Sayed, Lies, And Videotape

Abdul El Sayed has a truth problem.

Namely, he can't tell the truth.

In the latest El Sayed, after may times saying and writing that he was an Egyptian citizen in addition to being an American citizen, he now says he was mistaken about that and he's only been and American, trust him. 

Washington Free Beacon: EXCLUSIVE: Video Shows Abdul El-Sayed Stating He Has ‘Dual Citizenship’ in Egypt and US

He also had it on his resume. 

You see, claiming to be an Egyptian citizen gives him street cred among the left and Islamists.

However, being an Egyptian citizen while also supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and its acts of repression in Egypt, supporting the Iranian Regime and sympathizing for terrorists doesn't tend to go over well (yet) in mainstream America. 

So he's now stating he's been "mistaken" for years claiming to be an Egyptian citizen.  That he claims he did he not know if he was or is  a citizen of Egypt, especially when he had visited that country on multiple occasions is rather less than credible.

Townhall: Abdul El-Sayed Made a Stunning Admission About His Citizenship

 A very calculated and self-enhancing "mistake" indeed, Abdul El-Sayed is whoever he wants to be depending on his audience at the time.

When You Have To Call In For Support From The SCOAMF

Things may not be going as well for the Abdul El-Sayed Campaign for Senate as the Democrats and Media would have you believe.

JI:  Obama to campaign with Abdul El-Sayed at rally with Michigan Dems

The Democrats are pulling out the star power in Obama to shore up El Sayed's campoaign.

Part of this is due to El Sayed having a less than enthusiastic reception among Michigan Blacks. Michigan Blacks are the Democrats core constituency, so this is a problem.

Part of the reason for this less than enthusiastic reception is the rather well-known animus that Arabs in the area have for Blacks, which a few days ago made headlines: 

The Midwesterner: Detroit car crash sparks tensions between Black and Arab communities as Abdul El-Sayed straddles divide

Tensions between Detroit’s Black and Arab communities are on edge after a mob of Arab men harassed a Black woman following a car crash earlier this month.

The incident occurred near the intersection of Paul Street and the Southfield Freeway, where an Arab woman reportedly ran a red light and hit a vehicle driven by a Black woman on Sept. 15, WJBK reported.

Following the collision, a mob of Muslim men descended on the scene, where they pushed the Arab woman’s vehicle away and looted the Black woman’s totaled vehicle, allegedly stealing her purse and yelling racial slurs as a Black man attempted to intervene, according to video posted online.

Two major parts of the Democrat "Big Tent" (in reality a squabbling mass of competing and contradictory interests) are having a tiff at a most inopportune time for El Sayed. 

Indeed large portions of his part of the tent tends to refer to that other portion as Abeed, so there's that.

So, El Sayed is bringing in the Lightbringer to try and get the Blacks to forget last month, and all history and problems before, and vote Blue No Matter Who.  

We will see if it works.

Media Euphemisms To Obscure Reality Continued

The Detroit News has decided to fall in line in regards to the politically correct guidelines to describing the homeless.

They're no longer homeless.

They're now unhoused. 

This particular batch of "unhoused" are now unalived, to use another euphemism. 

The Detroit News: Pattern emerges in deaths of unhoused men on Lansing River Trail

Attention in the capital city has turned toward violence on the Lansing River Trail this month after the Lansing State Journal first reported five unhoused men have died after being severely injured along the trail in the last year and the similarities in the cases in September.  

As the "unhoused" tend to be rather exposed and live unhealthy lifestyles, often suffer from mental and physical ailments, as well as drug usage that leave them less than healthy and in contact with unsavory characters including each other, they often get unalived whether by misadventure or unjustified homicide. 

Institutionalizing the mentally ill doesn't just protect innocents from them, it also protects them from themselves and others. 

In any case they're homeless, not "unhoused". 

Ah, Une Vraie Riot

As noted by Eaton Rapids Joe extensive rioting is going on in France, with Leftists and Muslims joining forces to burn schools, buildings, and yep, people --including a fireman set on fire.

We now have on display a real Riot from the Riote Region of France.

Remember, if it is not from there, its not a riot -- it's just a "Fiery But Peaceful Protest". 

Two-Tier DUI Justice In Arlington Virginia

If you're an American in Arlington Virginia, expect to get the full-on punishment and record for driving under the influence, which after all you should because you should not be drunk driving.

But, If you're an illegal under DACA driving under the influence, expect to get a lesser punishment and more favorable treatment to protect you from deportation.

The Post Millenial: DACA recipients charged with DUIs get special treatment from Arlington Commonwealth's Attorney to shield them from immigration law

 It has been revealed that the Commonwealth’s Attorney for the County of Arlington in Virginia testified over the summer that her office has a DUI policy that pertains only to DACA recipients. Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti had been subjected to a closed-door deposition in July, and the transcript for the hearing was released on Monday.

That gets the DUI off their record - which gives them a nice privilege that Americans do not get. 

 

The other "feature" of such a program is if they get caught a second time its still a first conviction, and not a DUI second conviction, which typically has a higher punishment than being caught only once - assumign they don;t dicvert it yet again.

 

Got to wonder how many other blue counties have these kind of special programs that put illegals ahead of Americans and give them ore favorable status.

A Fight in the Cockpit, a Plunging Jet, Passengers Who Fought Back, And Progressive Media That Wants To Downplay It

The Omani co-pilot of an Air Dubai flight flying from Dubai to Israel with 174 passengers on board including mostly Israelis, attacked and repeatedly stabbed the Indian Captain of the plane and attempted to crash the plane.

Fox News: FlyDubai pilot stabs fellow pilot, attempts to crash plane, Netanyahu says 

The Captain, during the fight ,was able to open the cockpit door and Israeli passengers  on the flight then entered, subdued the Omani attacker, and were narrowly able to prevent the plane from crashing and a relief crew on board was able to then land the place. An Israeli dentist on board helped treat the captain's stab wounds.

Lots of serious heroism all around, this was moments away from becoming a total disaster. 

The plane suffered severe damage to its tail section, including loss of most of the rudder during the terrorist-caused descent, which was in excess of the never exceed speed of the aircraft by at least 100 knots, which is one heckuva lot.  

The New York Times in a fit of deliberate understatement, reported this Muslim terrorist attempt, which was complete with an "Allahu Akbar",  as an "Altercation".  

Yep, it was just an altercation between the pilot and co-pilot and no mention of the attempt by the co-pilot to crash the plane. Just like the NYT to bury the lede like that when a certain "Religion of Peace" is involved.

ABC News, similarly, also reported it as "an incident took place inside the cockpit". 

Interestingly, the Detroit Free Press has not covered this story at all, but if they had, I assume the headline would've looked something like this:

 

Probably better the Free Press has ignored it then. 

It's likely unremarked upon by them as the incident is too close to the election of their endorsed Muslim Brotherhood supporting candidate Abdul El-Sayed for US Senate, I suppose.

Optery To Reduce Your Online Footprint - A Review

Unfortunately, anytime you use a service online, especially a free service like Facebook, and also often when you buy stuff, your name and data ends up in the hands of data brokers.

The data brokers then sell your personal info to anyone, including scammers and scammers.  You then get inundated with spam and scams calls and emails.  This doth suck.

Without using a service like Optery, Incogni, Cloaked, or others, you would have to find these myriads of data brokers, fill out their removal request forms yourself, and keep an eye on them to stop them from putting your info in their system again - which they do, a lot.

I'd say nobody with a life has time for that.

Is it ridiculous and unfair that you need to pay a service to remove your personal data from data brokers before they provide it to spammers and scammers?  

Of course it is, but here we are.

I decided after looking at various services to give Optery a try.

Since signing up, the amount of spam and scam emails and calls has declined most impressively.  Spam/Scam calls have declined dramatically from one per day to almost none per month, and the amount of spam and phishing emails has declined impressively, but not stopped completely, and let's face it, it likely never will no matter what service you use. 

Anyway, I'm having a good result with Optery, with my info now removed from over 100 data brokers where it was found (yikes!) and Optery keeps at it removing the info repeatedly when the data brokers added it back in. And I get to see the status on my dashboard with them, which is rather satisfying to see where my data was and how it has been removed. 

So, I do recommend Optery as I'm having a good result with them, and they are not giving me anything for this review, and I'm fully paying them their regular price for the service. If you want to check them out to reduce your online footprint and scam and spam emails and calls, a referral link for them is right here.   

The Return From Toronto

As usual, you file a flight plan to depart Toronto Island Airport, it gets accepted, and then it gets changed when you ask for your clearance.

I had asked for a simple plan that had been approved before - Depart direct DERLO and from DERLO to Port Huron. 

Nope.  Instead I got the PERL4.08 Departure, to ANCOL, to DERLO, To MARGN and then Port Huron.  The controller first mistakenly said White plains airport and I asked that be clarified and she changed it to Port Huron so that was good at least.

MARGN is past Port Huron, but that was the required plan. 

Why Port Huron? Because Customs and Border Patrol is not open at Oakland County airport on the weekends, but Port Huron is Open 24/7 assuming you file the requisite paperwork and make the proper arrival intention call, which I had.

So I did the run up and got in line for departure and was soon off and on my way.

Again, very nice weather but windy with a good gusting crosswind on takeoff and very much during the initial climbout. 

Got put over the Lake Again, climbing to 3,000.  Got turned out farther into the lake and climbed up to 4,000 then 6,000 and finally 8,000 as I was then told to turn direct to ANCOL.

I then flew the route and got handed through the Toronto Control frequencies and then handed over  to Selfridge ANGB before the Border.

Selfridge then changed my plan to have me go direct to Port Huron which was great, and the controller was very much on the ball, and descended me perfectly, in plenty of time to be on track to get to pattern altitude at Port Huron. 

I had already picked up the automated weather, which was reporting a shifting and gusting crosswind that would wander near the heading for Runway, 4 so Runway 4 it was.

Selfridge had me descend to 2,500 and once I had the airport in sight, and then had me switch to the CTAF.  I listened for traffic, made my calls, crossed over the airport and then dropped down into the downwind for Runway 4 and made a darn nice pattern and  excellent landing. My first landing at Port Huron.

I then taxi'd over to the CBP building, cancelled my IFR flight plan with Selfridge,  got out and cleared customs. The officers were very friendly and made it a very easy experience with no issues.

I then went back to the plane, taxi'd back to the runway, did the runup and departed heading for Pontiac. I contacted Selfridge and requested VFR flight following as the weather was nice and clear and they obliged, alerting me to a ton of traffic around Romeo.  I stayed above it at 4,500 feet.

I then got passed to Detroit Approach and requested the RNAV 27L approach as the setting sun was right in my eyes, making the approach almost IFR-light and making it hard to see the airport, much less the runway.

Using the RNAV approach guidance it5 was easy to be on a proper glidepath and I was able to make yet another very nice landing.

Then taxi'd back to the hangar and that was then end of a very nice weekend trip. Using Poet Huron makes a weekend trip to Toronto and back a lot more doable and convenient, which is great.

That's a 1.7 and a .6 flight, and 2 great landings.

The Toronto Weekend Trip

On Friday, I prepped the Archer and then left Pontiac and headed to Toronto.

After all the necessary filings, I got my clearance and took off. 

Flying IFR,  Detroit Approach had me fly north for awhile and climbed me up to 7,000 as filed, and then got me heading east to Toronto.

 Weather was nice and the air was very smooth. Had a 9-knot headwind .

Got passed over to Selfridge ANGB Approach, and crossed the Border right by the Blue Water Bridge as usual.

 Then I got passed off to Toronto Control and after various frequency changes got to Toronto Approach.

The new GPS was fantastic, making changing frequencies and entering the route and route changes en route very easy.

The approach for Toronto Island Airport  was all sorts of busy. 

I was number 5 in sequence and got held over the water for awhile, and was  being assigned a continuously declining altitude to stay under Toronto airport's traffic.

So at 3,000 feet, I was way out over Lake Ontario/Lake America:

After holding for awhile, that felt longer than it was,  I was then in sequence for the Runway 8 RNAV Zulu approach and was told to keep my speed all the way up and stay at 2,500 until the Final Approach Fix due to traffic.

This led to a chop and drop at the FAF, but I got it in and made a very nice landing, shedding speed and altitude as much as I could at the same time. After landing I was then told to keep my speed up on the runway, run it to the end and taxi off, while staying with Tower the while way.

That was fine and I got to the FBO, shut down, notified Canada Customs of my arrival and got my clearance number. I then could get out of the airplane and get things handled.

 On the way into the FBO there was an aircraft with a most suitable tail number:

 

 A little pilot humor there.

After checking in with the FBO and asking for the plane to be fueled up, I headed into town.

Then I met up with family, celebrated a relative's 90th birthday at a very nice party, and headed back yesterday evening with a different return procedure that I had not used before. 

That was 2.2 and 1 very nice landing.