The Official Free Republic 2003 Predictions Thread

Me, Myself and I | December 31, 2002

[Timesink]

This is it folks, the place where we all gather 'round once a year to prognosticate about the year to come, for the sole purpose of hopefully being able to come back and gloat in 365 days.

So without further adieu, I'll get it started:

1) Hillary Clinton will not become president in 2003.

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Your turn! Everyone with ping lists, please use them!

[Fred Mertz]

Iraq II commences in January; occupation continues throughout the year and beyond.

The WoD continues in 2003 without success.

The WoT continues in 2003 with some successes.

[lainie]

Well, there's going to be a very long and annoying mediafest when those two snipers go on trial(s).

Anything from which can you gloat from last year?

[upchuck]

1) Hillary Clinton will not become president in 2003.

Thank the Good Lord above. Although I'm sure if there was any way she could try, she would.

[anniegetyourgun]

BWB - are you collecting some of these already from another thread?

[Sparta]

2003 Predictions ping!!!

If you want on or off the Western Civilization Military History ping list, let me know.

[TheStickman]

The male side of Billary will announce he has HIV and is donating his brain to the Raellians for cloning experiements. The female side of Billary admits publicly she has been using a chainsaw to shave her legs for the last 20 years.

In the real world, 2003 will be the year Saddam is killed, gasoline prices fall, the economy picks up despite the *rats best efforts to talk it into the ground and most importantly, we catch more Al Qaeda before they can kill us. America will remain the land of the free and the home of the brave in 2003!!!

[Senator Pardek]

The WoD continues in 2003 without success.

They're just not trying hard enough!

[Sparta]

(1) The Axis of Evil is finished by the end of '03
(2) Bush grows some testicles and pushes for a flat tax
(3) The Patriot Act will be weakened
(4) The borders will finally be addressed
(5) The WOD continues with no success
(6) Walters won't be fired
(7) China and US will be in a showdown by the end of '03

[upchuck]

There will be increasing interest in the "Fair Tax," a national sales tax proposal.

There may be, hopefully, some serious discussion about this in Congress.

[Fzob]

Tent Lott while attempting to drown his sorrows by drinking his new brand of hair shellac discovers his backbone under the bathroom sink.

[Sparta]

I wouldn't want to be a cop when the people start fighting back against the crap you just linked to.

[ex-snook]

President Bush will complete the war on Al-Queda and not prove that Canadian women correct by invading Iraq and ignoring the more important problems for the United States from NK and the economy.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

[Timesink]

BWB - are you collecting some of these already from another thread?

I've started a separate thread for bragging rights regarding 2002 predictions.

[antaresequity]

DOW 6000

S & P 500 700

NazCompX 960

[Sub-Driver]

From the Iconoclast:

1. Fox TV's new reality show, The Incest Challenge, will become the year's top-rated television show, followed by CBS's new Wednesday night hit, CSI Cincinnati.

2. Mexico will announce the construction of a massive new "Gringo Wall" across its border with the U.S., to keep out illegal American immigrants trying to sneak into Mexico. As intended, everyone in the U.S. and Mexico will have a good laugh.

3. Al Gore will announce he is planning to run for governor of Florida in 2004. A mass emigration from Florida to other states will begin immediately.

4. Noam Chomsky will write his penultimate America-hating diatribe in The Nation -- "Fortress America, The Dung Heap of History" -- comparing the United States with Sparta and arguing that Spartans were a more peaceful people than Americans. Most insulting of all, he will argue that Spartans had a keener fashion sense, arguing that "tunics are so much more chichi than blue jeans or polyester pants."

5. James Brolin will ask for a divorce from wife Barbra Streisand, citing Bab's irreconcilable ego and "damn big nose."

6. Michael Jackson will dangle Sony executive Tommy Mottola from the window of a New York apartment building until Mottola reluctantly comes up with a new 35-million-dollar recording contract for the Demented One.

7. Pete Rose proudly travels to Cooperstown (Wyoming) to be inducted into the Gambler's Anonymous Hall of Fame.

8. The once-tight Friends cast will have a falling out over salary demands and end their popular TV series. But they'll return in a brand new prime-time NBC sitcom, Enemies.

9. Shaq O'Neil will put on another 100 pounds and will lumber down basketball courts on fast breaks in a golf cart. He will carry a lightweight aluminum ladder with him to help him still score his soaring gorilla dunks.

10. Eminem will confess to Barbara Walters that he is gay and that he has had a life-long crush on Elton John. For the first time ever, Barbara Walters will throw up in prime time.

[Sparta]

"4. Noam Chomsky will write his penultimate America-hating diatribe in The Nation -- "Fortress America, The Dung Heap of History" -- comparing the United States with Sparta and arguing that Spartans were a more peaceful people than Americans. Most insulting of all, he will argue that Spartans had a keener fashion sense, arguing that "tunics are so much more chichi than blue jeans or polyester pants."

Hey!!!!

[nhoward14]

Saddam Hussein will be deposed.

The stock markets will finish up for the year, but only marginally (up less than 2.5%).

John McCain will resign from the Senate for medical reasons.

States will begin assessing special taxes/surcharges on internet service provider access charges.

Acceleration of federal income tax rate cuts will fail.

The current federal income tax rate cuts will be made "permanent", i.e. they will go right back up if a RAT gets elected prez in '04 or '08.

Dividend tax cut legislation will be passed but it will be written so poorly that investors who could really use it to stimulate the economy will see no actual benefit.

[martin_fierro]

Last year's predictions for 2002