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

Multi-tasking while running with scissors

By Dave Anderson:

I have a nifty solution to two tough problems. The first is how to supress Somali piracy. The second is what to do with the US banksters who ruined the US economy and are whining that there is the potential of consequences.

Somali piracy is becoming more complex. What was once crimes of opportunity within the East African littoral is now becoming a well-organized, well financed operation with massive reach. The shipping lanes a thousand miles off the East African coast are now under threat. This threat is backed by an increasingly complex land-based infrastructure including what appears to be a basic stock-market. This is the critical point of vulnerability.

My plan is to use AIG executives to back Goldman Sachs sponsored derivatives based on the Somali piracy stock market. This is a sure-fire way for Goldman Sachs to loot Somalia, make piracy a net negative operation for everyone except for the bankers, and if there is any profit still floating around, the AIG backed CDSes will be sure to implode. It solves the piracy problem in a few months while keeping the bankers busy playing with safety scissors. What could go wrong.... [/snark]

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  1. Ian WelshDecember 7, 2009 at 7:18 PM

    hahahaha
    genius!

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  2. glenDecember 7, 2009 at 9:49 PM

    What could go wrong?
    The AIG execs recognize their brothers in thievery, then decide that the blend of methods would add significantly to their profit potential. And add an armed thuggery component to their methods in the US.
    Wouldn't surprise me.

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