Your prognosis for January 2005

[Dracon II]

Look into the past at people looking into the future:

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=75256

Odin's predictions are priceless Why do people always expect too much of the future?

My Crystal Ball:

The economy continues to falter as Bush's aprovall rating drops to 40% and is replaced by Senator Kerry, becomming the first northern president since FDR, I think. (Nixon was a southerner wasn't he?)

No cigar!

The Democrats retake both houses of Congress. The green party gets thier first house member. (Probably from Oregon or Minnesota.)

Oops.

The embargo against Cuba will be lifted.

Not a chance!

Taxes will increase to pay for the Republican caused debt.

Nope

Castro will die and be repaced by a more moderate socialist.

He's still kicking

Saddam is payed off to live in exile in Pakistan.

Nope... he's a prisoner of the USA forced to wear nothing but Y Fronts.

The kurds will start a full scale revolt against Turkey.

Nope

Saudi Arabia will become an islamic republic.

Absolute monarchy: still kicking

Turkey is expelled from NATO for atrocites against the Kurds.

Nope, in fact they're being considered for EU membership

The Kurds will earn their independence.

Not a chance.

In Iran, The Shah shall return.

Long live the Islamic revolution! (Nuclear Islamic Revolution )

In Afganistan, the warlords are finally subdued and the economic recovery will begin.

Not quite there yet

Most of the E. European countries will join the EU.

Well spotted Nostradamus!

The UK will (FINALY) adopt the Euro

I think not old chap!

Queen Lizzie dies, Prince Charles becomes Charles III or IV (can't remember which. )

She's still standing

International pressure forces Russia to grant Chechnya independence.

Nuh uh!

Oil will become more expensive as The new anti-American Saudi Arabia puts tarrifs on oil shipped to US and UK.

Oil more expensive: yes; anti-American Saudis: no

China is the same, except for a booming space program.

They've only just manage to pull a Yuri Gagarin. Give them some more time.
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First human truely cloned, but born with some minor birth defects. PKU, cleft lip & palate, etc)

Does an embryo count as a human? NO!! don't answer that... I don't want this to turn to an abortion debate.

Free trade will triumph, and NAFTA dies as the UN figures out it is all about helping the rich, and pressures the US to disband it.

The UN pressuring the US to do something?

The UN votes to remove the veto power of the permanent Security Council members.

All talk, no walk (yet).

[Kuciwalker]

[DaShi]

Looks like Starchild got the most right.

[Ted Striker]

Damn, Sandman was all over it.

[Zkribbler]

The economy continues to falter as Bush's aprovall rating drops to 40% and is replaced by Senator Kerry, becomming the first northern president since FDR, I think. (Nixon was a southerner wasn't he?)

Nixon and Reagan were both from southern California. Kennedy was from Mass-achoo-settes. Papa Bush was from You-killed-Kenny Bucport.

[Sandman]

You think? I'd say I did ok. (In reply to Ted)

[Provost Harrison]

Mine was:

'Duke Nukem Forever' will still be "a work in progress"

Still not wrong, am I?

[Agathon]

Mine.... from March 2003.

Bush will probably win the next election since the eternal war against the evildoers will still be going.

True.

The Supreme Court will be top loaded with fascists as liberal judges will retire and be replaced with Scalia clones.

Not yet true, but looking more likely.

Abortion will still be legal in principle but various kinds of abortion will be prohibited and abortions will be much harder to get.

Not true, but still a possibility.

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How about foreign relations, Cuba and Mexico, illegal immigrants? Civil rights, affirmative action, segregation?

Cuba will be under threat as part of the "Axis of Evil". AA will be gone and while people will still have their civil rights legal chicanery will mean that in practice they will be worth very little.

Probably not true, but I don't know much about the current state of AA in the US.

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Will crime and corruption decrease?

No - corporate corruption will appear to decrease, but it won't really.

I think I'm right on that one.

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More tax cuts? Deficit spending?

More tax cuts would be insanity, but I imagine that Bush's aim is the typical right wing strategy of virtually bankrupting the federal government to force its downsizing.

True.

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What about the economy?

Tanked.

Starting to look that way...

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Will protectionism return or will free trade triumph?

Protectionism. The US will engage in two-faced protectionist policies.

Pretty much true IIRC.

[Ted Striker]

Agathon also had it. Even if some of those things haven't happend, they are on their way to fruition.

Unfortunatley.

[Agathon]

Someone should buy Ted a Poly PLus sub. I want to see that wagging finger get bigger!!!

[Ted Striker]

I don't know if you have ever heard of this show Agathon, but it runs on Fox in America and it's called, "Nanny 911."

Basically these British Nannys come into an American household and spend a week with a family that is out of control. Usually the suggestions they make are very obvious, these women are pretty good at what they do. Implementing the suggestions is the hardest part. But the family always ends up getting "fixed" after the Nannys come in and shape the family back into shape.

We need Galloway to come to Washington and do a Nanny 911 for our damn government.

[Dracon II]

Oh yeah... we've got that lame supernanny show on in Aus at the moment