When King County Executive Ron Sims and Nickels are on the same stage - an all too frequent event - it's a 1960’s style Leftist revival show.
And, Nickels timing is extraordinary.
It was just two weeks ago that a Seattle jury failed to convict a racist, homicidal Muslim for shooting down five women at a downtown Jewish community center.
The women, as you may have guessed, were unarmed.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus