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Well, I guess you had to take Dowd to get Friedman but reading Dowd is like getting a hate letter from Molly Ivans wrapped around a brick thrown through your window. Of course you do get the unintentional humor of her occasional musings on why she isn't married yet.

Interesting idea with Hoggard. I hope, however, you can control him to be a little less obusive, more objective, less one eyed, stick to the truth, no lies, etc,etc. Did I miss anything?

Maybe a haircut?

no posting under other names now that he officially on the payroll!

You, Truth, are a liar, not to mention a pot that is attempting to call this kettle black.

When JR told me a week or two ago that Friedman was coming back, I was thrilled. Then he embargoed it. [Feh] But at least you're bringing back the Times [NYers think "the Times" is the NY Times, so we don't always specify] stuff due to, at least in part, reader encouragement. As long as you make decisions based on sincere reader input, you're way ahead. Just way ahead.

I hope Hoggard will stick to that there topic he knows best--winders.

i thought that the n-r had fallen as far as it could. now we hear that hoggard has voice there. is there no bottom for the n-r to hit?

Hoggard,
you seem to pretty passionate about that.
It is not my fault that you come across very alike to a couple of other bloggers around here. The "body langauge" of the posts leads many to believe this (including myself).

We should ask Allen to stop you calling people names too! Old habits die hard though dont they? David, you have to change.

What I called you was a liar, which is an accurate descriptor based on what you wrote. If you know someone who tells a lie, what is it that you call them?

"Truth" my butt.

Want to know what I call them? I call them David Hoggard. Come on David, you've told some WHOPPERS!! And yes, please get a haircut BEFORE the picture goes in the paper. You'll scare my hamster when she goes to poop.

It's interesting that parents are the worst-behaved commenters on the N&R blogs.

Couldn't you put a barbed wire fence around the Chalkboard so they can't get out?

The High point Enterprise has its' Emma Kay Mieden,,,,,,so to stay competitive,,,the N&R finally puts the HOGG on the Payroll....

What an ALL-STAR cast they have put together at the N&R.

Long live Socialism!!!!!!!!

Allen,

Glad you got Tom Friedman back on board.

Please try hard to get a replacement for Molly Ivans (Ann Coulter? Great legs and cheeky comments to boot). If it weren't for Bush 43 Molly wouldn't have a topic to write about and I can only envision the vitriole she'll hurl at possible President Bush 44 (Jeb) in 2008 & beyond.

Hoggard already sounds like this is gonna be a trip especially with the loyal and admiring (Truth et. al.) following he's already garnered as a blogger.

Awww, Truth, don't worry yourself about the Hogg. As soon as a couple of others finish collecting their profile data and it can all be put together and run through the program the world will know if it's Hogg or if it's a double Hogg. Until then , only the shadow knows.

hey, guys. you need to just start reading the rhino, like i do. they investigate and learn what is really going on in the county. the n-r either doesn't investigate or it isn't allowed to print anything without checking with jim melvin to get permission to print. now, it is clear that the best they can do is dave hoggard, a failed blogger. what, oh what, would we do without the rhino. we would be a bunch of mushrooms, kept in the dark and fed b.s. by allen johnson and dave hogggard.

Yes, please... do your magic for us, Produce. If you and your computer gurus will share them, I will post the results of your IP sleuthing over at my place.

(FYI, and to make things simpler for you, I use two computers. The IP I'm on with this post and the one utilized in the previous post.)

So I might be better informed of your suspicions, please let us all know what fine blog commentator you suspect me of being.

Help me... what is a "failed blogger".

Hoggy,

Just talk about windows please. Your social skills are lacking, and I hear enough bickering here at home amongst my toddlers.

Thanks

Hogg, I actually could care less but it will be fun for the others who have suspected and made known on several bloggs who they think you are to really know. Now won't that be fun? Odds on right now that you run another name or even possibly two is pretty high. I will let the program run and then let the others know and they can dump the information or use it to revel who they think you are. My opinion doesn't matter. Does it worry you that much?
If it turns out negative then who cares. If it turns out that you are indeed using another name then the folks who suspect will have a long and hard laugh I suspect.
Again, as for me, I could care less because I don't bother reading your blog , and probably won't given the content of some of your remarks on previous blogs unless I just need some entertainment on a rainy day.

Hey Hoggy,

what do you think of Deena and her man's bamboozling of school funds?

I think Deena Hayes should step down from her BOE seat and let them just appoint someone. She has no business sitting there. I would even support Hoggard to replace her.

Having been out of town all week until yesterday, I haven't read it yet. Give me another day or two.

But thanks for the tentative words of support.

Well I just RE-read the article in the Rhino entitled, "Hayes Cozy with MBE's" and it makes me sick.

-sick first of all because the education of our children is NOT the highest priority, if even a priority at all for Ms. Hayes..or is it Mrs. Green????

--sick secondly because Ms. Hayes, OR IS IT MRS. GREEN, is using her influence on the board to advocate for her boyfriend/husbands? company. Whether or not they are married, by virtue of the fact that they are co-owners of their home, Ms. Hayes, or is it Mrs. Green, is benefiting from bids that her lover(or is it her husband) receive.

Ms. Hayes..or Mrs. Green, needs to immediately withdraw her name from the board of elections for this upcoming election period. She also needs to resign immediately.

The children of Guilford County deserve to have 11 members on the Board of Education that are there to serve them to the best of their ability--educationally speaking. Deena Hayes/Green is not an advocate for our schools nor our children.

GET HER OUTTA HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hold on there. I have just read the article and although it may seem a little suspicious I am not sure if Deena has done anything wrong. I do think however that the real situation should be made clear to the public and cleared up.
David, have you had time to take a look at the article?

I agree Notsosure.

My take is at my place: www.hoggsblog,com

David, having not read the conflict of interest policy of the Guliford county school board I may have changed my mind again. In fact I think there is no doubt that she is not acting according to this policy.

Sorry meant "having now read"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/20/AR2006042002375.html

Los Angeles Times Yanks Columnist's Blog
Hiltzik Accused of Using Pseudonyms
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 21, 2006; Page C07
The Los Angeles Times suspended the blog of one of its top columnists last night, saying he violated the paper's policy by posting derogatory comments under an assumed name.
The paper said in an online editor's note that Michael Hiltzik, a Pulitzer Prize winner who writes the Golden State column, had admitted posting remarks on both his Times blog and on other Web sites under names other than his own. The Times said it is investigating the matter. Editor Dean Baquet declined comment, and Hiltzik said he could not comment.

The deceptive postings grew out of a running feud between Hiltzik and conservative bloggers in Southern California. One is Hugh Hewitt, a radio talk show host and blogger. The other is an assistant Los Angeles district attorney named Patrick Frey, who maintains a blog under the name Patterico's Pontifications.
When commenters on Frey's Web site criticized Hiltzik, an examination by Frey of the Internet addresses involved showed it was the Times writer who responded in remarks posted under the name "Mikekoshi."
Frey wrote that "the evidence is overwhelming that he has used more than one pseudonym. Hiltzik and his pseudonymous selves have echoed each other's arguments, praised one another, and mocked each other's enemies. All the while, Hiltzik's readers have been unaware that (at a minimum) the acid-tongued 'Mikekoshi' . . . is in fact Hiltzik himself."
Frey cited other examples. On another local blog called L.A. Observed, he noted, "Mikekoshi" described Los Angeles writer Cathy Seipp "as a 'tool' and as someone 'hampered by her own ignorance.' "
On Frey's site, "Mikekoshi" said of Hewitt: "The prospect of having Hugh Hewitt running around loose in public without a muzzle should make any intelligent person nervous."
"Mikekoshi" has also ripped Frey, writing, "Congratulations, Patterico, for a new high-water mark in dopey criticism," and "What a buffoonish post this is."
The public sniping has been just as antagonistic. Hewitt took a swipe this week at the Times's corporate parent, the Tribune Co., for a dip in profits and circulation. Hiltzik responded on his blog that Hewitt's Web traffic is down because "his peculiar brand of reactionary conservatism has become increasingly marginalized on the fringes of American political life."
Hewitt last night called the Times editor's note "very, very clever. It states the 'offense' is misrepresenting identity to the public, not the publication of false identities and the manipulation of opinions so as to influence opinions. Are they digging into all of Hiltzik's stories? All of the purported comments on his blog? . . . It does seem like a question of how a huge media institution will treat deception within its product."
Hiltzik and a Times colleague shared a 1999 Pulitzer for beat reporting for exposing corruption in the entertainment industry.
On his Times blog, before the editor's note appeared, Hiltzik did not deny using the name "Mikekoshi" and seemed to dismiss Frey's complaint: "This is amusing, because most of the comments posted on his website are anonymous or pseudonymous. . . . Anonymity for commenters is a feature of his blog, as it is of mine. It's a feature that he can withdraw from his public any time he wishes. He has chosen to do that in one case only, and we might properly ask why. The answer is that he's ticked off that someone would disagree with him."
The editor's note said that Times policy, both in print and online, is for "editors and reporters to identify themselves when dealing with the public."