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!
Good chance of a White Christmas in LA (lower Alabama) according to the evening news…
Actually, the snow is predicted for the evening of the 25th. Does that count as a white Christmas?
BTW, the is not the first snow of the year here in the deep south and not even the first snow of the season. We live in interesting times.
Maybe someone should get Senator Menendez an “Elf on the shelf” that can report direct to Santa for him:
http://www.elfontheshelf.com/home.php
It might even help turn him into a good little Senator by next Christmas.
HO HO HO and a merry snowbound Christmas to all in the Northern hemisphere – and some Australians too!
Colin from Mission B.C. quite rightly says on December 23, 2010 at 4:45 pm
It has been long known that Santa resides at:
North Pole
Canada
H0H 0H0
Right ON!
North Pole – Canada.
Canada – Santa!!
Santa is Canadian… just like Wolverine…
Merry x-mas to all and to all a happy new year!
I guess he (Senator Menendez), doesn’t understand the half-life of the internet.
as a resident of NJ, I apologies for my very blue state inflicting Senator Menendez on the national as a whole. The man isn’t fit to be elected to the local PTA let alone the United States Senate.
In reality, Santa Clause is still kept safe in Italy.. St. Nicholas was not ‘Turkish’, no… he was a Christian Anatolian.. Recently Turkey has been pressuring for the transfer of St. Nick’s bones back to Ergodan’s Turkey…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8432314.stm
I don’t think the denial of the Orthodox Christians to build the St. Nicholas Church that was destroyed on 9/11 is procedural in any sense…
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/12/bloomberg-ethics-violations-collusion-gave-political-support-to-ground-zero-mosque-supremacists-newl.html
obvious bias is obvious… Do Christians really want to give up one of their original Saints?
I hope not…
I’m from New Jersey and I know Menendez. He is representative of the quality, intelligence, and integrity of NJ elected officials — before Christy, that is.
I understood the north pole has or is drifted/ drifting into Russian waters, that should be socialist enough for your senator. Great reply guess it will be ice free up here when Guam rolls over.For its the same wisdom and sciency thinking. For seperation of church and state ,its time to purge the halls of power of the Church of Climatology. Merry Christmas.
I wonder what other myths they’ll co-op for propaganda in the coming holidays.
Perhaps the Easter Bunny won’t have grass and carrots to eat due to the drought caused by global warming?
Coarse.
Humor should be a stiletto, not a bludgeon.
Reply to Menendez from the real Santa Claus:
At 7:11 PM on 23 December, etudiant complained:
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Con rispetto, amico, you’ve got no goddam idea about what it’s like to live in the Soprano State.
Beating a North Jersey politician literallyover the head with a blunt object (which involves striking at no working part of his body) is merely a down payment on the drawing-and-quartering he actually deserves.
Bwahahahahahahaah!
Oh, it’s almost Christmas eve, I mean
Bwohohohohohohohohohohh!
I love the way Santa thinks. 🙂
Brilliant.
Someone knows if this Menendez is related to those two brothers who years ago blasted their parents with a sawed-off 12 gauge shotgun? Genes can play strange tricks…
Just out of curiosity, has Senator Robert Menendez ever been north of New Jersey?
“Please know that I will work to mobilize the US Federal government to assist when you relocate.”
That would be a perfect wish to send the Federal gov’t to the North Pole.
We would all be really really good, and never ask for anything, ever again.
Merry Christmas, Zeke the Sneak
Uh, Senator Menendez believes in Santa Claus?
Come to think of it, that explains a lot…
@SandyMcL
Thank you Sir/Madam. You made me smile after a long hard Christmas Eve Retail Shiznik… (It takes a lot to do that).
“an ice free Arctic by 2012” Ooooh Noooo! Best call Al Gore then?
New Jersey has elected this person to serve its interests, having been hit extra hard by the economic meltdown and the shifting of jobs to the East and a economy crushing EPA/tax/red tape regime for those businesses left standing the rich senator hopes that a fictional character will move from a fictional HQ because of a fictional global meltdown?
The USA will not be best placed to retain its position as leader of the free world if it insists on electing mental defectives to high office.
Merry Xmas and my very best wishes to you all and may God gift our leaders with some common sense in the coming year.
Hysterical.
But I think HIS letter did more to advance the skeptical view than anything. That he addresses a fictional character AT ALL, then Flaunts the notion of BILLIONS of gifts, delivered overnight? reveals he sees the entire issue as a ridiculous fantasy.
It doesn’t read to me as tho he is really addressing children. He seems to ridicule AGW theory. And that he notes only portions of Antarctica might be subject to melt suggests he knows full well the AGW theory is Bull$^&t, but has such contempt for his own constituency that he will denigrate the very thing he argues for, and still expect them to support him for it.
Truly despicable, but actually helpful to the skeptics cause.
Hi,
I love it. 🙂
I also like to wish you and your Family, and fellow bloggers, a Merry Xmas and a wonderful 2011.