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, December 24, 2009

'Twas The Night Before Christmas Debacle

by anderson

Jim George, who runs GDAEman radio, just sent around his "seasonal poem." I thought it was great.  Jim, I hope you don't mind.  Merry Christmas, Tiny Tim.  You'll be hobbling around for a bit more, and paying for the privilege.

Night Before Christmas Debacle
Jim George



'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the Senate

Evidence was mounting of democracy's limit.



The People dismayed by what they were seeing

Sixty votes it now takes to do just about anything.



The Constitution took care to protect the minority

A wealthy elite exploiting the majority.



Obama a prisoner of establishment power

Claims "victory" with words that surely taste sour.



As the healthcare battle appears to be done

the people are told, "Go to sleep now, you've won!"



The dejected masses comply and act tame

While Obama unabashedly calls out some names



Now Geithner, Now Orszag, Emanual, and Baucus

On DePearle, On Lieberman, Nelson and Sebelius



A man with a smile audaciously says, "hope"

surrounded by insiders who think I'm a dope.



"We stood up to special interests," he says as he winks

But his words are cheap, this deal really stinks.



The man with a smile says "The struggle is on"

More people look askance as they detect a con.



And when the dust settles the people will see

No healthcare reform from the powers that be.



Though believers continue to heap on their praise

Their numbers dwindle with the passing of days.



The media, corporate owned, just plays along

while the people say, "something's terribly wrong."



The Empire teeters, the establishment takes fright

But with happy faces say, 'To all a good night."



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  1. DougDecember 24, 2009 at 7:24 PM

    They might as well come and try to put me in jail now, because I will not buy any health insurance, period. Nor will I pay a fine for failing to buy health insurance. If they put the fines in as part of the income tax collection, I will stop paying income taxes. I will fight to the death for my freedom and rights and, if they send armed enforces to try to make me comply, I will do my damndest to take at least one of them with me.

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