Cheat Seeking Missiles

Posted by: Laer at 12:33 pm

ifty-eight December twenty-sixes this body has seen, but only fifty-seven December twenty-fifths … why, It’s my birthday! But the Watcher’s Council put no birthday presents this year under my birthday tree - and yes, I have a birthday tree. Eat your hearts out.

I got just a third of a vote for my piece on Rick Warren and the gays, but fair’s fair: The other pieces were better.

Winning the competition this week was my vote for first, The Razor’s The Symbol of Oppression, a history of the peace symbol:

The roots of this symbol are soaked in the blood of innocents. The group credited for popularizing the symbol, a stylized combination of the semaphore signals for ‘N’ and ‘D’ (for nuclear disarmament), is the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The CND was founded in 1958 by supporters of the Soviet Union including a spy for the East German Stasi, Vic Allen, and Michael Foote, later accused by KGB defector Oleg Gordievsky as being a KGB spy (Foote challenged the claim in UK court as libel and won.) Another member of the CND Granny Melita Norwood was the KGB’s top spy in the UK, passing secrets to them until she was arrested in 1999 at the age of 87 . She died unrepetant and free in 2005. The Mirror wrote at the time “she never regretted her betrayal and was committed to the Soviet cause and to ‘peace and socialism’ up to her death.” In 1982 Deputy CIA Director John McMahon testified before Congress that the Soviet Union had provided $100,000,000 to anti-nuclear groups including the CND.

There’s much more to this fascinating piece, and any student of recent history should read it all.

There was a tie for second among two entries I thought worthy of winning, Joshuapundit’s appreciation of Dick Cheney, Cheney Slaps Biden Upside The Head and Mere Rhetoric’s Smug Liberal Sophistication Undisturbed By Decades Of Disastrously Wrong Domestic And International Predictions.

On the Non-Council side, John Stossel’s Arrogance and Conceit Won’t Fix the Economy came in first, followed by Larrey Anderson’s American Thinker piece Climate Crisis = Logic Crisis and Dhimmi Watch’s Fitzgerald: If we cut off the jizya, could things become even worse?
See all the winners at Watcher of Weasels. Thanks, Watcher, for taking care of all this on Christmas and my birthday - an extra cup of eggnog for you!