Random Photos From #BlogCon2013

ND in Glenn Beck’s studio

This past weekend (May 11-13) I attended BlogCon 2013 in Dallas, Texas which was sponsored by Freedomworks and The Blaze. 

The conference was an opportunity to network with like-minded bloggers and learn new tools of the trade. The focus this year was on the need to disrupt the media narrative and ways to do it. On Monday, the conference culminated in a trip to Glenn Beck’s studio in Dallas to watch a live filming of his show, and participate in a taping of his show which will be aired, Friday. I’ve already posted videos from the show that aired live on Monday about Benghazi and the IRS scandal. Friday’s show will be about us bloggers.

Here are some pictures from the conference – all taken with my iphone. (So if you’re expecting great pictures, you’re not going to get it.)

The Conference room

Steven Crowder

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Kristina Ribali of Freedomworks

Nice Deb Nominated For People’s Choice Blog Award At 11th Annual Blogger Awards CPAC 2013

I just received word that I have been nominated for “The People’s Choice Award” at CPAC 2013…hummina hummina hummmina!

Last year at CPAC, Right Wing News and TheTeaParty.net hosted blogger awards.

This year, we’re doing the awards again and the winner of one of the categories will be determined by your votes here on TheTeaParty.net. The winner will get special linkage at the top of our website. They’ll also get a 5 consecutive days of links at Linkiest next week and of course, they’ll also receive a trophy at CPAC).

You can vote for your favorite blog among the nominees, here. (Hint hint – nudge nudge.)

KC Winter Storm II: The View From My Deck

A second major winter storm in a week bore down on southern U.S. Plain states Monday and Tuesday, dumping more than a foot of snow in areas. Parts of Kansas and Missouri were still digging out from last week’s winter storm. The amount of snow we’ve gotten from these two storms is more than the yearly average. Here’s the view from my deck, this morning:

 In the Kansas City area – my neck of the woods – grocery store bread aisles were nearly bare and some stores ran out of shovels:

A Home Depot in Overland Park, Kansas, a Kansas City suburb, received 300 snow shovels Sunday night and nearly all were sold within an hour after the store opened Monday, a manager said.

Our Walmart bread aisle looked like this, yesterday:

The heaviest snow has already occurred, but an additional 1-3 inches of snow is expected, this afternoon, totaling up to 12 inches from the south Kansas City Metro area northeastward through North Central Missouri.

Yep, the kids are home from school, today.

Announcing Breitbart’s “The Conversation”

CPAC, Feb 2012 with Andrew Bretibart

I’ve been keeping something from my dear readers for weeks, and was about to burst. Finally, the secret can be told!

On Wednesday of this week, Breitbart News will be launching a new feature/vertical on our website called “The Conversation.” Look for it in the navigation bar.

The Conversation will be a place where our readers can watch an ongoing dialogue amongst a select group of thought leaders that includes Ace of Spades, Iowahawk, David Webb, Shark Tank, DocZero, Nice Deb, Jerome Hudson, Lisa De Pasquale, William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, and Adam Baldwin, along with John Nolte, Ben Shapiro, Larry O’Connor, Sonnie Johnson, Liberty Chick, Jon David Kahn, as well as other writers and contributors from Breitbart News.

Also, look for regular guest contributors stopping by—there are sure to be some nice surprises, and we fully expect the roster to expand and evolve—incorporating more friends and more leading voices from inside and outside the company.

When we first sat down to redesign the website, The Conversation was always a central part of Andrew Breitbart’s vision. He loved dialogue and the free flow of ideas. He loved conversation and was a always a fierce proponent of more voices, not fewer—so don’t be surprised to read some alternative political views. Andrew also envisioned a place where bloggers and citizen journalists who might not have another way of conversing, interacting, and reacting publicly with each other, could do so in one central location.

Yes, you read right. Nice Deb has joined the Breitbart team. I can’t tell you how proud and honored I feel to be part of the late great Andrew Breitbart’s vision – and in such great company. Some of us have been talking to each other on the site for the past week – although it’s not yet public.  I can promise you one thing -  The Conversation will never be dull.

I will continue to blog here, at Nice Deb, as always. The idea behind The Conversation, is to keep the posts short and casual – longer than a tweet, but shorter than a full length post, so I don’t see it eating up too much of my time.

Red Alert: Votes Needed in Blogress Diva Awards

Whoa whoa whoa, what’s this? The Gay Patriot blog is holding its annual Blogress Diva Awards poll, and yours truly has been nominated…

In addition to bestowing the Ethel, for the Grande Conservative Blogress Diva, they  will also be electing the Conservative Blogress Regent, also known as the Agnes (or Endora) and the Conservative Blogress in Waiting or Lucy, each named for a conservative or Republican diva.

It’s all so exciting I can hardly breathe.

Here’s the list of contenders:

• Amy Alkon
• Ann Althouse
• Bookworm
• Tammy Bruce
• Nice Deb
• Emily
• Sarah Hoyt
• Joy McCann
• Michelle Malkin
• neoneocon
• Sara Noble
• Jennifer Rubin
• Dr. Helen Smith
• Sister Toldjah
• Villainous Company (more…)

You might want to go over there and vote (for me.) It would be nice if I could make it into the double digits…

 

Nice Deb’s Top Ten Posts of 2012

It’s that festive time of year again – New Year’s Eve  – which means only one thing in blogdom…

That’s right, top 10 lists!

So without further ado, here are my ten most popular posts for 2012.

(As always, just because a post got traffic here, doesn’t mean it was a big story in the MSM.)

10. Awkward: Obama Speech at Fort Bliss Met With Silence or Tepid Applause (Video) September, 1, 2012:

Via Neil Munro, of The Daily Caller:

President Barack Obama was greeted with fleeting applause and extended periods of silence as he offered profuse praise to soldiers and their families during an Aug. 31 speech in Fort Bliss, Texas.

His praise for the soldiers — and for his own national-security policies — won cheers from only a small proportion of the soldiers and families in the cavernous aircraft-hanger.

The audience remains quiet even when the commander-in-chief thanked the soldiers’ families, and cited the 198 deaths of their comrades in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The audience’s reaction was so flat that the president tried twice to elicit a reaction from the crowd.

“Hey, I hear you,” he said amid silence.

The selected soldiers who were arrayed behind the president sat quietly throughout the speech.

CNN and MSNBC ended their coverage of the speech before it was half-over.

The video is actually painful to watch.

Linked by Michelle Malkin.

9. The Romney Dog Nontrovesy and Obama’s History of Eating Dogmeat April, 18, 2012 :

A little Alinsky Rule #5 or “hoisting them on their own petards” was gleefully deployed, here.   With every attack the Obami made on Romney, there was something 10 times worse we could have hit Obama on – if only the Republican establishment had agreed to take the kid gloves off.

Doggone it – it looks like another fake lib narrative is about to bite the dust….

From Chapter Two From Dreams From My Father:

 “With Lolo, I learned how to eat small green chill peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy). Like many Indonesians, Lolo followed a brand of Islam that could make room for the remnants of more ancient animist and Hindu faiths. He explained that a man took on the powers of whatever he ate: One day soon, he promised, he would bring home a piece of tiger meat for us to share.”

Doh! Has PETA heard about this?

Should we start a Dogs Against Obama website?

This one was retweeted and facebooked – it also gets google image traffic because of the awesome pic I selected for the post:

8. Obama Poised to Betray America Through 4 UN Treaties (Video) February, 3, 2012:

Dick Morris is sounding the alarm about four uttely heinous UN treaties that are currently under consideration by the Obama administration that would surrender our sovereignty, cede power to go to war to the UN,  enact gun control, and tell us how to raise our children, if ratified by the Senate. These are treaties that the Bush administration and even Clinton administration would never have considered, but as the most radical  administration in American history enters it’s last year, all stars are in alignment for it to happen.

The good news is, he now has four more years to make it all happen.

Linked by Doug Ross in Larwyn’s Links also heavily tweeted and facebooked.

7. The Narcissist in Chief Strikes Again August, 31, 2012:

Gad….who can forget Obama’s sophomoric reaction to Clint Eastwood’s  RNC speech?

In the insular world of the hard left – this is thought of as a “deft”, “snarky”, “cheeky” response from an administration that has always been “adept” at social media.

To me, and I think a lot of Americans – it looks petty and narcissistic. Why would the President want to get into a petty pissing match with a movie legend who is loved by Americans of all political stripes?

Linked by Michelle Malkin, and  American Power, and Ace of Spades, and Doug Ross,  and RWN.

6. I Think I Know What You Did, There, Andrew Breitbart February, 16, 2012:

My thoughts on the late great Andrew Breitbart’s flamboyant antics at CPAC, last Feb.

After Andrew Breitbart’s Friday night “meltdown” in front of the occupiers, (the video of which went viral soon after), I told Verum Serum’s, John Sexton – “yes, he looks unhinged (to a comical degree) in the video, but he didn’t ‘lose it’.  Wait and see – there’s a method to his madness.” It looked to me that he was trying to create a YouTube moment in order to push the #occupyrape issue into the public’s consciousness because it was being ignored by the MSM. I also noted I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the clip was used in the new Citizens United movie, “Occupy Unmasked”.

Well, several lib commentators dutifully stepped up to the plate and swung wildly. Most notably Keith Olbermann.

I can’t tell you how profoundly sad it makes me to know that all conservative conferences I’ll be attending from now on will be sans this remarkable man.

Linked by AoSHQ in Headlines.

5. Pic of the Day: Obama’s Sealed RecordsMay, 20, 2012:

This issue causes a lot of teeth gnashing on the left. Obviously, we need to keep hitting Obama on it.

Linked by Theo Spark, and Doug Ross, this one was also heavily retweeted and facebooked.

4. Voter Fraud Alert!: Obama Supporter in NC Brags on Facebook About Voting Multiple Times To Save Country From RomneyNovember, 3, 2012:

Remember this?

Whatever happened to that guy? He said it was all a big joke (ha-ha). Did anyone investigate, or did they just take his word for it?

Linked by Right Wing News, and Doug Ross – also heavily retweeted and facebooked.

3. Video: Trevor Loudon Explains Communist Infiltration In The United StatesMarch, 13, 2012:

Just me doing my part to spread information so awful – most people refuse to believe it.

If you’ve got about an hour to spare, you would do well to sit through this talk Trevor Loudon recently gave to the Ocean County, NJ Tea Party about the history of Communist infiltration throughout the world, and especially here in America where they finally managed to get one of their own into the White House. Much of this you have heard before, but the facts have never been put together like you see here.

Terrifying, but edifying.

Linked by  Commieblaster, it was also heavily retweeted and facebooked.

2. Obama and Romney Neck in Neck in OH Poll… WITH D+10 SAMPLE! September, 24, 2012

This looked so hopeful:

This information came at the very end of the Gravis Marketing/Capitol Correspondent Ohio 2012 Presidential Survey, but I’m going to go ahead and post it right up front:

Survey of  594 likely voters was conducted September 21-22, 2012.  The margin of error is +/- 4.3 percentage points.  Party ID: 41.4% Democrat; 31.1% Republican; 27.5% Independent/Other.  Results from the poll conducted September 7-8, 2012 are in curly brackets.  Results from the poll conducted September 2, 2012 are in square brackets.  Results from the poll conducted August 27, 2012 are in parentheses.

• Barack Obama-Joe Biden 45.2% {47.27%} [43.7%] (45.3%)
• Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan 44.3% {43.19%} [46.8%] (44.4%)
• Other/Unsure 10.4% {9.54%} [9.5%] (10.3%)

This came at a time when all the polls were showing Obama breaking away and the media narrative was Romney had no chance.

In the end, Obama won Ohio using the ugliest of tactics, 51% – 48%.

Linked by @rdbrewer4 at Ace of Apades HQ, Instapundit, Michelle Malkin, Doug Ross, also heavily retweeted and facebooked.

1. The Sad and Tawdry Line-up for the Democrat Convention in Charlotte, August, 30, 2012:

The line up for the Democrat Convention consisted of toxic progs like Sebelius, Barbara Lee, Gov. O’Malley, Barbara Mikulski and Salazar to repugnant has beens like  Jimmah, BJ, and Lurch, not to mention one reviled political opportunist, Charlie Crist, and one very unappealing vagina advocate, Sandra Fluke. It looked to me like it would be a trainwreck.

But apparently to the low info drones who propelled Obama to victory, it was pure awesomeness.

We’ve got a long four years ahead of us, folks.

Linked by Doug Ross, and Linkiest, and  Instapundit.

Happy Christmas Eve Eve

The fruits of yesterday (and today’s) labor:

There was a little bit of a delay on the cookie baking because I couldn’t find my cookie cutters. Yep – some of those suckers I’ve had for over 20 years and they were no where to be found. I think I moved them to a new location to free up room in my corner kitchen cabinet, last year  – but  hell if I know where I put them. So we had to by a whole new set.

No, you may not open a present today.

We wait until Christmas Eve, after dinner but before Mass, only then – I allow the kids to open one present. And of course, they get to open the rest on Christmas morning along with their stockings. I still fill stockings for my college aged kids even though they’re in their twenties. I guess I’ll only stop after they get married and have families of their own . By the way – we take turns at my house. It’s not a frenzy of kids tearing open presents not even knowing who they’re from. We take our time – savoring each present received.

My fancy shmancy dining room tree:

Happy Thanksgiving

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My contribution to Thanksgiving dinner.

In spite of everything we’ve gone through this year, we have much to be thankful for at our house. A roof over our heads, food on the table, (and in deep prepper style storage), a gainfully employed head of the household, and six great kids. And in spite of the devastatingly awful result of the presidential election, we still live in the best and free-est nation on earth. It will take a lot of doing to undo that, not that the Naked Emperor won’t continue to try. You can be sure that this girl will continue to expose and trumpet every bit of corruption I see in the Obamacrat media complex, which means I’m going to be very busy for the next four years, (at least.)

I’m thankful for my readers who have to put up with tortured syntax, awkward phrasing and insane comma usage to get through a typical post, here. I’m thankful to every reader I have, including the ones who don’t or only rarely comment.

Hope everyone has a wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving.

Random BlogConClt Pix and Memories

The Franklin Center and Freedomworks teamed up to put on BlogConClt in Charlotte, NC to help bloggers hone their skills and gear up for the 2012 election. The conference took place over the weekend, with the festivities actually beginning Thursday night with a Blog Bash at a local Irish Pub, which unfortunately, I missed because I didn’t get in until Friday.

The conference was very well attended, which you can’t really appreciate from the picture below because  bloggers were in and out – often congregating in the hall outside of the conference room.

After the first day of the conference, bloggers were treated to free drinks and h’orderves in the hotel.

Freedomworks’ Matt Kibbe speaks before a captive audience.

Lorie Byrd and Duane Lester, All American Blogger

Stephen Kruiser, Lady Liberty, and Tony Katz

Later on at the Karaoke bar, things got a little crazy…

April Gregory, and Pamela Geller

And later on at the Kruiser Kabana, things got crazier still….

Steven Kruiser and Pam Geller -– IN BED!

Things got a teensy bit loud in there, and the Kanbana was warned several times to keep it down. Finally, management had had enough and things – uh – escalated. Kruiser was evicted from his room.

But because Stephen Kruiser is a lover, not a fighter, he was able to sweet talk his way back into his room.

Kruiser and bloggers outside the hotel, Friday night.

All’s well that ends well!

The (very nice) Security Guy, Stephen Kruiser, MRCTV’s Joe Schoffstall

Tabatha Hale put on an awesome conference as usual. The snack table, Saturday afternoon featured candy-coated apples -  delicious!

Instapundit once told Little Miss Attila, “Blogging stars are like bowling stars. Outside our world, no one cares.” Saturday night at the blogger bowling bash, the lines between the two worlds blurred -  bloggers were bowlers  (and still no one cared.)

The rest of the pix are from my iphone, and it was dark – so not the best quality.

Left to right, Doug Ross, Marathon Pundit, Tony Katz, Kira Davis

Oklahoma blogger, Michael Bates of Batesline beat me by two points in the first game.

Michael Bates and Peter Ingemi, DaTechGuy

Then VodkaPundit, Jerome Hudson, and el Sharko showed up, and it was all over – they’re all bowling sharkos, these guys.

Javier Manjarres aka El Sharko, Steve Green aka VodkaPundit

Alexa Shrugged, Kristen Hawley, Teri Christoph, Kat McKinley aka TexasSparkle

Power Bloggers, John Hawkins, RWN and Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit.

Melody from Perfection Under a Red Umbrella, and Cheryl Prater

The next few pix are very dark – we were outside at Fitzgerald’s following the bowling bash. It was very nice outside, until the wind shifted and it suddenly got cold…

Kruiser Kabana was in the hotel lounge, which they kept open after hours, just for us.

Heading back to our rooms at around 3:00 a.m., DaTechGuy and I took pictures of each other in the elevator:

My plane to Kansas City left at 6:50 Sunday morning, so…..yeah — ouch.

Kudos again to Tabatha Hale for organizing yet another spectacularly successful blog  conference. I picked up some great tips from the panels, but the most valuable aspect of it for me  was the opportunity to touch bases with all of my precious blog buddies.

One person I always look forward to seeing at these things was sadly missing at BlogConClt…

But he was there in spirit…

Andrew Breitbart in his own words…was created by Anthropocon

We miss him so much.

SEE ALSO:

John Hawkins: BlogCon 2012: Charlotte (37 Pics)

Batesline: Live from BlogConCLT

Doug Ross: The Dirty Little Secret of #BlogConCLT (He deserved every punch he got.)

All American Blogger: #BlogConCLT is Underway (Video)

Lady Liberty 1885: #BlogConCLT – Back and Fired Up!

DaTechGuy’s Blog:

Blogcon Caption contest win a Breitbart is Here T-Shirt

Blogcon Pizza Bowl photo gallery

Katie Pavlich on her New Book: Fast and Furious Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up

To those who think Bloggers of the right are getting rich on Koch money

DaTechGuy’s field guide to bloggers Lady Liberty 1885

CPAC Pic and Video Dump

I can’t even express how incredibly hectic CPAC was, this year. John Hawkins calls it “a conservative Disneyland for bloggers” which is about right. It’s non-stop activity from the time you get up until you hit the pillow, which can literally be as late as 3:00, 4:00, 5:00 a.m. – just ask that party animal and Blogger of the Year, John Sexton from Verum Serum.  CPAC offers an opportunity for bloggers to meet with like minded political junkies – comrades in arms we only get to see in person a few times a year, and we savor every moment of it. On Friday, I  watched many great speeches, went to some great panels, schmoozed in the bloggers lounge,  took loads of pictures and videos, but due to the constant activity (and poor wifi), was unable to put up a single post. I was still sleep deprived from the excessively long previous day, so after messing with the occupiers outside with Jim Hoft and and some others, I stayed in and uploaded my videos, and put up a few posts, Friday night. Then I zonked out without going to a single partay.  I made up for that by staying up past 3:00 a.m. on Saturday night.

Hopefully some of these left-over pix and videos I took throughout the weekend, and never had time to post, will help give you an idea of how breath-takingly chaotic and hectic the pace at CPAC is for the average blogger.

That’s Bruce McQuain of The Washington Examiner, Qando, The Greenroom, Questions and Observations, Pundit Review and Blackfive, flanked by ACORN whistleblower, Anita MonCrief of Emerging Corruption and Big Government, on the left, and Juliette Ochieng, (Baldilocks) on the right.

Here’s the “Axis of Fedora” outside the Marriott, Friday night. Smitty, Warner Todd Huston, and RS McCain posed for a photo, but my camera was on the video function…so -

When former U.S. Justice Department official, J Christian Adams visited the bloggers lounge, I whipped out my copy of his best seller, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department for him to sign. He was happy to pose for pictures with bloggers:

Sheriff Paul Babeu, Pinal County, Arizona and candidate for U.S. Congress in Arizona’s new 4th congressional district stopped by to chat with bloggers. Here he is meeting Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit:

Babeu also posed for a pic with me. My video of his speech on the subject of Fast and Furious, here. My flip camera battery had just run out so I had to videotape with my back-up (iphone). But I’m glad I did. Babeu is an awesome speaker.

The space outside the bloggers lounge was often used for interviews. As I was heading to the ladies room Saturday morning, I happened upon John Bolton in the midst of an interview (he’s much smaller in person than you’d expect!) and snapped a quick pic.

Here’s RS McCain being interviewed by DaTechGuy for his Saturday radio show. I was interviewed, as well, but I don’t have a picture of that.

Drama follows Andrew Breitbart wherever he goes. This time, a blogger or reporterette from some unknown media operation confronted Andrew Breitbart in the bloggers lounge after his speech about the unpleasantness that resulted in GOProud not being a part of CPAC, this year. I think you’ll enjoy  how (newly slimmed down!) Conservative Lesbian, Cynthia Yockey emerged to valiantly defend him:

  

This shockingly raaaaacist truck was parked down the street from the hotel. I’m surprised the Occupiers didn’t throw eggs at it. But, then again, there were cops everywhere.

No, that is not Kuato hiding under  DaTechGuy’s shirt  – it’s actually his Che’d up Stephen Kruiser tee shirt he got at BlogCon, last Fall.

DaTechGuy, Stephen Kruiser

A couple of notables who visited the bloggers lounge that I neglected to get on camera were conservative EU member, Daniel Hannan, and White House Dossier’s Keith Koffler. Granny Jan, if you read this, I know you’re jealous. Koffler is just as charming and delightful in person as you would think – it was a pleasure to meet him.

Click here for Warner Todd Huston’s Interview with  “Freedom Lover”, Hannan, who also posed for pictures with many of the bloggers.

I’m still uploading video of the Occupiers – I’ll be posting those at Left-Wing Institute for Civil Discourse.

MORE:

Actually, I did have some pictures of Daniel Hannan on my other camera. Here he is being interviewed by DaTechGuy:

Bloggers Joy McCann, (Little Miss Attila) and Bruce McQuain meet Hannan.

PREVIOUSLY:

Video: Andrew Breitbart’s CPAC Speech

Video: Scott Walker CPAC 2012 Speech vs Bob Chanin NEA Convention 2009 Speech – Support Governor Walker!

Video: Sarah Palin’s CPAC 2012 Speech

Saturday Movie Matinee, CPAC Edition

CPAC 2012: Sheriff Babeu on Eric Holder: “The Man Has No Shame”

CPAC, Day 2

CPAC Panel: Breitbart and Citizens United Unveil “Occupy Unmasked”

CPAC Day One

Heading To CPAC 2012!

Heading To CPAC 2012!

I will be en route to Washington DC from KCI early Thursday morning for my third CPAC in a row.  I hope to be able to set up shop in the bloggers lounge by 10:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m. at the latest.

CPAC 2012 will be especially jam-packed weekend because it is an election year, but this time, I’ve taken Jimmie Bise’s advice, and planned my schedule for the weekend. There’s always so much to do at CPAC, you really do have to prioritize. (Now, if only I could find the notepad I wrote it on – it’s around here, somewhere.) At least I have my glasses, this year. At my first CPAC, I had lost my glasses a couple of days before I left – there wasn’t time to replace them, and I was blind at for 3 days. Thank God for Cheryl Prater, because she took me under her wing and helped me get around.

Yes, it’s true that this year, occupiers, union goons, and Black Panthers plan to disrupt our conference,with tactics that include Pulling Fire Alarms, Glitter-Bombing, Cutting Electrical Power, Barricading Entrances, and Physical Assault.

DaTech Guy reports that security has been beefed up at The Wardman Park Marriott, so they appear ready for whatever might happen.

RS McCain notes that whatever the occupiers try, will be a great  source of entertainment for CPACers, (and great YouTube fodder, I would add.)

On their website, Occupy DC vows “non-violent resistance” at this year’s CPAC, aiming to “make this a conference the attendees will never forget.” And Occupy DC calls CPAC “a who’s who of dastardly politicians… another gathering of bigots, media mouthpieces, corrupt politicians, and their 1 percent elite puppet masters,” who will “attempt to perpetuate the radical right wing’s imperialist ideologies… pursuing its racist, sexist, patriarchal and exploitative agenda.”

Indeed, this is exactly what my friends and I have in mind when CPAC convenes Thursday. In between attending speeches, seminar panels and cocktail parties — where our “elite puppet masters” will exhort us to perpetuate their “imperialist ideologies” — we’ll make occasional visits to the Marriott lobby, hoping to catch an entertaining glimpse of the clashes between police and smelly hippies from the Occupy DC encampments. What could be more fun than watching left-wing scum getting tased, pepper-sprayed and hauled away in handcuffs by the Metropolitan Police?

McCain missed all the fun we had with  #OccupyDenver at BlogCon, last November. For some darn reason, he didn’t make it.

Nice Deb Honored in End Of Year Blogger Awards

It’s always nice to have your hard work recognized, and for the second year in a row, I’ve made Doug Ross’s prestigious Fabulous 50 Blog Awards. 

You may ask, how does he choose his winners? Is there an online poll, a panel of judges? Pshaw! Doug says:

No debates. No voting. No nominations. Just facts. Immutable truths, chiseled in stone and then forged on Zeus’ anvil for all of human history. No prize carries more panache, more prestige, and more sex appeal than a Fab 50 Award, save something you might find in a Crackerjacks box.

Crackerjacks!  Those temporary tattoos  are awesome! Granted, I tied with about 12 other bloggers  for best political reporting – but I made it, baby – by the skin of my teeth, I made it. Many very excellent bloggers who also deserve recognition, didn’t make the list – so I don’t take it for granted.

 Dan Collins at The Conservatory also has an extensive end of the year blog list with winners running the gamut from: Sickest Story of the Year: Kermit Gosnell and company. Thanks to Pundette for that one – to - Shark Jumpers: Krugman, Reich, Coulter, Rove, Beck, Bachmann – to - Nicest Guys on the Internet: Jimmie Bise and Peter Ingemi – to – Hustlers: Peter Ingemi and Stacy McCain – to – (get this) Blogger of the Year: Nice Deb

To which my reaction can be summed up by Wayne and Garth as you see them, here:

“I’m not worthy! I’m not worthy!”

I suggested to Dan that perhaps he had made a glaring typo in his post, but nope – he assured me it was correct – so all I can do is blush and curtsey and convey my deepest gratitude for being so honored.

Thank you Dan and Doug for taking the time to recognize other bloggers when everyone knows you guys do outstanding work yourselves.

The Top 10 Stories of the Year at Nice Deb

Just like last year, many of these stories will not be top stories anywhere else. They were big stories for me because for whatever reason, they were retweeted a bunch of times, and/or big blogs linked to them. In some cases, they’re stories in which there is continued interest, so I still receive significant traffic due to  Google searches.

Thanks again to Michelle Malkin,  AoSHQ, Doug Ross, Pirates Cove, Ed Driscoll, Instapundit and a number of other blogs for helping  these posts become my biggest hits of the year.

Without further ado, Nice Deb’s Top 10 posts of 2011:

10. Founder Of The Muslim Canadian Congress Says Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated White House (With Updates) August, 14, 2011:

When Tarek Fatah, moderate Muslim advocate, and political progressive,  told an auditorium filled with thousands of Canadians that Americans need to know that “the religion of Islam was being used as a tool by a fascist force,” and had infiltrated the White House, heads were turned. The speech was given in Toronto at Ideacity, “Canada’s premiere meeting of the minds”, and I posted the explosive video.

The post was heavily retweeted and ended up high in the rankings of Trending Right for quite a while. It was linked by Doug Ross, Pirate’s Cove, adeliemanchot, YourDaddy’s Politics and Daily Pundit.

9. Today’s Compare and Contrast April, 1, 2011:

A black and white photo of an Iranian woman in a bathing suit leaning against a 60′s era car, as seen at  Iran, Before The Chador picture gallery inspired me to compare her to American soldiers reduced to wearing the hijab in Afghanistan, today.

It was linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, and continues to get traffic due to google image searches.

8. Pics From ‘We Stand With Gibson’ Rally October, 8, 2011:

On a lazy Fall Saturday afternoon, after searching the net for news about the Gibson Guitar rally,  I decided to check on Twitter to see if anyone had tweeted about it. There, I found some helpful tweets that led me to some great pictures.

Since no one else seemed to be blogging about it, and the Gibson Guitar story was something I had been following closely, I posted a few pix from The TN Report, and cranked out a report. Retweeted 52 times.

Instapundit,  Ed Driscoll , Scared Monkeys, Conservative Hideout 2.0, Pirate’s Cove, Trizzat, and The Absurd Report linked.

7. It Begins…Democrats Introduce Bill to Seal Obama’s Presidential Records October, 6, 2011:

Based on a Judicial Watch report about the Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2011. That bill would do with Obama’s presidential records what Obama has already done to his personal and collegiate records: Seal them up.

In an obvious effort to protect President Barack Obama, a group of congressional Democrats had introduced legislation to create an official process that would allow the commander-in-chief to keep presidential records secret after he leaves office.

Retweeted 56 times, I remember this being on Trending Right for a long time.  Moral of the story – anything that begins, “It Begins….” is a bonafide traffic magnet. As Jim Hoft would be the first to tell you.

Linked by Doug Ross in Larwyn’s Links.

6. Just One More Situation Room Photoshop…May, 4, 2011

The infamous “chipmunk in the small chair” situation room photo of Obama (fresh off of the golf course) and the rest of his National Security team  watching the computer screen as Seal Team 6 dispatched Osama Bin Laden, needed my awe-inspiring photoshop skills to complete the “Every Meme Ever” pic.

This one was linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy and continues to get traffic from Google image searches.

5. Video: Obama Announces Osama Bin Laden Dead, May, 1, 2011

This was arguably the biggest story of the year, so it’s not surprising that it is one of my biggest stories.

Linked by Michelle Malkin.

4. An Open Letter To Eric Holder From An ATF Agent in Mexico,December, 12, 2011:

If you’re a blogger who covers Fast and Furious, you should be checking in on the ATF whistleblower site,  Clean-up ATF from time to time. That’s where I saw this incredible cri de coeur posted by an ATF agent in Mexico.

Oddly enough, this one never ranked on Trending Right even though it was retweeted 89 times.

Linked by AoSHQ and Bob Owens, and Gateway Pundit, and Doug Ross, and The Conservatory, and Sipsey Street Irregulars, and several gun forums.

3. Another Liberal Meme Bites The Dust,January, 31, 2011:

On January 31, the conservative blogosphere was still in state of moral outrage after watching Sarah Palin and the Tea Party get blamed for the Tucson massacre.

After a white male was accused of  plotting to blow up a Metro Detroit mosque the usual suspects were at it again. “Anti- Muslim tea-bagger, right? Mission accomplished, Beck, Limbaugh, Palin and Hannity, right? ” I jeered to certain left-wing blogs who were covering the story that way.

Long story short – the guy turned out to be another deranged lefty and possible Muslim convert, emphasis on deranged.

Retweeted 24 times, and linked by Michelle Malkin, and PJ Tatler, and Conservative Wanderer, and Instapundit,and The Dignified Rant, and  Blazing Catfur, and  Red State, and Moe Lane, and Patterico, and Doug Ross, and The Right of the People, and Verum Serum,  and adeliemanchot, and Bizzy Blog.

2. Yes, There Was A Kapiolani Maternity And Gynecological Hospital In 1961, April, 28, 2011:

Here, I had to shoot down a theory about Obama’s newly released birth certificate that I was seeing in various places online. After all of the lies Obama had told about his “nativity story”, and the shoddy way in which he  handled the release of his birth certificate, people can hardly be blamed for being suspicious.

This post was tweeted only once – by me, and was not linked to by any big blogs.  Obama’s birth certificate is a toxic subject, spurned by most conservative bloggers….. But a lot of other people – LOTS of people still want answers.

1. OBL Death Photo a Fake – Will Obama Administration Release The Real Thing?, May, 2, 2011

Remember all of the interest in in seeing the OBL death photo? The fact that the Obama administration refused to release the photo inspired a number of photoshops that appeared online, and I did a little post about it. People still google for that elusive photo.

Michelle Malkin linked and it continues to get Google image traffic.

Where’s Nice Deb?

I’m in West Palm Beach,  Florida!

Took me pert-near all day to get here, too. (Which I hope explains the lack of posts). I should have said something.

I’m not spending Christmas down here, I’m spending the weekennd with my 11 yr old daughter who’s here to see a special doctor. I’d rather not get into the details for privacy reasons – but don’t fret - it’s not a bad thing – it’s not a life-threatening thing, at all.

So, sorry for the lack of posts. I’m working on getting something up tonight, but expect light blogging for the next couple of days.

Tea Party Groups To Tour Wisconsin In Support Of Republicans Facing Recall Elections

This should be interesting, given how popular the tea party is with the Democrat Media Complex at the moment, and how closely Wisconsin’s left wing unions and activists work with the party.

Via Conservatives 4 Congress,

CNN reports:

Two of the nation’s prominent tea party groups will merge for a Wisconsin bus tour in support of six Republican state senators facing recall elections.

Tea Party Nation and Tea Party Express will kick off their four-day “Restoring Common Sense” tour Friday, holding rallies in multiple cities and defending Republicans who supported Gov. Scott Walker’s controversial bill that curbed collective bargaining rights for state employees earlier this year.

“The tea party stands for fiscal responsibility, and Republican Senators in Wisconsin stood firm for those principles,” said Amy Kremer, chair of Tea Party Express. “Now they are under attack for doing the job they were elected to do. It is critical that we support and defend them from these undeserved attacks and in that effort we are proud to be joined by our friends at Tea Party Nation.”

The next round of recalls, scheduled for Aug. 9, is part of a summer long series of elections pitting six Republicans and three Democrats against challengers. An incumbent Democrat already won the first election in July.

If three Republicans can’t keep their seats, then the GOP will lose control of the state legislature and Democrats could be poised to overturn Walker’s budget reforms.

The Campaign To Defeat Barack Obama have been on the ground in Wisconsin for about a month, now, working with Tea Party Express to do rallies in every affected district and rally conservatives to go to the polls.

More about the tour, HERE.

See the new ad and contribute online – HERE.

Two more  ways you can help via Amy Kremer of The Tea Party Express:

1st – For people all across America, if you use Facebook then we urgently need you to go to the Wisconsin Tea Party Express Event Page and RSVP your attendance (even if you can’t physically make it to a rally) to this effort.  And here’s the important point, we then need you to click “Select Guests to Invite” and invite all your conservative, pro-tea party friends to this event so you can help us get the word out and build “buzz” for this effort.  Here’s the link to the Facebook Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=212310648820458

2nd – Everyone’s help is needed to help us raise the money to pay for this effort.  Besides the costs of the tour (gas for a tour bus is exorbitantly expensive), we also have to pay for our TV and radio ad campaign to back this effort up.

We’re realistically looking at having to raise $50,000 within this next week.  You can support this effort by making a contribution – HERE.

A commenter at a left-wing Badger State site groused:

There will be a lot of no-good, stinkin’, vile and anti-democratic shenanigans going on in the next week. Expect Breitbart types at the Joe The Bummer/Tea Party tour this weekend, hoping to film someone from the counter rallies screaming obscenities.

Don’t do it. You’ll end up on Youtube.

Lol, yup. Like this unhinged schlub, captured by Rebelpundit at The Madison Tea Party with Sarah Palin. (Psssst: The tea party far outnumbered the protestors, that day, by the way):

Lefty-counter-protesters would do well to take his advice.

See also:

Legal Insurrection: Wisconsin, next week is Recall Week

Schedule for Restoring Common Sense Tour: August 5th – 8th: