As IF Times

link Who Says Santa Claus Has to Be White? – ABC News.

I will volunteer and say that I do.  While this may be at odds with the current zeitgeist of political correctness, based on mountains of anecdotal evidence, the pc gang who claim otherwise are dead wrong on this.

While I have no firsthand evidence of his whiteness, since I can never manage to stay awake past midnight, there is ample historical evidence that Santa Claus is indeed a white guy.

First and foremost, look at his outfit.  The fact that it’s a stout red suit trimmed with fur and completed by a big belt and boots lends credence to the notion that he hails from a generally cold climate.  Using our vast network of computers, we are unable to locate a single instance of red and white fur suits south of the 40th parallel.   The fact that he is depicted sporting an ample and full beard implies he’s either from a cold climate or a Duck Dynasty fan.

Secondly, look at his preferred mode of transportation: a Sleigh.  Again, searches on our computer network can find no evidence of sleds being employed as transportation outside of the very northern hemisphere.  If a palanquin were employed, or an oxcart, or a bicycle, or a boat we’d have cause to reconsider our assessment.  While the world has long moved towards the internal combustion engine, Mr. Claus still employs engines that are essentially green and renewable, namely reindeer.   According to The Arctic Studies Center, reindeer are found above the tree-line in arctic North America and Greenland.  Notice that there is no mention of the sled being propelled by water buffalo, horses, dogs or camels anywhere in literature or music.

The names of his reindeer crew are also strong hints of his Nordic roots. Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen.  While today, these names can be found headlining a Vegas gay revue, in their time, these were distinctly Nordic names.   Historians will note that on one foggy Christmas eve, a Reindeer named Rudolph was contracted to lead the sleigh because of a peculiar shiny red nose.

Thirdly, notice his preferred method of entering homes.  Via chimneys.  Chimneys, especially brick ones, are found in areas of the world where they need them, ie cold climates.   There is no written history of Santa descending down a stovepipe.  We should also note that one of Santa’s preferred methods of gift distribution is by stuffing stockings which were hung by the fire with great care.  Stockings are only necessary in cold climates.

The very fact that presents are distributed to children necessarily eliminates Santa from being Chinese, in which case the presents would be food.  If he were Black, there would likely have been two people working the place.  If he was Italian, there would be pasta and wine left out for him.  Instead, there is ample evidence that the preferred food left out for Santa are cookies and milk.

So, let the revisionists do what they will, they cannot change the facts and history.  Santa is not Black, or Chinese, or Jewish, or Italian.  He is not a girl, not gay, not a twin, not a paraplegic and not a redhead.   He is a fat white guy.

link Climate Scientists Warn Opportunity to Prevent Dangerous Warming Is Dwindling | PBS NewsHour | Sept. 27, 2013 | PBS.

And in other news, Harold Camping, the broadcast preacher who famously predicted the end of the world in 2011 has died.  From CNN:

“…When his May 21 prediction failed to pan out, Camping took the radio airwaves to say that he had misinterpreted the nature of the rapture but that the world would still end on October 21.  The following year, Camping admitted he was wrong and said he was getting out of the forecasting business.

“We humbly acknowledge we were wrong,” Camping and his staff members wrote in a letter to supporters posted on Family Radio’s website in March 2012.

“We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world. Though many dates are circulating, Family Radio has no interest in even considering another date.”

Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958. It received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009.He first inaccurately predicted the world would end in 1994. Despite his poor track record, he had gathered many followers. Some gave up their homes, entire life savings and jobs because they believed the world was ending…”

Ironically, Camping attempted to predict the world’s end but could not pinpoint his own demise.  Business strategists will note some fatal flaws in his model.  While many elements of his prognostications were sound, including the ability to raise money off of gullible peoples’ irrational fears, a fatal flaw was that there was a specific date (actually 2 specific dates ) attached to his forecasts.  This instantly kiboshed the program once the date came and went.  The other fatal flaw was the inability to rope the government into supporting his cause.  It’s one thing to preach fear as an individual, it’s much more effective if it’s state sponsored.

The Climate Change, nee Global Warming crowd have been much shrewder in their campaign.  While at the beginning, the timeline for the end was stated as “about” 20 years, the more common technique is to now invoke the classic “time is running out” schedule.  They perhaps learned from Camping that predicting the world’s end is a somewhat imprecise science.  In fact, the very reality that global temperatures have not been warming, but apparently cooling have allowed the loonies to now spin this as Climate Change.   Whereas the fanatics try to fix the image of an hourglass with dwindling sand grains in the public’s eyes, the real model they work on is the infinite loop…there is never an end.  This is pure business gold.  Any scenario can be taken as proof of Climate Change.  Snow in Cairo? AH HA!

I have to say, the longevity of the perpetration of this obvious fraud is truly amazing.  Much has to do with the way that stories are presented to the naïve public.  In the linked article for example, it says “scientists” as if to imply solidarity within the scientific community, when actually it means 3 guys: Michael Oppenheimer, the guy interviewed in the article,  Professor Plum and Dr. Irwin Corey, he of the Cadbury caramilk bar secret fame.

It’s also common to refer to observed “changes” in ocean levels, to depletion of arctic ice, to bees counted, to penguins missing etc etc in support of their dire views.  Al Gore doesn’t even rely on those bits of spurious evidence.  He confidently states that global warming is like gravity, it just is.

A guy like Harold Camping passes and the hysteria dies with him.  Sadly this virus of stupidity will not die with the passing of Al Gore or any of his acolytes.  The infection as been spread throughout the education system so that at a very young age, the cult of Climate Change has already lodged itself into the psyches of the next generation.   Years from now, 4 sunny days in a row will cause massive weeping and moaning in schoolyards.  It will be a full generation at least before this sickness gets flushed from the system.