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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
1. Stock markets in Canada and US will have big year.
2. Republican will be elected President
3. No federal election in Canada
1. 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.
Here 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
The CBC will continue to suck. Cubed. ~:D
My Toronto prediction was an attempt at humour. In reality Calgary will win the Stanley Cup.
1. Dems reclaim the whitehouse via Hilary or Obama
2. Iraq withdrawl commences.
3. The vast majority in the world rejoice.
1. 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
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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 .
.
1. 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.
(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.
1- 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
*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.
Arnie Madsen,
Stay aware from sharp objects in 2008 and get some uppers from your doctor.
My 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!
1. 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.
algore 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.
#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.
1) 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.”
1.Conservatives form Majority government
2.Global warming will become Global cooling
3.The Green and White win another Grey cup
1-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
Predictions…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
1)- climate will keep changing
2)- UN will be a useless leftist bunch of fools
aaaaaand
3 – the lefties will get left behind
The 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.
1. Skinyella wins a Putziler.
2. Lizzie and D’Yawn run off together and join a commune in BC.
3. Fox buys CBC.
1.) CPC Majority
2.) Riders win another Grey Cup
3.) Lorne Calvert steps down
1) 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).
1. 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.
1) 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.
1. 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.
Cold 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.
1. 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%.
1. 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
1) 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.
#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.
1. 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.
Sorry, make that Fedex can tell you where your package is within a few yards.
Hyuk hyuk gurgle snort.
1. 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)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
1. Stock markets in Canada and US will have big year.
2. Republican will be elected President
3. No federal election in Canada
1. 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.
Here 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
The CBC will continue to suck. Cubed. ~:D
My Toronto prediction was an attempt at humour. In reality Calgary will win the Stanley Cup.
1. Dems reclaim the whitehouse via Hilary or Obama
2. Iraq withdrawl commences.
3. The vast majority in the world rejoice.
1. 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 .
.
1. 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.
(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.
1- 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
*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.
Arnie Madsen,
Stay aware from sharp objects in 2008 and get some uppers from your doctor.
My 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!
1. 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.
algore 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.
#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.
1) 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.”
1.Conservatives form Majority government
2.Global warming will become Global cooling
3.The Green and White win another Grey cup
1-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
Predictions…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
1)- climate will keep changing
2)- UN will be a useless leftist bunch of fools
aaaaaand
3 – the lefties will get left behind
The 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.
1. Skinyella wins a Putziler.
2. Lizzie and D’Yawn run off together and join a commune in BC.
3. Fox buys CBC.
1.) CPC Majority
2.) Riders win another Grey Cup
3.) Lorne Calvert steps down
1) 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).
1. 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.
1) 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.
1. 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.
Cold 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.
1. 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%.
1. 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
1) 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.
#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.
1. 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.
Sorry, make that Fedex can tell you where your package is within a few yards.
Hyuk hyuk gurgle snort.
1. 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.