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!
BTW Santa Klaus is now working as the president of the Czech Republic, calling himself Václav Klaus:
http://www.blisty.cz/img/-226.jpg
This is an actual photograph – no Photoshop.
He has given several speeches about global warming ideology’s being the greatest threat to human freedom. He often mentions that he flew to another destination the world that was 30 degrees warmer or cooler than the place of departure but he is so brave and resilient that he so survived. 😉
More info about Baby Jesus and Santa Klaus:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2006/12/santa-claus-vs-baby-jesus.html
Merry Christmas. 😉
Sorry but Father Christmas is just not to be compared with the real thing, Sinterklaas, wich we celebrate at the 5th of december. And he lives in Spain nowadays when he is not visiting us.
Oh and never ever try “kruidnoten”, they are highly addictive :-9
(i wish that they where sold all year round)
Merry Christmas and wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year to y’all.
Now, whatever gives people the silly idea that melting sea ice bothers Santa Claus? This is a being that, in the span of a single day, visits every household on the planet. And on a sleigh pulled by reindeer … quite a sight in the tropics.
Perhaps he ought to leave a lump of coal for politicians, since they all seem to have been bad boys and girls.
Aargh me mateys theys don’ts call it the silly will season fer nought.
What a whack job, Santie don’t do email, he don’t have to answers them, he looks in the earts and souls of sooky la las and just snips em from the list. Cos he has never answered a real pen and ink job in 500 years.
I reckon some nutbag is gonna get a bag black coal, tipped on his head, for bothering a real busy bloke doing a real job not writing dumb emails about reindeer fertiliser.
Yer it’s funny down here we call him Santie bloke, he fills yer eskies with refreshments and gives the doxy girls naughty togs to wear in the them rising global warming oceans.
He beats the crap out of Bad Peter the Tax man. We reckon he’s all right, except for the year, he got on the scoot and didn’t deliver something until March.
Almost lost his Posties union ticket as well as his pilot’s license..
I’m waiting for Al Gore to produce pictures of Rudolph clinging for dear life to a melting ice flow…
Merry Christmas!
I wonder if Senator Terry Le Sueur could sue Senator Menendez and New Jersey for bringing Jersey into disrepute? Also demand that New Jersey ceases to use the word “Jersey” in their name for having brought the word into disrepute.
p.s. I have no idea what the position of Jersey is regarding AGW, or even if they have one.
That’s ice floe! Duh…
How stupid to even think that anyone could or would want to live on sea ice for 363 days a year! The [/snip] polynyas, the endless gyre and all, not for me! So I moved to solid ground several centuries ago: http://www.santaclausvillage.info/
[Some vulgarities are so offensive that even with a letter or two left out they should not be presented. …. bl57~mod]
My good friend Mr Claus maintains a home address in Finland. Apparently that is where his old deer comes from.
Nadoleg LLawen! ( Welsh, Happy Christmas)
Last time I checked Santa was living in Lapland. Maybe Sen. Menendez got the address wrong? Or maybe he doesn’t know that europeans can’t live in Arctic anymore because it is much colder now than it was 1000 years ago.
Merry Christmas to WUWT!
I think Santa needs to leave a large supply of coal in this man’s stocking with a note that he has to burn it in his fireplace and comtemplate E. Scrooge if he is ever to get back on the Nice List.
SandyMcL says:
December 23, 2010 at 5:04 pm
“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.”
Ha ha ha!! Wonderful.
I’m afraid Santa won’t be available for duty this year
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1122
I thought the North Pole was claimed by Russia. Or was that only the under-ice part?
Better find out folks before you send your letters.
I presume that this is the same Senator who is also making a fool of himself on the issue of the Lockerbie bombing:
http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2010/07/menendez-at-work.html
http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2010/08/for-sen-menendez-read-joe-mccarthy.html
http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/2010/07/menendezs-actions-have-vindicated-those.html
The Scottish Government’s response to Senator Menendez is at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2010/07/26141356
And the Scottish response to Sen. Menendez’s report can be read at:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/lockerbie-report-by-senators-is-rejected-by-the-snp-1.1075886
Ho-har-de-har. If you’re going to issue corrections, be REEEL careful you’re not full of
ithot air.It’s “Claus”. The “Santa Clause” was a movie:
The Santa Clause (1994) – IMDb
Directed by John Pasquin. Starring Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson. When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
I believe that the Santa household, the missus, the elves, all the reindeer have planned to move to the MAGNETIC North Pole.
Since it is constantly moving around the globe, it will be a politically correct place to live.
Santa, not being at all concerned about global warming, has several production facilities and estates in several northern climes. He is nothing if not diversified. The methane gas from the reindeer keep the sled warm during the long haul. While its been long believed that Rudolph’s red nose was a navigation light or the result of years of sucking on fermented grain, actually its the heater coil ignitor for the methane furnace on the sleigh. There’s also a persistent rumour that the Star of Bethlehem was in reality an afterburner test for the methane heater one year, that got a little, er, overheated, but the ‘deer ain’t talking.
I have to take a run at the semantics tho – [the] Santa Clause is that part of liberal legislation that gives away vast amounts of OPM (other people’s money) to various self-identified victim groups and their advocates, and not the jolly old philanthropist from the frozen north, who revels in the spirit of giving, as opposed to taking….
As liberals around the world quietly acknowledge, “life sucks when you run out of other people’s money”.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Senator Menendez … unfortunately.
Let’s hope his kids don’t end up singing the famous song – “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” as a result of his latest foray into public policy.
Oh, and ‘Elf and Safety’ regulations – gold!
Once upon a time a VMS support person worked out some frustrations with problem reports from clueless customers that he proposed changes in what to tell customers. The result is preserved at http://www.dourish.com/goodies/see-figure-1.html and the phrase “See figure 1” became a tongue in cheek way of telling coworkers their request didn’t have merit.
Even the title “We’re VMS and You’re Not” was a hack, as it referred to a fake full page help wanted ad similar but completely different from the ads DEC ran when there were growing at 40% a year in the early 1970s – “We’re Digital and You’re Not.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/expect-more-extreme-winters-thanks-to-global-warming-say-scientists-2168418.html
I think this is what George Orwell called ‘doublethink’?
I’ve heard of going for the youth vote but the under 5s?
There is no sanity clause. 😛 Chico Marx
DaveE.
PRICELESS !!!!!!!!!!
There is a Santa !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gary Pearse says:
December 23, 2010 at 5:22 pm
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
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In Aus it takes a few beers and a “strine ” accent but hes been called nikkerless.:-)
horrible vision springs to mind.
Merry whatever to all:-)