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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Saturday, February 26, 2011

Gov. Scott Walker's Hosni Mubarak Moment

Commentary By Ron Beasley�


It was almost an Egypt moment when over 100,000 showed up in Madison Wisconsin to protest Gov Scott Walker's attempt to eliminate the freedom of government workers to organize.  It became an Egypt moment when they were joined by the Wisconsin State Police.



�Hundreds of cops have just marched into the Wisconsin state capitol building to protest the anti-Union bill, to massive applause. They now join up to 600 people who are inside.�


Ryan reported on his Facebook page earlier today:


�Police have just announced to the crowds inside the occupied State Capitol of Wisconsin: �We have been ordered by the legislature to kick you all out at 4:00 today. But we know what�s right from wrong. We will not be kicking anyone out, in fact, we will be sleeping here with you!� Unreal.�












When Mubarak was abandoned by the military he was toast.  When Scott Walker was abandoned by the State Police it was over.  Walkers ego far exceeded his intellect and you can bet that even the Koch brothers will abandon their incompetent toxic servant.



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  1. RAMFebruary 26, 2011 at 4:10 PM

    I wasn't sure what was going to happen up in America's Dairyland when this whole thing started, but it occurs to me that people are really pissed off up there and getting more so by the day. I guess it really is possible to get folks' attention if you're stupid enough to believe your own propaganda and then try to force everybody to swallow the BS, no matter how divorced from reality it might be.

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  2. Cheryl RoferFebruary 27, 2011 at 1:42 AM

    Exactly what I thought when I saw this great video. The cops go over to the protesters' side, analogy to the military deserting Mubarak.
    But it's a little different. It's unlikely (but not impossible) that Walker would have loosed thugs on the crowd and told the police to use force. And the police definitely won't use force against Walker.
    Still, this is a real power shift. I predict that Walker will take Mubarak's route and stick with his position. And there's nobody to whisper in his ear that it's time to fold, certainly not in the Republican Party. So things will continue in Madison for a while.

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