In A Show Of Principle Over Party, Democrat Haley Stevens Endorses Mike Rogers For Senate

The Detroit News: Haley Stevens endorses Republican Mike Rogers, shaking up Senate Race

Congresswoman Stevens, in a refreshing action, decided to put America ahead of her party.

Abdul El-Sayed refused to disavow the antisemitism of his surrogates Hasan Piker with his latest crack at West Bloomfield comparing Jews here to the KKK;  Cenk Uyger and his disgraceful ad; and indeed his own campaign ad with Tucker Carlson.

El Sayed is a candidate backed by and for anti-Americans, anti-Semites, Socialists, and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Thanks to WellSeasonedFool for this cartoon

After getting the back of Abdul El-Sayed's hand and his continued refusal to disavow the divisiveness and hatred coming from his campaign, she really had no other valid option to retain her self-respect.

Indeed one reason for the endorsement could be best summed up by Abdul El Sayed's own words:

 

Holding to principle and endorsing Rogers took guts, and I have a lot more respect for Congresswoman Stevens as a result. 

Will Haley Stevens Continue To Endorse Sayed Even After He Spurns Her?

Haley Stevens, beaten by Abdul El Sayed in the Democratic primary, appeared ready to bend the knee and endorse the rtarther controversial candidate for Senate.

 WXYZ Detroit: El-Sayed, Stevens to campaign in Detroit as Democrats seek unity in Michigan Senate race

Then both Cenk Uyger's anti-Semitic ad in support of Sayed and the campaign's own ad with Tucker Carlson came out.

Stevens then requested Sayed to disavow the advertisements.

Cold have been a perfectly staged "Sister Soulja" moment, even with one of the ads coming from his campaign and the other from a  close surrogate of his campaign. It would lull those who have solid and valid concerns about Abdul El Sayed and give some on-the-fence Democrats concerned with his Muslim Brotherhood ties and his hanging out with Anti-Americans and Anti-Semites an excuse to vote for him.

It was not to be. 

Abdul El Sayed, in response to the request in a not so polite manner declined to do so and basically told her to go jump in a lake. 

NBC News: Haley Stevens and Abdul El-Sayed clash over Israel ad ahead of planned rally together

“I therefore expect him to apologize for those statements as well,” Stevens said. “Abdul promises to get money out of politics. He can begin by getting Israel out of his explanation for everything Michigan cannot afford.”

El-Sayed is not affiliated with the group that produced the ad, Rebellion PAC, and his campaign distanced itself from the ad in statements to The New York Times earlier this week.

Stevens also called on El-Sayed to take down one of his own ads that featured right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson “out of the same respect for Michigan’s Black community.”

El-Sayed, a vocal critic of Israel, shot back Friday, saying in a statement that Stevens, a strong supporter of Israel, “seems intent on relitigating a primary that ended three months ago” and that his campaign’s focus was on affordability and healthcare.

If he's so focused on "affordability and healthcare", why the rush of anti-Semitic ads then, bucko? 

Will Stevens still show up onstage Sunday to kow-tow and rally for El Sayed after getting the back of his hand?  Will the Democratic Party force a farcical show of unity over common sense?

Anti-Second Amendment Slop

A most curious Amicus Curiae brief has been filed in a  Second Amendment case before the US Supreme Court that challenges the assault weapons bans in Illinois and Cook County.

The brief, submitted by “CRIME” is an unregistered group of people whose acronym stands for Citizens’ Response to Increased Muzzle Energy founded by Lee Kranefuss (a guy who got rich in ETFs and decided to go into leftist philanthropy).  Mr. Kranefuss along with whoever authored and approved this brief for filing, apparently knows less about firearms than he does about generating ironic self-owning acronyms.

The amicus curiae brief is rife with historical and mathematical errors that not only undercut its rather zany arguments but makes one wonder if it was generated as an anti-gunner AI's hallucination.

Hilariously, it asserts that Mikhail Kalashnikov based the AK-47 on the AR-15. The Russians will either be pissed as hell for such an ahistorical claim, or impressed that good ol' Mikhail was able to travel into the future to see the AR-15 design and then travel back in time to "copy" it for his AK-47.

But that's not all, it makes a multitude of factual errors regarding firearms, firearms development, and ammunition performance, that anyone with experience or even spending a few hours with some history and reference books can see are blatantly erroneous.

Verily the brief by CRIME is a crime itself - a veritable fraud upon the Court. 

For that alone, the brief should be used for its best and highest purpose  -- as a last resort supply in an outhouse. 

On top of that, it proposes, with a straight quill,  rejecting Supreme Court precedent regarding regulation of  firearms and replacing it with a rather zany, and quite simply non-applicable to the real world, formula to regulate firearms concerning "muzzle energy produced per minute" or as they then refer to it "MEPM". 

It then misapplies its own MEPM formula, because math is hard.

Based on their formula, the AR-15 that they state should be banned for being above their own arbitrarily set MEPM formula amount, actually comes in under that same arbitrary formula amount.  Again, math is hard, and it is harder when you're stupid.

It's a pity that Amici aren't sanctioned for submitting briefs that contain easily disproven falsehoods and misstatements of fact to mislead that should be considered a fraud upon the Court.

Disgusting Anti-Semitic Ad From Abdul El Sayed Suporters

The New York Post: Pro-Abdul El-Sayed ad ripped for being antisemitic has a very sketchy history 

A controversial, anti-Israel ad backing Michigan Democratic Senate hopeful Abdul El-Sayed was rebranded and recycled from the failed and illegitimate presidential bid of “Young Turks” co-founder and Hasan Piker’s uncle, Cenk Uygur. 

The ad features a rather false anti-Israel trope blaming Israel for the cost of food in the US, with further false claims, and ends in the "Mike Rogers works for "They/Them" and of course you know exactly who the They/Them the ad refers to are, right?

El Sayed's campaign has not disavowed the ad, but simply stated it is not affiliated with his campaign.

But it sure as heck is from his close supporter Cenk Uyger, who is Hasan Piker's uncle (Progressive Islamists sure are an incestuous lot, aren't they?) and  El Sayed has campaigned and appeared with both of them. 

If anyone thinks the El Sayed official campaign did not know the ad was coming and there was no coordination occurring, well, there's a bridge between two peninsulas in Michigan I'd like to sell you.

Any Michigan Jew that votes for El Sayed after this ad is lower than a Kapo. Kapos were at least forced by circumstances into doing what they did to try and survive, voters for El Sayed have no such excuse. 

Forget It Jake, It's Detroit

The Detroit News:  Ex-cons, deadbeats oversee Detroit agency fleeced in $19M alleged fraud

A public health network in Detroit that federal prosecutors said was swindled out of at least $18.8 million is overseen by a politically connected board dominated by members with long histories of financial problems, bankruptcy and convictions for drug and alcohol-related crimes, public records show.

Because of course it is.  It is the D, run by the (D).

Meanwhile, in another example of corruption, Abdu El-Sayed has been getting a $9,000 consultancy gig from the Wayne County Health Department (Basically Detroit and the Democrats control Wayne County) - while he's off campaigning for Senate, and I'm sure he's doing nine grand a month worth of work for them while campaigning.

Cheaper Without Insurance

In yet a further example of how our current healthcare system, that has been bastardized by decades of government intervention, I was prescribed a new prescription.

Not happy about needing to take it, but fine, I will do so.

I go to buy it and see Costco has it for $150 so I have the doctor send the script there.

I then get a notice from Costco Pharmacy that it is ready and the cost is $300.

I call and ask why the price difference, as their site still shows it as $150, and the reason is they originally billed it through my insurance and the price with insurance is $300.

If you don't have or don't use insurance the price is $150.

This makes no sense.  It makes absolutely no sense as my insurance passes along the entire $300 to me as an out-of-pocket expense.

So I had them reprocess it to the non-insurance rate and saved $150. 

The exact same drug has multiple prices, in the same store, I can bet the Medicare/Medicaid price is even less. 

Even better the published "Usual and Customary price" for the prescription without insurance is $1,800.  

No, none of that makes any sense. 

Adding to the joys of healthcare, it is about to be open enrollment season and the current plan I have, acquired last year, is no longer being offered. 

While it was more expensive and had a higher deductible than the grandfathered plan that I had until Obamacare forced its sunset (so much for if you like your plan you can keep your plan), so I was paying just about twice as much for less, this was a annoyingly expensive yet workable replacement.

It's now being replaced by a plan with both a higher monthly cost and a higher deductible, so I'm going to be paying even more for even less.

Obamacare was designed to destroy the American heath system to eventually force everyone into a government controlled and run healthcare system, after years of other less destructive bouts of government intervention, and that plan is going along just swimmingly. 

Yes, You Still Need To Do The Form 1 / Form 4 In Michigan

The ATFE has announced they are no longer enforcing the rules regarding Suppressors/SBRs/SBSs based on the Court cases ruling them unconstitutional as there is no longer a tax being collected on those items, thanks to the Republicans and President Trump.

 That unfortunately does not mean you no longer need a Form 1 or Form 4 for your NFA items in Michigan, and I've been advising my clients of that accordingly.

Michigan law requires that "A person who possesses a short-barreled shotgun or short-barreled rifle that is greater than 26 inches in length under this section shall possess a copy of the federal registration" and the same goes for suppressors.

The Michigan State Police has just issued their latest opinion in: Legal Update No. 173 (10/2026) that confirms that Michigan law is unaffected by the ATFE ruling.and does indeed required federal registration for lawful possession in this state in addition to complying with Michigan law for firearms under 26 inches in length.

Until Michigan law changes, and that is not going to occur in a favorable manner under a Democrat governor.

Elections have consequences, so do get out and vote in this mid-term election for governor and attorney general and don't forget to vote for Rogers for Senate.

Two Different Services This Weekend.

Saturday, I went to a Bar Mitzvah for a friend's kid. 

On heading to the Synagogue, the most notable changes from the norm was the synagogue's security checking the occupants of all the vehicles as they drove up the driveway to enter the Synagogue grounds.

Then after parking area, there are new concrete "Diversity Barriers"  around the synagogue to prevent vehicle attacks such as occurred at Temple Israel.

Sad that this is the new normal.  

Aside from that it was an enjoyable and joyous event, a good service, and the Bar Mitzvah boy did great. 

Today, I was invited and attended the baptism of a child of some good friends in Dexter, Michigan.  The friends were on the adoption waiting list for quite some time and were luckily able to adopt a child who had been abandoned by her mother at birth. Both the parents and child are lucky and blessed to have found each other. They received a child to love, and she received two of the best and loving parents that anyone could ask for. Now that she is a one-year-old, it was time for her baptism into the Catholic Church.

We arrived at the Church a bit early before the mass, and met and congratulated the parents and were seated with the family, which was very nice of them.

It was an interesitng service and the first baptism I've attended. All involved including the kid did great and it was a very nice service and ceremony.

Then, we went back to their place after that and a birthday party for the kid was held. 

A very busy and rather religious weekend.