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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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Do You Believe in Rock 'n Roll?

By Hootsbuddy



Distributorcap sez...



1. Why are allowed and encouraged (even by President Obama) to have this vigorous debate on health care and insurance reform � but were not allowed to have the same debate about going to war in Iraq? You know � be against the war and you're labeled a Communist (or anti-America), be for health care/insurance reform and you're labeled Communist (or Nazi).

2. Why are so many "average" citizens so vehemently against any sort of government run health plan but barely any �average� citizens batted an eye when this same government bureaucracy completely screwed up the war, the aftermath and rebuilding of Iraq?

3. Why is everything the Democrats and Obama do considered socialist, but when Bush passed Medicare Part D without big Pharma price negotiations, bailed out the banks, allowed no-bid contracts and spent trillions on a war of choice, it was considered free market.


4. Why are people screaming so loudly that the stimulus is not working but hardly noticed when Hank Paulson (ex of Goldman Sachs) and the Fed were given free hand to salvage Bush�s economy debacle (and Goldman Sachs) with little oversight that has not work in changing the greed culture?


5. Why is Obama�s deficit spending (which I personally do not like) so much worse than Bush paying for the Iraq war with a credit card that was not accounted for in any budget (or in other words, why is money for health care a no-no, but money for war a yes-yes)?

6. Why is Obama�s birth certificate, even after it has been shown time and time again that he was born in Hawaii fair game, but Bush�s mysterious military service and records off limits?

Good questions.
And good commentary at the link.



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