[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...

[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.