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I saw this post in Dee’s Connections (top bar on my blog page) and just had to post it myself. It’s almost laughable! Just when I thought things couldn’t get any more ridiculous.

Would you believe that the Pentagon has a “laughter specialist”? It’s true. He trains the families of soldiers to
relieve stress through laughter.

Even though war is no laughing matter, the stress associated with the whole ordeal can be relieved through it, according to this pentagon employee.

And I thought my tax dollars were being spent friviously. Silly me. HAHAHAHAHAHA!

There………..I laughed.
Hmmm…..why don’t I feel better?

A woman came to my door and asked if my sons were at home. When I inquired as to why, she stated “I’m from the Department of Peace and I’d like to leave some literature so that they might consider joining and working towards peaceful resolutions of conflict.” When I asked about sign-on bonuses like the military offers she said, “Oh, there aren’t any of those. We use our money towards real efforts towards achieving peace, without inflated promises.” [Hmmmm, I thought…] I accepted the literature and she wished me a peaceful day.

Then I woke up. Drat, it was a dream.

An article was forwarded to me yestserday in an email from Altertnet entitled US Army achieves minimal December recruiting goal. It looks like recruiting efforts are only strengthening.
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