Washington D.C.-The eternal debate over guns or butter took a unexpected twist today, dashing the hopes of the butter-minded. The Pentagon's efforts to raise money by holding a bake sale has produced amazing results! At the end of a three day effort in the lobby of the new U.S. Capitol Visitor Center the Pentagon today was again flush with cash.
Of course having a successful bake sale was no accident. The military used all of it's resources to plan,coordinate and carry out it's latest mission dubbed: Operation Cupcake.
"We reconoitered possible locations, doing traffic counts and consumer surveys. Our special ops team in charge of propaganda, did a fantastic job of marketing. We worked with our vendors to get rock bottom prices on choice Ingredients. And of course the military employs the best pastry chefs in the whole world!."
"We couldn't make cupcakes fast enough. Brownies were flying off the shelves, and hotcakes were selling like..well hotcakes! We have no financial worries anymore!",stated a very satisfied General "Buck" Turgidson, "All of our work, all of our planning really paid off this time! I couldn't be happier!"