[Timesink]

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!!!

[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.

[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 !

[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.

[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

[dighton]

Rosie what's-her-name, desperately trying to forestall oblivion, will confess that her "coming out" was a publicity stunt. As proof, she'll marry Michael Jackson.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

It will be a mess in the Mid-East. OK. That's easy. It will be a worse mess in the Mid-East, but may be heading towards resolution towards the end of the year because.

1. The U.S. will attack Iraq, successfully, during which.
2. Iraq will attack Israel, causing Israel to respond, which, in combination with
3. The assassination of Yassir Arafat, by even more radial Arab terrorists.
4. Will cause an all out war in and around Israel.
5. Just to make things interesting, Iran will have a Democratic uprising; even money whether it succeeds before the year's end.

But, if the U.S. and Israel can win big and quick and if Iran turns Democratic, things by the end of the year will actually seem promising.

Some more easy ones:
1. Barbara Streisand will say something stupid.
2. Alec Baldwin will say something stupid.
3. Cher will retain the one brain cell she shares with Babs and Alec and keep her trap shut.

The tough one:
Sean Penn will seethe over how the Iraqi government used him and, sometime in late summer or early autumn, apologize to President Bush.

A few more:
1. The Democratic party will start to split, between anti-war and pro-war factions. By the end of the year, there will be noises that several more left-wing representative are considering joining the Greens.

2. A serious terrorist attack will be prevented, because a private citizen had her gun and knew how to use it.

3. India will have serious Muslim riots. Russia will have even more Muslim terrorism. Both of these will draw them closer with the U.S. and Israel.

4. France will have Muslim riots and subsidize the sale of matches.

5. South Korea will pay Dane-Geld to North Korea, to keep them from continuing their nuclear program. Not that it will actually stop the North Koreans. Diplomatic tension between South Korea and the U.S. will lead to serious discussion of the U.S. military leaving Korea and Bush will have to back-off on the issue. Until Hell breaks loose there in '04 or '05.

One more:

I will actually finish the rewrite of one of my novels and submit one of them somewhere.

That’ll do for now.

[jpl]

Another one million illegal immigrants will make their way into our country, no doubt including a handful of dangerous terrorists. The federal government will do nothing...until the next large successful attack.

[Fintan]

Fin's Fearless Forecast For '03

• Al Gore will claim he was robbed in the 2000 election.
• Hilary Clinton will get her long-awaited sex-change operation and become a female.
• Countless Hollywood celebrities will continue to demonstrate their ignorance. No one will notice.
• Fintan will meet, date and marry Britney Spears. They will live happily ever after.
• Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and Spike Lee will make vicious, hateful, and racist remarks on a daily basis. The media will not report these remarks.
• Katie Couric will lick a Democrat's, any Democrat's feet on national TV.
• PBS will produce and air a "documentary" on Mohammed that will portray him as a really swell guy and Islam as the only religion in the world worthy of respect because it's a very peaceful, loving and all-embracing faith. Hey...wait a minute: That was last year...
• Chelsea Clinton will get 'faced, tattoed and 27 body piercings. People magazine will publish a special commemorative issue to celebrate what a stunningly beautiful, intelligent and classy young woman she's turned out to be.
• The State of California will change its state flag to the hammer & sickle. Massachusetts, Washington State and Oregon will protest, claiming they had the idea first.
• Smoking in public will be punishable by firing squad.

[denydenydeny]

1. The Islamic government in Iran falls in a mostly nonviolent revolution.

2. The Chavez government in Venezuela does not last out the year.

[boris]

From my post on the other 'predictions' thread:

At least one more terrorist atrocity will be carried out on U.S. soil. I dunno whether it will be chem, bio, or nuke, but I'd bet a dinner it's coming.

Hillary Clinton will announce or be drafted for President or possibly Veep if she is convinced the VP post will position her for some 'tragic' ascendency to power.

Evidence will accumulate that Osama Bin Laden is still alive.

Public schools will continue to get worse, as test scores get better.

Tort reform will fail, and massive class-action lawsuits will continue against fast-food makers, gun manufacturers, you name it.

Illegal immigration will continue and the government will do nothing to stop it. The INS will remain a quagmire of incompetent/corrupt bureaucrats.

The 'movement' to outlaw the death penalty will continue to roll forward, and may even reach its culmination in 2003-04.

The Bill of Rights will continue to be attacked and degraded.

Clintonite hold-overs in government will remain safely in their sinecures.

Some of Bush's nominations will leak past the Democrats but they will Bork all of the important ones.

Just a few from the fertile(?) mind of Boris.