President Obama Wants Americans to Hire Veterans, But Does He?

Only three cabinet-level officials are military veterans, and it's unclear how many veterans work at the White House

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While the White House discloses salaries of its employees, which helped reveal a possible gender pay gap at the White House last year, it doesn't provide a lot of additional demographic information about the men and women who work at the White House. So it's hard to tell how many veterans work at the White House. At tonight's State of the Union, President Obama urged Americans to "hire a veteran." Does he? Out of the 23 cabinet officers and cabinet-level officials in the Obama administration just three are veterans—Secretary of State John Kerry, outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, and Secretary of Veteran Affairs Robert McDonald.

In tonight's State of the Union address, President Obama urged American CEOs that if they "want somebody who's going to get this job done, hire a veteran." As "America's CEO," he should lead by example, disclosing how many veterans are employed at the White House and considering more for his cabinet, not by empty rhetoric and the bully pulpit.

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[Irish]

http://www.tmz.com/2015/01/20/.....rink-dead/

Bravo star and fitness instructor Greg Plitt did NOT die from stumbling on a railroad track Saturday ... he was fatally struck by a train after trying to outrun it ... to prove the effectiveness of an energy drink.

And law enforcement tells us they found multiple energy drink bottles near the track and authorities think Plitt may have been hopped up from the caffeine. We're told he was shooting a commercial for the product.

One of the investigators interviewed someone involved in Plitt's video shoot who said Plitt was trying to make the point that the energy drink makes you like Superman ... able to outrun a speeding train.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

This is horrible.

You see, it's possible to mourn someone's death without blaming that death on someone else (*cough* Michael Brown *cough*)

[MJGreen]

Darwin Award nominee.

[S. Quincy]

Brawndo drinker.

[Palin's Buttplug]

I suspect the Bushpigs were pure chickenhawk. X Colin Powell that is.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

PB, can you fill in the answers to these questions?

(1) A bird in the hand is worth two in the ____.

(2) The werewolf was played by Lon ______.

[Scarecrow Repair]

(3) The kind of underwear BP wears _____ on how much he soiled himself.

(In honor of his epic self-soiling on Ron Bailey's article, and his epic tantrum when caught trying to blame everyone else.)

[Swiss Servator, gal?rien]

I just went and looked that up - that was highly amusing. I think we need to add "2010" in while also retaining "8%".

I'd love to see a signed bill, policy or regulation that the Lightworker can show us his "all of the above" support for coal or oil or nat gas production. All I have seen is "under my plan, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket", green crony contracts and apathy.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"PBS is making a sexy, scripted Civil War drama produced by Ridley Scott

"...According to ComingSoon.net, the as-yet-untitled series will follow Mary Phinney and Emma Green, volunteer nurses for the Union and Confederacy respectively, whose worlds collide when the Green family's hotel is taken over and converted to a Union hospital."

Sexy! Boy chicka bow-wow!

http://www.avclub.com/article/.....ed--214093

[Notorious G.K.C.]

*Bow* chicka etc.

[Wasteland Wanderer]

Freudian slip, eh?

[Swiss Servator, gal?rien]

From a veteran to all who push "hire veterans" -

Hire whomever you damned well please

That is all.