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In the civilized West, children learning combat sports aren’t usually allowed to compete in full-contact sparring until they’re at least six or seven years old. Sadly, this is not the case in other parts of the world, as evidenced by this all-out Tong War between two highly-skilled toddlers — they appear to be no more than two-and-a-half or three years old — who savagely duke it out in a dojo while adult onlookers laugh. Like it’s funny or something.
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  3. EBD: In Winnipeg we just put that sort of thing in the social infrastructure column. But hey, Winnipeg is like Buffalo if it were run by communists (h/t Jeff Daniels). Pfffttt… $1.6 million ? Pikers…

  4. There are lots of things that go on in other cultures which we might find abhorrent. No doubt there are things that our culture does that are equally abhorrent to other cultures. Some of our cultural practices like “Toddlers in Tiaras” are equally as sad as kids the same age engaging in martial ‘arts’. The way our culture sexually objectifies girls and women is hardly something to be proud of.

  5. Gotta love California. The State of unlimited stupidity and Nancy Pelosi. The State Mexicans have taken back without a shot being fired (unless there are drugs involved). A true inspirational symbol of everything that’s wrong when government intrudes too deeply and the nanny state takes over. Can’t pay their bills but have money galore for repainting politically correct graffiti. Sigh… They really need the big one so they can start over.

  7. I kind of wish I could still dance like that. Oh well, sigh.
    Not sure if this qualifies as a Reader Tip, but we just finished watching the movie Atlas Shrugged. I highly recommend it if you know who John Galt is. Amazon.ca
    Hopefully the three other parts come soon.

  8. Terrible child brutality!! An outrage!! A committee needs to be struck!! Investigations!! A probe!! A scandal!! Really funny, coming from a martial arts background, I was laughing out loud at the “Full out Dance to the Finish”

  11. The concern for Canadians, apart from the environment, is the integrity of our democratic decision making. When Americans tell us what is good for us, we rightly take the source of the advice into consideration. We should do no less when the advice comes from Canadians in the pay of Americans. [from the FP article]
    The Watermelons try to defend this by saying that resource development in Canada is funded by foreign interests. No one denies this, however that foreign investment has to be disclosed and is a matter of public record. The situation with so called ‘environmental charities’ is quite different where they claim that the secrecy of their contributors is their right. That’s going to change, as Canada’s government exposes secret foreign meddling and disallows their charitable status.

  12. Mama said there’d be days like this, there’d be days like this, my mama said (mama said, mama said) RIP Etta James

  17. Chuck Norris has endorsed Newt?
    Newt should announce that if chose to represent the GOP then he’ll choose Chuck Norris to be his Vice-Presidential running mate 🙂

  18. Most kids wear superman pajamas
    Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas
    Chuck Norris wears Newt pajamas!

  20. george @ 1:09 a.m.:
    For what it’s worth, there is no crisis with capitalism. The crisis is wholly the result of government intervention in the economy, via taxes and regulation.

  21. Good video. Nice to see kids getting an early start on physical fitness. Pretty tame compared to some junior rodeo I’ve seen.

  22. The crisis is wholly the result of government intervention in the economy, via taxes and regulation.
    Not wholly…
    Some taxes and regulation are necessary for peace, order, and good government.
    The toxic pollution environmental disasters in places like China, Russia and Nigeria are what happens when there are no regulations and profit is the only motivation.
    The US economic problem is the self-serving government bureaucracy, the automatic growth of all government programs, and borrowing money to pay for it all.

  23. No More ‘Women and Children First’
    In fact, “women and children first” can be dated very precisely. On Feb. 26, 1852, HMS Birkenhead was wrecked off the coast of Cape Town while transporting British troops to South Africa. There were, as on the Titanic, insufficient lifeboats. The women and children were escorted to the ship’s cutter. The men mustered on deck. They were ordered not to dive in the water lest they risk endangering the ladies and their young charges by swamping the boats. So they stood stiffly at their posts as the ship disappeared beneath the waves. As Kipling wrote:
    “We’re most of us liars, we’re ‘arf of us thieves, an’ the rest of us rank as can be,
    But once in a while we can finish in style (which I ‘ope it won’t ‘appen to me).”
    http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/ship-336602-titanic-concordia.html

  24. For what it’s worth, there is no crisis with capitalism. The crisis is wholly the result of government intervention in the economy, via taxes and regulation.
    I’d suggest that government intervention in the area of not allowing failing businesses to collapse is far more dangerous and debilitating. The Wall St bailout, government motors, Solyndra, etc. – that has cost the American economy trillions of dollars, all to enrich Wall St. banksters, unions, and Bambam’s donors.

  26. “Ontario’s Power Trip: Green Energy Act kills competition, jobs and OPG revenue”
    “Where the Green Energy Act has failed is in the promise of 50,000 jobs it was touted to deliver
    Competition in the Ontario electricity sector has failed to materialize in Ontario because of the structure of the province’s Green Energy Act (GEA). The act, brought in to attract green investment to Ontario and create jobs, is also driving jobs and investment out of the province—a prospect confirmed by the recent announcement from Direct Energy that they are relocating their headquarters to Houston, Texas. At least 500 Toronto jobs will be lost.
    In an article in the Toronto Star, a spokesperson for Direct Energy said “We`re a company with a growth strategy built on the need for deregulation.” That’s not what Ontario has, and the Direct Energy executive said the company was better off in business where competition is welcome. The Ontario energy market “is not open to competition, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to move in a direction where you’re going to have competitive wholesale markets, which is a requirement for competition.”
    The “wholesale market” in Ontario in fact has been shrinking as the contracts signed by the Ontario Power Authority (OPA) under the directives issued by the past Liberal Ministers of Energy have granted fixed price 20 year contracts to mainly renewable energy generators, like Samsung, who will deliver intermittent wind and solar generation.”
    http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/01/20/ontarios-power-trip-green-energy-act-kills-competition-and-opg-revenue/

  27. Of NDP/socialist Citoyen Dionky* Mulcair.
    We are the 100%.
    …-
    “Meet the French Elephant
    Let’s be brutally honest here. The news that NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair would retain his dual citizenship should he ever become prime minister is generating a lot of discomfort, aggravated by the simple fact that his other citizenship is French.
    Yes, that’s the politically incorrect elephant in the room.
    But for a lot of people, there is something in French arrogance that makes them particularly suspicious of people like Mulcair who have actively pursued that citizenship (as opposed to being French by an accident of birth).
    Imagine a Prime Minister Mulcair engaged in delicate negotiations with the French President. The French President is trying to sway Mulcair to his side, away from a position that aligns Canada with the United States regarding this hypothetical crisis. So the French President leans over, and says, “Thomas, this is silly. We both know I am right on this. The Americans are cowboys who think life is like a comic book. You know this to be true. But you and I, we know how the world works, because we are French.”
    Am I being silly?”
    http://stevejanke.com/archives/325737.php
    …-
    “*Dion keeps French citizenship
    Stephane Dion yesterday dismissed questions about his dual citizenship with France, saying he has proven he has “100%” loyalty to Canada, and he doesn’t appreciate anyone questioning it.”
    http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=000ae195-d235-4ba8-9b1a-750490f76ebe

  30. A Georgia judge has ordered Obama to appear at a hearing this upcoming week to determine if he is in fact eligible to be president because of not being a natural born citizen (his father was never a citizen or a permanent resident; to be a natural born citizen requires this of both parents).
    An attempt to quash the subpoena by Obama’s defence lawyers was denied.
    http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9SCV4SO0

  31. Does anyone know a good cartoonist….I have an idea for a good cartoon…in one frame is Ronald Reagan asking Gorbachov to tear down the Berlin Wall…in the other is PM Harper demanding..Mr. President, build this pipeline…

  32. A couple of days ago the Daily Mail reported that a shopkeeper in Norwich was forced to remove an ‘offensive’ window display. Most pedestrians laughed at the cheeky artwork – it certainly captures the spirit of modern Britain – but it only takes one complaint to get action from city officials.
    The next day, as reported in the Daily Mail, the window display had been changed . In my opinion, the second display, given the previous days controversy, was brilliant.
    Link

  35. Drug War sanity in NJ?
    “In his State of the State address this past week, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie unveiled a new drug policy that addresses these concerns. The Wall Street Journal reports that Christie’s new plan aims to replace jail terms for nonviolent drug offenders with a stint in drug rehabilitation centers, while increasing jail penalties for violent drug dealers.”
    http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/01/21/drug-war-sanity-in-nj/
    Considering the likely outcome of the next US election – neither Big Government Democrats nor BG Republicans seem capable of changing the spending-money-you-don’t-have culture of welfare and warfare- relaxing the Drug War is probably a good thing. As a backup plan to inevitable social unrest, they may want to actually encourage soft drug usage since pot users are usually more passive than drunks.

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