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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Friday, July 24, 2009

Global Warming

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Is global warning real?  The answer is yes.  How much of it is caused by increased CO2?  The answer is not so easy.  I think that physics tells us that increased CO2 contributes but it's not the only factor.  But one thing we can be sure of is that global warming is not local.  As you may remember we here in the Pacific Northwest had a major winter weather event last December. While we set a record for December snowfall no low temperature records were set. In fact it was not even close.  The Eastern US has experienced a very wet cold summer but here in the Pacific Northwest we are about to set some new records.


Weather The average temperature here this time of the year is 80.  It is predicted that we may set a record for continuous days above 90 as well as continuous days over 100. 


But over at The Corner they are ready to predict that global warming has stopped.  Of course The Corner folks all live in the East Coast.  Of course as I noted over four years ago a cool wet East Coast is what one might expect.



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