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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Monday, December 7, 2009

Bye Bye Ben

By Ron Beasley

I just received the following email from OpenLeft:

When Ben Bernanke was first nominated to chair the Federal Reserve Bank
in 2005 by George W. Bush, he declared that there was no housing
bubble.  Three years later, during an economic crisis caused by the
housing bubble he did not foresee, Bernanke used over two trillion
dollars of Federal Reserve money to bail out the banks that caused the
crisis.

Hero

Bernanke has been
nominated for another four-year term.  Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has
taken extraordinary measures to try and stop him.  Can you join our
partners at the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) to say "thank
you" to Sen. Sanders for his courage?

 

Senator Sanders, thank you for standing up to Wall Street!

 

Bernanke's bailout has allowed banks to return to
profitability, but the rest of the country still suffers from high
unemployment.  Even though the Fed's mission is to reduce unemployment,
Bernanke says there is nothing can do to help.  When asked
what he thought Congress should do about unemployment, Bernanke
recommended against a new jobs bill, but suggested cutting Social
Security and Medicare instead.

To stop all of this, Sanders put a "hold" on Bernanke's confirmation.  This
hold will slow down the process by a few days, give the public more
time to weigh in on Bernanke, force a debate on the Senate floor, and
show Wall Street they can't buy every Seantor.  You can say "thank you"
to Bernie for his heroics here:

 

Get Bernie's back--sign the thank you letter!

 

When
members of Congress make gutsy moves like these, they need to know the
grassroots are backing them up.  Organizations like Open Left and the
PCCC are looking to deliver 20,000
"thank you" signatures to Senator Sanders by the end of the week.  You can let Bernie Sanders know you have his back by joining the 8,000 people who have already signed the "thank you" letter:

 

Thank you Senator Sanders--we will keep fighting with you!

 

In solidarity,

Chris Bowers, Openleft.com

Benanke is on the side of the banksters and fascists not the American people.  He is part of the corporatocracy.  Support Bernie Sanders and let your own Senator know that Ben has to go.














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