Predictions for 2008

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<p>US will outmedal China in the 2008 games by a significant margin.</p>

<p>Ohio State will handily defeat LSU in the National Championship game, but will only be ranked #7 in the preseason AP poll.</p>

<p>USA Basketball won’t event medal in the Olympics.</p>

<p>Darren McFadden, Brian Robieske and Sam Baker all declare for the NFL Draft.</p>

<p>UNC easily wins the NCAA tourney, Tyler Hansborough finally declares for the NBA.</p>

<p>Chicago Cubs finish below .500.</p>

<p>Notre Dame has a remarkable turnaround in football and has a 10-2 season.</p>

<p>John Edwards wins Iowa and leads this shocking upset to the Democratic nomination.</p>

<p>Alyssa Milano, Abe Vigoda, and Elizabeth Taylor all kick the bucket.</p>

<p>I Am Legend is nowhere to be found come Oscar time.</p>

<p>I personally see Rambo 10 times.</p>

<p>The Cleveland Cavs barely make the playoffs as a 7th seed, but still make the Eastern Conference Semis.</p>

<p>Michael Bloomberg runs as an independent with Chuck Hagel as his running mate, gets less than 6% of the vote, despite spending $380 million.</p>

<p>Britney Spears poses for Playboy.</p>

<p>John McCain wins the Presidency with Guliani as his veep.</p>

<p>Winners of Super Bowl XLII: New England Patriots over New York Giants 32-10.</p>

<p>CC Sabthia is traded by the Indians at the trading deadline. </p>

<p>The housing market slide ends in March, causing stocks to increase, DJIA ends the year 2008 at 15980.23</p>

<p>Dollar increases in value against Euro, Chinese economy collapses after Beijing Olympics are not a hot item. </p>

<p>Troop strength in Iraq at 12-31-2008: 96,000</p>

<p>Average price of a gallon of gas in mid July $1.82 gallon. Average price at end of year: $2.28.</p>

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<p>Nothing that happens will impact my day to day life one iota. Life goes on.</p>

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<p>Ron Paul beats Hillary for President
Troop levels stay about the same, but are completely withdrawn in 2009.
Pats beat Cowboys in the Superbowl</p>

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<ol>
<li>Huckabee gets trampled in the Republican primary</li>
<li>Romney becomes the Republican candidate</li>
<li>Jamie Lynn Spears further morphs into another version of her trashy older sister</li>
<li>Obama triumphs over Clinton to become the Dems’ candidate</li>
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<p>…And hopefully I get into UC Davis or LMU or Chapman or Pitzer or Scripps (my top colleges). PLEASE.</p>

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<p>Insomniac Swami moment:

  1. Romney wins close election against Obama…a third party candidate enters the race and takes many liberal votes away from the Dems.
  2. Iraq stabilizes as Pakistan destabilizes.
  3. Chavez is overthrown.
  4. Colleges will decide to put students out of their suspense and release admissions decisions by the end of February. Admissions decisions for all colleges will be determined by the A.I.'s lurking in the computers at MIT and Cal Tech…that’s how they get done so fast.<br>
  5. I will be an “empty nester” :frowning: “tears”</p>
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<p>Western New York gets a big boost to its economy as the US dollar grows weaker against the Canadian dollar and swarms of Ontario shoppers come across the border</p>

<p>AFC Championship Game will be played during a blinding Noreaster, with Moss neutralized the Pats will lose</p>

<p>UNC will win the NCAA tournament, but Davidson will make the Sweet 16 with two upsets of ranked teams</p>

<p>Britney Spears will be involved in a much more serious motor vehicle accident resulting in someone else’s death, but will still get away with little or no punishment</p>

<p>A much cooler than normal summer brings out the global warming skeptics and threatens many crops. </p>

<p>Alan Webb wins the 1500m gold medal at the Summer Olympics</p>

<p>The New York Mets win the World Series </p>

<p>Rioting will break out in polling places in November as voting machines break down and long lines are cut off at poll closing time</p>

<p>and…by some miracle, D gets recruited and accepted SCEA to Yale</p>

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<p>Don’t you own a car? The occasional bouts of gasoline price hyper-inflation sure impact my day to day life.</p>

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<p>Dreamer. The only American with any hope of that is Bernard Lagat.</p>

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<p>In fact, if it comes down to Clinton v. Romney or Clinton v. Giuliani, Hillary is actualy likely to carry several Southern states. A Mormon from Massachusetts or a pro-choice Italian-American from New York won’t go very far in the deep South. </p>

<p>I agree however that there will probably be a third party candidate who will prevent whoever gets elected POTUS from climbing above 50 % of the popular vote. In any scenario though, I predict an easy win (in electoral college votes) for Hillary, as all prospective Republican nominees are all very weak candidates in a national general election.</p>

<p>PS: I also predict Hillary’s VP running mate will be Evan Bayh ,who will deliver her Indiana, Ohio and several other Midwestern swing states.</p>

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<p>I predict that mini has a “Road to Damascus” conversion and that after his blindness is ended and his eyes are opened that he will see that the US, regardless of which party controls the White House, is really not the evil empire that he continually makes it out to be. He will realize that despite some flaws and failures that domestic and international policy is conducted with benign versus nefarious intent. At the same time he will come to realize that there truly is evil out there that seeks to do great harm to this country and people like us around the world.</p>

<p>Oh, and I also predict that the Miami Dolphins will go 16-0 during the 2008 regular season, Mike Huckeby will convert to Buddism, Paris Hilton will become a nun and Hilary Clinton will take a definitive stand on Iraq.</p>

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<p>Gas makes up about 3% of our monthly budget. If it goes up 50% we might eat one fewer meals out. Not that big a deal. All my business driving gets paid back at a rate high enough ($.50 mile almost) that it pays for all the gas we buy in a month anyway.</p>

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<p>“At the same time he will come to realize that there truly is evil out there that seeks to do great harm to this country and people like us around the world.”</p>

<p>And FF will realize that the 600,000 people “ethnically cleansed” by General Betrayus between July and October 2007, many of whom are now starving and some of whom have daughters joining the sex trade in order to survive, had been Iraq’s greatest hope for democratization and liberalization (precisely what the U.S. cannot, under any circumstances, tolerate.)</p>

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<p>Most Americans agree with me–we are happy.</p>

<p>[url=<a href=“Most Americans “Very Satisfied” With Their Personal Lives”>Most Americans “Very Satisfied” With Their Personal Lives]Most</a> Americans </p>

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<p>mini – Why you hating so?</p>

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<p>The figures I have read of displaced Iraqis are closer to 1.2 million. If anything, the 600,000 is an underestimate. Only a few have been allowed to emigrate to the US.</p>

<p>Barron, that Gallup poll was 1000 people. Since most people now only have unlisted cell phones, I doubt it is in the least bit reliable. And I am sure the huge underclass in our country was part of that survey.</p>

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<p>Yes, Gallup is a small-time outfit that can’t do a decent poll.
Also the alleged 600,000 figure is from just the last year (Surge) or so. Not the total.
The poll had breakouts for poor, blacks, etc.</p>

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<p>Most polls are unreliable, whether done by Gallup or anyone.
And, if Gallup is a big corporation, you have your answer. Even more unreliable.</p>

<p>This is a predictions thread - not a thread about the happiness level in the country. However, I am glad you are happy and compassionate, also.</p>

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<p>“Most polls are unreliable, whether done by Gallup or anyone”</p>

<p>I’m sure you have support to back that assertion. Most major polling companies are parts of big corporations. </p>

<p>My prediction is that nothing much that can happen has much direct impact on my life so I don’t worry much about it. The indication that most people in the uS are pretty happy with their lives tends not to support that people are looking for major change unlike some would like to think. Compassion starts at home by providing a comfortable life for you and yours. For most of us that’s pretty much a full-time job.</p>

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<p>Well, sure. If someone else is paying for most of your gas, of course you won’t feel the pain in the budget that a sharp rise in gas proces can induce. Lucky you. Most others are not so fortunate. Some people have long commutes and have to pay for the gas themselves.</p>

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<p>Put another way, many Americans are and will remain apolitical as long as their material comfort is not threatened.</p>

<p>The linked article mentioned that people are more satisifed with their own lives than with the direction of the country “at this time”.</p>

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<p>I suppose the 40 million people in the US without health insurance, including the children who recently had their Medicaid rescinded by the president are happy. </p>

<p>So are all the people loosing their houses because they were scammed by mortgage brokers and hedge fund henchmen who packaged the mortgages. Also, the neighbors who had nothing to do with the mortgages at all, but who now are loosing their housing value as so many foreclosures are on the market. </p>

<p>Read a paper, watch something other than FOX NEWS and you will get the REAL picture.</p>

<p>Gasoline also includes natural gas with which you heat a house, not just gas one puts in his car. People other than your family exist on the planet and are cold.</p>

<p>The underclass is not just the poor, black, etc. Read up on the recent history of the underclass in America.</p>