Posted on 12/21/2001 12:22:18 PM PST by Mensch
As for Rush, I heard his ear surgery went well, and he may even get partial hearing back. Here's to hoping that he does.
Not if the Cubs and Red Sox are in the Series!
White will steal 30 bases. Mussina will win 30 games. Joe Pepitone is named batting coach.
Billy Martin will rise up from the grave to replace Willie Randolph as 3rd base coach.
In a suicide squeeze, Soriano steals home. Martin beats the $hit out of Emmett Ashford at home plate.
YANKEES WIN! THEEE YANKEES WIN!
Bin Laden will be accounted for.
Taxes (total bill, not just fed) will go up.
Gov Don Singleterm (D-Idiot) will lose the Alabama governership. (Halleluah!)
The Republican who replaces him will be either an idiot or a crook, or both. (Can't escape history!)
Pubs will retake the Senate by a small margin.
Lord of the Rings will blow Harry Potter away at the box office. (no, I haven't seen it yet)
Bubba will be Bubba.
Hitlery will be booed.
I will celebrate my 25th wedding anniversary!
I'd hate to be him!
Me too!
Boy, your Christmas 'wish list' isn't very large, is it? Whew!
1) The economy will rebound, albeit slightly. Probably around 2% for the year, although one quarter may be spiked higher due to the way the statistics are compiled.
2) Argentina will become an even bigger mess as no one will bail them out for all their fiscal mismanagement.
3) In the US elections, the Republicans will pick up seven seats in the House of Representatives, largely due to redistricting. Connecticut will be represented by three Republicans and only two Democrats, as Joe Maloney will lose his election to Nancy Johnson (RINO), as they would share districts. Republicans also score key victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas (somewhat surprisingly), and California, which is thoroughly disgusted with Condit and Davis.
4) The Senate is another story, and Democrats make stunning gains, picking up three Senate seats. Among those defeated are Elizabeth Dole, Tim Hutchinson, Richard Durbin, Bob Smith, and Gordon Smith. Republicans pick up two seats: Tim Johnson of SD and Max Baucus of Montana. Daschle's glee is somewhat muted by Johnson's loss.
5) FBI Agents will thwart a significant terrorist plot, although not a plot like September 11. However, it's still a confidence booster for the population to know the FBI is on the job. New videos of shadowy figures will be speaking Arabic discussing how Allah wants them to blow up a bunch of infidels.
6) The Dow Jones average will close above 11,000 in 2002, a gain of about 10% for the year. The Nasdaq will gain 15% for the year, largely due to the reweighting of the index with more biotech stocks.
7) The Yankees will win the World Series again, and MLB will begin a review of revenue sharing as fan interest and merchandising income starts to drop, although it's only a slight drop.
8) Jim McGreevey will really botch the governship job in NJ, and declare that increased taxes and tolls are necessary. This will further NJ's economic decline, as businesses start relocating to other states.
9) The new government will still be in power in Afghanistan with heavy international support. However, nothing in the country will really work, and the government won't have any power outside of the major cities.
10) Mike Bloomberg will find that running NYC isn't so easy, and the populace will begin to long for Rudy.
I agree with this if you imply that the perp(s) will never be known by anyone outside of the shadow government.
And I hope they all come true, by March 2002......... :-)
Dem's will win all the close Senate races in urbanized states, with overall light turnout, but enormous margins in some urban precincts, enabling them to retain control of the Senate. Peter Jennings will announce that the failure to recapture the Senate is a repudiation of President Bush.
Al Hunt will assert in a column that "Everyone now agrees, with the exception of lunatics like Dan Burton, that the Clinton administration was one of the least corrupt in history."
Robert Torricelli is easily reelected to the Senate after a remarkably ineffective and under financed campaign by his GOP opponent.
George Pataki is ousted in an upset win by Andrew Cuomo.
Duke repeats as national champs. (Not exactly out on a limb there either.)
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is elected Governor of Maryland in a squeaker, benefiting from some suspiciously late returns from Baltimore that just put her over the top.
Japanese economy remains mired in recession as they continue to refuse to cut taxes.
Washington D.C. or Northern VA gets a major league baseball team.
49'ers win the Super Bowl.
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