#rsrh Top Ten Signs of DOOM.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Instapundit readers.

We’re not there. Yet. But the election is three months away, and the Democrats never thought that things would look like this when they oh-so-confidently planned their strategy a couple of years ago.  Karma’s kind of fun when it isn’t you taking the hit, isn’t it?

Some of the below are serious, some are… less so; but if you hear enough of them, you’ll know that Election Night is going to be bad for the Democrats.
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Why we bought two extra ninja bunny-bears.

The loss of a pet stuffed animal can be traumatic, so we picked up two spares of the original ninja bunny bear that my eldest bonded to.  Just to avoid situations like this:

It was a fortnight ago that the toy, better known to his young owner as Bubba Cat, got lost during a family trip to Thorpeness in Suffolk.

When teashop owner Liz Everett was handed Bubba by a customer, she launched a Facebook group entitled ‘I’m lost. Help me find my family’ in a bid to reunite the furry feline with Ned. It soon attracted more than 9,000 fans.

[snip]

Ned’s family soon came forward and Bubba’s – so called because the toddler couldn’t pronounce ‘baby’ – journey back to Northiam, near Rye in East Sussex, began.

Sure, happy ending – but the article didn’t mention the screaming. And oh, my, yes, no doubt there was screaming.

Moe Lane

Palin and Reagan and bears, oh my.

Not to be mean-spirited about this, but it’s at times like this that Arianna Huffington demonstrates that she has a black-box approach to understanding Americans*.  In discussing the inexplicable (to her) attraction so many people have towards THAT WOMAN, Arianna wrote:

It’s not Palin’s positions people respond to — it’s her use of symbols. Mama grizzlies rearing up to protect their young? That’s straight out of Jung’s “collective unconscious” — the term Jung used to describe the part of the unconscious mind that, unlike the personal unconscious, is shared by all human beings, made up of archetypes, or, in Jung’s words, “universal images that have existed since the remotest times.” Unlike personal experiences, these archetypes are inherited, not acquired. They are “inborn forms… of perception and apprehension,” the “deposits of the constantly repeated experiences of humanity.”

…and then goes on to compare said mama grizzly video with this Reagan campaign video, which is apparently also ‘policy-free’ (that’s the latest progressive buzzword for ‘black magic’). And oh, yeah!  That has a bear, too!  That’s Jungian!  And it links Old Devil Figure to New Devil Figure, so that’s a plus!  Yes!  IT ALL COHERES!

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RGA: “Thirteen.”

13 Weeks from Republican Governors Association on Vimeo.

Yes, they’re fairly obviously going to be doing one of these a week until Election Day.  Because the RGA – and the rest of the GOP – is hungry, in a way that the Democratic party is not.  Watch Democratic legislators these days; their shoulders sloop, ever so slightly.  Their eyes aren’t quite as bright as they were in 2008 and 2006.  They cough just a bit more. 

But they won’t go down without a fight!

…Fine by me.
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…blamebushblamebushblamebush…

As I’ve noted before: one of the most horrible things to encounter in politics is to watch a group wreck itself and its electoral chances.  The sensation is much like running in mud or maple syrup; you move and move, but never quite fast enough to matter.  For true horror, the situation has to be as follows:

  1. The situation has to be easily repairable;
  2. The needed repair has to be something that is politically unpalatable to the people affected;
  3. The people affected have to know how much trouble they’re in;
  4. They have to spend a lot of effort and capital trying to energetically do the wrong thing;
  5. And they have to keep up with the energy and effort and earnestness until the final collapse and wreck.

Really, it’s horrible.  Frustrating.  The sort of thing that would make any reasonable person want to go into a national party HQ and start beating people with other people while screaming “Why won’t you just LISTEN to me for a change?”  The ability to see a disaster but not be able to do anything about it has been the fuel for particularly frightening tragedies since the days of Homer, and has nothing to recommend it.  Unless, of course, it’s happening to the other guys.

Then it’s just funny. Continue reading …blamebushblamebushblamebush…

On the Lovecraftian nature of United 93.

There have been sufficient people asking about my observation here that the most successful Lovecraft/Mythos movies made were Alien, Pleasantville, and United 93 – particularly the last one – that I will attempt to explain what I meant there.  Let’s dispose of Alien quickly: malevolent universe, deliberately hostile towards humanity; overwhelming doom – everybody on-board with that one?  We good?  Good. Continue reading On the Lovecraftian nature of United 93.