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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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Little Subprime Pink Houses For You and Me

John found this at Zero Hedge


 











LITTLE SUBPRIME HOUSES


(Little Pink Houses, John Cougar Mellencamp)
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Theres a black man with a black cat
Living in a subprime neighbourhood
He's got an interstate runnin through his front yard
You know, he thinks, negative equity's good
And theres a woman in the kitchen cleanin up the evening slop
And he looks at her and says: hey darling,
I think this interest rate's over the top!


Chorus: Oh but aint that America for you and me
Aint that America were somethin to see baby
Aint that America, home of the subprime disease
Little subprime pink houses for you and me


Well theres a young man in a t-shirt
Listening to Greenspan shoot the Fed speak breeze
He's got a greasy hair, greasy smile
He says: lord, Lehman must be my destination
Cuz they told me, when I was younger
Boy, youre gonna work in a wall street bank
But just like CDOs, those crazy old dreams
Just kinda came and went


Chorus: Oh but aint that America for you and me
Aint that America were something to see baby
Aint that america, home of the fraudclosure disease
Little subprime pink houses for you and me


Well theres bankstas and more brokers
What do they know know know
Go to work in some big glass high rise
And vacation out at the Hamptons, oh no!
Ohhh yeah
And theres winners, and theres losers
But they aint no big deal cuz the simple man baby pays for the thrills,
The bills and the banksta bailout pills that kill


Chorus: Oh but aint that America for you and me
Aint that America were somethin to see baby
Aint that America, home of bailouts and ponzi dreams
Little subprime pink houses for you and me
Oh but aint that America for you and me
Aint that America were somethin to see baby
Aint that America, home of bankstas and greed
Little subprime pink houses for you and me...



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Went to change the clock Sunday morning back to Standard Time and hit the wrong button by mistake. The radio switched to a Black preacher's call-in program and a woman was saying...



....they keep talking about deficit this and deficit that and getting all worried about the wrong stuff. Let me tell you I already know about deficit. I been living with it All. My. Life. Me and my family have been in deficit so long I can't remember but the Lord always provided. God will show the way out. I'm not worried about any deficit. We got more important stuff to worry about...



I heard enough to let me know where she was going, returned to classical music and finished setting the clock. But ever since then her words have rung in my memory. She speaks for many at the bottom from whom dreams of upward mobility, home ownership and the lifestyles they watch on television are just that: dreams. And Steve's point in a previous comment about limited upward mobility is one of the tragic realities of the Reagan Revolution.



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