A Linney Christmas

Vincent J. Curtis

14 Dec 24

RE: Don’t be a Scrooge this Christmas. OP-ed by Grrant Linney. The Hamilton Spectator 14 Dec 24

Grant Linney may think “A Christmas Carol” is the movie of the Christmas season, but for me the ultimate Christmas movie is “Die Hard.”  But what’s a secular grinch to do this Christmas season except to turn the customs of this time to political use?

Grinch, er, Linney complains of the richest one percent being too rich; he falsely claims that the oil and gas industry received $7 Trillion in subsides (Oh, I’m sure he can quote a source for this, but it remains fanciful accounting nevertheless); and oil & gas are to be censured again for daring to lobby on behalf of the industry. He complains of Canadian banks for their association with the oil and gas industry. (Are we noticing a pattern here?) The Federal Conservative party is to be censured for opposing a worthless carbon tax, fossil fuels having fanned the forest fires that caused the evacuation of Yellowknife.

But we can atone for our sins by following Linney’s example of goat-giving. The giving of goats as gifts, to third world children.

You’re all bad people, you understand? Especially, if, like me, you prefer Bruce Willis to Alastair Sim as your Christmas hero. Don’t acquire; give to people you don’t know; suffer; remorse; reduce your carbon footprint, and be miserable, for there’s and O&G executive having dinner with a banker somewhere and laughing it up on the strength of a $7 Trillion handout.

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