A 28 year old woman tried to pass herself off as a student at a Miami area high school so she could hand out flyers promoting her Instagram page. She was arrested.
Does anyone know the approximate total number of people who fall into the category “retired generals and admirals”? I’m wondering how significant it really is that somebody was able to find 124 of them to sign up to this nonsense.
It’s hard to get good numbers, but the Explainer estimates that about 4,700 general officers are enjoying their retirement in the United States right now.
I could probably opine at some length about what factors may have changed since that time, but my gut tells me that’s going to be in the ball park.
(The Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps all use “general” titles. In the Navy, the top four positions are admiral, vice admiral, and two levels of rear admiral.)
My alternative surmise about this august little cadre is that – to borrow a line from “A Walk In The Woods --” they were the retired generals who “Would have stormed the Capitol,” but “their doctor just upped the dosage of their beta-blockers and they can’t get off the couch.”
I see the effort to keep this out of the wingnuts’ Wikipedia articles has started. Some anonymous editor of William G. Boykin’s article declared it “biased”.
Yeah, I mean I understand why Bill Gates would be clueless about the price of a gallon of milk. But
Mr Donovan has an extensive background in housing policy as he was housing secretary and budget director for president Barack Obama. Before that, he worked as then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg’s housing commissioner from 2004 to 2009.
Shaun Donovan corrected himself later, saying he was referring to the assessed value of Brooklyn homes. (The NYT says the correct answer is $900,000 for an average home in Brooklyn, so is the assessed value really that much less?)