Hi Doc Sarvis:

By sheer coincidence I read the Running Man the other day-- took me about four hours or so. You can tell Mr. King finished writing this novel in one week. Anyways, this year a film closer to his novel is coming out about his vision of a dystopian future human safari.

BTW: The new Frankenstein film was fairly close to the original novel, but still with significant departures. This is the first movie I watched in seven or eight years and I made two pages of notes on this Oscar contender. The director put a lot of hidden symbols or "cookies" in the film for the astute afficionado to catch.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz flew to Ankara and met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss security and economic matters.

"When the issue came down to Gaza, Merz bleated: "Israel made use of its right of self-defense, and it would have taken only a single decision to avoid the countless unnecessary victims: Hamas should have released the hostages earlier and laid down its weapons. Then this war would have been over immediately."

Erdogan, a vocal critic of Israel's military actions, again accused Israel of using "starvation and genocide" as weapons of war.

The Turkish leader argued that Hamas does not possess bombs or nuclear weapons, while Israel does, and criticized Germany for allegedly ignoring the imbalance.

"As Germany, can't you see this?" he asked."

And the German leader ignored the thousands of Palestinians being held in security detention without trial or hearing, which led to the 7 Oct 2023 attack to capture Israeli prisoners for a hostage-swap. This is a spectacular oversight from the new Chancellor. In Germany, no matter what the charge or jurisdiction (city, stadt, federal), constitutionally a judge must see that suspect within 24 hours or he/she must be released (e.g. immigration violation, shoplifting, murder, theft, toll jumping). In Israel, Palestinian hostages have been lingering in security detention for months, if not years without ever seeing a judge.

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So, when Senor Nicholas Fuentes watches West Side Story, who does our half-Latino hellrake root for, the Sharks or the Jets?

**** Update to ICE Bounty Hunting OP ****

ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants

**** 50,000 New Yorkers Apply to Work for Zohran Mamdani in First Week ****

'Less than a week since Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani opened a resume portal to build his team, more than 50,000 New Yorkers have already submitted their applications. Despite the flood of applications, the resume portal is still open for prospective job seekers. Mamdani has called for applications of "all experience levels," ranging from seasoned policy professionals to entry-level workers.

"The sheer number of applicants speaks to the excitement at the heart of this movement " one that has inspired people to believe that government can put working people first," said Mamdani in a statement.

The mayor-elect's team is continuing to look for people to work in areas such as arts and culture, climate, criminal justice, economic development, health, housing, immigrant justice, public safety, transportation, youth and education, and more.'

I'm sure Andrew 'Benedict Arnold' Cuomo's job bank would have gotten the same response from electrified New Yorkers. And Dummkopf Trumpf is a Medal of Honor war hero who never laid hands on an underaged Ivanka lookalike.