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, November 5, 2009

Killers at Fort Hood All U.S. Soldiers - Army

By Steve Hynd


By now you may have heard about the shocking situation at Fort Hood, Texas, where three shooters have killed 12 and wounded 33. AP has just reported Lt. Gen Bob Cone as telling a news conference that all three killers were U.S. soldiers and that all the shootings happened "at the base's Soldier Readiness Center where soldiers who are about to be deployed or who are returning undergo medical screening."


PTSD perhaps?


Update: ABC News says that the main suspect is a Major Malik Nadal Hasan. The rightwing Islamophobes are going to go nutzo about that name.


Update 2: At the moment I'm updating news as it appears from people on my Twitter stream. According to @marcambinder, CNN is reporting that Maj Hasan was a recently-minted psychiatrist trained at Walter Reed. The BBC reports that he was due to be deployed to Iraq very shortly.


Here's video of the Fort Hood commander's statement, again from the BBC.


Update 3: Richard "RockRichard" Smith has running updates at VetVoice. So does the excellent Robert Mackay at The Lede.


Update 4: Rep. John Carter says two others who were detained have been released. (And soon after Carter tells MSNBC one suspect is still in custody).


Update 5: (Final one of the night) Hasan is alive after been shot by law enforcement, and is in a stable condition under military guard. Reportedly, the other two suspects have been released after all and the confusion was because Hasan was still in custody.


More, I'm sure, on this tomorrow.


Our sympathies to the families of those killed and our best wishes to those wounded and their loved ones.



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3 comments:

  1. Hugh G. RectionNovember 5, 2009 at 12:34 PM

    ...reports that he was due to be deployed to Iraq very shortly.
    The USA is STILL sending troops to Occupy Iraq ????
    well, just goes to show you that the USA ain't NEVER leaving Iraq and all of that Lovely Lovely OIL behind.
    never ever.

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  2. Ron BeasleyNovember 5, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    The story that won't be told here is that this guy had been listening to the horror stories of those returning from Iraq for years. But the stories will all be about his Arab name and his oposion to the war. PTSD is contagious.

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  3. Ron BeasleyNovember 5, 2009 at 2:49 PM

    High wingnut Pam Geller doesn't disappoint.

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