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.

[Sungirl]

I'm going to take a big risk and say that I think it will snow in Buffalo next year.

[lonestar]

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

No, Lott will learn that he was cloned from a jelly-fish and has never had a backbone.

[Sabertooth]

More harm than good will be done on the matter of Illegals, and the culprits will be bipartisan.
Someone will attempt to ignore the American people and slip an Amnesty through.

If they fail, they won't be discouraged; if they succeed, they will be emboldened.

[Salvation]

Transferring a post:

Since Bush is cutting costs and fanfare in the WhiteHouse currently, we will find that both the Senate and House of Representatives have cut all the pork out of all the bills in 2003.

OK so maybe I am dreaming.

Rudy Guiliani will be appointed to take over the INS/Border Patrol/Visa Clearing House, and other messes withing the Homeland Security Department, etc. Heck, maybe he will even take Tom Ridge's job in the course of events.

[Miss Marple]

In return for assistance with his oil industry and help in the Chechnyan mess, Vladimir Putin will release certain heretofore unknown KGB files, documenting Bill Clinton's efforts to sell out his nation to the USSR.

In a related development, a technical team from the CIA tracks certain computer messages to a certain senator's home in DC, where she is discovered to have been passing information to anti-US factions abroad.

Jesse Jackson's ties to arms smuggling are discovered when the SEC begins tracing mysterious transfers of cash from Wall Street firms.

John Edwards and John Kerry are both mysteriously stricken with hair loss unrelated to radiation, and both withdraw from the presidential race.

Note: If even one of these actually happens, I will buy drinks for everyone! LOL!

[Salvation]

The Catholic Church will continue down the road of healing with many returning to their once abandoned Catholic faith.

"Out of every adversity comes an equal or greater opportunity."

[Loyalist]

1. Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay will be assassinated in a military coup towards the end of the second Gulf War.

2. Three former Presidents of the United States will die in 2003.

3. Hispanic irredentists seeking the return of the Southwestern United States to Mexico, led by a prominent Hispanic Democrat, will found a political party to run candidates in state and congressional elections

4. A Cardinal embroiled in the American Catholic Church's homosexual scandal will be forced out of the closet in court.

5. A well-known Hollywood actress will make a public conversion to Islam during the war against Iraq, and just as quickly renounce Islam following Iraq's defeat.

6. After resoundingly rejecting the Euro in a referendum, Britain will face economic and diplomatic sanctions from the European Union.

7. Canada will face a constitutional crisis when Jean Chretien attempts to call an election in the spring to prevent former Finance Minister Paul Martin's succession, and the Governor General refuses a dissolution of Parliament.

8. McDonald's will post losses in all four quarters, leading to a management purge and the closure of several hundred restaurants.

9. The first military dictator of the United States will be born.

10. An obscure state governor will emerge as the leading contender for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.

[hgro]

Hillary Clinton will not become president in 2003 or a woman. She will be found to be that strange type that
is in-Vince-able.

[hardhead]

Oregon will enact the 'gas mileage' tax and other states will say, 'hey, wait on us'.

The trucking industry will fall into steep decline because of the foregoing money-grab.

A new (but not unknown) political star will rise - Kathryn Harris.

The Raelians will clone an alien for implantation into a human volunteer. Any volunteers? How about you, Hillary?

Three well-known democreeps will find out that the bread is buttered on the other side of the aisle and will switch.

[MoralSense]

Yes, yes, yes, but will Phil Mickelson finally win a Major?

[ErnBatavia]

Willie Green will accept NAFTA as a good thing...? Yeah, sure - that's it!

[Dirk McQuickly]

1. War in Iraq will start with a surprise daytime raid on military outposts in the west and south. The unprecedented ferocity of the sorties wilts the military, encourages officer revolt, and convinces Saddam to flee without using chemical/bio weapons (avoids war crimes charge and settles in Libya). Curveball: Mossad captures Hussein en route to Tripoli and causes a "vanishing".

2. Iran, with the advisement of China, forcibly puts down Democratic "revolution" and tests intermediate missile with success.

3. N. Korea continues its bellicose rhetoric. Cannibalism is rampant. Japan takes steps for nuclear armament. China threatens to open the border with N. Korea if they don't stand down and stop f'ing up their longterm plans in the region.

4. U.S. economy initially worsens as oil prices continue to escalate. Occupation of Iraq begins in Mid-May. Oil prices plummet. Stock market rallies sharply.

5. Usama bin Laden is betrayed and captured in Pakistan. Musharraf receives billions in aid in cultural Marshall Plan.

6. Rampant Canadian institutional ill-will towards America leads to terse phone call from President Bush to Chretien.

7. Indonesia becomes most god-forsaken place on earth.

8. Australia rises to number three on our list of most-admired allies, just behind Great Britain.

9. Partial birth abortion is eradicated at last.

10. Cloning is outlawed. Clones are confirmed. World recoils in horror as thousands step up to the plate.

MORE LATER...

[Dog]

Eagles win the Super Bowl...

[Denver Ditdat]

Deaths:

Strom Thurmond
Ronald Reagan
Bob Hope
Keith Richards
Helen Thomas

Marriages

Ben Affleck & J. Ho
Chelsea Clinton and Ian "Nancyboy" Klass
Nicole Kidman and some anonymous cameraman

Divorces

Ben Affleck & J. Ho
James Carville & Mary Matalin
Brad Pitt & Jennifer Anniston

Disasters

Cruise ship fire in the Caribbean
California earthquake
Space Shuttle

Financial

Dow Jones: 6700
Gold: $325/oz
Gasoline: $1.40/gal
Fails to survive bankruptcy: United Airlines

Outrageous lawsuit

Teen acting out "Jackass" stunt by strapping bomb belt made of shotgun bandolier and road flares to self is shot by police while shouting "ALLAHU AKHBAR!!!" in public. Survives and is awarded $575 million in damages from the city where the shooting occurs and the manufacturer of the weapon used by the officer.

Clinton Watch

Bill appears in public sporting oozing sore on lip
Hillary makes majority of public appearances wearing Old Crusty
Buddy's replacement Seamus goes missing
After series of humiliating legislative defeats, Sen. Hillary! mentions Free Republic during a broadcast rant against "Right Wing Hate Speech".

[YaYa123]

President Bush's State of the Union speech will catch the media off guard with big tax reform changes which congress will quickly enact. The IRS is gonna get a major vamping.

Now, here's my wish for the year: That Bill Frist and Republican senators bitchslap Hillary Clinton everytime she spews her venom about racist republicans. Trent Lott got blasted for his stupid remarks, and she should get the same treatment when she plays the race card.

[Kilborn]

1. Venezuela is just the beginning for South American countries.
2. Pete Rose will not be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
3. The Matrix Reloaded will have a longer lasting impact on filmmaking than digital filmmaking will.
4. I don't have a very good feeling about our Axis of Evil friends.
5. All quiet on US soil terrorism-wise.
6. Californian Janice Rogers Brown, not Alberto Gonzalez, will be the next Supreme Court justice, replacing the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor.
7. John Edwards emerges as the leading candidate to get taken behind the woodshed in 2004.
8. Lincoln Chaffee will bolt the GOP, but the Republicans will get one back upon this news.
9. Bin Laden will strike in July...in Britain.
10. There will be no UN-sponsored war in Iraq, but there will be in North Korea.
11. The Yankees will top $200 million payroll in 2003. Will pick up Bartolo Colon to spite the Red Sox's 28-year old GM.
12. Baghdad will push for a future Olympics.
13. The Washington Post will go through something interesting this year.
14. The Internet will expose some shady economic dealings.
15. Serena Williams will star in a movie or TV show.
16. This will not be the last year of hostilities in the Middle East, but a surprising nation will come forward to try to broker peace.
17. Chris Matthews' book will be poorly reviewed, and sales will be weak.
18. Vince Vaughan will try to bring "Swingers 2" to the big screen.
19. A senator or congressperson will pass away this year.
20. The aforementioned Alberto Gonzalez will be our next Attorney General.
21. Dr. Condoleeza Rice will leave the White House.

and so on...

[PhiKapMom]

Eagles win the Super Bowl...

LOL!!! I am just shocked to see you make that prediction! (not really) Good Luck on your prediction at least through the first playoff home game!