Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Nothing to brag about at Fort Bragg

By Libby



Brandon Friedman uncovers the latest outrageous failure of our government to take care of the men and women that lay their lives on the line every single day for years on end, for the sole purpose of protecting the folly otherwise known as the Bush Doctrine. I don't know how anyone could watch this video without becoming outraged at the way the Pentagon 'rewards' our troops for their service with this kind of maltreatment when they get home. If you don't want to watch the whole ten minutes, at least scroll to the last two to see the soldier who just got back from 15 months of hazardous duty in Afghanistan and ends up having to stand in a sink while trying to unclog a drain to get rid of the three inches of raw sewage from overflowed toilets that is pooling on the floor.



As Brandon said, "America has three-quarters of a billion dollars to spend on the embassy in Baghdad, but our troops have to live like this. It's a disgrace."  Call your Congresslizards and tell them to do something about this travesty.



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  1. UnknownDecember 25, 2013 at 5:58 PM

    Moving Simplified We found out this morning that we may be headed to
    Fort Bragg this summer(surprising as we weren't due to PCS for another year)
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