Name: Anonymous 2011-12-25 16:11
The North American Aerospace Defense Command has been telling anxious children about Santa's whereabouts every year since 1955. That was the year a Colorado Springs newspaper ad invited kids to call Santa on a hotline, but the number had a typo, and dozens of kids wound up talking to the Continental Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD's predecessor.
The officers on duty played along and began sharing reports on Santa's progress. It's now a deep-rooted tradition at NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command that monitors the North American skies and seas from a control center at Peterson.
Otherwise reputable news outlets have been reporting on the fictional activity of the fictional sky rider, even going so far as playing a quote of someone at NORAD claiming that Santa must be travelling faster than the speed of light. That the credulous press swallows this fraud wholesale is shameful. If NORAD has been lying about this since 1955, then what else are they lying about? If the Manning-Wikileaks saga has taught us anything, it's that they are probably lying about everything they do.
The officers on duty played along and began sharing reports on Santa's progress. It's now a deep-rooted tradition at NORAD, a joint U.S.-Canada command that monitors the North American skies and seas from a control center at Peterson.
Otherwise reputable news outlets have been reporting on the fictional activity of the fictional sky rider, even going so far as playing a quote of someone at NORAD claiming that Santa must be travelling faster than the speed of light. That the credulous press swallows this fraud wholesale is shameful. If NORAD has been lying about this since 1955, then what else are they lying about? If the Manning-Wikileaks saga has taught us anything, it's that they are probably lying about everything they do.