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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Friday, July 9, 2010

Empathy

Commentary By Ron Beasley




Justice Clarence Thomas like his fascist cohorts on the Supreme Court has not shown a lot of empathy for the common man.  But it would appear that empathy makes an appearance when it's one of their own that is a victim. 

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is reportedly "outraged" after
security guards at a New Orleans-area hospital were accused of punching
and tasing his epileptic nephew, a news report states.



Derek
Thomas was admitted to West Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Parish,
Louisiana, Thursday, after a possible suicide attempt, reports
ABC affiliate WGNO.



When the Supreme Court justice's nephew
refused to put on a hospital gown and said he wanted to leave the
hospital, doctors ordered security to restrain him.



Security
guards "punched him in his lip, pulled out more than a fistful of his
dreadlocks and tasered him to restrain him," a statement from Thomas'
family said.



Shortly afterwards, family members say, Thomas
suffered a "massive epileptic seizure."





If course this happens every day but the wingers like Thomas  are only outraged when it happens to one of their own.  Will Thomas learn anything from this?  Hell no!  He's proud to be a black fascist.



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