Are welcome in the comments. Remember - I said three.
1)Cons win Federal Election
2) Global Cooling
3) Maple Leafs win Stanley Cup! Ha Ha Ha.
...big things happening.
1. People start to realize the baby boomer retirement is only a year or so away
2. Foolish people will be left behind
3. Wise ones will be ready for the demographic shift.
Something about Matthew 25:1-13
Posted by: tomax7 at December 31, 2007 7:12 PM1. Stock markets in Canada and US will have big year.
2. Republican will be elected President
3. No federal election in Canada
Posted by: sg at December 31, 2007 7:12 PM1. The Maple Leafs won't win the Stanley Cup.
2. Hilary is not elected President.
3. Steven Harper and the Conservatives win a majority in a General Election.
As you can see, I am in an optimistic mood to start the year.
Posted by: Andis Kaulins at December 31, 2007 7:14 PMHere goes, not necessarily in chronological order:
Leafs don't make playoff (no wait, that's like saying the sun will rise tomorow, more like a certainty rather than a prediction, so never mind that one)
- Federal election with Tories winning large minority(from smallest in Cdn history and one of longest running, especially Tory) or small majority
- further to above, climate change (more specifcally Kyoto accord) becomes the great non-story of the year, replaced by environment (though not top issue) with increased scrutiny on China's environmental record
- Hillary Clinton wins the White House and goes on to be one of the biggest hawk president in US history.
1. Harper Majority.
2. Guilliani/Thompson defeats Clinton/Edwards House to the Republicans Senate stays with the Democrats.
3. Iraq continues to stabilize but Pakistan spirals out of control
Happy New Year ATB in 2008
Brian
#1 World recession from the bad housing paper money
#2 Global warming by humans is a scam exposed
#3 Iran will be hit. Nuclear facilitys
Posted by: Ken E at December 31, 2007 7:24 PMThe CBC will continue to suck. Cubed. ~:D
Posted by: The Phantom at December 31, 2007 7:26 PMMy Toronto prediction was an attempt at humour. In reality Calgary will win the Stanley Cup.
Posted by: Mr Perfect at December 31, 2007 7:29 PM1. Dems reclaim the whitehouse via Hilary or Obama
2. Iraq withdrawl commences.
3. The vast majority in the world rejoice.
Posted by: jred at December 31, 2007 7:32 PM1. Stephen Harper will still be PM of Canada
2. A Republican will be President of the USA
3. Global warming will be fading as an issue -- but that won't be a story -- some other panic will be
.
1.Outbreak of civil/religious war in Pakistan
2.Market crash worse than 1929 , EURO becomes world standard currency.
3.Israel fights back after years of failed appeasements to Palestinians .
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Posted by: Arnie Madsen at December 31, 2007 7:35 PM1. Criticism of China will increase dramatically as every government and special interest group in existence is looking to use the Beijing Olympics as a lever to get pub for their cause by shaming the Chinese one way or another on the environment, human rights, IP piracy, etc. And the Chinese are going to get very ******* pissed off over it and retaliate economically.
2. Nobody is going to touch Hillary and she will win very convincingly in November.
3. So many people are directly invested in oil, and have such a direct financial interest in seeing the price of oil skyrocket, that it's difficult not to conceive of military action against Iran with the specific intent of driving up the price of oil, world peace be damned. A sufficiently capitalized individual can sweat the extra $20 a week at the pump in light of the windfall profits to be had in the markets. Admit it; you're drooling at the prospect. There's too much financial incentive among too many people *not* to pop Iran.
Posted by: Beck at December 31, 2007 7:47 PM(1)The wings win the cup.
(2)Oil hits one-twenty by mid summer on further devaluation of the greenback.
(3)Castro's death announced. He's probably dead now. They just haven't figured out how to make the transition from Castro's socialist revolution gone awry, to third world corrupt dictatorship. I rather suspect that they will wait until after the democratic primaries to make the announcement.
Posted by: anon at December 31, 2007 7:49 PM1- Sask increase by 20000 people
2- Republican's win election.
3- Harper Majority.
1. The global warming fools will lost their grip due to mounting evidence that they are very wrong.
2. The markets and economy won't be a bad as everyone thinks. Second half of 2008 will be very good.
3. Guilliani will win in 2008 Election
Posted by: John West at December 31, 2007 7:49 PM*Blowback by in Europe against the left, and Muslims starting in the North East.
*Alberta nationalist parties make headway despite the national and provincial press brush-off as rednecks.
*The Big Green Machine win another Grey Cup.
Posted by: Rednik at December 31, 2007 7:51 PMArnie Madsen,
Stay aware from sharp objects in 2008 and get some uppers from your doctor.
Posted by: John West at December 31, 2007 7:51 PMMy three predictions:
1. Spring election forced by Liberals, with Conservatives gaining another minority win...Dion and Jack! are replaced.
2. Iran is attacked by Israel and/or USA.
3. Neither Clinton nor Obama will occupy the White House.
...and my public wish: May you all have a happy, healthy and prosperous new year! Thanks for an insightful and educational year, Kate!
Posted by: Eeyore at December 31, 2007 7:53 PM1. AGW Myth Dies
2. Federal Election in Canada ... CPC minority (but larger)
3. SDA gets best Canuckian Blog ... again.
My guesses:
1) Spring election forced by Liberals, with Harper winning a large minority, Blocs drastically reduced, NDP even with Liberals.
2) Republicans in White House, probably Guiliani and ?
3) Pakistan in civil war; India and Afghanistan ask world to step in to prevent exodus from Pakistan into their countries.
Posted by: ET at December 31, 2007 7:58 PMalgore will win the Nobel for showing that globalwarming has morphed into a coming iceage. Chairman moe will appear at the Olympics dressed like adolph. And my long stretch one-the leafs will make the playoffs on the last day based on a technicality.
Posted by: reg dunlop at December 31, 2007 7:59 PM #1 Harper slim majority
#2 Omar Kadr returned to Canada
#3 Canadian troops in combat until 2011
1. Americans showing good sense will choose a war president who is strong on national defense, we are at war and will be for decades, most Americans get that. Hillary is roadkill. I'm guessing Romney, McCain or Thompson win.
2. Inflation picks up the pace, sub-prime shoes keep dropping; a bad recession, not sure. Some of Bush's poor economic management comes home to roost.
3. Chavez self-destructs in Venezuela.
4.(I'm cheating.) Castro will be dead in '08.
Happy New Year to Kate and friends.
Posted by: penny at December 31, 2007 8:21 PM1) Liberals will implode...will become the "third" party in federal politics. But somehow, it won't be their fault...as usual.
2) Global warming will be replaced by global cooling...euphemistically called "climate change" to keep the panic going.
3) There will be a political correctness backlash initiated by the recent reversion to "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays."
Posted by: realmusicman at December 31, 2007 8:23 PM1.Conservatives form Majority government
2.Global warming will become Global cooling
3.The Green and White win another Grey cup
Posted by: huffb1 at December 31, 2007 8:34 PM1-Alberta election cons win by slimest of % and lowest voter turnout in AB history
2-Harper wins majority
3-Thompson wins in US of A
Lefties will continue to be totally and completely wrong.
Cubed.
Happy New Year! ~:D
Posted by: The Phantom at December 31, 2007 8:50 PMPredictions...blended with wishes.
1.CPC majority.
2.Canadian MSM realise they are insignificant and redundant when CPC wins majority in spite of them.
3.CBC budget cut drastically,tax money shifted to promoting REAL art and culture.
Hear ya tomaz7..'I wish we'd all been ready'
Happy New Year to Kate and all.
Daniel 12:3
BTW Kate...did you ask this last year?
If you did, how close were the predictions?
I think the Castro prediction was going around last year too...
1. Elvis dies.
2. Google buys Canada, sells Quebec.
3. Leisure suits return.
Beginnings of a move towards a First Amendment to the Canadian constitution. Guarantee of free speech. Canadian intelligentsia experiences the joys of state health care as they get treated for aneurysms.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he will nuke Pakistan. American intelligentsia experience state health care when they sneak across the border to treat their aneurysms.
A moderate canadian Muslim will be murdered after speaking out against the extremists. The same things will happen to the perpetrators as happened in the murder of Tara Singh Hayer.
Derek
Posted by: dkite at December 31, 2007 8:58 PM1)- climate will keep changing
2)- UN will be a useless leftist bunch of fools
aaaaaand
3 - the lefties will get left behind
Posted by: GYM at December 31, 2007 9:00 PMThe year that political correctness reaches its maximum and the inevitable backlash
1. One final and massive push by the AGW crowd. There is too much money and personal reputations invested in this to surrender without a fight.
2. A European country finally loses patience with its Muslim population and things get really ugly.
3. A small economic downturn is the defining theme of the US election. It will be a nastier than normal election with the Republicans squeaking out a slim victory. Liberal media goes berserk.
Posted by: LynnH at December 31, 2007 9:05 PM1. Skinyella wins a Putziler.
2. Lizzie and D’Yawn run off together and join a commune in BC.
3. Fox buys CBC.
Posted by: Bernie at December 31, 2007 9:16 PM1.) CPC Majority
2.) Riders win another Grey Cup
3.) Lorne Calvert steps down
Posted by: notasocialist at December 31, 2007 9:18 PM1) Mark Steyn is denied entry into Canada due to his "hate speech".
2) No Canadian election, minority government continues . . .
3) HRC elected POTUS.
1) The biggest flood that never happened, will not happen in BC. This non-event will beat out the non-flood of 2007 by 2 Billion (the non-flood of 2007 was pegged at 6 Billion (by CBC) ... this non-flood will be 8 billion).
2) I will get several haircuts. Family and friends will say most of them were to short.
3) Number 6 (a long shot), in the 7th, will come in at Northlands (or whatever it's called nowadays).
Posted by: ural at December 31, 2007 9:28 PM1. PM Harper & the CPC will continue to get things done in government while the Opposition will continue to threaten election.
2. Ontario will not resolve the Calidonia issue.
3. The Texas Canuck will return to Canada in spite of the winters.
BTW, American presidential elections are in November. The winner will not move into the White House until Jan of 09. picky, I know.
Posted by: Texas Canuck at December 31, 2007 9:40 PM1) No election in 2008. My gut at this point is after budget 09.
2) Guiliani/Clinton, with Rudy winning.
3) (Not a prediction, but a far out wish) The city of Toronto, which I am presently ashamed to call my home, will just get so up in arms about one of any number of things, start a riot, and finally get the city working again. Not likely, I know, but one can dream.
Oh hell, let's do a third prediction. Dalton McGuinty will raise the PST 1% in the budget and blame it on Harper.
Posted by: Trev at December 31, 2007 9:43 PM1. NDP polls ahead of the Liberals after the Tories win in the Vancouver Quadra by-election - federal election put off by another year.
2. Hillary moves right after she wins the nomination and with Chris Dodd as VP wins the White House.
3. Muslims will get pissed off at something and burn a Nun or an embassy or both.
And not a prediction, but basically a statement of fact - a certain snowy northern country will kick a record amount of ass in Beijing.
Posted by: Robert at December 31, 2007 9:45 PMCold war heats up between Russia and West.
India and Pakistan come very close to nuclear war with extreme turmoil in Pakistan. U S steps in to secure Pakistan nuclear arsenal.
Giulianne/Thompson ticket beat Clinton/??? ticket to win White House.
Posted by: a different Bob at December 31, 2007 9:49 PM1. Kate wins the 2008 Best Canadian Blog of the year award for 5 years running. As a female new-media star, Kate replaces Michaëlle Jean as the Governor General and moves Rideau Hall to the Saskatchewan River so she can hunt from the front porch.
2. After a strong showing in 07 Kathy Shaidle wins the 2008 Blog Diva award. She is appointed Commissioner of the RCMP and starts a program to provide every female in Canada with a pink gun. Crime goes down by 80%.
3. After the Conservatives win a majority, Harper appoints Don Cherry as the president of the CBC who then changes the name to the Cherry Broadcasting Corporation. His first acts are to fire Ron Maclean and sell the news division to Rupert Murdoch. The rest of the programming is hockey and constant rerunning of Cherry's Rockem Sockem videos. Ratings go up 1000%.
Posted by: Fritz at December 31, 2007 9:49 PM1. Jason Cherniak announces he's transsexual and moves to the NDP...sadly this isn't a wise career move.
2.Warren Kinsella announces his own irrelevance...nobody listens and Warren becomes irrellevent squared.
3.Canadian Cynic converts to Islam and learns the Farsi term for C*nt. Hilarity ensues.
Syncro
Posted by: syncrodox at December 31, 2007 9:54 PM1) The Gia Muhammad will not be introduced.
2) They will raid a Canada Post employee's home looking for missing mail. They will find no mail, but they will find all the matching socks that went missing.
3) Several new and improved bread making machines will be introduced ... you'll have to wait about a year to pick these up at your local garage sales for $5.
Posted by: ural at December 31, 2007 9:56 PM#1 - Gold over $1000.00 US
#2 -Britain revolts against the third way
#3 - Chavez is either assassinated or run into exile after food riots
I'd love to go on, but sufffice to say that the world is transitioning from faith in government to faith in the private sector. Communism/socialism's time is up due to underperformance. Here in Canada government has no idea where thousands people who have been deported are but Fedex can tell you where your package is within a few metres.
Posted by: geothermal at December 31, 2007 10:00 PM1. I win the Oil Baron's House.
2. I sell my house for big bucks.
3. I win the biggest lottery in Canada ever.
Okay, let's try this again.
1. Some Edmontonian wins the Oil Baron's House again.
2. The Real Estate market crashes and retirement will now start around 70 years of age....just after a major stroke.
3. Some bloody Quebecer wins the biggest lottery in Canada ever.
Okay, now I can sleep well at night....things back to normal.
Posted by: Joanne at December 31, 2007 10:04 PM
Sorry, make that Fedex can tell you where your package is within a few yards.
Hyuk hyuk gurgle snort.
Posted by: geothermal at December 31, 2007 10:07 PM1. I'll get up on Mondays and work eight to ten hours.
2. I'll finish work on Friday and head back to number one forty eight hours later.
3. Living the dream.
1) John McCain wins US election
2) Karl Rove continues to drive the left even farther into madness (which is his diabolical plan).
3) Waziristan goes to Hellistan.
1. Honking big eyeglasses come back in style; everyone with those tiny rectangular glasses runs out to buy new frames and feels pretty silly for having gotten them in the first place.
2 . Jack Layton changes his last name to Lenin and says he wants to be known as John from now on. Yoko Ono issues a press announcement indicating she approves. Paul McCartney cannot be reached for comment.
3. The puffy shirt featured on Seinfeld finally catches on.
Posted by: Richard Ball at December 31, 2007 10:30 PM1) Tony Blair masks (with an optional cellphone) are introduced in England.
2) Socks that look like hands are introduced in England.
3) Fake 10 and 2 hands are introduced in England.
Posted by: ural at December 31, 2007 10:47 PM1. Harper removed, Liberals win next election
2. Hillary gets in
3. Gas hits $2.50/liter
-More boomers will realize that snow boarding and atheism are best experimented with while young.
-The continuing arrival of wee bairns will confirm the triumph of life over death on Earth.
-Poplar trees along Memorial Drive will leaf out by May 11.
Happy New Year to Kate and all the SDAers (even those that reside under a bridge).
1)...It will finally be discovered that Cityeon Dion is actually Chewbaca
2)... AGW is a farce
3)...and the Goracle,Dr.Fruitfly,etc. don't care,as all their assets are hidden off-shore,therefore not subject to upcoming Kyoto taxes.
Posted by: Justthinkin at December 31, 2007 11:01 PM1. Kate becomes PM.
2. Chretien, Martin, McGuinty, and every pointy-haired idiot that ever worked on a Human Rights Commission jailed.
3. In a tossup between Lickmuffin and Steyn, Steyn named GG.
Happy New Year everyone!
Posted by: Lickmuffin at December 31, 2007 11:08 PM1: It will be warmer in the summer than in the winter,causing hysteria. 2: A 9/11 truther will have sex with a member of the opposite sex,causing hysteria. 3; I will learn how to make paragraphs and that other stuff,causing localized hysteria,mainly my house and vitrivious'es abode. Cheers,hippy new year to all.
Posted by: wallyj at December 31, 2007 11:11 PMKate has Justin Timberlake's love child.
Kate becomes the next Evel Kneivel.
Kate switches to cats.
Posted by: Mystery Meat at December 31, 2007 11:13 PM Because it will be the 8th year there will be
1. Revolution somewhere, question is, democratic or totalitarian
2. Bankers will be hung to dry, what’s the question?
3. Classical music will become more popular; question is, because of sadness or because of joy.
1. Liberals will implode, the smell will linger for years.
2. Aborted babies will rise up and demand their rights.
3. Real Canadians will stomp on the Human Rights Tribunals, causing judges to run and hide behind their desks.
"3) Fake 10 and 2 hands are introduced in England."
1. Once the crown royal and coke dry my keyboard will be screwed.
2. McGuinty uses England as an example of a perfect society, and tries really hard to out do them.
3. A casino will be proposed to be built on the newly acquired Ipperwash Park land by the natives, and everyone will live happily ever after.
1. In N.A. Politics Rudi with either Thompson or Hunter as VP (or Patreus? not likely) will pummel the dems winning CA, NY, NJ, and PA amoung others. The Dem victim will be - Edwards with Obama on the VP ticket (Hillary's chances will expire when she suffers a momentary explosion worse than Howard Dean's).
There will be no federal election in Canada but the CP will get huge amounts of popular legislation passed, maybe even the end of the CWB.
2. Oil will be less expensive on a real cost basis (large increases in supply coupled with slowing demand growth) than it is today and the global warming issue will be very much on the wane by this time next year.
3. The Islamic barbarians and the middle east dictators and elites who tacitly support them will be under huge pressure in the face of a rapid growth in public demand for democracy. Pakistan will permit NATO assistance in killing the said barbarians in the last refuges they have in the world. But the real developments and solid long-term progress will be in Lebanon and Syria.
Posted by: Gord Tulk at December 31, 2007 11:52 PMHAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Posted by: 'been around the block at December 31, 2007 11:59 PM*
1. Pervez Musharraf is assassinated. Jihadis start to slaughter
every educated, good-looking person they can find.
2. India says, "F@ck this crazy sh!t"... and presses their nuclear
button... turning Pakistan into black smoking glassy wasteland.
3. Bush withdraws all U.S. military forces from Afghanistan
and Iraq... by way of Tehran... sane people celebrate.
*
Posted by: neo at January 1, 2008 12:08 AM1. New England Patriots win Super Bowl XLII, with Randy Moss as the MVP
2. After lengthy deliberations, the various Human Rights Commissions decide not to ban America Alone by Mark Steyn. They do, however, ban his next book, "Politically Correct Popinjays"
3. A Canadian Islamic leader publicly (to the general public) declares Canada belongs to Allah.
There are more predictions here
1) Peace will not break out in the middle east
2)Taliban Jack and Dopey Dion will continue to talk nonsense.
3) Small Dead Animals will continue to be the best blog on the internet.
Happy New Year Kate and the rest of you who read this.
1. Al Gore will go nuts and end up in the green nut house 2.Hillary will release her flying monkies on obama 3. Bill will lose his mond and run off after rosie o,donnell
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at January 1, 2008 12:42 AM1) Giuliani and Condoleezza Rice will win presidential race.
2) Bird flu will come back again in several countries and scare us a lot given the state of our health system.
3) Asteroid will hit Mars and we will suffer after effects.
Can't help being a pessimist, I spent my first month in an incubator!
Posted by: Nicola Timmerman at January 1, 2008 12:59 AM1) Metric clock will be invented.
2) A hair drug will be invented.
3) Someone will figure out how to make money from a hairy metric clock.
Posted by: ural at January 1, 2008 1:12 AM1: San Jose wins the Stanley Cup.
2: Harper wins another minority.
2:Hillary wins the Presidency
I move to a secret cave in the hills and give up on humanity.
btw, happy New Year, everyone. Thanks for all your work on this most excellent blog. (In 2008 SDA will finish second to Mitchieville.)
As a seventy four year old I first want to apologize for the present. Then:
1.The Canadian Press will continue to misrepresent every move by PMSH
2. Christy Blatchford will be the only member of the MSM with any real sense.
3. The Royal Canadian Legion will finally ask why the MND, is in a blind funk.
1) CPC will be elected to a small majority in a late winter/early spring election forced by the Libs
2)Macleans will win its human rights commission tussle, much to the embarassment of the CIC..
3)The first signs of a violent anti-islamist backlash will be seen in a major European capital.
Posted by: Kursk at January 1, 2008 2:09 AMI will make five predictions (completely disregarding Kate's rules ... I'm a man WTF).
1) Spring will happen.
2) Summer will happen.
3) Fall will happen.
4) Winter will happen.
5) All will be abnormal, or the most extreme, close to normal, or normal ever. PANIC!!!
Disclaimer - this applies to countries that have seasons. If your region doesn't have seasons ... assume the worst ... you're going to drown in 9mm of water!!!
1. Longest day of the year will be in June followed by hotest day of the year amid claims of Global Warming.
2. Shortes day of the year will be in December and the cooling temperatures will be blamed on Global Warming
3. SDA will win top blog again and Kate's win will be blamed on Global Warming.
Posted by: Joe at January 1, 2008 2:51 AM1) A Democrat will not win the election in November, and Bush will be blamed.
2) 2008 will be the coldest year on record, and Bush will be blamed.
3) Gore will be diagnosed with foot-in-mouth disease, a-a-a-a-a-n-n-n-n-nd Bush will be blamed.
Posted by: Yoop at January 1, 2008 3:42 AM1) the CHRC's claimed jurisdiction over speech will be ruled unconstitutional...it really is the Charter stupid.
2)The Northern Hemisphere will continue to have its average temperature trend downward to match the Southern Hemisphere...AlGore will blame Bush
3) Neither Conrad Black nor Scooter Libby will spend a day in jail,
Posted by: Jay Currie at January 1, 2008 3:47 AMFirst of all, Happy New Year to everyone, especially to Kate.
Secondly, the predictions:
1. The North American economy will not collapse in 2008, nor will it rocket up. China's will continue to sizzle along.
2. (Somewhat of a long shot:) In a surprise upsurge, Ron Paul will win the Republican nomination but will be soundly beaten for the Presidency.
3. The HRC flap will reach the Supreme Court and the HRCs will be declawed.
Posted by: Daniel M. Ryan at January 1, 2008 3:53 AM1. The Cowbell (the world's most underutilized instrument) will enjoy robust growth in 2008. Yes, there will be more Cowbell in 2008.
2. HD DVD and Bluray will merge and create one standard high definition format DVD player and call it the Purpleray.
3. I too will have many haircuts, always too long.
Posted by: Chazz at January 1, 2008 4:04 AM1. Justin Trudeau will go into occlusion and become the Hidden Mahdi of the Liberal Party
2. Algore will be acclaimed POTUS and pass a law requiring everyone to buy carbon offsets from his company
3. The Canadian MSM will continue to be uninterested in why Saddam Hussein gave Chairman Mo $1 million bucks.
1. Al Gore is indicted by a Grand Jury on charges of racketeering and mail fraud.
2. Following his argument that the West must lead by example, David Suzuki gives up all his houses and vehicles and goes to live in a mud hut in the mountains of Columbia.
3. In the televised election debates, PM Harper wipes the floor with Stephane Dion and goes on to win a massive majority in April 2008 leaving the Liberal party reduced to a handful of seats in Toronto.
Okay, not so much predictions as hopeful scenarios. Happy New Year!
Posted by: muttsrus at January 1, 2008 9:31 AM1. Without massive religious conversions, human nature will continue as it always has, being self-referential, inward-looking, and downright stubborn and stingey.
2. Canadians will elect a small majority CPC government, ONLY if we can shuck our usual self-referential, inward-looking, and downright stubborn and stingey human natures. (The Trudopey-an disease takes a long time to heal...)
3. The West will continue to help in the Middle East unless the lawless, extremist, Islamist jihadists blow the whole ME to smithereens.
The world will have just as much need, if not more, of God's Mercy and Wisdom, a truth which forever seems to allude self-referential, inward-looking, and downright stubborn and stingey human beings.
So, those who pray will just have to pray harder. Kyrie Eleison.
Posted by: 'been around the block at January 1, 2008 9:34 AM1.) Karlheinz Schreiber is nominated for the Order of Canada by Pablo Rodriguez and Madam/Mister X of the CBC.
2.) Sheila Copps announces her candidacy in Hamilton East as an NDP, vowing on promise of resignation to raise the GST to 7%.
3.) Jack Layton sits down with the Taliban, is never heard from again but is sighted attending rehab classes at a Pakistani madrassa. Olivia is pissed as she never thought her eyes were her best feature.
Posted by: Jan at January 1, 2008 9:59 AM1. The climate will continue to change as it has for millions of years; enviromentalists will be shocked and will cry, "The sky is falling". "The sky is falling"
Posted by: Mike H at January 1, 2008 10:14 AM(1) Al Qaeda or related groups will kill most or all of the Hashemite royal family in Jordan; the "Palestinian" majority will proceed with transforming the country into another terror state.
(2) An enormous, explosive volcanic eruption in Indonesia and the predictable global cooling it causes (despite the incredible quantity of carbon dioxide released) will be the climate story of the year.
(3) Prince (sorry, they've used "Count" for the past few generations) Michael Ignatieff leaves politics to foment trouble in Central Asia, thereby paying off his atavism.
Posted by: Charles MacDonald at January 1, 2008 10:28 AM1) Stephane Dion is really Celine Dion and since no one can understand him, he'll only sing from now on when interviewed or asked questions in the Commons. Promises no answer will be longer than 4 minutes 23 seconds...the average length of today's pop song.
2) Joe Clark will come out of retirement and run for the Liberals since the Tories are now too far to the right. But he'll walk into a closed door after mistaking "Horton Hear's a Who" for "Joe Who" and then decides to forget the whole thing.
3) Al Gore decides that global warming is ruining the beer industry. Puts his hand down his pants in an Al-Bundyian matter promising a free bar fridge with the purchase of his DVD (and $450.00 shipping and handling).
Posted by: realmusicman at January 1, 2008 10:33 AM1. There will be a natural disaster somewhere in the United States. Democrats and the MSM will blame George W. Bush.
2. Mitt Romney will be elected President of the United States; Fred Thompson will be his running mate.
3. The New York Times will lose more money and readership.
Posted by: Silicon Valley Jim at January 1, 2008 10:45 AMAn end to:
1. The Canadian Wheat Board
2. The CBC
3. The Liberal Party
#1 In a bid to prevent extradition, KHS will reveal that he was simultaneously in bed with the Libranos. Sadly, it will turn out to be true.
#2 Having saved us all the first time around with the internet, the Goracle will not resist temptation to do so again, and will thus throw his hat into the ring as the Green Party candidate in the US elections. Unfortunately for him the MSM will turn on him without mercy and realize that the whole AGW was a hoax all along; and
3. SDA will continue to rule the blogosphere. (This one was too easy)
1.-Lorne Calvert will get the boot from the NDP (already in the works)
2.-The NDP will elect another lefty loser and promise to give financial increases to WELFARE RECIPIENTS paid for by you and I. (the taxpayers)
3.-Pat Atkinson will retire from politics and we will never hear from her again. (one can only hope)
Posted by: dj at January 1, 2008 1:13 PMOkay, this isn't all about me? Let's see then...
1. California finally falls into the ocean.
2. Vancouver is officially renamed Hongcouver.
3. Israel lays Damascus waste for target practice.
4. Few will come to their senses.
Okay, I couldn't help the 4th one.
I must admit I like Hunter's Top Three the best:
Hunter at December 31, 2007 11:35 PM
1. The Liberal Party decides they have had enough of Stephane Dion, so they replace him with a monkey and still win 100 seats.
2. Jack Layton will say "working families" at least 10,000 times this year, maybe more
3. Having had enough of this "pinched" government, Ken Dryden will get so angry he will spontaneously combust.
Posted by: Soccermom at January 1, 2008 2:03 PM1. Svend goes straight.
2. OCAP holds demonstration to thank taxpayers for generously funding welfare benefits.
3. The moon turns blue.
1. The bubble Boy (Gore) will come out of the closet and admit he's really the head of an Anti-science Cult.
2. Steve Bloom & the Sierra Club will be sequestering Methane gas. They will be in the California fields picking & eradicating Radishes, Turnips and Cabbage! They will have
a web site called “RTC” (radish, turnips, cabbage)
3. John Cross will write a paper on how scientists can be "Herded" and made to emulate trained seals.
4. California will be "chosen" (political Consensus) as the ONLY global nuclear waste Site.
1- In late September, Al Qaeda will increase violence in Irak and elsewhere - possibly try another terror attack on US soil - to scare Americans into voting Democrat.
2- Celine Dion will get pregnant
3- At least one of my predictions will be wrong
Posted by: Friend of USA at January 1, 2008 2:35 PMCaledonia Indians dismantle blockade, find honest jobs, start paying taxes, and apologize for their actions.
Jack Layton chastises unions for greed and for protecting lazy and dishonest employees.
Liberals give back all the money we’ve stolen over the years.
Posted by: ? Dion at January 1, 2008 2:46 PM1 - Global temperatures will continue NOT to raise (as well as the other various dire calamities predicted by the Goracle) despite increased CO2.
Proof positve, Goracle will say, that Kyoto is working but he needs more of our money to reverse the damage already done.
2 - Dion will wimp out and NOT force an election over the budget.
PMSH will continue to give him embarassingly public "Swirlies" for another year.
3 - Lizzie May will continue to be a mindless ninny.
Posted by: lyle bert at January 1, 2008 3:48 PM1st, I will probably wish Kate and all who chew over information here a *Happy New Year*.
2nd, There will decisions made due to the fear that 40 to 70 Pakistani Nukes could fall into the wrong hands.
3rd Conservatives will form a Majority government.
========= TG
Tim*s is the most certain forecast however..
1) Peace will not break out in the middle east
2)Taliban Jack and Dopey Dion will continue to talk nonsense.
3) Small Dead Animals will continue to be the best blog on the internet.
Happy New Year Kate and the rest of you who read this.
Posted by: Tim at 12:30 AM
1 - Harper goes to the polls, wins another minority. Libs have leadership convention, bring down Harper, win minority.
2 - Republican President in US.
3 - Criticism of Kate in SDA comments continues to enrage SDA minions.
Posted by: djb at January 1, 2008 5:47 PM1) Hillary will lose and then publicly kick Bill in the nards (at least 3 or 4 times).
2) Algor will slip on July ice, crack his skull and show the world how truly empty his ugly noggin is.
3) The Canadian dollar continues to rise and all of them are spent in Buffalo, NY.
1 ) 2008 will put the lie to Global Warming caused by humans. Al Gore, David Suzuki will be outed as snake oil salesmen currently abetted by hysterical worldwide MSM, and the Kyoto protocol exposed to the world as a malevolent UN wealth transfer scheme.
2 ) The Harper Government will survive as a minority until 2009 despite Canadian Press and corporate Canadian left leaning MSM efforts to maneuver the socialists back into power.
3 ) Perhaps by devine intervention some ivory tower media honcho will realize a money making opportunity and coax a strong female conservative voice (Kate) from blogging to Canadian radio or even TV.
The market must sense there is such a Canadian need, witnessed by the success of Kate's blog.
1.) Bluenosed Dippers, with help from Sask. ex-pats, win New Scotland election.
2.) Revived Ottawa CFL team lifts Hamilton outta the East Division basement.
3.) Headless Sask Grits finally fold up tent, join Ghost of Tommy Dipper cult.
4.) SDA breaks 10 mil. barrier. Sonic boom heard from Port Hardy to Ottawa.
Posted by: jwkozak91 at January 2, 2008 4:13 AM1. The CBC will become a bona fide public broadcaster. Mansbridge will be seen hawking "John Denver's Best" and saying things like "We rely on support from you, the viewers."
2. A credible, non-partisan broadcast network will be launched in Canada; a series of highly engaging and popular investigative documentaries will be aired on a huge backload of imporant topics, including Maurice Strong, Shawinigate, the AGW scam, etc etc. Mark Kelly, Wendy Mesley, Adrienne Arsenault and others will be poached from the ruins of the CBC, while other CBC reporters and producers will be seen wearing fake moustaches at Pearson International trying get to Uruguay.
3. Certain commenters at SDA who are otherwise "onside" will come to a sudden understanding that taking a loud messy crap in the collective watering hole harms the cause. As a result, words like "leftard" and "muzzies" will fall out of common use, and there'll be no more "Trudeau-was-a-homer-seckshul" comments in, say, oh, I don't know, a dedicated thread on the topic of CBC/LPC collusion.
Posted by: EBD at January 2, 2008 5:40 PM1. Ron Paul if he not killed before the election, will be sometime after becoming Prez
2. More ppl will wake up to the corrupt system we live in
3. US economy will take a blow n Canada follows shortly after, resulting in a push for a North American Dollar
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