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22 Boom – Fall TV Special 2012 – Episode 58
Oct 3rd
The Fall 2012 TV Special of 22 Boom hosted by Jann Scott, we have lots of great fun in this show, first we learn about the spirit walk at the Boulder cemetery coming up, then we re visit the Mall Crawl and Disney’s Boo To You Parade. Lauren visit the costume shop to tell us what’s hot for Halloween, Jena makes Butternut Squash Soup and C.U. Buff fans breakout in song at the Village Coffee Shop. Jann visits the Valmont Bike Park and rides with the Thursday Night Cruisers. Skyguy tells us about comets and shooting stars, Hotshots reviews the movie Premium Rush, Jann Scott Live talks about Fuels and our future on earth, the News also talks about the energy crisis. The in our Boulder Restaurant section of the show we visit Subway in the UMC, Maries Cafe, and Ripple Frozen Yogurt. Wrapping up the show is the rising generation of K-Pop, and you probably guessed it, Psy’s Gangnam Style and Kids React to K-Pop, plus a new section we call Cat of the Week, this week it’s Cats playing Patty Cake. Enjoy!
Videos in this Episode
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22 Boom Intro -
Fall TV Special -
Spirit Walk in the Columbia Cemetery -
Boulder Mall Crawl -
Boulder Channel 1 Social Media -
Mickey’s Boo to You Halloween Parade -
Fall TV Special -
Boulder Channel 1 Social Media -
This Week in Boulder – Halloween -
Gorgeous Food with Jena – Butternut Squash Soup -
Village Coffee Shop -
Valmont Bike Park Grand Opening Day -
Fall TV Special -
Boulder Channel 1 Social Media -
Thursday Night Cruisers -
Sky Guy – What is The Difference Between a Comet and a Shooting Star -
Hotshots Movie Review of Premium Rush -
Jann Scott Live – Fuels -
Fall TV Special -
World News 1 – Suntans and Nuclear Power -
Subway Boulder at Base-Mar and UMC – Best of Boulder -
Marie’s Cafe -
Fall TV Special -
Ripple Pure Frozen Yogurt -
Psy – Gangnam Style -
Kids react to K-Pop -
Cats Play Patty Cake -
Outro
Brigham-Gate and Tom Carr's Past by Rob Smoke: Boulder Colorado
May 18th
Boulder’s City Attorney Tom Carr professes Seth Brigham a growing menace, progressing daily closer to violence against the Boulder city council. It’s an entertaining notion — Seth kidnapping council and turning them into his personal slaves would make a great horror-flick — however it is crap.
Interesting that Brigham-gate should touch on that issue of unpredictable violence, when the most discussed issue of Tom’s 2009 lost Seattle city attorney campaign hinged on the same issue in another context.
During Tom’s tenure as Seattle city attorney, there were extensive “excessive use of force” complaints against the police department of the city of Seattle. Imagine you’re the mom of a developmentally disabled
teenager who gets his face smashed by a Seattle police officer — an officer who had done something similar
on other occasions, but was still on the force because of corrupt internal review. Let’s be clear: Under
Tom Carr there were 400 back-to-back-to-back non-disciplined “excessive use of force” cases.
In other words, the officer was not held accountable with removal or suspension of his job — and in many cases, where an adjunct review board did recommend to Tom that he take disciplinary action, which Tom was actually
responsible for doing, he did nothing.
The Federal Justice Dept. came in, and the Deputy Attorney General of the Human Rights Division, Thomas Perez, cited the entire oversight process as broken. In point of fact, he could have cited Tom Carr, but instead cited everyone including Tom. It was, however, up to Tom to act if others wouldn’t — or at the very minimum,
act more appropriately on a case by case basis with victims of brutality. Google “Seattle police brutality”.
In other videotaped cases, an innocent hispanic man is kicked in the head by an officer while lying on the ground.
In another case, a pregnant woman was tasered multiple times by three officers and Tom appealed a Federal judge’s
ruling to allow the woman to move forward with a civil claim for damages.
Tom did not lose the 2009 Seattle city attorney’s race to a relative newcomer
by some weird accident, or, as he claims, because it was a “bad year for incumbents.”
No, he lost the race in an absolute landslide because people were sick to death of seeing reports about police brutality and suffering victims. Jon Kita, an asian restaurant owner, interviewed in the Seattle press about the videotaped “excessive use of force” assault he endured, put it this way, “How is it possible to get to 400 cases in a row with no discipline?”
Indeed, how is it possible? It must be noted, Tom absolutely oversaw the contracts for
civil claims defense of police officers alleged to have harmed people. During Tom’s tenure, the bill added up
to over $18 million dollars, which all went to one law firm which Tom helped choose. If at any time during those
400 non-disciplined cases there was a turnaround towards implementation of discipline, that would have caused the costs for handling those cases — the billings — to nosedive. Tom prevented that from happening. By the way, Tom’s replacement in Seattle, made it a first order of business to dissolve that highly questionable contract — and guess what? The firm itself has since dissolved.
The question remains, at what point in time did Tom become aware that the city of Seattle was receiving bad publicity for its brutality problems? Was it a year before the election? Could Tom have a rational understanding that he would lose — that in fact, the other side could nominate a doorknob, and he’d probably lose? In other words, what was the nature of Tom’s commitment to having this highly-paid bunch of lawyers defend brutal officers? Did Tom somehow feel that his own personal sense of justice and duty serving the city of Seattle was more significant than the information he was getting from the ever-growing list of injured residents seeking bare compensation or apology for their suffering?
Or did someone pay him to take his election loss with a smile and the “it was a bad year for incumbents” remark?
And how did the city of Boulder manage to hire him, at a pay increase of about $50k per year, without ever discussing
the 2-to-1 margin of loss in the 2009 election, and the brutality issues which always went unresolved and which were
lead stories in the local news, time and again — the hallmark of his term as city attorney?
Rob Smoke is a columnist for Boulder Channel 1. He writes about city of Boulder Politics
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May 17th
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