NORAD ruins Christmas

[Toro]

At first I thought I was reading an Onion article.

NORAD Santa Tracker under fire for giving Santa a fighter jet escort

[Breckey]

Well Santa might have to fly through the Chinese ADIZ depending on the results of his second list check.

[ecugringo]

You serious Clark?

[sky_king]

I know some 13Bs that are going to freak when they see an AWACS C2-ing Santa.

[abmwaldo]

I know some 13Bs that are going to freak when they see an AWACS C2-ing Santa.

Well played sir, well played.

[pawnman]

So they're fine with the military "tracking" Santa, just not flying in formation with him?

[sky_king]

So they're fine with the military "tracking" Santa, just not flying in formation with him?

The NSA can listen to everyone's phone calls but not many people care. I peek into a couple windows at night and suddenly, I'm the bad guy.

[Spoo]

Holy fuck, I hate people. BTW, newsflash: The cheesy video with the fighter escort has been around for a few years. I can speak with authority because I'm a certified Santa Tracker.

[matmacwc]

My kids love this, we check it a few times on Christmas Eve.

[BitteEinBit]

*** SPOILER ALERT *** DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS READ THIS...the following message is CLASSIFIED "NO KIDS"

So...someone is getting butt hurt because we add a little realism (fighter escorts...they happen all the time) to probably the biggest marketing scams on the planet (Santa Claus on Christmas)? WE are ruining Christmas by adding a military theme to the "Santa Tracking Tradition" Really? Do they know who is NORAD is and what do they do? (que Arnold Schwarzenegger accent).

Fuck liberals. I guess I've learned two disappointing things today.

1) Military does not run NORAD

2) There is no Santa Claus

** Note: This message was brought to you by Mr Daniels Tennesee Honey Whisky! I guess I'm late to the party and just tried that shit! And just in case any kids read through this and realized there is no Santa..um...don't believe everything you read kid. There is a Santa....aaaand if you don't get your mom to show me her boobs, Santa will not bring you ANYTHING for Christmas this year...

[drewpey]

Totally thought this was going to be a thread about this whole thing being cancelled because of sequestration. Glad I was wrong.

[pawnman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_x5_qKk0c

Edited December 7, 2013 by pawnman

[GrndPndr]

Hasn't this (not Santa) been cnx'd over budget issues. Come on, White House tours, Demo teams and trackin' Santa. Hell, all that stuff is about how much pain we want to remind everybody about in the budget. Those mean ole Republicans. That mean ole Pres... Wait! Cancelling this is only an executive order away!

FM

Still proudly celebrating Christmas...