright condemned the wall that Israel is building in an attempt to protect themselves.

His speech wasn’t only on Palestinian justice, he put his Marxism out for all to see. Using MLK Jr’s term, “three-headed demon”, Wright redefined the demon differently as “racism,” “militarism,” and “CAPITALISM.”

To promote his Palestinian case, he said, “Please remember, Jesus was a Palestinian,” Wright said. These people won’t even admit Jesus was a Jew.

He was Palestinian? I wonder if that is what the crazy president thinks.

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 The Angry Left’s Racist Poster Boy Chauncey DeVega

Nice Deb : I nominate Chauncey DeVega, a black radical, and a contributing writer for Salon and Alternet. He wrote a long article at Salon vigorously defending the use of the word “coon” to describe conservative blacks like Dr. Ben Carson because they are not down for the struggle. It’s a grotesque, despicable article that I wouldn’t recommend for anyone.

On Twitter he called Dr. Carson a “black face GOP political minstrel.”

And said “@AllenWest, Herman Cain, @RealBenCarson, Clarence Thomas, Juan Williams etc. are “political blackface performers.”

People like Chauncey DeVega live to sow seeds of racial resentment and discord, and label blacks who reject their toxic racialist narrative as “Uncle Toms”, “coons” and “minstrels.” The Chauncey DeVegas of the world are why there is still a huge black underclass in this country.

He deserves at the very least a nomination for Weasel of the Week for his hard work tearing down successful, accomplished blacks who should be lifted up as role models.

 Well, there it is. What a despicable group of  Weasels…ANY OF THEM COULD WIN! Check back Thursday to see which Weasel walks off with the statuette of shame!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum.

And remember, every Wednesday, the Council has its weekly contest with the members nominating two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council. The votes are cast by the Council, and the results are posted on Friday morning.

 It’s a weekly magazine of some of the best stuff written in the blogosphere, and you won’t want to miss it...or any of the other fantabulous Watcher’s Council content.

And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that, y’know?

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Thank you, Newsmax

Theodore Kettle of Newsmax included me in Newsmax’s Top 50 Conservative Blogs of 2015

24. Fausta’s Blog – If you want to keep track of what matters to lovers of liberty in Latin America, it’s Puerto Rican-born Fausta Wertz’s cornucopia of political, economic, and foreign policy information and commentary about south of the border, with a dose of New Jersey state current events thrown in (she has lived in Princeton forever). No surprise hers was the go-to site when President Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Communist Cuba — “No, Cuba is not China. No, you can’t have free markets without free peoples” — but she is also the handiest source for the latest on Colombia’s FARC guerillas or disguised Chinese backing of a proposed Nicaraguan canal.

It’s an honor to be included among them. Thank you!

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Last call to complete a survey on political blogs

Doctoral candidate Juan M. Sánchez-Villar of the University of Valencia (Spain) has requested my help in completing his research on the effects reading political blogs may have on the adoption of a more participative political position.

For that, he needs that you, gentle reader, complete a survey before March 15th. The survey takes 8-12 minutes to complete.

Here is his email explaining,

Dear friends,

My name is Juan Sánchez and I am a PhD Marketing student at the University of Valencia (Spain). I am currently developing my doctoral thesis, which focuses on the existing relationship between Internet interactivity and the adoption of a more participative political position.

I would like to ask your collaboration to complete the empirical part of my thesis. In this respect, I need you to click on the link below in order to complete a brief and simple online survey.

As you will see, the questionnaire is easy to answer and can be completed in no more than 8-12 (real-time) minutes. The survey displays several statements on different elements related to blog reading and political participation.

My research has no commercial purpose whatsoever and all the collated information will remain totally anonymous. No previous relevant academic background is required and there are no right and wrong answers. What are truly important and relevant are the freely-expressed opinions on the matters raised.

Please click on the following link to participate:

BLOGS, INTERACTIVITY AND POLITICAL OPINION LEADERSHIP SURVEY

Thank you very much for your kind collaboration.

Regards,

Juan Sánchez-Villar
University of Valencia (Spain)

Thank you.

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Please complete a survey on political blogs

Doctoral candidate Juan M. Sánchez-Villar of the University of Valencia (Spain) has requested my help in completing his research on the effects reading political blogs may have on the adoption of a more participative political position.

For that, he needs that you, gentle reader, complete a survey before March 15th. The survey takes 8-12 minutes to complete.

Here is his email explaining,

Dear friends,

My name is Juan Sánchez and I am a PhD Marketing student at the University of Valencia (Spain). I am currently developing my doctoral thesis, which focuses on the existing relationship between Internet interactivity and the adoption of a more participative political position.

I would like to ask your collaboration to complete the empirical part of my thesis. In this respect, I need you to click on the link below in order to complete a brief and simple online survey.

As you will see, the questionnaire is easy to answer and can be completed in no more than 8-12 (real-time) minutes. The survey displays several statements on different elements related to blog reading and political participation.

My research has no commercial purpose whatsoever and all the collated information will remain totally anonymous. No previous relevant academic background is required and there are no right and wrong answers. What are truly important and relevant are the freely-expressed opinions on the matters raised.

Please click on the following link to participate:

BLOGS, INTERACTIVITY AND POLITICAL OPINION LEADERSHIP SURVEY

Thank you very much for your kind collaboration.

Regards,

Juan Sánchez-Villar
University of Valencia (Spain)

Thank you.

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