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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Sunday, August 30, 2009

So leave already and please take Oklahoma with you.

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Those patriotic Texan's who hate America held a rally today.

The turnout for the rally wasn�t huge�200 would be a generous
estimate�but it was enough to show how much Perry has helped galvanize
and embolden the right wing �hate America� fringe. After all, the
governor of the second most populous state in the nation had suggested
that secession was a possible solution to federal over-reach.
Republican political leaders have helped bring �death panels� and the
Obama birth certificate nonsense into acceptable discourse; Perry�s
contribution has been bringing secession into the mix.





The problem is none of the politicians who helped encourage this sedition showed up.



Perhaps the most notable thing about the �Sovereignty or Secession� rally at the state Capitol today was the absence of any remotely mainstream speakers. That little problem in presentation did not escape the event�s organizers from the Texas Nationalist Movement. In fact, several speakers bitterly complained that neither Gov. Rick Perry nor a single one of the 70-plus supporters of Rep. Brandon Creighton�s HCR 50, a resolution asserting Texas� �sovereignty� from the federal government, made an appearance.

Texas was content being part of Mexico until that country outlawed slavery in 1829.  Texas independence and the Alamo was as much about slavery as anything else. The first attempt to make Texas a state was rejected in 1844.



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  1. FreedomOfInformationActAugust 30, 2009 at 2:32 PM

    'We hate the United States': Secessionists rally in Texas (Get the Fvck out then!)
    or some folks in Texas, the prospect of a universal health care scheme isn't just cause for protest and debate -- it's reason enough to secede from the United States altogether.
    Some 200 people rallied at the State Capitol in Austin on Saturday, a small but vocal crowd that set itself in opposition to pro-health care reform protesters.
    Larry Kilgore, a Christian activist that the Texas Observer says has advocated execution for homosexuals, "drew some murmurs of disapproval" when he told the crowd: �I hate that flag up there. ... I hate the United States government. � They�re an evil, corrupt government. They need to go. Sovereignty is not good enough. Secession is what we need!�
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    http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6426332
    Besides, we already know what is going to happen if these radical right-wing domestic terrorists actually try this stunt, they'll be locked up for TREASON!
    Countdown's WTF Moment: Texas Secession (VIDEO)
    In tonight's installment of Countdown's "WTF Moment," Olbermann takes a realistic look at what would happen if Texas actually followed through on Governor Rick Perry's threat to secede if the federal government doesn't leave Texas alone. Well, between skyrocketing taxes, loss of military protection, sports teams crumbling, massive debt burdens, and the coming political crisis in 2020 (when the projected population of Texas will be 45 percent Hispanic and 38 percent Anglo, and the Hispanics win a ballot initiative to have the new republic join Mexico), the picture doesn't look good.
    [WATCH]
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/15/countdowns-wtf-moment-tex_n_204199.html
    gov a$$hat, priceless!!!!

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  2. Steve M.August 31, 2009 at 4:27 AM

    It's not worth it. Empty the military bases and then just give them the whole fucking South. And then arm the borders to the teeth -- we don't any trouble when their little Libedrtarian Jesusland social experiment turns into a failed state.

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