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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Monday, November 8, 2010

Barbara Showed Dubya Her Miscarried Foetus In A Jar

By Steve Hynd


George W. Bush has revealed a truly weird episode in the young Dubya's life:



He was driving Barbara to hospital when she produced the foetus in a jar. �There was a human life, a little brother or sister,� Mr Bush said. �There�s no question that affected me, a philos�ophy that we should respect life.� Mr Bush was asked about the incident after writing in his book, Decision Points: �I never expected to see the remains of the foetus, which she had saved in the jar to bring to the hospital.� He told interviewer Matt Lauer on US TV last night: �The purpose of the story wasn�t to try to show the evolution of a pro-life point of view. It was really to show how my mom and I developed a relationship.� It is thought that Mrs Bush, now aged 85, lost her baby in the mid-1960s. She had six children, with Dubya, now 64, the eldest son.



I don't know, but it seems to me that just one such incident would traumatize a person for life - and that anyone capable of such a thing isn't going to stick at just one isolated instance of lunacy. I think we know who to blame for Dubya being such a sociopath, now. His mom.



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  1. KatNovember 8, 2010 at 7:49 AM

    If she considered the foetus to be a person, why didn't they have a funeral for it, and bury it, like they would for any of their other children?

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  2. geoffNovember 8, 2010 at 2:27 PM

    Clearly no one has read much of Oliver Sack and what his mom, Muriel Elsie Landau, would bring home at times and young Oliver would observe so get a grip on yourself it's just the idiot GWB making much to do about nothing. Fools always think their idiot experiences are unique. It is what, after all, what makes some people fools, eh.

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  3. Ron BeasleyNovember 8, 2010 at 3:31 PM

    Barbara Bush is one of the most horrible people on earth. None other that Nancy Reagan believed that. I'm sure that GWB's growing up in this totally dysfunctional family didn't do him any good.

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