Links and Minifeatures 02 12 Monday

New addition to the blogroll: The Victory Caucus



Whether or not the average citizen realizes it, we are in a fight for the life of our civilization, and there is no acceptable substitute for Victory.



Their first substantive post is here.



The text of the Democratic House Resolution:

H. CON. RES.



Disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.



IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Mr. SKELTON (for himself, Mr. LANTOS, and Mr. JONES of North Carolina)

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee

on ______







CONCURRENT RESOLUTION







Disapproving of the decision of the President announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.







Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That--







(1) Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect the members of the United States Armed Forces who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq; and







(2) Congress disapproves of the decision of President George W. Bush announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional United States combat troops to Iraq.

1 and 2 are not quite explicitly contradictory, but you can only claim that they are not by completely ignoring the political environment that has given rise to this movement. Lie, Cheat, Steal, Invent Things, Make Mountains Out of Molehills, anything to disadvantage "those evil Rethuglicans and George W. Chimpy McHitlerBurton."







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Carnival of Personal Finance



Carnival of Investing



Is it just me, or were the carnivals this week basically hard vacuum? The ones I linked were comparatively mild examples of what vacuum does, although the host of Carnival Of Investing did their best with the material submitted. There were three carnivals that I was glad that I was free not to link, as I hadn't submitted. Bleah! Of course, Carnival of Capitalists isn't up yet. Let's hope it's the exception.



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China's life expectancy to jump: report

Average life expectancy in China will jump 13 years to 85 years and all households will be lifted out of poverty by the middle of the century, Chinese academics forecast in a report issued in state media on Monday.



The number of years a Chinese child spends in school will almost double to 14 years and an increasingly affluent population will spend a far smaller proportion of their income on food, the official China Daily said, citing a 20-volume report called an Outline for China's Sustainable Development.

Is it just me, or does this seem like another Five Year Plan or Great Leap Forward? "We'll just pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and go" Kumbiyah, my party, Kumbiyah.