I do not know whether I am typically German or not, but with regard to maintaining order, alas, I am not. Anybody ever having seen my study, in particular my desk, can tell a story … The desk actually is quite invisible, buried under stacks of paper, …
So my first good intention should be to make this desk visible again and as I do not have any magic skills, I will have to do it the “muggle way”: Meaning I bought files and a shredder ;-)
Loosing weight, of course, is always a very popular good intention and after having had Gans mit Rotkohl und Klößen for Christmas and lots of Plätzchen, Lebkuchen, Printen, etc., I guess that could be a good idea, too.
You think there are more important things than cleaning up and loosing weight? I know! Most of my compatriots do not have time for such trivia, after all, they are saving world climate!
German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel even went to United Nations climate conference in Bali and by doing so risked spoiling his personal CO2 balance!
Talking about Bali, I have just discovered a very interesting website called “Climate Resistance” that is challenging climate orthodoxy. Here is an excerpt of what they wrote on Bali:
“The Great Big Bali Beano Ding-Dong Roadmap to Nowhere”, December 20, 2007:
There have been rumours of punch-ups, singing and drinking and dancing, weeping delegates, and Mea Culpa’s from failed US presidential candidates on behalf of the entire USA. It was, in this sense, like any other industry’s Christmas party - an expenses-paid event, which went on too late, at which the tired staff, drunk on their own self importance, became emotional, and fell out with each other. Office politics, writ really bloody large. So much ado about nothing.
The media lapped up the hysteria nonetheless, and gave it ‘meaning’. What has emerged are unsatisfied eco-activists, disgruntled at the failure of the world’s politicians to achieve a “legally binding framework” to reduce green house gases in the atmosphere. These responses tell us more than Bali itself. (…)
Do you think global warming “experts” have good intentions for next year, too?
Like staying at home and having a video conference next time?