People send me stuff. I’m on all sorts of mailing lists, and ever since WUWT started the Sea Ice Page, I’ve been on the Santa’s workshop mailing list. Believe me, it’s as much a surprise to me as it is to you.
I got a letter from Santa today, with a request that I repost it here, since he and the elves were concerned the Senator may not get it before Christmas with the bad weather and the USPS holiday schedule. It is a response from Santa regarding this blog post at Huffington Post from somebody who claims to be Senator Robert Menendez:
Here is Santa’s response:
PDF of the letter is available here: Santa_letter_to Senator_Menendez
Note:
The letter from Senator Menendez is real.
The inspiration for the spoof rebuttal comes from the letter sent in 1974 by the Cleveland Browns front office: http://deadspin.com/5716038/the-greatest-letter-ever-printed-on-nfl-team-letterhead
big h/t to Gary
Merry Christmas everyone!
PS: Yo Ho Ho
Just made my day!
Perfect response! “I know you’re not this stupid, since NO ONE could be. Right? Right?”
A letter addresses to a fictive person about a fictive problem.
Merry Christmas!
Yes New Jersey, there is a Santa Claus.
He’s gotten a bit jaded in his old age, and a bit saltier in his language.
I would have written from Santa to Senator Menendez.
You know lying puts you on my naughty list and you have been telling some rather large porkies lately.
They believe in Santa Claus.
They believe in the Greenhouse Effect.
Figures.
Sen. Menendez’ pledge to get the US Federal government to help Santa relocate sounds as useful as anything else being perpetrated in the name of Lysenkoism. . . er, climate change.
four stages of life –
You believe in Santa Claus.
You don’t believe in Santa Claus.
You are Santa Claus.
You look like Santa Claus.
Did this get cross-posted back to the Huffington Post?
[ not that we are aware of ~mod]
Santa lives at 101 St Nicholas Lane, North Pole, Alaska 99705.
His second favorite saying after ‘Ho,Ho,Ho’ is ‘Drill Baby Drill’.
The two refineries in North Pole, Alaska make sure he has plenty of energy to keep his elves warm and his workshop going.
I was in a real “bah, humbug” mood but just turned the corner because of Santa’s letter.
Merry Christmas everyone!
These are the two official addresses of Santa;
SANTA CLAUS
NORTH POLE
H0H 0H0
CANADA
or
Santa Claus
P.O. Box 56009
North Pole, Alaska
99705-1099
Simple addresses really… and Sen. Menendez sends his letter to Huffington Post. Even Santa is not socialist enough for them.
Dear Sen. Menendez,
Is it possible that you could desist from embarrassing the people of New Jersey for even a day ?
Never mind that your big issue is to lobby for extra perks for the people who make
things hard here. NEver mind your limelight seeking, toadying and sucking up around
President Empty Suit.
And almost never mind your complete fealty to Jeff Tittle and the enviro-fascist lobby,
you still find time to write in the HuffPo.
Could you maybe find a few moments to tend to the interests of New JErsey or your constitutional duty to protect the United States from enemies foreign and domestic ?
And stop being such a clown ?
Jim from Jersey
harrywr2 says:
December 23, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Santa lives at 101 St Nicholas Lane, North Pole, Alaska 99705.
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Lies!
It has been long known that Santa resides at:
North Pole
Canada
H0H 0H0
😉
Speaking as a lifelong resident of New Jersey, I can inform the readers here that the only asshole signing Sen. Menendez’ correspondence is Sen. Menendez, and he’s been an asshole all his life.
Let’s give seniority and experience the credit they’re due, okay?
The cc to George Bailey is a nice touch.
Silly letters deserve silly responses.
Made me smile on a day of annoying, nosy old relatives invading my property.
I am fighting back with Christmas lights.and my computer sound system at full volume trance electronica My budget is toast.
They are the LED ones so I never have to worry about the power bill.
And they stay on 24/7.
An obscure reference to the older crowd on WUWT, there’s a show called Robot Chicken
Santa races Superman and they end up with beating down Lex Luther and calling it a tie.
Merry Christmas WUWT I’m on holiday so I declare:
dwright out
I’m not sure where Sen. Menendez has been, but we’ve already had an ice-free summer. Those smart scientists he refers to in his letter made this prediction way back in 2008, and they (like climate scientists everywhere) can NEVER be wrong!
North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer
Aalok Mehta aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen
National Geographic News
June 20, 2008
Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer, report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field.
“We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history],” David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker.
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And we also know that arctic ice never refreezes because the newspapers (even the Bedford Falls Gazette) NEVER report when that happens – only when the melt begins.
With the recent weather we have been experiencing in the UK, Santa would feel very much at home if he were to consider relocating here.
However our excessive Elf and Safety regulations would prevent this from happening.
Everybody in Europe knows Santa lives in Finland. Alaska? – Duh!!!
Merry Christmas to all – “Nollaig Shona” in Irish Gaelic.
Here is my response: http://meteorologicalmusings.blogspot.com/2010/12/scrooge-err-senator-bob-menendez-says.html
By the way, if you get your news from the only truly reliable news source out there, that blog would be known to you as “The Huffing and Puffing Ton Post.”
David Spurgeon says:
“ … Everybody in Europe knows Santa lives in Finland … “
Yes, Santa was forced to move to Lapland during the MWP.
These guys need to update their address books.
OT: I suppose everyone knows that “Santa Clause” is a North American mispronunciation of Saint Nicholas through slurring the names together thus:
Saint’Nicholas….Santni Claus ……….. Santi’Clause………… Santa Clause
HO de HO HO HO