NORAD Tracks Progress of Santa

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.waaytv.com/Global/story.asp?s=202791

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A general at the North American Aerospace Defense Command and several staff members continued the NORAD tradition of tracking the progress of Santa Claus on Christmas Eve - and fielding questions from curious youngsters.

About 120 off-duty staff and their families volunteered Sunday to answer the thousands of questions, ranging from ``When is Santa getting to my house?'' to ``Is Santa lactose intolerant?'' said NORAD spokesman Maj. Jamie Robertson.

One common question: ``Does Santa exist?''

``Santa is very much alive in the hearts of parents and children around the world,'' comes the reply from the volunteers, Robertson said.

NORAD's Web site had logged 70 million hits and 2,300 e-mail messages from 32 countries by 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Last year, it had 52 million hits in less than 24 hours.

One youngster from Bernd-Hozminden, Germany, wrote:

``Dear Norad. My first and only thought by watching your pictures was that your NORAD may only find Santa Clauses on the radar and no bombs and other bad things.''

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Merry Christmas. This meets LBN rules and why does the last quote here make me want to cry?


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[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Think they have stand down orders?

>>why does the last paragraph make me want to cry?

Because it's empty.

[MAlibdem]

2. I noticed something

On the norad website, you can "Test Your Video Player" now in preparation for tonight. The test video has a digitally generated santa and sleigh cruising around the world and talking about how fast it is.

Funny thing: The Sleigh circles what appears to be a MOSQUE. Any takers on Santa visiting Iraq tonight?

The video: http://demand1.stream.aol.com/ramgen/aol/us/specials/2004/noradsanta/noradsanta_trlr_bb8.rm

Edit: He also visits the pyramids, the coliseum, the international space station, the great wall of china, a naval carrier, the kremlin, the leaning tower of pisa, Big Ben, the Effiel Tower, the White House, and a statue of Jesus on the cross.

I suppose that a psych ops look at this would conclude that Santa is being used by NORAD (part of US Military) to propagandize American Christianity/consumerism/ability to see into others airspace on our friends and former friends.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Mebbe he's got chaff in the bag tonight?

[VegasWolf]

9. He's got orders from awol to bomb the mosque. n/t

[JohnOneillsMemory]

14. Better watch out! NORAD, NRO, CIA, and Pentagon know if you're naughty!

And whether you should be raped,tortured, and executed on the Pretzeldent's whim in Gitmo Bay or Abu Ghraib or Attica.

Santa Claus functions as Jolly Big Brother teaching toddlers to obey ...or else. Then the public school system of indoctrination steps in to instill the social controls necessary to produce work drones, a few management drones, or cannon fodder.

DARPA is weaponizing space and police-state surveillance to acquire Saint Nick's omniscient powers and rewards dispensed from afar.

You could call it 'The Santa Project' with helper elves named Diebold, Poindexter, Negraponte, Novak, Rove, Boykin, O'Reilly etc.

Sounds like a satire of chicken-little liberal cant, doesn't it?
It is as true as the sun rising every day.

[0007]

17. Thanks for the video

Wish Santa visited the prisons of the world, the orphanages, the insane asylums, the hospitals with the forgotten and the hungry nations of the world.

I was born at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain which is the home to NORAD.

Today I say FUCK you NORAD and all your psychotic paranoid fascist dicks that protect the rich. And FUCK the blinded weak minded sisters called juctice.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. I see that tracking Santa is so much more important than.....

tracking threats to our security.

:eyes:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. A little slack for the season?

It's PR, sure, but it's good PR this time.

Besides, all this peace and love shit will be gone in another two days anyway.

sigh

[imenja]

15. Santa is also accompanied by an armed escort

of fighter planes, as my nephew informed me last night.

[Flagg]

5. Your tax money...

[leesa]

7. How nice! Where were they on 9-11?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. The system is setup for missiles moreso than commercial airlines...

lighten up. Take a breath from the hell Washington has created for us.

All good is not all good, all bad is not all bad. Even Hitler had a dog.

[MAlibdem]

10. ooooh, below the belt

To be fair, 9/11 wasn't NORAD's fault, and it would have taken a miracle there to have stopped it. I refer you to the 9/11 Commission Report for more...

[Metrix]

12. 9/11 Commission nothing but a whitewash

http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20040731213239607

In hearings last Friday, Sen. Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point: if the timeline of air defense response as promoted in the Kean Commission's best-selling book is correct, then the timeline presented repeatedly by NORAD during the last two years was completely wrong. Yet now no one at NORAD is willing to comment on their own timeline!

[JohnOneillsMemory]

13. The secret of 9/11: Operation Vigilant Warrior disabled NORAD

The CIA and NORAD were doing a live fly exercise to 'simulate' multiple hijacked planes crashing into buildings the morning of 9/11 while the 'real' thing happened.
http://www.oilempire.us/wargames.html
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/cia-simulation.htm

Even the AP (American Propaganda) Press carried the story as a 'gee-whiz-what-a-wacky-coincidence' story on 8/21/02.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/08/21/national1518EDT0686.DTL

This tells you lots about the lying of this admin, the 9/11 Omission Panel, the CIA-controlled press, and the New Pearl Harbor in response to Peak Oil.
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html

The Boston FBI prevented any investigation of a Saudi-financed software company called P-Tech that had access to the FAA's and Air Forces computer systems before 9/11 and may have been used to take advantage of Operation Vigilant Warrior's leaving no jets protecting the northeastern air corridor during the 'exercise.'
http://www.madcowprod.com/index45bb.html

[VegasWolf]

11. Making up a little santa claus mpeg? n/t

[masjenkins]

16. NORAD can track santa..but

can't seem to deal with 4 hijacked planes at the same time. Well , ok then.. I appreciate all the laughter it has brought into my life . What else is there to do??? Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Chanakah..(which I know is over)(whatever works for you ) I am new but with ya all. My name is Mary and I live in Queens...That's my story and I am sticking with it.