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.

Santa's Current Problem Part 1

There are two parts to this Santa Claus presentation. Santa Claus has always lived at the North Pole. There are a lot of animal species in the world. A lot of their lives depend on the existence of the northern ice cap.

This is what people think the North Pole looks like

85° Latitude

It's cold. You'd better have a good tent

Warm dogs haul their dinner. Flat space was Santa's House

Nearly everyone agrees that polar bears, who are dangerous types to humans, can not fly by themselves on any particular day of the year. Extraordinarily, reindeer can do just that - but only according to Santa Claus and his special schedule.      The only major question that might become clear to the United Nations’ the meeting[1] in France in December is for universal world agreement on climate. The goal of this meeting in France is to establish an agreement between everyone’s representatives about anything. I think the entire world’s major question for this meeting is, “Where will Santa, as well as the flying reindeer which are obviously needed for Christmas, might live in the future”?       Currently the problem that people have identified is that the big arctic ice cap has been shrinking. There are other notable big ice masses that, for example, are called Antarctica and Greenland. The only thing that is different in this case is that neither Greenland or Antarctica are ice caps for two reasons. First, they are not the most northern ice masses that still exist. Secondly, Greenland is the world’s largest island but resembles Antarctica’s geological material. For one example, Greenland is land and it doesn’t float around like the North Pole. It seems to be melting too.      There is still one more scientific consideration that hasn't occurred to the general public. Some people think that Earth's ice is melting because the atmospheric temperature is rising. Concurrently we are also losing millions of historic Earths' general weather’s data sources as the ice "files" disappear. That "file" is stored in the North Pole's hundred feet ice tubes that have already been extracted from drilling them out of the North Pole's ice layers[3].

Just how fast does that happen? Everyone knows that ice officially melts at precisely 32°. During that "waiting" time, the actual temperature of the ice that still exists might have gone from -50° below zero to 31° above zero. Hey, it's still ice. It is just 31° ice. Do you realize how much closer that ice is to becoming liquid?      I don’t make these thermal occurrences up but finding data to understand them take both raw data and statistical abstracted evidence[2] that I find hard to obtain. I have no idea about how many people are employed to collect data on any ice mass. The following source is one example of how we are collecting data, I honestly don’t know how many other sources exist or are operating.

NP Observatory 2002 then at ?Lat NP 2011

We call the northern pole the North Pole for a couple of reasons. It is supposed to be the most northern place on the sphere that we call Earth It does float and then drift. Therefore the so-called North Pole actually changes its position in any geological direction.      The other reason is that it is supposed to pinpoint our magnetic most northern. The difference in this case is that the center of the Earth is liquid iron. Our inner earth’s molten liquid can change positions as well and so, in fact, scientists say that the North and South Poles will interchange. I assume that this probably isn’t currently important as compared to the Earth's ice melting.       It has been said that perhaps Antarctica has a similar dilemma. How should we analyze this situation? We see a chronologically sorted pictures from the North Pole observatory. Do we see any differences?

NP 2012

NP 2014 now at 87°Lat

All of the pictures that we saw were all taken from a camera held by a person. There are additional pictures that were not taken by a person.

How should we analyze this situation? NASA Digital cameras were first designed and developed by NASA for satellites[5,6,7]. Old fashioned camera film doesn’t work in zero degrees environments. You can’t bring film back home from space. Will the digital camera work in the North or South Pole or the California Death Valley? Yep. Now we get to another look at this situation. I only get some pictures from the news. These pictures were taken from the same NASA and NOAA satellites. I don’t live in the North Pole because it’s too cold for me. There is more statistical data that is also available for the government and world public[2]. Good luck. You can find the data that will support your theory. Any politician/lawyer/pope/scientist/editor/media can always present a theory that they or the majority of human population approves of. If the majority agrees with you then you “win”. I think that’s the way that all humans have existed for the past 2½ million years. Generally, most people like their favorites news show too. For media example, they “reported” what the president actually said in this way, “I am .. not … a … smart person”. Yep, he did say those words and many more. Get it? These aren’t new tricks. Warnings are everywhere. They insist that smoking causes cancer. That is the opinion of the majority and it’s based on factual statistics. That's how insurance companies make their companies work and profit. They insure everyone at different rates because they know how long people in your age and relative positions will live or die. Every business operates successfully in the same way. Isn’t this fun?

Do you want to live here? NP 2012. Has Earth changed in 4½ Billion years?

NP 1980

NP 2012 now at 88°Lat

In my part 2 of this whole story (next blog entry) NORAD has historically reported that Hawaii is Santa’s last Christmas eve visit. That really fun part will be on the next blogs available date. On top of this, there are my usual annoying additions which will be kind of cohesive with my theme for this part-1 of my blog. There once was a time when there was no ocean in this world. Where the water came from or somehow formed here is unknown so far. Let’s move on to another related story that might have something to do with melting ice. Is this story right or consentient? Who knows?       The Great Lakes[8] began to form around 14,000 years ago, as retreating ice sheets carved basins into the land that were eventually filled with glacier melted water. Hmm, the melted ice lakes now contain 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. There was more ice on Earth than were just the incipient lakes. In fact, there were more that were also augmented. Our new ocean’s depth began to increase when this world’s ice melted.       Supposedly that will happen again when our current ice melts too. What will we do without Florida or Hawaii or New York?

NP 2014 now at 87°Lat

Did the humans’ bad habits cause this current big meltdown? No doubt in my mind. Was increased CO2 in the atmosphere caused by those same bad humans. No doubt. We will also use every resource that we can as fast as we can. Did our increased CO2 possibly be a factor in the world’s temperature increase? Why not? Did the same change in our world create the Great Lakes? No. We couldn’t do that 14000 years ago, or 2 million years ago either. How do I know these things? I get my opinion by comparing available data and history’s experience that has been recorded. Well, according to a group of people, God already knows our history. Of course God refuses to talk to me. Instead I looked for my recorded experiences from people that were known to be in close ties with God and might perform other miracles.       One person that I know of is a real person. In fact, a saint. Unfortunately, he never even saw the Great Lakes because Saint Nicholas was born 1745 years ago to a Greek family in Turkey. Later he was called Santa Claus in America. I think he was popular because he gave children gifts in 270AD. Gifts from anyone in that historic era were, well, "They ain't no socks from JCPenny's) We’re back to the same question when I started this blog,           “Where will he live next?”

Refs:

[1] United Nation’s December meeting in France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference [2]I looked at these statistics. There is a lot more. http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arctic/npeo.jsp National Science Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wihki/North_Pole#References http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/arctic/npeo.jsp http://nsidc.org/data/search/#keywords=ice+sheets/sortKeys=score,,desc/facetFilters=%257B%257D/pageNumber=1/itemsPerPage=25 [3]Ice cores http://climatekids.nasa.gov/climate-change-evidence/ [4]Observatory pictures http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/gallery_np.html http://psc.apl.washington.edu/northpole/ [5]Nasa North pole picture satellite http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=620 https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-006&ei=utf-8&fr=ytff1-yff41&p=image%20of%20north%20pole%20earth%202980&type= [6]blue earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ [7]other Nasa blue melting picture http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-north-pole-is-melting/ [8]Great Lakes http://https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes

Are Computers Evil?

ENIAC1 America's first programmers. Six women (not these)4

Have computers ever been evil? No. How many evil computers exist now? None.    In my old blog I supposedly owned a crystal ball that, like the wizard of Oz, could foretell the future. Ha Ha, So far, it has never been wrong. Huh? If you like scary movies, well, those represent our human lives.    I was born awhile back. When I was a child, there was no such thing as a computer. There were no PCs. There was no “Windows” either. (I finished college instead) . If you have read what I wrote before, then I did know something.    Yep, history calls this our first computer. It was thought of and paid for this one by the military to follow bombs and eventually missiles. its first programs included a study of the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb3    Then later, along came more.

Two people Clarke2 and Kubrick5 (geniuses and possibly ET’s) invented another computer in 1968 that was big AND could think.

Some things that we call Hackers came long as well. They did know a little about machines. They didn’t know what the computers could do. Don’t get mixed up, but the “evil” is already here. The evil has been here two and a half million years.    Chronologically, HAL was given a mission and was further instructed that he was not to fail. The problem was that HAL had to think about either failing his mission or killing the humans that were preventing the same.

Just about that time, before the internet or Microsoft, I was using the ARPANET and inventing my own computers6. I won’t say what but we’re still using them every day.    When I fed all of these stories into my future foretelling magic crystal ball (It is not a computer but just like Oz instead) and it did predict some interesting things. Most people say that the crystal ball is very wrong primarily because they don’t want to believe what it is saying.    There are already mini-computers such as drones that navigate and fly together to succeed in any of their instructed missions. Robots are already doing things that used to be employed by humans like doing our banking needs or building our cars that we are mostly still driving by ourselves. These examples are just simple . Computers already compete with humans in more complicated games like chess or Jeopardy.

These computers are just machines right now because they don’t think.    Exactly what is the definition of actual thinking? We still haven’t figured out how our brains do whatever they’re doing.    My crystal ball says that someone will and eventually can let the robots build their own replacements and artificial human parts as well. This is what we call "reproduction"    Humans still want to live longer lives. How about 2500 years instead of 75?

Could this be your next question and/or answer?


Refs:

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC [2](1968) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke [3]Hydrogen Bomb Scott McCartney p.103 (1999): "ENIAC correctly showed that Teller's scheme would not work, but the results led Teller and Ulam to come up with another design together." [4]Following the initial six programmers, an expanded team of a hundred scientists was recruited to continue work on the ENIAC Among these were several women again, including Gloria Ruth Gordon Sullivan, Patricia (July 26, 2009). "Gloria Gordon Bolotsky, 87; Programmer Worked on Historic ENIAC Computer". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 19, 2015 [5]kubrick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28novel%29 [6]In my college there were two old computers, (not IBM/hal) the PDP-11 and a bigger DEC-10. In 1975 A man called William Crowther created a logistic teaching game called “Adventure”. I think he worked for the military too. Hey, the military still uses games….Hmmm Sounds familiar.

Chili Art

On most days, some people have a few personal necessities. In this case two of mine are cooking and drawing. I have to cook because I need to eat and I like to draw 'cause it beats TV. Those first two inspirations require the minimum of two things.   These next pictures are my composites for my periodical thaumaturgy.

Most people don't like chilis in their food. Not Chile and Beans either.

I have drawn a picture of a singer2 who recently performed in the Hollywood Bowl. The colors on the right can be applied to the other drawing. She was forty years old. Now she isn't.

Maybe someone1 else, with Ink

There is one rare theory and eventually a true law that I will jot down. Let’s hear it if you have ever experienced something that disagrees with the following theory and I will modify my theory appropriately.   Strangely enough I like to cook and draw things - separately. There is something that falls in common between these cooking or picture construction components: charcoal, ink, water-paint, red hot sauce and food seasoning. (My or anyone’s oil painting is irrelevant)

These components can all be increased or added. They can not be erased or decreased. If you try the following chili and you end up with a "taste" that you believe is just too damn "hot" then you will understand my theory. I like this stuff but my girlfriend might have been trying to kill me because she bought this jar of stuff for Christmas. Folks, you might like it too, or, it might be lethal.

On this table, Ghost Peppers are only #4. Some people3 refer to this one as “timid” behind the “CarolinaReaper” .

Refs:
^[1] (Facebook)Geir Corneliussen Stavanger, Norway ^[2] Shania Twain in Hollywood ~2015 (A hot summer) ^[3] In 1912 a chemist by the name of Wilbur Scoville working for the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company, developed a method to measure the heat level of chili peppers. The test is named after him, the "Scoville Organoleptic Test".