Every year, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) maintains a tracker of Santa Claus and the reindeer who pull his sleigh, and "Santa's location" is frequently broadcast by numerous news organizations, including local TV stations and cable news channels.
To put this another way, the NORAD Santa Tracker is how the federal government and the corporate media lie to the American people each and every Christmas Eve.
Santa Claus and his nine reindeer don't actually exist in real life, and nobody actually lives at the North Pole. The whole myth of Santa Claus that the federal government and the corporate media believe in is based on the real-life Saint Nicholas, who is regarded by many Christian faiths to be a saint, lived in the Byzantine Empire (in what is now the Republic of Turkey) from 270 A.D. to 343 A.D., and, ironically, is regarded as a patron saint of repentant thieves in some faiths and countries. It's not clear to me if this was a true story or legend, but the whole myth about Santa Claus is based on the story or legend of Saint Nicholas giving a poor family a bag of gold:
There was a man, once rich, who had fallen on hard times. Now poor, he had three daughters of an age to be married. In those days a young woman's family had to have something of value, a dowry, to offer prospective bridegrooms. The larger the dowry, the better the chance a young woman would find a good husband. Without a dowry, a woman was unlikely to marry. This poor man's daughters, without dowries, were therefore destined to be sold into slavery, or worse.
Word of the family's misfortune reached Nicholas, who had the wealth inherited from his parents. Coming in secret by night, he tossed a bag of gold into the house. It sailed in through an open window, landing in a stocking left before the fire to dry. What joy in the morning when the gold was discovered! The first daughter soon wed.
For the federal government to violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution by having NORAD run a fake Santa Claus tracker on Christmas Eve is, in my opinion, absolutely disgusting. What's even worse is that the corporate media in this country is willing to broadcast information about the federal government's fake NORAD tracker to the American people.
I don't believe in God or Santa Claus, I believe in reality!
1:42 PM PT: I edited the diary to replace my original argument, which involved me claiming (incorrectly) that NORAD Tracks Santa uses taxpayer money, with my argument that NORAD Tracks Santa violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is because it was pointed out to me that NORAD Tracks Santa is paid for by private donations.