What do you all predict?

Is Bush going to win?
How many troops will be in Iraq?
Will Saddam be alive by this time next year?
Will Michael Jackson get off?
Will the Stock Market dip?, How far?
Will Gold soar??
Will the AW ban be renewed?


The Positive side of me says...

Is Bush going to win? Yes, by a landslide

How many troops will be in Iraq? 150,000

Will Saddam be alive by this time next year? No

Will Michael Jackson get off? No, sentenced to Natural Life

Will the Stock Market dip?, How far? Busting at the seams

Will Gold soar?? Marginally

Will the AW ban be renewed? No


The Negative side of me says...

What do you all predict?

Is Bush going to win? No, Hillary and Clark will swoop in at the DNC and lead an unraveling party to victory...

How many troops will be in Iraq? 150,000, War is once again upon us...Al Queda has taken up the fight and the Bathist's have revolted...terrorism has yeilded to Small Unit Warfare and the US has taken substantial losses with Commanders afraid to press interrogations too far for fear of retribution as LTC Alan West had done...lack of good intel has stymied operations and we are at a quagmire...

Will Saddam be alive by this time next year? No, he was killed in a firefight/prison break in which Bath Party members staged a hostage situation by trapping Coalition Provisional Authority Leader Paul Bremer in his motorcade, killing much of his security detail and demanding Saddams release. When negotiations fail Bremer is executed live on camera to the network feed and Al Queda operatives stage a raid on the Court/Holding facility killing Saddam in the Process...he is immediately Martyred and diefied...

Will Michael Jackson get off? Yes...$$$$$$$ and Race baiting by Geragos and a concerted media campaign by Farrahkan and the Fruit of Islam (FOI). An overwhelming case is presented but a jury of his peers (actually Black people, actually black) afraid of retribution by FOI insurgents find him not guilty...


Will the Stock Market dip?, How far? With the war in Iraq, China's EMP strike on Taiwan and the North Koreans strike on the DMZ and their push across the destruction of Soeul SK coupled with the Pandemic Flu/SARS? outbreak thoughout the US which resulted in 2.6 million deaths the stock market is at all time lows...Unemployment is rampant as companies fold left and right. China and Japan have called loans to the FED and the Dollar is tanking...

Will Gold soar?? Yes, thru the roof as those that can afford it horde all they can buy...

Will the AW ban be renewed? No, Bush sensing this is a hot button for his waining supporters (middle class white males) announces he will veto it should it come to his office... Hillary having won in November secretly confides in her administration that she will sign an Executive Order the day she takes office Banning all Firearms, Deputising all National Guard Troops into Local Law Enforcement and establishing a 90 Anmesty Program for Turn-In...after which Marshal Law is imposed until all unaccounted for firearms are accounted for, persons caught with weapons after the 90 day Turn-In period will be shot on sight. She then requests the UN to assist in keeping law and order. UN President Bill CLinton complies with her request in an effort to quell disturbances within CONUS. UN President Bill Clinton succeeds Kofi Annan whom died in a plane crash along with the US Ambassador to the UN. All US Troops are called back from Iraq to assist in Civil Uprisings as the 2nd Civil War erupts...


Some say the glass is half full...

Michael Jackson will get off. Yup. Every fucking night in the privacy of his jail cell.

I think Bush will win, but it will be close.  

There'll still be a lot of troops in Iraq, not sure how many.

Saddam will still be alive, the process to send him to trial will be a slow one.

Jacko will most likely get off, for some stupid error made by the justice deparment or the local leo's.

Stock Market, no idea.

Same with the gold.

The AWB renewal in my opinion could still go both ways.

The electrical grid is once again pushed to its limits during the long hot summer, then finally crashes when a nasty Arctic cold front blankets the US, dropping snow as far south as Central Florida.  As soon as we start digging out from under that one, a Nor'easter hits (guess where), and destroys what is left of the grid.
Thos who bug out get caught on clogged highways and die.  Those who stay put and burn firewood survive.  My parents will stop wondering why I have 3 days of firewood and 20 gallons of water stored [;)]
The government nationalizes the vital infrastructure (airlines), and procedes to manage them into complete insolvency.  We will hear nothing but propaganda about how the problem is temporary, and we need to be patient.  Financial transactions and production must be approved by the government, so that everybody has their fair opportunity.
OnStar is used to monitor vehicles for unauthorized economic activity.
A small band of rebels will get tired of the continuous oppression, turn off their TV, grab grandpappy's shotgun and go outside to start the rebellion.  They then will get cold and hungry and go home, where they have a fire burning and hot stew on the stove.  One will not make it back home.
Sarah Brady will comment on the discovery of a frozen carcass clutching a double barrel shotgun, as it is uncovered by the melting snow in the spring.  She will speak with outrage about how deeply frightening it is that these weapons of mass destruction are allowed outside of National Guard armories.  When asked by a gun nut what she thinks about the government bankrupting the airlines and neglecting the grid, she will give him a blank stare and then tell him how she had to comfort her children because they once saw a gun at a museum, and it terrified them for weeks.  Then she recommends banning all of them, including the single shot assault shotguns.

you heard it HERE first!

One thing caught my eye in your post, and I officially predict that GOLD WILL SOAR!!! Oh, wait, it IS starting to soar! Hold onto your seats when John Q. public gets into gold though, we'll see $50-$75 jumps, but remember, we'll also see corrections.
Harry schultz(sp?) is a good starting place for gold investors.

Hillary will run.

The Goa'uld will come to Earth and enslave the entire human race.

Holy shit!!!!


DF is IMBROGLIO

TXL

BTT

Due to consistent improvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, President Bush will win re-election by a broad margin over Hillary Clinton and her lap dog, Wesley Clark. Clinton's chances will shrivel like a rotten grape when she collapses during a campaign tirade that demonstrates the advanced state of her madness. Screaming until she is hoarse, pounding the pulpit in a manner reminiscent of Hitler, her true ambitions will become all too obvious. The crowd will fall silent and slowly file out of the assembly hall.  She will later commit suicide by using mothballs as suppositories. Clark will come out of the closet.
In a dark prison cell outside of Los Angeles, Michael Jackson will take his miserable life by swallowing his false nose and choking to death.
Saddam Hussein will be tried and convicted in Iraq. His sentence: He has to live there for the rest of his life and make his living pumping out Iraqi septic tanks.
The AWB will sunset and there will be a temporary shortage of flash hiders, high cap mags and bayonet lugs. There will be no increase in firearm related crime as a result.
The Democratic Party will shed its thin veil and change its name to the American Socialist Party, thus completing a change that has been painfully obvious to the rest of us for quite some time.