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, August 11, 2009

Profile of a nutcase

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Now this is the guy who brought a loaded sidearm to Obama's Town Hall.



Even the 2nd amendment wingers think he's a nutcase.

 

Allahpundit who has turned out to be the voice of sanity at Hot Air:

 


Matthews to Obama protester: Why�d you bring a loaded gun to a town hall with the president?


Good question, especially given the sign this guy was carrying. Considering the lengths to which the Secret Service normally goes to investigate threats against the president, I�m amazed he wasn�t hauled in for questioning at the scene as a potential threat. People are going to beat the Second Amendment drum in the comments, but (a) I doubt it would have sat well with our readers if lefties carrying Bushitler signs had shown up to Dubya�s events packing heat and (b) having a right doesn�t mean you�re obliged to exercise it, particularly in circumstances where it would be provocative to do so. I�ve knocked atheist groups for suing for the right to display a �Darwin tree� or whatever on public grounds next to a Christmas tree, not because they�re not entitled but because they�re being spiteful, incendiary douchebags by doing so. How is Captain Sidearm here any different?


The worst part? According to a new book about the Secret Service, the number of daily threats against Obama is already four times the number Bush faced. Every pair of eyes diverted to watch this tool make his point about liberty is a pair that�s not watching the rest of the crowd.


Blackfive:



The clown who brought a gunto the Obama healthcare farce did the cause of the right to bear arms no help though. On so many levels and for so many reasons this freedom exercising douchebag hurt the right to carry, the health care debate and the image of those who disagree with the President's many over reaches.


FFS, what was this idiot not thinking? And to top it off this bandito of ass was carrying a sign that said "It's time to water the tree of liberty" Good God, the rest of the quote is about killing tyrants. Say hello to the Secret Service and the IRS maroon, you brought this on yourself.


The corporatists have have fired up the dangerous lunatics to fight health care reform and they can't control them.  Even the wingnuts fear the High Wingnuts.


Since I watch FOX so you don't have to -  this was not mentioned on cable wingnut news.



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