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, December 14, 2010

La Ni�trikes

Commentary By Ron Beasley


This is a La Ni�/a>year in the Pacific Northwest.  That results is wild and unpredictable weather.  The temperature yesterday was 61, today it was in the low 40s.  Cold moist air meant thunderstorms - heavy rain and hail.  But south of Portland there was something else.


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Tornadoes are rare in Oregon - we average about two a year and they normally just tear up some Willamete Valley farm land and perhaps an occasional out building.  But this one was different it hit a small town south of Portland, Aumsville.



A tornado flashed through the town of Aumsville shortly before noon Tuesday, slamming a three-block area on the south end.
 
Several homes and business were destroyed, and thousands lost power. One house on the corner of Fourth and Cleveland was ripped off of its foundation and turned upside down.

�You can�t get around town because a lot of streets are blocked,� said Harold White, the town's mayor. Aumsville is a small, conservative community near Salem.


The violent storm caught residents by surprise. Vincent Catron,46, was painting a friend�s house when it began to rain hard, then suddenly hail -- and he saw a dark streak go horizontal in the sky. �You could see a tail dropping from it, it was so quick; it was like seeing someone snap a whip. It went down and came right back up.��



No one was seriously injured but it was the news around here today.


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Photos via KGW TV.


 



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