The Council Has Spoken!
Articles by The Watcher Emeritus
WoW News
Changing of the Guard – Welcoming a New Watcher!
Hello Weasel Watchers! A mixed post by me, Terry Trippany, your old watcher! As of today I pass the baton off to council member Soccer Dad who will take over my duties as The Watcher. While this is a sad event for me it will certainly be exciting times for [Read More]
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Public Sector Uselessness
Still on the road. Wanted to get the votes up however. Congratulations to First place council winner – Wolf Howling – with the winning council entry: Public Sector Unions: A Toxin, A Crisis & An Opportunity On the non-council side is a submission by Chicago Boyz with the winning article [Read More]
Nominations
Submissions for Week of 3-1-2010
Hi. I wanted to get these submissions up early because I will be on the road most of the day. Each week, the members of the Watchers’ Council nominate one of their own posts and a second from outside the Council for consideration by other council members in a contest [Read More]
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Whispers That Expose Liberal Weirding
Winning council member Soccer Dad takes on the liberal weirding crowd that has enveloped themselves so much in the fake science of global warming that they have elevated junk science to the point that contradictory example are constantly being made to support their nefarious claims about global warming. In science [Read More]
Nominations
When Will John McCain Stop Getting In The Way of Conservative Momentum?
Conventional wisdom says I am supposed to start this article by pointing out that John McCain is a war hero. Conventional wisdom sucks. There are some truths in the world and it is certainly a truth that a young John McCain was the hero we all knew him to be. [Read More]
Celebrating Greatness
Joannie Rochette – Celebrating Excellence
In the Olympics it is hard enough to compete knowing that the weight of you nation is on your shoulders. But for Joannie Rochette of Canada she bore an unimaginable burden. The six time Canadian national champion figure skater was preparing for the upcoming events with her mother by her [Read More]
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Life 2.0 – Turning Hindsight Into Foresight
Congratulations to winning council member Joshua Pundit. After surviving a heart attack last week JP penned a retrospective of what is important in life, to him, you, me and others. Having a heart attack has a funny way of making people look back on what is important in life. In [Read More]
Nominations
Leaving Weasels No Place to Hide
Please enjoy this week’s submissions. They represent the finest examples as sought out and found by the Watcher’s Council and passed onto you as exhibit A in the quest to expose weasels digging holes in your backyard. Many of the Weasels you are about to read about have been written [Read More]
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Imaginary Friends and The Trick of the Tail
The winning entries are in and the image and first line appearing in Winning Member American Digest’s entry pretty much says it all. In Barack Obama: Imaginary Friend of Democrats. Cause and Cure Venderleun wrote: Atheists, like songwriters, are always seeking lines more glib than true. Glib is golden because [Read More]
Nominations
Wintery Weasels
Another Wednesday, another contest!! If you, like me are stuck in the aftermath of a pounding snowstorm and bitter cold then I have a prescription for you. Grab a hot tea, coffee or even something mind altering like hot buttered rum or perhaps a steeping hot lemonade with a touch [Read More]
Nominations
What Do Heinrich Himmler and Yahoo Have in Common?
The answer is easy. Apparently both have allied themselves with Palestinians that view Jews as the common enemy as exemplified by the two winning entries in this week’s Watcher of Weasels contest. Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes on Yahoo by noting that someone at Yahoo went to the extraordinary [Read More]
Nominations
The Black and White of Being “Scott Brown”
Illinois proved last night that moronic notions and lazy attitudes prevail. Anemic turnout for the Illinois primaries prove that the state of Barack Obama and Oprah is quite possibly one of the biggest voids of intellectually motivated people in the nation. Worse, Illinoisans on the Republican side put Mark Kirk [Read More]
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Rock Stars and Pariahs
Winning council member Mere Rhetoric takes a look at the reports coming out of Iraq that claims as accident an event where Iraqi workers erased an ancient Hebrew inscription from the tomb of biblical prophet Ezekiel while renovating a nearby mosque. Mere chance that Muslims renovating a mosque would mistakenly [Read More]
Nominations
Obama’s First State of the Weasel Address
Tonight is the night that many Obama supporters waited for with baited breath. Another historic speech by a historic savior of the Democrat Party and it’s radical left leaning agenda. Of course it’s not unfolding quite as they envisioned. Thus the crowd is much smaller. Obama supporters across the base [Read More]
Nominations
The Devil is in the Details
The results are in and the sentiment is clear, voters across the political spectrum oppose the Obama agenda; especially when that agenda is viewed through the lens of Obamacare. This was exactly the analysis of the winning non-Council submission from American Spectator that summarized voter sentiment leading up to the [Read More]
Nominations
Scott Brown’s Boston Tea Party, Twenty Ten!
Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts sent shock waves through the Democratic establishment. Democrats, having convinced themselves that the seat owned by Ted Kennedy was theirs for the keeping, ran a lack luster candidate. The people of Massachusetts felt otherwise and in a whirlwind manner gave the boot to the elitist [Read More]
Weasel Watching
Slowing the Left’s Lysenko-Gore Climate Change Hoax
For years we have been bombarded by warning after breathless warning by followers of Al Gore’s global warming brigade. The tactics were familiar, equating skeptics to Holocaust deniers, faking data for the sake of promoting a lie, marketing the lie to children though television shows and movies. Perhaps the worst [Read More]
Weasel Watching
This Obama Picture of the Day Makes Me Ill, Obama’s ‘Surprise’ Video
Yeah, one of many images of the guy that makes me want to hurl. But this picture puts an exclamation point on the left’s next coming. President Obama couldn’t take the time from his rush trip to the comfortable confines of Camp David to visit Berlin on the anniversary of [Read More]
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Taxing: Policy and Tedium as a Result of Left Wing Beliefs and Attitudes
Welcome fellow weasel watchers. This week’s contest saw another first with a six way tie for second place on the Council side. That is a testament to just how strong each entry was. Beating out all other council members was a very strong Glittering eye article in a follow up [Read More]