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Crystal Ball: At Least 8 of the Following 10 Will Happen Within A Year
The Voice of Reason ^ | August 13, 2010 | Texas Peartree

Posted on 08/13/2010 7:41:43 PM PDT by Texas Peartree

I have recently purchased a crystal ball that sees well into the future. The future, in this case, is August 13, 2011. Truly this is the best $3 garage sale item EVER! I probably should not share the future with people in the present (as any fan of science fiction knows), so instead I will tell you ten things about the next year, and you have to pick out the eight that will actually happen.

1) Some guy named Mohamed will engage in a mindless act of terrorism. Innocent people will die and the politically correct will never mention his motivation.

2) President Obama will make a big spectacle out of the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as a way to encourage African-American voters to come out and vote this November.

3) The Dow will close above 11,000 and below 9,500 . . . but not on the same day.

4) Property values will plummet in China causing social unrest.

5) Summer will be hot, leading to speculation about Global Warming.

6) Winter will be cold, leading to speculation about Global Cooling.

7) Airport security will be allowed to use a new form of radiation scan on you, which they will scarcely understand, is incredibly dangerous, will not increase security one iota, and will lead to your scanned body being published on the front of both Time and Sports Illustrated in the same week.

8) Young men and women will fall in love, but not be allowed to marry as they are heterosexuals.

9) Failing schools will be designated as "exemplary" as they will sustain the argument for throwing more money and union jobs at schools.

10) Finally, the sacred right to vote in America will be taken away from the citizens of Arizona, and given...

(Excerpt) Read more at corybirenbaum.blogspot.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Politics; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: 2011; predictions

1 posted on 08/13/2010 7:41:46 PM PDT by Texas Peartree
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To: Texas Peartree

This is tuff!


2 posted on 08/13/2010 7:48:40 PM PDT by umgud (Obama is a failed experiment.)
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To: Texas Peartree
"1) Some guy named Mohamed will engage in a mindless act of terrorism. Innocent people will die and the politically correct will never mention his motivation."

Nor will his stone-age superstitious pseudo-religious affiliations be mentioned...

3 posted on 08/13/2010 7:49:05 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: Texas Peartree
Winter will be cold, leading to speculation about Global Cooling.

This is the only random thought sans foundation in the list. I've been around the last twenty years. The colder the winter the more it proves global warming is really serious.

4 posted on 08/13/2010 8:24:06 PM PDT by stevem
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To: stevem
And ABC Radio News had hour after hour today about how this past July was the hottest on record ever; i.e., the Global Warming drum beat.

5) Summer will be hot, leading to speculation about Global Warming.

5 posted on 08/13/2010 8:58:59 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

..............News came this week that a design for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute .........................

Yet no-one, that’s no-one, commented that the southern hemisphere is having one of it’s coldest years in decades!


6 posted on 08/13/2010 9:47:42 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: Noob1999

Hmmm!

a portion of my last post on another thread, found its way to this post!

Hmmm! Sorry.


7 posted on 08/13/2010 9:49:50 PM PDT by Noob1999
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6) Winter will be cold, leading to speculation about Global Cooling.

You mean "climate change".

8 posted on 08/13/2010 10:34:59 PM PDT by Defiant (Conservatives love the Constitution. Democrats love changing the Constitution.)
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To: Texas Peartree
4) Property values will plummet in China causing social unrest.

Doesn't the Communist Party/State own all property and means of production? If so, with whom will it cause unrest?

9 posted on 08/14/2010 8:42:14 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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