I used to watch the year in review talk shows and there was always some pronogstications that would be spewed by the so-called experts. Well I'm no expert. I didn;t even spend last night at a Holiday Inn Express.
Here are a few SWAGs (silly wild ass guesses) for 2010.
Health care reform will be passed. Just before the 2010 elections.
Tiger Woods creates the The Tiger Woods Center for Sexual Addiction. Wade Boggs and Elliot Spitzer give the invocation.
Undefeated New Orleans meets undefeated Indianapolis in the Super Bowl. Final score 62-56 in OT. (I don't know who wins)
Republicans regain control of both houses of Congress.
Sarah Palin resigns from her book tour. Cites bus trip too taxing and she's against taxes. Plans on counting her millions.
Joe Sestak wins Democratic nomination for Senator in Pennsylvania. He loses to right wing Republican in the general election.
Karzai is assassinated in Kabul. Tareq and Michaele Salahi crash the assassination.
Comcast makes all NBC programming pay per view.
Joe Lieberman switches to the Republican party.
Hillary Clinton is named to the Supreme Court to replace a justice who dies. (Justice to be named later).
Rush Limbaugh named commissioner of the NFL.
Open Salon will have 2 million posts by December 31, 2010.
Unemployment will reach 14% by June 2010.
No legislation regulating the financial industry will pass in 2010.
Financial lobbying expenses will pass $500 million in 2010. The year to date 2009 expenses are at 334 million.
Two more doctors who perform legal abortions will be killed. Prosecutor will refuse to indict the perpetrators calling them political prisoners.
Gay Marriage legislation will pass in New Jersey.
The war in Afghanistan will esclate. Us will add 35,000 troops by year end.
Osama Bin Laden will make an appearance on Larry King Live.
The trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will result in a guilty verdict. The verdict will be vacated by the trial judge.
President Obama will win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Paul Krugman will be proved right.
William Kristol will be proved wrong.
Joan Walsh will replace Katie Couric on the CBS evening news.
Comcast/NBC will rollout a Jay Leno 24/7 channel. Jeff Zucker out after rating debacle.
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lionspride -- Sometimes it hard for me to tell which are the serious predictions and which are the comical ones. That's for the reader to determine.
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Republicans regain control of both houses of Congress.
Sometimes, dude, you can be damn scary. You'd better be wrong at least about THAT.
Rated.
Getting closer now. :-D
Buffy -- Yeah it was fun. Here's hoping I'm not quite as accurate.
Bill S. -- If I going to be wrong let it be that prediction.
Eva T. -- I wish I could say these were skillfully crafted. I sure wish I could.
Deborah -- What Tiger did to hurt his wife and ruin his marriage is bad. No doubt. But I think he was deprived of a childhood with his focus on golf from toddlerhood. I remember seeing Earl Woods and Tiger on "That's Incredible" when Tiger could barely walk with a golf club in his hand and Earl predicting that Tiger would grow up to be the greatest golfer ever. As Casey Stengle once said, "you could go and look that up."
Stim -- That would be Comcastic. (note to non Comcast subscribers it's their tag line).
Surly -- I certainly hope not. Who knows?
Ardee -- One will get you ten that your are wrong. Thanks for the compliment. We'll have to look back at this list a year from now and see how many were close to being correct.
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Lorraine -- sounds like the Mad Magazine's 2010 predictions.
John -- I'm doing this on Spec....
GJIPenguin -- Charlie was in my first draft. I swapped him for Spitzer.
Funny.
:)