Long On Assertion, Short On Facts
Here’s an example
Bush: They failed to break our coalition and force a mass withdrawal by our allies. They failed to incite an Iraqi civil war.
FactCheck.org, in noting that multiple countries have in fact withdrawn all of their forces, is a lot kinder to Bush than I am - I call […]

A few days ago balbulican, inadvertently we hope, made reference to an hitherto unknown facet of the stageleft basement bunker - we have Bunkerettes. The Bunkerettes form an integral part of the operation and quite frankly without them scouring the news feeds for interesting tid-bits of information, fact checking, writing up drafts, helping us […]

Obviously the Tories have come to the conclusion that quoting the bible when arguing against same sex marriage is not a workable strategy, this is a good thing because laws based on religion are not good. The down side of it is that not using that strategy takes all their arguments away and they are […]

Found at Islam Online, as well as bit further on after a fairly lengthy search to find it “somewhere” in the North American media so that we’re not accused [again] of quoting ‘Islamist news sources that can’t be trusted because they hate America and all that she stands for’,
US occupation troops killed an Iraqi television […]

TreeHuggers last entry - June 27, 2005 (pulled from the Google cache)
Tempus abiciendi
The time has come to bid you all farewell. In two days or so I will be closing up the shop, shutting down the ole blog. I make this post only as a courtesy to those who have been so kind […]

Bill C-38 passes 158/133; CPoC blames Liberals.

Thank you and good evening…. protect the American people….. global war on terror….. September 11, 2001….. terrorists…. hate freedom….. kill….. September 11, 2001….. defend our freedom….. Iraq….. ruthless killers….. Sadam Hussein…..yada yada yada….. freedom….. freedom….. freedom….. Iraq….. terrorists….. yada yada yada….. Iraq….. September 11, 2001….. yada yada yada….. Iraq….. al-Qaeda….. atrocities….. September 11, […]

Yeah right…. leftest anti-war media bias, it’s all over the place ain’t it?
8 days ago the basement bunker did a post regarding the US government lying to the British government about their use of napalm like substances (MK77) in Iraq, the story that it linked in The Independent (full story here) was dated […]

According to a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll
Most Americans now believe that President George W. Bush’s administration “intentionally misled” the public in going to war in Iraq, according to a poll.
+/- 3 points - 57% of Americans have finally come to the conclusion that a whole lot of other people arrived at 2 years ago; […]

Treehugger has decided to apply his wit, intelligence and humanity in other fora, and has put his superb blog, “Heart of the Matter”, to sleep.
One of the highlights of my career as annoying commentator was getting to spend an evening or calzones and beer with two of my blog heroes, Treehugger and Stageleft, talking […]

As if somehow sensing that MacKay’s statements about shutting down Parliament weren’t bad enough to close off the summer sitting with, Harper himself stepped up to the mike, stood strong and proud, and told Canadians that the Quebecois vote is illegitimate and blamed the impending passage of Bill C-38 on French separatists; how’s that for […]

– but not before Peter MacKay put a hypocritical foot in their mouths for them
According to the CPoC there’s no point in trying to stop Bill C-38 (same sex marriage) at this point, they use different words but it all boils down to the fact that there’s being just too much support for the bill […]

and I’ve never allowed my kids to read Harry Potter books or see the movies,”
–says one of the local muggles, who also happens to hold a seat on the Town Council of Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and doesn’t think that a Harry Potter theme is appropriate for a youth summer day camp. According to her
“The majority […]

Donald Rumsfeld, February 2003
It is unknowable how long that conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
Donald Rumsfeld, June 2005
….it could take as long as 12 years to defeat the insurgency in Iraq..
Google sux if yer Rummy don’t it? It also sux if yer Cheney
In March 2003, Vice President […]

“Bush says U.S. seeks to eliminate torture worldwide”
We try to divvy up the tasks in the Bunker, and usually SL handles the “George Bush Hypocrisy” dossier. However, my responsibilities include the “Hilarious Juxtapositions” file and “Surrealism in Politics” docket, so I couldn’t let this one pass unremarked.
Elsewhere in the news: Big […]