Youts Embracing Powered Skis

By William Teach January 11, 2025 – 5:54 pm

The lazy generation is doing lazy

E-Power hits the slopes: new wave of snow sports emerges

Following in the footsteps of electric scooters on land and wakeboards at sea, young entrepreneurs are bringing electric power to snow travel with self-propelled skis and all-terrain skates.

Already an experienced surfer and snowboarder, Edouard Aubert took up skateboarding during the pandemic, as he was drawn to the empty roads.

“Since I’m an engineer, I quickly put a motor on it,” he said with a grin at the CES technology show in Las Vegas.

“But we needed more. Roads weren’t enough for us, and neither was off-roading. We needed sand, snow.” (snip)

“The snow version isn’t meant for hurtling down slopes or replacing snowboarding,” Aubert explained.

“It’s more for walking and cross-country skiing.”

Why? Isn’t the whole point of cross country skiing to get out and enjoy and get some exercise? I can understand with bikes, because they are being used to get from one place to another, usually in cities, in place of expending all that energy or taking the bus or car or something. This is not for exercise. Most do not cross country ski to just get from, say, home to work.

In ski touring, skiers climb slopes rather than using lifts before skiing down.

With E-Skimo, as the skier moves, a motor drives a fabric strip beneath the ski, acting as a conveyor belt that reduces strain on legs and thighs.

Using AI, the system gauges the slope and ski positions to calibrate assistance based on the user and pace. The motor stops once the skier completes their forward stride. At the summit, users can remove the fabric band, motor, and battery to descend on what amount to conventional skis.

Just lazy. Misses the whole point. It would be like using an e-bike for a BMX event. Lazy.

And just to throw a little climate scam in

Think about it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 11, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is horrible heat snow from people driving fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sultan Knish, with a post on the UN blocking aid to Gaza.

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Newsome Wants Trump To Not Politicize PRC Wildfires, Visit The Area

By William Teach January 11, 2025 – 10:30 am

Wait, who’s the sitting president right now?

Newsom implores Trump to visit LA fire destruction, not politicize tragedy

Gov. Gavin Newsom invited President-elect Donald Trump to survey the breathtaking damage caused by the Southern California wildfires, appealing to the incoming president to meet with the first responders, firefighters and “Americans” affected by the catastrophe.

“In the spirit of this great country, we must not politicize human tragedy or spread disinformation from the sidelines,” Newsom wrote in a letter to Trump on Friday. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans — displaced from their homes and fearful for the future — deserve to see all of us working in their best interests to ensure a fast recovery and rebuild.”

The Los Angeles fires have killed at least 10 people and destroyed more than 10,000 homes and businesses. They also have dramatically accelerated the feud between the incoming president and the ambitious California Democrat, with Trump ridiculing the governor’s performance, advocating for sweeping policy changes on water and using the blazes to again portray his state as failing.

Interesting, since the minute the fires started (and we’ll surely find out they were either arson or incompetence, but, most likely arson, since the fires were spread pretty far) the Warmists started blaming it on global boiling. This includes politicians and the Credentialed Media. The minute a big shooting happens people like Newsom rush out to politicize it and call for “common sense gun control.”

Maybe Newsom should worry more about the conditions due to government misconduct and foolish policies created, like

Kinda coincidental, eh?

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Surprise: Bank Of England Confirms Net Zero Is Driving Up Energy Prices

By William Teach January 11, 2025 – 7:15 am

Everyone has a shocked face right now, right? (via Not A Lot Of People Know That)

Net zero is driving up energy prices, admits Bank of England official

Net zero policies are sharply driving up energy costs, the Bank of England has admitted, as officials battle to bring living costs back under control.

Sarah Breeden, the Bank’s deputy governor, said households and businesses were paying more for energy because of so-called carbon permits, which require power plants to pay for each tonne of carbon dioxide they emit.

These permits accounted for nearly half the cost of fuel bought by gas-fired power plants last year, Ms Breeden said, which was passed on to consumers.

“There is now evidence that policies aimed at the climate transition were probably more important contributors to the recent rise and fall in inflation than we previously thought,” the deputy governor said in a speech at the University of Edinburgh Business School.

I mean, we all saw this coming, right? Non-cult members have been saying for the longest time that implementing all these crazy policies would increase the cost of energy, which means that the cost of everything else will go up. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. But, are they good intentions? Because the Elites who are making these policies sure do not act like ‘climate change’ is a problem in their own lives.

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Chicago Democrats Look To Repeal Sanctuary City Status

By William Teach January 11, 2025 – 7:00 am

Funny how a city being overrun with illegals and fake asylum seekers who are criminals can change people’s minds away from bad policies

‘This Policy Is Dangerous’: Chicago Dems Fight To Roll Back City’s Sanctuary Law, Help Trump Deport Criminals

A pair of Chicago aldermen have introduced legislation that would roll back the city’s sanctuary law currently forbidding any cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, but their efforts face stiff odds in a city council dominated by liberal members.

Raymond Lopez and Silvana Tabares, both Democrats, filed a proposed amendment to Chicago’s Welcoming City Ordinance, which calls for exceptions when a migrant has been arrested or convicted of certain criminal activities. The aldermen argued in a public statement that it’s in the best interest of the city’s immigrant community to work with the incoming Trump administration in situations where wanted illegal migrants are involved in heinous crimes.

“We believe that the best way to protect law-abiding non-citizens from the returning Trump Administration is by working with them in apprehending their priority targets: non-citizens that CHOOSE to engage in dangerous, illegal activity once they are in the United States,” Lopez said in a public statement. “Our current [Welcoming City Ordinance] prohibits any coordination or cooperation, even in the most heinous situations.”

“This policy is dangerous to those law-abiding undocumented and non-citizens residents because, if someone is arrested or convicted of crimes, the federal authorities aren’t notified,” he continued. “Should the federal government go looking for those specific individuals seeking to deport them, there is a high probability that other targets, law-abiding undocumented and non-citizen residents, may be apprehended and deported as collateral damage. That is an entirely unacceptable yet avoidable situation.”

It has always been amazing that Democrats have gone so in on illegal immigration that they will protect those that commit crimes, include heinous felonies like murder, rape, sexual assault, including on children. What drives them that far? It’s just hard to understand. I can understand why they would want non-criminal illegals. I don’t like it, but, I can at least understand it. But, a huge chunk that support criminals? Boggles the mind.

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Pennsylvania Warmist Attorney Says Law Can Be Used To Go After Fossil Fuels Companies

By William Teach January 10, 2025 – 6:30 pm

I wonder if the law can be used against those who use fossil fuels? I wonder if the lawyer and all those backing them realize that at best the fossil fuels companies will simply jack up the cost of their goods, at worst, just close shop in Pennsylvania?

Climate change attorneys say a Pa. statute could be used to prosecute fossil fuel companies

climate doom yearlyCould climate polluters face criminal charges in Pennsylvania for causing or risking a catastrophe? A new article published this month in the New York University Environmental Law Journal highlights a Pennsylvania statute that could be used as a unique legal strategy to hold large emitters of carbon dioxide accountable. But several lawyers say it could be a tough sell to prosecutors. (snip)

But the NYU law journal article, “Causing or Risking Climate Catastrophe,” relies on Pennsylvania’s criminal statutes and draws from a criminal case brought against the owner and manager of a nightclub on Pier 34 in Philadelphia, which collapsed into the Delaware River killing three women and injuring more than 40 people in 2000. (snip)

The criminal statute Regunberg said applies is causing or risking a catastrophe, which is a second or third-degree felony in Pennsylvania. It’s also a crime in five other states, including New Jersey. The authors chose to write about Pennsylvania because it has solid case law to support it, Regunberg said.

“Obviously it’s not new to prosecute corporations even for charges like homicide,” Regunberg said.

Yeah, well, wouldn’t that mean that those who use fossil fuels are causing or risking a catastrophe? Especially those who are making the claim that fossil fuels are killing the planet and every living thing on it? They should know better, right? Kinda like how high ranking military officers are prosecuted more harshly for doing the wrong thing because they should know better than some corporal?

Anyhow, it’s a novel approach, but, will prosecutors give it a whirl? Doubtful.

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If All You See…

By William Teach January 10, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…are trees dying from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on New Hampshire looking for a DOGE-like commission.

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New Orleans Terror Attack Victims Sue City For Negligence

By William Teach January 10, 2025 – 10:30 am

You just knew this was coming

Bourbon Street terror victims sue New Orleans as Louisiana AG investigates security lapses

Dozens of victims of the New Year’s terrorist attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans are filing lawsuits against the city and its police department.

Terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar of Texas killed 14 civilians and injured dozens of others when he rammed a Ford-150 through crowds of people celebrating New Year’s on the famous New Orleans street around 3 a.m. Jan. 1. Jabbar was killed in a shootout with police.

One lawsuit filed Thursday on behalf of seven victims by Morris Bart, LLC takes aim at the City of New Orleans, Hard Rock Construction and engineering firm Mott MacDonald, LLC, alleging they were negligent in providing security measures that could have prevented the tragedy.

“We have done an extensive investigation and believe that the three defendants we have named in the lawsuit could have — and should have — taken steps to prevent this tragedy,” Morris Bart said in a statement. “Our hope is that, through this lawsuit, we can help prevent future tragedies.”

The lawsuit says the defendants “had years of opportunities to fix this known problem,” and “[c]ity contractors failed to live up to contractual obligations and perform work in the order and manner specified.”

And another lawsuit will be filed soon against New Orleans and the police department. The city failed to make sure that vehicles could not drive down the roads where people were celebrating, and the city knew the Bourbon St area was a high ranking target, having been warned by the FBI and via various studies

On New Year’s Eve, bollards on Bourbon Street were in the process of being replaced, a procedure that began Nov. 19, according to the city’s website.

While the replacement process was ongoing, officials installed a temporary barrier where Bourbon Street meets Canal Street, presumably to prevent suspicious vehicles from driving down the busy tourist area. However, according to local business owners and employees who previously spoke with Fox News Digital, that temporary barrier was set down instead of up, allowing vehicles to pass on the holiday.

They could have blocked the area with police vehicles or garbage trucks or something. Instead, they made it easy for a vehicle to drive down the road and the ISIS jihadi kill people. On New Year’s Eve. Another time when a city becomes a massive target.

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Bummer: Black Rock Quits Net Zero Asset Managers

By William Teach January 10, 2025 – 7:00 am

Black Rock was one of the big-wigs in the climate cult for financial firms. Maybe they just got tired of limiting their financial returns and placating the doomsday cult?

BlackRock quits climate change group in latest green climbdown

BlackRock has become the latest financial firm to bail out of a big climate change industry group in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as US president and heightened regulatory scrutiny.

The world’s largest money manager told institutional clients in a letter on Thursday that it had quit Net Zero Asset Managers, a voluntary global group that describes itself as committed to “the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner”.

Membership in NZAM had “caused confusion regarding BlackRock’s practices and subjected us to legal inquiries from various public officials”, vice-chair Philipp Hildebrand wrote, according to a copy of the letter seen by the Financial Times.

All six of the largest US banks, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, have quit a similar group for banks, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance, in recent weeks.

This next part is great

“This pullout actually just shows what they said in 2020 and 2021 was just performative and marketing,” said Tracey Lewis, head of climate policy at Public Citizen, a progressive advocacy group. “Today, the truth is coming out as all these companies are trying to appease the incoming administration.”

Yes, it was. The head honchos may have bought into the cult to look good the wackos, but, things change, and they seemingly have had enough of trying to go along with the Cult of Climastrology. How much time and money did Black Rock piss away in trying to patronize the cult?

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Senator Cornyn Introduces Nationwide Concealed Carry Bill

By William Teach January 10, 2025 – 6:45 am

This would be great. If I’m traveling up I95 I have to stop and lock up my gun before I cross the Maryland border, and cannot carry concealed in NJ. Or Pennsylvania or NY if I go there. Or anywhere up north. Or, if I want to go west. I took a course on CCW and got a license

EXCLUSIVE: John Cornyn Introduces Bill Allowing Concealed Carry Permits To Work In All 50 States

Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn introduced a bill Thursday to allow concealed carry license holders to carry their guns in any state.

The bill, titled the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, will compel states to recognize concealed carry permits from all states as a valid certification to carry a concealed firearm, according to the bill text. A similar bill was proposed in the House in 2023 by Republican North Carolina Rep. Richard Hudson with widespread Republican support, with a Republican majority in both chambers only bolstering the law’s likelihood to pass.

President-elect Donald Trump has also voiced support for the law on the campaign trail.

“The Lone Star State has long championed our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and gun owners in Texas and across the country should not have that fundamental right violated when they cross state lines,” Cornyn said in statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “This legislation would reduce unnecessary burdens for law-abiding citizens and allow them to carry a concealed firearm in every state that permits it, and I’m grateful for the overwhelming support from my fellow Republican colleagues on this commonsense bill.”

In reality, the vast majority of states would honor my NC permit, except for California, Oregon, NY, PA, Colorado, Maryland, NJ, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Michigan, Colorado, and Illinois. A big thing would be to understand the laws of the other states, but, since both of my guns have 10 round mags (though the 9mm also has a 12 round mag) I’d be fine. The question becomes with a law like Cornyn’s, should there be some sort of nationalized standard for concealed carry in terms of where one can carry? How about standardized licensing? Do we want los federales setting those standards? Might it be better than each individual state setting a standard, at least in terms of traveling outside of a state? Or, should we just leave it to each individual state?

Anyhow, it will pass the House. However, the chance of getting enough Democrats to vote to overcome a filibuster is low.

Critics of concealed carry reciprocity have said that the law would force states to potentially allow carry from gun owners who aren’t qualified to carry in their states, as well as problems with states affirming the authenticity of out-of-state permits, according to Everytown for Gun Safety.

“With the tragic rate of gun violence today, I simply cannot support efforts to further weaken our nation’s gun laws,” Democratic Virginia Sen. Mark Warner said according to Politico when Hudson proposed concealed carry reciprocity in 2017. “That includes renewed efforts this Congress to relax the standards for issuing concealed carry permits or to establish a national system that would further erode state-level concealed carry standards.”

So, this comes back to perhaps requiring people to pass a CCW class in order to carry outside the home state. When NC was looking to pass Constitutional Carry residents would not be eligible to carry in other states. They would have to pass a class. Perhaps Cornyn’s law could require passing a class?

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