I predict........

[Perd Hapley]

Oh, come on.  There's no elephant here.  You guys are just crazy.   

[Waitone]

I predict major turmoil in banking and finance.  Some really big names will go away.  Financial gangsterism will show up in the news.  Some really weird political stuff will appear.  The bloom will fall from Hillary's rose when her power brokers realize she is better positioned to run the senate.

[Perd Hapley]

APS will grow to two million members, with forums for every conceivable topic.  It will completely replace all other media, and the Constitution will be amended so that the President is elected by a simple online poll. 

Indian food will become a national obsession.

In popular culture, the fifties will make a big come-back.  Music, dress and styles of dance will revert to a fifties sensibility.

Ron Paul will host a hit game show and become very popular in Japan.  Japan will become a libertarian paradise, and the wearing of swords will once again be in vogue.  Ron Paul will become Prime Minister of Japan in 2015.

Soccer will be outlawed in the U.S. and Malaysia, though no one quite knows why. 

[grampster]

Soccer will be banned in America because the first three letters of the word soccer is soc, and that denotes violence and there shall be zero tolerance for violence.

[Twycross]

Iran and the US wil continue rattling sabers at each other, but neither one will actually do anything.

Gas prices will continue to rise, but will not go above $4.50/gal.

The Iraq situation will remain more or less the same.

Army deployments will remain as 15-month tours.

Fistful's post count will exceed 10,000.

And I will get a CHL.

[RocketMan]

I predict that a year from now we will be in the midst of a severe recession, perhaps even a depression.  The highlights: One in ten out of work; oil still over $100 a barrel; the dollar at new lows against the euro; holders of US debt bailing out in a major way; the DJIA looking up at 10,000; the housing market still far from any meaningful recovery; Hillary elected; SCOTUS having ruled the 2nd is a collective right; still embroiled in Iraq; licking wounds from something stupid done in Iran; new AWB legislation without grandfathering introduced in Congress with a good chance of passage; NOLA will still be a pit; major tax increase legislation introduced in Congress with a good chance of passage; etc.

Yeah, I feel real happy-go-lucky right now.