Greg Nickels Is A Fool

The events of the eviction of Nickelsville from alleged city land yesterday felt a little like a Beethoven sonata to me: attack, release, attack, release. Except with a background drone. My description of it for YouTube users is intended to get the idea across to non-Seattleites:

Sept. 26, 2008. Nickelsville, a tent city with ambitions to become a shantytown for the homeless in Seattle. After three and a half days of existence, Greg Nickels, our mayor who hates the homeless, whom Nickelsville is named for, as a dishonor, orders Seattle police to evict the occupants and demolish the camp. The police don't want to do it. They tell the people privately that they know that the mayor is a liar and that there is not enough shelter to house them. They will have no choice but to find yet another place to camp. But orders are orders. In every scene the sound of news and police helicopters overhead nearly drowns out the human voices, but hopefully the sense of the hour is conveyed.

Eviction at Nickelsville

Retarded Policeman

Video Find of the Day

Ordinarily I wouldn't post a Retarded Policeman video. They are simply too politically incorrect, even for me. It's bad enough they make fun of the developmentally disabled in the character of The Retarded Policeman himself. Then, on top of that, they let his character voice racist and misogynist and culturalist opinions which are highly not to be tolerated. But in this case his target, whom he make-believe immolates, is a mime. There's nothing wrong with make-believe immolating a mime. I'd like to make-believe immolate the whole lot of them.

Retarded Policeman #13: Mime (Doug Jones of Hellboy 2)