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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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Sacrifice Par None

By Cernig



What's a Deciderer in Chief to do to when his troops are sacrificing life and limb, mental health and family integrity, for his war of choice?



Give up golf, of course. No sacrifice is too great for the troops. "I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal."



You go to war with the handicap you have...



P.S. Just in case you want to believe the GOP's insta-spin that this shows Bush's heart is in the right place but his aw-shucks gauchness meant he phrased it badly - please recall that this Sacrificer in Chief also holds the all-comers record for Presidential vacations (2005), which sorta reveals this as the shite it smells like.



Update And then comes this, via BlueGalRedState, which suggests it is far more likely that Bush quit playing golf because he was suffering from knee problems throughout the latter half of 2003:

Bush, 57, will have an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) test on Thursday, Dec. 18. The body-scanning device enables doctors to see internal organs in 3D. The MRI is being performed on the advice of the President's regular White House physician. Last summer, Bush suffered a minor muscle tear in his right calf and that injury, along with aching knees, forced him to abandon his running routine. The calf strain healed by August when he had his annual physical, but the president said in September that he suspected he had a meniscus tear.

I'm amazed he doesn't award himself a Purple Heart, at the very least.



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  1. expatbrianMay 13, 2008 at 1:14 PM

    Too bad. That reduces the chances that some duffer might hit a stray line drive right into the Decider's temple and put an end to his traitorous insanity.

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  2. 1MaNLanMay 13, 2008 at 1:31 PM

    "You go to war with the handicap you have..."
    That was an example of nine irony.

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  3. smintheusMay 14, 2008 at 3:31 AM

    In the same interview, Bush invented the verb to "embetter" oneself.

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