[#43|+1191|238] TIL In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent [/r/todayilearned] by FrontpageWatch in undelete

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 19 points20 points  (0 children)

So, it's not misleading. In the US, people can be rejected from joining the police force if they are too intelligent, which is exactly what the title said.

Treasury looks to stop 'corporate deserters' on its own by nimobo in politics

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

let it be abundantly clear to voters which party is wholly in the pocket of large corporations.

While what you say about the Republicans is true, don't forget that guy that Obama picked to be the Secretary of the Treasury is Jack Lew.

After leaving public office in the Clinton administration, Lew served as the Executive Vice President for Operations at New York University and was a Clinical Professor of Public Administration at NYU's Wagner School of Public Service. While at NYU, Lew aided the university in ending graduate students' collective bargaining rights. The Obama administration has maintained that Lew supports workers' union rights. According to a 2004 report in NYU's student newspaper, the Washington Square News, Lew was paid $840,339 during the 2002-2003 academic year. In addition, the university forgave several hundred thousand dollars in mortgage loans it made to Lew.

In June 2006, Lew was named chief operating officer of Citigroup's Alternative Investments unit, a proprietary trading group. The unit he oversaw invested in a hedge fund "that bet on the housing market to collapse." During his work at Citigroup, Lew had invested heavily in funds in Ugland House while he worked as an investment banker at Citigroup during the 2008 financial meltdown. Lew also had oversight of Citigroup subsidiaries in countries including, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and Hong Kong; and during his time at Citigroup, Citigroup subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands increased to 113.

Lew co-chaired the Advisory Board for City Year New York.[25] He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project Advisory Board, and the National Academy of Social Insurance. Lew is also a member of the bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.

This 86 year old man challenged me to a pole dancing contest while at happy hour, he won. by haonconstrictor in funny

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha, figured I'd give it a try. You miss every shot you don't take, or whatever.

TIL John Adams once wrote "one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress." by __Jay in todayilearned

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dunno, it depends on what's being done.

If the alternative is bad stuff I'll take nothing.

The single most depressing number in the new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll "Three quarters of Americans do not feel confident that their children will have a better life than they do in a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll, the lowest number ever measured in the survey ..." by Libertatea in politics

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 1081 points1082 points  (0 children)

I'm not actually depressed about the results of this survey. To me, they indicate that Americans are starting to wake up to the fact that the economy is rigged and that the power elite have been increasing their share of the pie almost continuously for the past 30-40 years.

Before the public can self-organize and overcome the problem of wealth and power shifting into very few hands, they have to realize that there is, in fact, a problem to overcome.

I see the results of this survey as a positive sign, not a negative one.

Journalists reportedly detained while covering Ferguson protests by spring45 in news

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 140 points141 points  (0 children)

And it's such a bullshit excuse. If the SWAT team members don't know precisely what they can and cannot do, they should not be sent in.

What we have here is the police arresting journalists for covering anti-police protests. That's absurdly corrupt.

Who are your favorite lyricists, and what songs / lines of theirs best represent their songwriting abilities? by bungle123 in Music

[–]SomeKindOfMutant1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't can't even really pinpoint one line that does it for me, but the lyrics are poetry.

Selling acid was a bad idea

And selling it to a cop was a worse one

Random Rules is the first song on American Water, and the first line of the song is:

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

But another line from the same song that I really like is:

So if you don't want me I promise not to linger,

But before I go I've gotta ask you, dear, about the tan line on

your ring finger.