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, August 31, 2010

Alan Simpson - Ass Hole

Commentary By Ron Beasley



Why won's Obama jettison this plutocratic ass hole?



Aging vets' costs concern Obama's deficit co-chair

The system that automatically awards disability benefits to some
veterans because of concerns about Agent Orange seems contrary to
efforts to control federal spending, the Republican co-chairman of
President Barack Obama's deficit commission said Tuesday.



Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson's
comments came a day after The Associated Press reported that diabetes
has become the most frequently compensated ailment among Vietnam
veterans, even though decades of research has failed to find more than a
possible link between the defoliant Agent Orange and diabetes.

"The
irony (is) that the veterans who saved this country are now, in a way,
not helping us to save the country in this fiscal mess," said Simpson,
an Army veteran who was once chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs
Committee.

So first it was those freeloading old people who wanted the benefits they payed for while working for decades and now it's the veterans who fought for this country.  



Mr Obama, Alan Simpson is a greedy sociopath who has no place on any serious panel of any kind.



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