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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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

What Tristero Said!

Commentary By Ron Beasley

This old hippie is tired of getting punched.  I have no intention of voting for my Democratic congressman David Wu in 2010 even if it might mean a Republican will take the seat.  Over at Hullabaloo tristero explains it better than I could:

There surely will be anti-war marches in the months ahead and I'll be
there. But as far as expressing effective opposition to Obama's
nonsensical strategy, marches and demonstrations are hardly sufficient.
Liberals need to make it crystal clear that Democrats who support this
folly can depend upon zero support in the upcoming elections. I say
this fully aware that witholding support could very well lead to the
dreadful result of more Republican extremists in Congress, something
this country really can't afford.

But we have no choice. If
the Democratic party today doesn't have viable candidates who are
prepared to oppose this crazy policy, it sure as hell will have them
two elections hence. I realize that opposing the election of Democrats
at a time when the opposition party has literally gone off the deep end
puts this country at serious risk of another extreme rightwing
takeover. But I don't think liberals have much choice but to take that
risk. We are talking about potentially thousands upon thousands of
human deaths for an utterly pointless war. This liberal - and I'm
hardly the only one - can neither support nor excuse what is now
officially the Obama/Afghan War.

No way, no how, under no circumstances.


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