That’s Right Nate

This LOLCatz is from Jon Swift whose blog is on the blog roll. If you like this blog, check his out.

Thank you for making this such  great 2008 for myself and this blog of mine.  One of the things that has made this blog so much fun for me is my regular core of readers.

Lola – You may be from a third world country like Brazil, but you are a first rate poster.
Steve – Thanks for reading.  May your beloved Cubs continue their regular season success of late.
Gina – Thank you for being such a wonderful missionary and spreading Natism around the web.
Fraser – I enjoy your posts, but I’m also feeling guilty that I keep forget adding you to my blogroll.
The Rotten Little Girls – Any women who still dig being called girls are OK with me.
Beccy Joe – Our only Australian commentator who is one of my few Youtube subscribers.
Zenyenta – Doesn’t post much now, but checks in from time to time and was the first to “discover” this blog.
Shannon – I haven’t seen her around much lately either, but I hope she’s still reading.

I was going to have a little poll to decide which of the regulars should be reader of the year, but the more I thought about it the more I wanted to avoid a popularity contest and the more I realized I had won you all over to my way of thinking anyway so it wasn’t a real contest.  Instead, tonight I would like to look at those posters who actually stood up to me and took me on.  They never won an argument, but they gave it their best shot.

Nominee number one comes from the earliest days of the blog.  Bryson Nitta was an impassioned reader concerned with the environment.  We butted heads over my article Big Cars Will Save Us. His main point was expressed, ” That’s the worst idea, ever. Creating more demand for oil doesn’t mean that we’re going to “take” oil from China and India; it simply means that we’re going to create more demand, and ratchet up prices in the process, making it more expensive and leading us further into recession.” I would say events of recent months have shown there is no relation between oil prices and the recession.

ChineseCanuck was also early on in the blog’s history.  We corresponded by email after the exchange we had in Chinese Diet Starving Rest of the World. She’s a Chinese Canadian and a bit of a foodie. She claimed that most Chinese food in the US isn’t authentic including my favorite restaurant, “There are no Panda Expresses/Panda Inns in Canada, but I’ve checked out their website and the menus don’t look all that authentic to me.”

I was trying to find the next two nominee’s posts to link to, but there are just too many of them. They were both posting many times for a short time (which is why they aren’t considered regulars) and then just as quickly they left. Ah you are both missed.

Brigid posted during the who flap over the Obama flag swearing like a sailor. Her most reasoned comment was, “Also I disagree with the statement that Obama should APOLOGIZE and it’s his fault for making this believable. The truth is, from the beginning you people have been willing to believe anything negative about Obama and anything that is said by the McCain campaign (such as Obama is a terrorist or that he is an Arab). You really think Obama should apologize for your gullibility, stupidity, and willingness to believe anything negative about him? Come on, get real.” The rest just wasn’t clean enough for family reading.

There have been individual posters who passed through with a good comment or two. I was very appreciative of the Indian poster who posted he was going off to skip dinner now after reading my article about India getting fat. A recent post by a Holden Caulfield who attacked me for spelling errors in my posts despite the fact that when I googled him I learned that he was not only a dropout, but proud of it.

We have also had celebrity readers like Mike Taylor and TJ Baker Holm who both ran for congress this year from Texas. Mike was our first endorsement and TJ who always showed a lot of class in our communications promised me a lunch if I was even in Houston. I think I’ll hold her to it.

However, the winner of the Natie for reader of the year is you. You don’t even know that I know you’ve been reading do you. You’re an attractive single Christian evangelical woman with an six figure income who is involved in Republican party politics. You may have seen my picture on my new dust jacket and found yourself strangely drawn to me, but didn’t know what to do. Well, it is New Years Eve and when you want to pick up your award drop me an email at Thatsrightnate@aol.com.

The Natie for music video goes to Maverick McCain. However, all of the nominees can be seen at our Thatsrightnate video channel.  As for the Viewer’s Choice Natie I was going to put up a poll, but that wouldn’t really work.  So use the comments section.  Out of the articles I created what was truly brilliant and what was merely insightful? Post your favorite from 2008 below.