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 djones520 wrote:


My true mission is to ensure the protection of life, and assets, through the accurate prediction of weather. My mission sometimes is directly tying into the death and destruction, but that would be more like a secondary part of it.

So you are a weather man with the dial turned up to 11?
Also....Really? Just Really? What kids will think is "Cool, Airplanes" not "Cool, Santa is in the military"

Really.... this article is silly.

When I was younger, if I saw Santa with a fighter jet escort I'd be like "That is awesome!". My thought process would be VERY FAR from: "Fighter jets with Santa?? :O I like fighter jets and Santa.... so if Santa likes fighter jets then he must stand against terrorism and want to promote freedom. With Santa's approval I will be joining the military upon reaching the legal age of enlistment!"............................ (inserts endless trail of dots).

The associative imprinting is much less sinister, gossipmeng. It's more like the endless photos of attractive women molesting car hoods in automotive circles. You're trying to sell the car by associating it with attractive women and letting the onlooker's imagination wander. Just flip sexy women with Santa Claus and the car with a Fighter Jet. You sell to kids because they know they love Santa, and Santa apparently loves the US Air Force... if you know what I mean.

So they won't show Santa's drones delivering "presents" to school children and weddings in the Middle East either?

Santa doesnt deliver to the middle east. They are santaless heathons who worship the toothfairy

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Santa doesnt deliver to the middle east. They are santaless heathons who worship the toothfairy

Charlie don't Santa

 reiner wrote:
The associative imprinting is much less sinister, gossipmeng. It's more like the endless photos of attractive women molesting car hoods in automotive circles. You're trying to sell the car by associating it with attractive women and letting the onlooker's imagination wander. Just flip sexy women with Santa Claus and the car with a Fighter Jet. You sell to kids because they know they love Santa, and Santa apparently loves the US Air Force... if you know what I mean.

So in future kids will associate the airforce with Christmas and expect presents?

You should look up what Cargo Cults are.

I am remembering a calvin and hobbes comic where calvin is daydreaming about flying a fighter jet and launching a missile at his school. Apparently the guy who drew the comics got a ton of angry letters over that one. His response (give or take a little, I can't remember the exact wording). "Anyone who complains about this strip must have never been a child."

Thing is, if you don't want the military in your Christmas celebrations, then don't use the Track Santa program that is run by the military.

If Santa would stay out of the no fly zones, we wouldn't have to chase his ass around with fighter jets.

cadbren wrote:

 reiner wrote:
The associative imprinting is much less sinister, gossipmeng. It's more like the endless photos of attractive women molesting car hoods in automotive circles. You're trying to sell the car by associating it with attractive women and letting the onlooker's imagination wander. Just flip sexy women with Santa Claus and the car with a Fighter Jet. You sell to kids because they know they love Santa, and Santa apparently loves the US Air Force... if you know what I mean.

So in future kids will associate the airforce with Christmas and expect presents?

You should look up what Cargo Cults are.

Haha thank you for reminding me, I had completely forgotten about cargo cults. You just sent me on another Wiki rabbit hole reading back up.

 dementedwombat wrote:
I am remembering a calvin and hobbes comic where calvin is daydreaming about flying a fighter jet and launching a missile at his school. Apparently the guy who drew the comics got a ton of angry letters over that one. His response (give or take a little, I can't remember the exact wording). "Anyone who complains about this strip must have never been a child."

Yep The funniest thing about the need to censor violence in kids material is that if you ever listen to what kids fantasise about it's got more senseless, random violence than anything I've ever read or seen. Just read a few Axe Cop strips and learn how kids think stories should go.

Now that doesn't mean anything should go for kids, obviously they get upset by confronting material, such as the bad guy actually being a real threat of winning. But just the violence, the hero wiping out loads of bad guys with martial arts or machine guns or rockets? Kids are fine with that.

I still think they missed a trick here. Santa could've shot a carrier landing.