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, December 15, 2009

Show Lance Some Love

By Ron Beasley

One of my favorite bloggers, Lance Mannion needs some help to stay on line.  I enjoy Lance and he was a big supporter of my old blog, Middle Earth Journal.  Lance brings some satirical class to blogging and I for one would miss him.

Here's an example of why I like Lance:

A proud old commie taught me that the real enemies of the Left are Liberals.

Lefties want to make the world all over new.

The
Right, the old commie said, breaks things, refuses to fix what�s
broken, makes things that worked not work, screws it all up to the
point that the People learn to hate the system.

That's where the Left is all set to step in to make things all over new.

But
Liberals like the system and they have a bad habit of trying to save
it.  Liberals fix things and make the People think the system works
again.

This is why it might seem that a lot of Lefties in the
blogosphere either hate Barack Obama or are looking for excuses to hate
him.

President Obama is a Liberal.

That sounds about right which is why I'm a leftist - not a liberal, not a progressive but a card carrying leftist.



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  1. andersonDecember 15, 2009 at 8:48 PM

    The only sense in which Obama is a "liberal" is in his liberal continuance of Bush policies. If being liberal now means claiming the right to torture, to detain without charge, to spy on Americans, to opaquely bailout Wall Street, and to stand in front of the world at a Nobel Peace Prize speech, claim that mankind is rooted in evil and this evil must be crushed, well, if that is what being a "liberal" means these days, then fuck them.
    If you don't think liberals are like this, then Lance is wrong.

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  2. andersonDecember 15, 2009 at 9:46 PM

    Ha! I just saw this from the liberal Obama, after his back room double dealing to kill Medicare drug negotiations, and now,
    President Barack Obama rallied Democrats behind a decision to put aside one of liberals' most cherished ideas ...
    Liberals rallying liberals to dump liberal ideas! Beautiful. Who needs the GOP?
    This is the really great thing about liberals like Obama, don't you think? They can give the heave-ho to liberals' "most cherished" ideas any time they need to.

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  3. Lance MannionDecember 16, 2009 at 3:34 AM

    Thanks very much, Ron, for the link and for the kind words.

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