Santa's Current Problem Part 2

          “Santa's Story Begins Here”

	I’m just a civilian but I’m going to mention two guys today that were just nice guys and very popular with common people.    One of these guys was a Catholic Bishop and Saint.   I am certainly not a religious ranking order expert but there are some things to consider today.  I have been told and have tried to understand that Christmas is certainly a religious icon.  Because of that terminology there is a rank order which is interpreted from the two guys that I am talking about.   As I understand things, the military is a successor to the religious church of any kind so I assume that the ranks involved in today’s chat is God, Jesus, Pope, Saint, Bishops and then Air Force Bird Colonel.  Did I get that right?     If you caught part 1 of this story, in some way I am referring to Santa Claus.  It does seem that Santa Claus must enter into this religious ranking system too.  Instead, I’ll summarize part one, in a brief preface.
	Saint Nicholas[2] was born in Patara and later moved to Myra (Demre in modern Turkey), where he was originally elected as a bishop.[1] Since he moved geographically a bit, his name was also known as Nikolaos of Myra and then Saint[1] Nikolaos.     According to Catholic definitions, someone that can do miracles can be a Saint.  Therefore, the "miracles" that were attributed to his religiously-based intercession, attributed him to is also be known as a Saint A.K.A “Nikolaos the Wonderworker”.  It is difficult to explain why these miracles occurred but here’s what they were as I see it now.    According to some crazy liberalist’s motivation, living by "Giving some of your money to poor people and especially to families with children and sailors is a good reason.   Did he realize that he was helping the people who eventually discovered America? I think he might have empathized with kids incapable of defending themselves.  He did that with his sizeable inheritance.  Who knows how much money could create a miracle in 300AD?  How much gold could he get for five dollars?

Many stories have been told of his generosity and eventually he was called Santa Claus in America.  How could anyone believe this story? Saint Santa’s original hat was more like a religious style of the era.  Maybe he had a great life giving his “Christ’s Mass” gifts to children and spending a lot of his spare time in prison.  He died in 434AD.   That was only 1672 years ago.   Then what happened?

          “Then America”

If someone decides to investigate anything, then you glean clues from other references.   I have included some of the things that I looked at briefly. The challenge for any detective is obvious.  Any current references are the collaboration of other references. That process grows geometrically into a million others.  From Part1, the definition of “the truth” is exactly what the people’s majority think….

Illustrated by Thomas Nash 1881

Chimney, Sleigh also by Nash

There are no pictures of Nicholas.  In the fourth century, somebody lost all of the cameras. We do know that there weren’t many choices for dressing kinds. By chance, if he was a catholic bishop, then in his portray he was wearing long robes and a hat. What color?[5] Maybe the Dutch who lived in New York brought Saint Nicholas’ stories into America. This meager introduction became Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santy, or simply Santa[2]. In 1874, a cartoonist[3] drew Santa in a brown suit with a brown fur trim. In America, the whole idea of Santa Claus has changed continuously.

Charlie and Linus Picked the right tree

THE POEM

Macy's Inc,Edmund Gwen,Natalie Wood juridical miracle on 34th street[4]

Is this where NORAD started?

PACOM Carl's Coconut Tree with flying pig

Previously I mentioned New York.  What do you think?  Did New York create the “official“ Santa?  I have edited the following excerpts from two original famous poems.  No need to go to a library to see all of their text. In September 1897 the editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"[6] and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore.[7]

1897 NY Times Editor Dear Editor— I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so." Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O'Hanlon 115 West Ninety Fifth Street Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. Christmas Eve 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name; "Now, DASHER! now, DANCER! now, PRANCER and VIXEN! On, COMET! on CUPID! on, DONDER and BLITZEN!(No Rudolph yet) He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose; He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;

I took a long time to examine the Santa evidence that I have presented.  I have mentioned that the Dutch Sinterklass came to New York in the 19th century all dressed in red but other poems say that Santa’s eyes twinkled and had red cheeks and nose.  Otherwise he looked like a peddler just opening his pack while smoking what looked like a pot pipe and laughing like a bowlful of jelly.  “Ho Ho Ho” turned out to be the zip-code of his current real address in Canada[8].  Well, in America, this idolized poor man looked a lot like money.  St Nicholas used to leave coins in children’s’ shoes.  Eventually, he used the hung up socks indoors but instead and he had to use the chimney because the parents, not the kids, locked the house doors.    According to children born in the cold-war era, we were all concerned about putting up an infinite number of radars and were worried about Russian attacks over the north pole.  It’s only logistical for any three year olds that if the U.S. could monitor flying weapons then we could also track Santa’s flying sleigh.

          “Finally The Important Stuff”

Cheyenne's other front door

Cheyenne's front door

Santa's Elf?

Earlier Display. Santa didn't fly much

A company (Sear’s) gave kids the telephone number at which the kids could contact Santa and find out where he was, etc.  Instead the wrong number was CONRAD/NORAD in Silver Springs Colorado.[9,12] First answered by this colonel[11], he continuously did an excellent job while being known as Colonel Santa[10].  Who would argue that this guy wasn’t a nice guy? I had his same problem. I still can’t ignore the desperate pleas from children either.  Of course I lie to all of the kids too.  The shopping stores did the same thing until children finally got old enough to understand that we were big liars.  I still believe in Saint Nich though. Some people believe in Jesus as well (Also was a real person).

Colonel Harry Shoup CONRAD/NORAD

NORAD's Yearly Peview

NORAD's Santa Village in December

These two pictures look like the general theme from that modern version of the Santa tracker from NORAD.  The first one is for the "other" part of the yearly schedule.  On December first, you get the more complicated village on the right.  On each day until Christmas everyone can visit any building and are then able to play the next computer game of any kind that are newly invented each new year.    There are a couple of things that I don't like about either of these two modern computer versions of Christmas' reality for every child who normally use computers.  That is easy.  I mean "every child" because their current situation is also the definition of life's reality for any child's education and their future existence.

Santa's Real House

I think the last picture makes a lot more sense for my version of the real magical Christmas.  That little shack on what might be on a cliff is still just the right size for making and storing Christmas gifts for all of this world’s children.    Any reasonable child can count at least six rooms in Santa’s domicile.  Upstairs and down.  And a lot of other ridiculous or unrecognizable items, huts, wells, or dwellings and other mysterious snow-gazebos contraptions apparently entered by elevated bridges.  If you can count at least as many fingers that you have, then there are nine reindeer in this picture.  Hey, we’re only getting started here.  Today the mill’s windmill is facing the wrong direction for the American blowing wind’s direction.    I think that the last picture makes a lot more sense for my version of the real magical Christmas.  That little shack on what might be a cliff is still just the right size for making and storing Christmas gifts for all of this world’s children.    Any reasonable child can count at least six rooms in Santa’s domicile.  Upstairs and down.  And a lot of other ridiculous or unrecognizable items, huts, wells, or dwellings and other mysterious snow-gazebos contraptions apparently entered by elevated bridges.  If you can count at least as many fingers that you have, then there are nine reindeer in this picture.  Hey, we’re only getting started here.  Today the mill’s windmill is facing the wrong direction for the American blowing wind’s direction.    Most of the information presented on Santa’s worldwide location visits are provided by Wikipedia.[14] In addition, I don’t know which companies invent the other Santa stuff.  They are working for NORAD indirectly but they are not paid for by your FED taxes.    Of course the NORAD’s Christmas production is great for computer aided children.  All children look at these pictures just like I did.  Let’s face it.  The kids these days might be smarter than I am and they all know something that NORAD does not know.  Just like the last magical picture above, kids know there aren’t any trees in Santa’s North Pole vicinity.

Refs:

[1]ref to saint and bishop history: Cunningham, Lawrence (2005). A brief history of saints. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4051-1402-8. The fourth-century Saint Nikolaos of Myra, Greek Anatolia (in present-day Turkey) spread to Europe through the port city of Bari in southern Italy [2]These are just the beginning http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/how-did-santa-begin/ ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas" [3] An American cartoonist. Thomas Nast; drawings in Harper's Weekly from 1863-1888 strongly influenced the American Santa image. [4] Maureen O'Hara, John Payne(lawyer), Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn(Santa). Macy's claims to have the real Santa Wikipedia; 1947 Movie [5]There were no cameras: https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVjeQwU5WDVQAoxcnnIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Paintings+From+400ad+St+Nicholas&fr=ytff1-yff41&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006 [6]Text: http://www.nysun.com/editorials/yes-virginia/68502/     NY Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus [7] http://www.night.net/christmas/twas-the-night.html [8]"Ho Ho Ho": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_ho_ho [9]NORAD Silver Springs colorado, Cheyenne Mt.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORAD_Tracks_Santa [10]NORAD Memorial; Col Harry Shoup USAF: http://noradsanta.wikia.com/wiki/In_Memory_of_Colonel_%28Retired%29_Harry_Shoup,_USAF [11]Kids starting with the wrong tel number: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport [12]NORAD's Santa FAQs: http://noradsanta.wikia.com/wiki/About_Santa_-_FAQs (Some things about NORAD [13]caffeined? http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obtains-its-coca.html  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca#cite_note-NewYorkTimesMayCliffordD1-4 https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AwrBTzogJlZW_YsAXvNXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTBybGY3bmpvBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--?qid=20061025144541AAImAVh&p=when%20did%20cocaine%20became%20illegal%20in%20america  [14]Here's a fact. All of the volunteers at Wikipedia do excellent jobs.