Brickbat: Everyone's a Critic


The Detroit Police Department is investigating one of its sergeants for disliking Beyoncé's halftime performance at the Super Bowl. The sergeant, whose name hasn't been released, posted on his personal Facebook page his dislike for the performance and what he believed was its celebration of the Black Panthers and Malcolm X, comparing them to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Also, she has really fat thighs.
Yeah,she's not all that.I didn't watch half time any way.Doesn't sound like a reason to investigate someone though.Now,if he said bad things about Stana Kactic I'd be pissed.
Beyonce is for chicks...
What happened to real musicians like Steely Dan,Earth Wind and Fire,people with real talent?
They're busy reelin' in the years, I guess.
I hear Rikki has their number
And I'd like to have Stana's number,wink wink,nudge,nudge.
What happened to real musicians like Steely Dan,Earth Wind and Fire,people with real talent?
Union work rules screwed 'em. We finally had a Super Bowl halftime music show with zero musicians.
He should have said the halftime show made him fear for his life.
Made me get another beer and read H&R till the second half.
So he could shoot whoever was closest to the TV?
OT: Florida Man last seen racing for fishing net and more beer: http://abcnews.go.com/US/thous.....d=36948656
Nothing unusual. I can't believe they didn't try to hype another regular been-happening-forever event as a global warming disaster. I just saw one last week where someone was watching a glacier calve into the ocean and they moaned and cried the whole time because global warming was causing the glacier to collapse.
Speaking of which, whatever happened about the Antarctic ice sheet collapse that was inevitable and already occurring? We don't hear much about that anymore...
'Why don't you think of the penguins?'
The NFL needs to screen what their artists are gonna do a bit more. The halftime show shouldn't be a platform to get a political message across.
It's a clever ploy to take the heat off the NFL's crony dealings. 'Look over there,war on cops' .
Why not?
Beyonc?'s performance was only a misdemeanor, Coldplay's was a true felony
Am I the only one that didn't watch this crap?
What's football?
Have you seen & heard "Fixicity"?
Wow, it's a theme. Yesterday we had police getting fired for losing pot used in an exercise.... today we have cops digging deep to investigate a facebook post that demonstrates, what? Failure to properly fear public perception of racial bias?
But torment and beat a 135 pound mentally ill homeless guy to death? Procedures were followed. Shoot an unarmed man walking down an alley within 2 seconds of contact? Yup, good shoot.... In fact, all of these are so obviously beyond reproach that we can announce the conclusion before we begin the investigation. Confidently. As in "I am confident that the investigation will show..."
And people wonder why there is mistrust of the police?
Thoughtcrime is the only crime.
This is the department without sufficient manpower to answer calls, right?
Not exactly sympathetic to this cop. Cops continually violate the first amendment rights of regular folks.
Wrongs 2 = Right 1?
Much better than the NBA All Star game halftime show : Sting.
He was irrelevant by 1986. He rehashed his Police hits, thrilling the Urban Millenials in attendance.
NOT.
Sting is an absurd choice. All basketball halftime games should always be the Quad City DJs performing the "Space Jam" theme song. Maybe occasionally pulling in someone else to play a "remix" alongside QCD.
"Come On Ride the Train" or GTFO
I think is was a perfect choice. The halftime show should be as exciting as the NBA all-star game itself.
Sometimes you jsut have to roll with the punches.
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My takeaway from the halftime show was that if you compare the dancing quality between Bruno Mars and Beyonce was that Bruno moves like a dancer and Beyonce does calisthenics*. She is really heavy-footed. Bruno moves like a cat.
. - Wikipedia
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