RNC 2012 Convention Bingo Cards and Drinking Game

August 28th, 2012 | Posted by Jim Cook in Election 2012 | Humor and Fun | Politics | Republicans - (0 Comments)

This week the 2012 Republican National Convention gets under way after a hurricane (not at all a judgment of God this time) delayed proceedings by one day. You won’t see protesters; they’re being kept far, far away from the convention site so that visiting Republicans don’t have to encounter dissent. What you will be seeing are Republican party officials working desperately to build up enthusiasm for their presidential ticket with Mitt Romney on top and Paul Ryan on bottom.

We the writers for Irregular Times will be taking some note, but to be frank, we’re not expecting to see much political innovation during all this staged speechifying. Instead, we consider the 2012 RNC to be a pageant expressing all the elements of the story that Republicans would like to tell the public about themselves — and shoveling off into the shadows all the bits that the Republicans would rather you didn’t see. While watching the procession of increasingly prestigious figures onto the stage, we’ll be having fun, playing a few rounds of 2012 RNC Bingo. The Republican National Convention Bingo game cards we’ve posted below are so you can play along: print them out and have as much of a blast as is possible while people are discussing the power of Jesus to embolden entitlement reform. Print out the five cards below before the big speeches begin. Pass them out to friends and as you watch the debate, place a marker over a square when you hear the phrase in that square uttered. The first to get five in a row wins. (The Elephant is a Free Square — not that the government built that, mind you.)

And hey, why stop at Bingo when the zinging contradictions are making your head hurt? If you’re over 21 and nobody’s driving, you can use the cards in a drinking game: every time one a Republican speechifier makes a reference listed on your card, you’ve gotta take a swig. As in politics, the last person standing is the winner.

RNC 2012 Bingo Card with phrases like traditional values, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, small business, Ayn Rand, heartland, hurricane and small business
Republican National Convention bingo card for 2012 with phrases like faith, culture of dependency, Cuba, neil armstrong, flag, you didn't build that, values, Christie 2020 and socialism
Republican Party Convention 2012 bingo card with phrases like Islam, George Romney, Iran, clean coal, anchor babies, Republicans love women, entitlement reform, anchor babies, liberal media and Chicago politics
2012 RNC Bingo Card with phrases like founding fathers, medicare, rape, 9-11, islam, prayer, believe in america, iran, onerous regulations and death tax

In case you’re feeling adventurous, here’s a blank bingo card for you to fill in with your own guesses.

Blank RNC 2012 Republican convention bingo card with a free space occupied by a corpulant elephant

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Priorities: Barack Obama v. Bernie Sanders on Usury

December 11th, 2010 | Posted by Jim Cook in Barack Obama | Economy | Moral Values | Politics - (2 Comments)

Number of times Barack Obama has used the word “usury” in all of his speeches during his entire presidency: Zero

Number of times Bernie Sanders used the word “usury” in one speech on December 10, 2010: Nine

I want my president to talk like Bernie Sanders.

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111th Congress Chills Out on Terrorist Talk

May 12th, 2009 | Posted by Jim Cook in Homeland Insecurity | Politics - (5 Comments)

Number of references in the Congressional Record to “terrorist attack”, by Congress:

111th Congress of 2009-2010: 47 (251*)
110th Congress of 2007-2008: 433
109th Congress of 2005-2006: 607
108th Congress of 2003-2004: 639
107th Congress of 2001-2002: 771
106th Congress of 1999-2000: 117
105th Congress of 1997-1998: 104

* 47 references to “terrorist attack” as of May 11, 2009. 251 references to “terrorist attack” will be made by the end of the 111th Congress at this rate.

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God, The Democrats, and the Dark Corners Of Our World

August 27th, 2008 | Posted by jclifford in Democrats | Election 2008 | George W. Bush | Liberty | Politics | Religion - (3 Comments)

I just got done looking through 101 pages of speeches – the speeches made from the beginning of the Democratic National Convention through about 6:00 PM this evening.

As I read, I noticed a pattern. Again and again, the people giving speeches spoke on a very limited number of issues, making the same kinds of statements with the same kind of language. As the speeches progressed, I saw that a number of very important issues were barely present at all.

Take, for example, the problem of torture of prisoners by the American government. The word torture was mentioned only once.

What about the problem of habeas corpus, revoked under the Military Commissions Act of 2006? Habeas corpus wasn’t mentioned even once. Neither was the Military Commissions Act.

What then, about the constitutional crisis provoked by President George W. Bush’s programs to spy against peaceful, law-abiding political dissidents without any search warrants or any other judicial approval. Warrantless wiretapping was never mentioned in any of these speeches, however – in any form. Neither was surveillance. The word spy was used once, in a quick reference in just one speech to the use of National Security Letters to secretly intrude into the personal lives of Americans under the Patriot Act.

So, when it comes to the attacks by George W. Bush against the liberty guaranteed to us by the Constitution, the Democrats in Denver have been almost completely silent. Do they intend to repair the damage done to our Constitution done by Constitution? I’m not sure. In all those 101 pages, the Constitution was mentioned only twice.

Something else, however, got an awful lot of mention. In the same amount of time, the Democrats speaking at their national convention in Denver mentioned God 53 times.

Will the Democrats confront the effort to destroy American freedom? Will they examine and stop the dark practices our government is conducting in dark places? Apparently not. They’re too busy with their old time religion.

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