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“Salmon Fishing in the Yemen” Makes the Impossible Possible
0April 7, 2012
“Making the Impossible Possible”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a love story, and I don’t mean the love that fishermen have for fishing, although there is also that.
On the other hand, Steven Wright says in his act, “There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot.”
In this movie, the comment is made that the only thing that fishermen care about is fish, and that they are patient and virtuous.
The fishermen, of course, are patient and virtuous, not the fish.
No, we should remember that fish are so dumb that they can’t tell the difference between a real fly and an artificial fly with a hook in it at the end of a fishing line.
Emily Blunt plays Harriet Chetwode-Talbot, and she has a client who is an avid fisherman, Sheik Muhammed from Yemen, who wants to introduce salmon fishing in his desert country.
So, Harriet contacts the salmon expert in the British Fisheries, Dr. Alfred Jones, played by Ewan McGregor, to ask for his help in fulfilling the dream of the sheik, who naturally has enough money to make it happen.
Dr. Jones turns down Harriet’s request, telling her that the project is fundamentally infeasible.
In the meantime, however, Patricia Maxwell, who is the press secretary for the Prime Minister and who is played by Kristin Scott Thomas, tells her people, “We need a good news story from the Middle East and a big one. We need it now.”
So, with pressure from the top of the government, Dr. Jones is practically blackmailed into working with Harriet to make Sheik Muhammed’s dream come true.
And with two attractive people working closely together, romantic sparks are bound to fly, right?
Not so fast, Dear Audience, because Dr. Jones is married, and Harriet has a serious boyfriend.
Dr. Jones changes his assessment of the project’s success from fundamentally infeasible to theoretically possible, the sheik is willing to pay 50 million pounds, and so the problem now is to make it all happen.
Did I mention that there are dissidents in Yemen who believe that the sheik’s dream of building a river in the desert and stocking it with fish is insulting to Allah?
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen makes the impossible possible in so many different ways, and not just in fishing.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
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Village Lunatic runs for city council again; not a chance
0May 11, 2011
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
If he could stay sober and off Drugs, Seth Brigham might make a good city council member, but seen in his throes of alcoholism that will never happen. But he is one of a few candidates who call othjer candidates, dicks and cock suckers after a fashion and we think that is good for keeping the civil discourse at blood sport level. Let The Games Begin!!
In exile, down here in Mexico, thanks to the City of Boulder!!!
In exile, down here in Mexico, thanks to the City of Boulder!!!
I have decided to set up my lemonade stand later this year to drum up petition signatures for my run for CITY COUNCIL !!!
Is it possible to make lemonade out of the current lemons? I think not!!!
Yes, yes, we are all very excited! as some of “the wooooooorst” Council members will be running this year.
My plan is to “take the gloves off,” and no, that is not a threat but a promise to hold no punches when it comes to the previous decisions of some council members,
who, SUCK!!! it’s too bad more of them weren’t up for relection!!! Throw the bums out!
Last election we saw the fascists rise to power, most glaringly with the bought council seat of Mr. “keep the business doors open winter, summer, fall and winter.”
Nice job, prick!!! Damn the environment !!! I own the Pearl Street Mall, me and my devious little long term BIZZY DIZZY speculators,
enriching ourselves from The pedestrian Shop to Eight Days A Week, scimming and scammimg and not caring about the rest of us.
And, then there were the suspect campaign contributions for Suzy the ” Boulder’s not corrupt but I am ! ” Suzy que Ageton. Nice job!
Goodbye Sanitas !!! And, here’s another $500,000 for the Visitors Center/CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Homeless, fuck ‘em!!! We don’t discriminate, we eliminate !!! Ken ” THE LITTLE DICK” Wilson say’s… another idiot? No, just an opportunist,
cozying up to EXCEL and shitting on the CU students, all to improve his lot on the Hill. Screw the REZ he say’s !!!
Well, this year, we are not going to let the developers, speculators and realtors direct the conversation with the bull crap manifesto called,
HIGH DENSITY BUILDING for the rich!!! as if they care about the “unnafordable people” who live inside and outside of BULLdertown.
No more campaign signs in the public ways and means of winning by spending upwards of thirty thousand to buy a seat.
And, allow hypocrites like macon SCOWLES pretend, it seems, as if he cares about the environment, all the while “selling out” to the realtors,
and in the process, attempting to “better his position in the tax bracket” by cheating on his taxes, all the while making the most wonderous speeches,
of what? his pompous ass of care for the little people, Mr. Civil liberty himself, what a joke!!! But… sounds of silence is all we hear about the homeless.
It’s just too bad that the one with the cocaine habit and love of beauty saloons has decided to retire to one of her three homes.
We can only hope she decides to move to Crestted Butte or Lake Tahoe so we don’t have to hear her blowhard Peace Department dribble when we all know it’s all empty, and vacuous,
her mind, that is, telling the public how much we spend on Human Services and the kids come first, whilst letting BVSD and STUPIDDEPENDENT retire while still on the payroll.
Let’s all go to the Jonas Brothers!!! with those Public ASSES over at Educational Access, turned into a private productions.
And, I thought Tony “the phony” Perri was just a bad apple, you must be kidding, when there’s CUNTI and ALAN O ASS HOLY and the BITCHY SISTERS making grande dollars,
while no one even remembers there once was a television station for and by the people of Boulder! The only thing I’m not sure about is whether Brautigam can top the corruption of the previous regime now idling by up at CU after selling our downtown away, eyes on the prize, let’s go seven stories high!!!
If I am elected it will be required that Mayor Osbourne wear a dunce cap to each meeting and place it upon each speaker, for that is how much they care about what the public thinks.
Damn them, those pesky residents of Boulder, we must build high and wide!!! and throw those without money into the polluted Boulder creek!!!
Hold your noses!!! Seth is back in town !!! And, Him and his advisors, me, myself and I. Are you ready to rumble????
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!
I have decided to set up my lemonade stand later this year to drum up petition signatures for my run for CITY COUNCIL !!!
Is it possible to make lemonade out of the current lemons? I think not!!!
Yes, yes, we are all very excited! as some of “the wooooooorst” Council members will be running this year.
My plan is to “take the gloves off,” and no, that is not a threat but a promise to hold no punches when it comes to the previous decisions of some council members,
who, SUCK!!! it’s too bad more of them weren’t up for relection!!! Throw the bums out!
Last election we saw the fascists rise to power, most glaringly with the bought council seat of Mr. “keep the business doors open winter, summer, fall and winter.”
Nice job, prick!!! Damn the environment !!! I own the Pearl Street Mall, me and my devious little long term BIZZY DIZZY speculators,
enriching ourselves from The pedestrian Shop to Eight Days A Week, scimming and scammimg and not caring about the rest of us.
And, then there were the suspect campaign contributions for Suzy the ” Boulder’s not corrupt but I am ! ” Suzy que Ageton. Nice job!
Goodbye Sanitas !!! And, here’s another $500,000 for the Visitors Center/CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Homeless, fuck ‘em!!! We don’t discriminate, we eliminate !!! Ken ” THE LITTLE DICK” Wilson say’s… another idiot? No, just an opportunist,
cozying up to EXCEL and shitting on the CU students, all to improve his lot on the Hill. Screw the REZ he say’s !!!
Well, this year, we are not going to let the developers, speculators and realtors direct the conversation with the bull crap manifesto called,
HIGH DENSITY BUILDING for the rich!!! as if they care about the “unnafordable people” who live inside and outside of BULLdertown.
No more campaign signs in the public ways and means of winning by spending upwards of thirty thousand to buy a seat.
And, allow hypocrites like macon SCOWLES pretend, it seems, as if he cares about the environment, all the while “selling out” to the realtors,
and in the process, attempting to “better his position in the tax bracket” by cheating on his taxes, all the while making the most wonderous speeches,
of what? his pompous ass of care for the little people, Mr. Civil liberty himself, what a joke!!! But… sounds of silence is all we hear about the homeless.
It’s just too bad that the one with the cocaine habit and love of beauty saloons has decided to retire to one of her three homes.
We can only hope she decides to move to Crestted Butte or Lake Tahoe so we don’t have to hear her blowhard Peace Department dribble when we all know it’s all empty, and vacuous,
her mind, that is, telling the public how much we spend on Human Services and the kids come first, whilst letting BVSD and STUPIDDEPENDENT retire while still on the payroll.
Let’s all go to the Jonas Brothers!!! with those Public ASSES over at Educational Access, turned into a private productions.
And, I thought Tony “the phony” Perri was just a bad apple, you must be kidding, when there’s CUNTI and ALAN O ASS HOLY and the BITCHY SISTERS making grande dollars,
while no one even remembers there once was a television station for and by the people of Boulder! The only thing I’m not sure about is whether Brautigam can top the corruption of the previous regime now idling by up at CU after selling our downtown away, eyes on the prize, let’s go seven stories high!!!
If I am elected it will be required that Mayor Osbourne wear a dunce cap to each meeting and place it upon each speaker, for that is how much they care about what the public thinks.
Damn them, those pesky residents of Boulder, we must build high and wide!!! and throw those without money into the polluted Boulder creek!!!
Hold your noses!!! Seth is back in town !!! And, Him and his advisors, me, myself and I. Are you ready to rumble????
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!
BRIGHAM TO RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL !!! In exile, down here in Mexico, thanks to the City of Boulder!!!
I have decided to set up my lemonade stand later this year to drum up petition signatures for my run for CITY COUNCIL !!!
Is it possible to make lemonade out of the current lemons? I think not!!!
Yes, yes, we are all very excited! as some of “the wooooooorst” Council members will be running this year
My plan is to “take the gloves off,” and no, that is not a threat but a promise to hold no punches when it comes to the previous decisions of some council members,
who, SUCK!!! it’s too bad more of them weren’t up for relection!!! Throw the bums out!
Last election we saw the fascists rise to power, most glaringly with the bought council seat of Mr. “keep the business doors open winter, summer, fall and winter.”
Nice job, prick!!! Damn the environment !!! I own the Pearl Street Mall, me and my devious little long term BIZZY DIZZY speculators, enriching ourselves from The pedestrian Shop to Eight Days A Week, scimming and scammimg and not caring about the rest of us.
And, then there were the suspect campaign contributions for Suzy the ” Boulder’s not corrupt but I am ! ” Suzy que Ageton. Nice job!
Goodbye Sanitas !!! And, here’s another $500,000 for the Visitors Center/CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Homeless, fuck ‘em!!! We don’t discriminate, we eliminate !!! Ken ” THE LITTLE DICK” Wilson say’s… another idiot? No, just an opportunist,
cozying up to EXCEL and shitting on the CU students, all to improve his lot on the Hill. Screw the REZ he say’s !!!
Well, this year, we are not going to let the developers, speculators and realtors direct the conversation with the bull crap manifesto called,
HIGH DENSITY BUILDING for the rich!!! as if they care about the “unnafordable people” who live inside and outside of BULLdertown.
No more campaign signs in the public ways and means of winning by spending upwards of thirty thousand to buy a seat.
And, allow hypocrites like macon SCOWLES pretend, it seems, as if he cares about the environment, all the while “selling out” to the realtors, and in the process, attempting to “better his position in the tax bracket” by cheating on his taxes, all the while making the most wonderous speeches, of what? his pompous ass of care for the little people, Mr. Civil liberty himself, what a joke!!! But… sounds of silence is all we hear about the homeless.
It’s just too bad that the one with the cocaine habit and love of beauty saloons has decided to retire to one of her three homes.
We can only hope she decides to move to Crestted Butte or Lake Tahoe so we don’t have to hear her blowhard Peace Department dribble when we all know it’s all empty, and vacuous, her mind, that is, telling the public how much we spend on Human Services and the kids come first, whilst letting BVSD and STUPIDDEPENDENT retire while still on the payroll.
Let’s all go to the Jonas Brothers!!! with those Public ASSES over at Educational Access, turned into a private productions.
And, I thought Tony “the phony” Perri was just a bad apple, you must be kidding, when there’s CUNTI and ALAN O ASS HOLY and the BITCHY SISTERS making grande dollars,
while no one even remembers there once was a television station for and by the people of Boulder! The only thing I’m not sure about is whether Brautigam can top the corruption of the previous regime now idling by up at CU after selling our downtown away, eyes on the prize, let’s go seven stories high!!!If I am elected it will be required that Mayor Osbourne wear a dunce cap to each meeting and place it upon each speaker, for that is how much they care about what the public thinks.
Damn them, those pesky residents of Boulder, we must build high and wide!!! and throw those without money into the polluted Boulder creek!!!
Hold your noses!!! Seth is back in town !!! And, Him and his advisors, me, myself and I. Are you ready to rumble????
VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!
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Boulder police investigate three armed robberies in 24 hours Pics & story:
0March 1, 2011
by Boulder Channel 1
in News
Boulder police investigate three armed robberies in 24 hours
Boulder police are looking for the suspect or suspects involved in three armed robberies over the past 24 hours and are considering the possibility that all three crimes are connected. In each robbery, the suspect was able to get away with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Two robberies took place the night of Monday, Feb. 28. One was at a branch of Wells Fargo bank on Canyon Boulevard, and the other happened at a Circle K convenience store on 28th Street. This morning, Tuesday, March 1, a man who claimed to have a weapon robbed the Boulder Valley Credit Union on Broadway.
A news release was sent out yesterday outlining details of the Wells Fargo case. That release can be found at www.boulder-police.com.
Last night’s Circle K robbery happened at 10:45 p.m. at the store located at 3185 28th St.. The suspect walked to the counter and initially asked for a package of cigarettes, then showed the clerk a note demanding all the cash in the register. The note indicated that the suspect had a gun, although the clerk told police he never saw a weapon. No one was hurt, and the suspect left quickly with an undisclosed amount of cash. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office assisted with a K-9 unit to try to locate the suspect.
At 9:45 a.m. today, a man claiming to have a gun robbed the Boulder Valley Credit Union at 2667 Broadway. Tellers told police that the man walked in, produced a note demanding money and claimed to have a gun. No one saw any weapon. There were no customers in the bank at the time of the robbery, although several bank employees were inside. No one was hurt.
Credit union employees describe the suspect as a 40- to 50-year-old white male, 6 feet tall, with pockmarks and acne scarring on his face. He was wearing a dark jacket and tan pants, a brown knit cap with tassels and dark sunglasses.
The clerk at Circle K also described the suspect as a white male, 40 to 50 years old, about 6 feet tall and very thin. He wore a brown baseball cap and had straight brown hair. His face was pockmarked and he had prominent cheekbones.
Boulder police detectives have notified the FBI and the two agencies are working together.
Detective Brian Scott is the lead investigator on all three cases. Anyone with information is asked to contact him at 303-441-3381. Those who have information but wish to remain anonymous may contact the Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or 1-800-444-3776. Tips may also be submitted via the Crime Stoppers website at www.crimeshurt.com. Those submitting tips through Crime Stoppers that lead to the arrest and filing of charges on a suspect(s) may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers.
Boulder Police looking for bank robbery suspect
Boulder police are searching for a man who robbed the Wells Fargo bank at 1690 Canyon Avenue early this evening.
It happened at 5:26 p.m. Witnesses told police the man walked into the lobby of the bank, approached one of the tellers and handed the teller a note demanding money. He claimed to have a gun, though no weapon was seen. The teller complied and gave the suspect an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect was last seen running southbound away from the bank.
A number of bank employees and customers were inside the bank at the time. No one was hurt.
Photos of the suspect are attached. Police are looking for an 18-to-22 year-old-man who is described as 6’3”, very thin, with a pockmarked face and brown hair. He was wearing a baseball cap and a ski jacket with a white shirt underneath.
Boulder police are working with the FBI on this case. Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact detective Craig Beckford at 303-441-3336. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call the Boulder Police Department’s tip line at 303-441-1974.
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Boulder City Manager Proposes New Lies, Same Old Budget
0August 10, 2010
You wouldn’t think a sleepy little burg like Boulder would routinely spend $200 million-plus annually to fund its endeavors, but that’s the long and the short of our city budget. Each year the city manager presents something resembling a “rationale” for council’s consideration, which helps to subtly alter portions of the budget in accord with Boulder’s political winds. For instance, Boulder’s economic vitality budget increased by $200k this past year in spite of the fact that many questioned the efficacy of giving away public tax dollars as “incentive” money to companies like IBM or Ball Aerospace. (To be fair, a chocolate factory, a music venue and other diverse businesses also benefitted this year.)
During a budget crunch, with the City waving if not wielding its budget axe at all departments, you’d think the ‘economic vitality’ gift horse would be sent to its stall. Maybe, but not with people like Ken Wilson on council, who has championed the ‘vitality’ program at every opportunity, generally by offering some factor by which the city benefits as gospel truth. Depending on whom Wilson addresses and on what day of the week, the benefits to the city could equal an “8-to-1″ return, a “15-to-1 return” or even a “20-to-1″ return on investment. The spread in these figures tells you all you need to know about them — that they are, in essence, figments of Wilson’s imagination. For instance, although the city has given money to IBM to help retain jobs — and Wilson campaigned on the point that those jobs would have gone to Virginia if the city didn’t contribute — it’s still a fact that IBM reduced its total workforce in Boulder over the past several years.
They may have kept a division here that would have gone to one of its other plants in another state; however, that action probably had about zero to do with the money the city gave them, which might pay the annual bonus of the person filing the necessary application for the dough, plus a little left over for Christmas party entertainment (Suzy Ageton in naughty-Santa lingerie jumping out of a cake?) Just the same, people like Wilson make this type of weird little governmental expenditure seem perfectly normal, even though the effect he pronounced was in essence a pile of horse hockey — with Boulder still experiencing more downsizing than upsizing regards IBM’s operations.
Recently, City Manager Jane Brautigam hauled out a (surprise, surprise) new set of analyses for the insane 2011 budget decisions the City will invariably seek to approve this year. Hardly anyone ever looks at this material, and I don’t want to cause anyone to reach for their air-sickness bag by quoting it; however, a smattering to give you the birds-eye view of how it works may be found athttp://www.bouldercolorado.gov/files/Finance/Budget/Priority-based_Budgeting/Result_Definitions_Summary.pdf .
This document says, for instance, that :”If the City of Boulder…fosters regional and public/private collaboration with key institutions and organizations that contribute to economic sustainability AND encourages sustainable development supported by reliable and affordable city services AND invests in primary economic generators and businesses” … “THEN it will have provided/achieved a (an)…ECONOMICALLY VITAL COMMUNITY.” I’ve printed this for you here so no one has to speculate how brain-dead the whole process actually is.
It could have been summarized as “good government means giving away tax dollars to those who need it the least” — instead, by a fortuitous summation of idiot logic and hyper-rational thinking, giving tax dollars away to big businesses equals an ‘ECONOMICALLY VITAL COMMUNITY.” People might sit at home asking themselves whose brain tissue splattered an Iphone to make this bit of power-point pseudo-science something that would actually be submitted to and then gain the approval of our Boulder city council. No need to guess…we have staffers paid hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to come up with something, anything, that maybe could fool a moron into thinking the economic vitality program is something Boulder desperately needs, when the fact is, it’s simply a corrupt method for people like Ken Wilson to pander to their campaign-contributing friends in the business community — all of whom JUST LOVE the economic vitality program, not to mention Wilson, who gets treated like someone’s adorable puppy if he ever happens to visit with IBM or Ball or the Chamber of Commerce, another driving political force behind the program.
New lies to maintain the same old budget priority, which ignores real needs, such as solving the issues related to the increasing numbers of homeless on Boulder’s streets, many of whom survive only on food stamps and whatever Ken Wilson charmingly tosses out of his car window when he pulls up at a traffic light to face one of those less-fed constituents. (Wouldn’t it be fun, as a prank, to wait for Ken holding a cardboard sign that reads “thank you for climbing over the backs of the least fortunate among us on your way up the political ladder.”)
By the way, as a footnote, when you hear a city council speaker (such as a scantily clad Seth Brigham) throw the term “fascist” around when talking about the city council, and think such protest ill-informed, guess again. Fascism exists when the interests of corporations and governments merge; and although Boulder’s economic vitality program may be only a slight example, it’s ‘microphone diddlers’ like Ken Wilson who lead us — in plain truth — down that path.
(Watch for more on city spending in future Rob Smoke articles.)
Rob Smoke is a former Commissioner of Human Relations for the City of Boulder.
