Dec 24 2008
NORAD’s Santa Mission
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is again this year tracking Santa’s flight across the earth. At the risk of sounding like a total Scrooge, I must say I’m having quite a hard time justifying this in my mind.
NORAD came into existence in the late 1950’s at a time when there was much fear over an attack of ICBMs (not to be confused with IBMs which wouldn’t lay siege to the US for another 20 years or so). The missile defense organization is a joint operation between the U.S. and Canada, on a scale not seen since the cast of SCTV joined Saturday Night Live .
But every year on Christmas Eve NORAD shifts its entire resources into tracking Santa in his flight across the globe. If the military is looking for suggestions on how they can be of assistance in propagating other myths and legends I suggest the Navy SEALS be brought in to look for the Loch Ness Monster while the Army Rangers can look for Bigfoot.
Now that I’ve got that out of my system, Merry Christmas everyone!
