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December 29, 2006

Ronald Bailey pours some tea leaves on his crystal ball, then covers the whole mess with tarot cards in a ploy to discover what'll happen in 2007.

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ed|12.29.06 @ 8:47AM|#

One more, if I may: Laymen all over the blogosphere will continue to blow smoke out of their bungholes as they parrot MSM pundits and fellow bloggers alike in an ever-loudening cacophony of bilious bloviation.

yeppers|12.29.06 @ 8:55AM|#

I hear that!

Guy Montag|12.29.06 @ 8:59AM|#

Don't forget the dropping sea levels from the north polar ice melting.

creech|12.29.06 @ 9:00AM|#

Prediction: a few drowned Canadian polar bears will cause the Canadian people to ban oil production in the Albertan tar sands. Their military will be put on alert and start threatening neighbors such as the U.S. and Russia unless they make the same commitment to save the tourist trade in Churchill. PETA acitivists will be conflicted because fewer bears are bad but also means more cute baby seals survive.

Guy Montag|12.29.06 @ 9:28AM|#

creech,

There is a recent event that could cause the polar bear drownings!

More baby seals? Awsome! Now I can give Ann Coulter a new coat for her next birthday! Maybe she will know I exist then . . .

And for KKKanadia don't forget the Stand on Guard crowd. They seem to have gone underground, er, tundra.

|12.29.06 @ 9:40AM|#

"Civil war will break out between Hamas and Fatah."

I don't think that one counts Ron because a civil war is already going on, it just isn't getting as much press.

I think you are right about oil prices. Of course falling oil prices will have more effects than just slowing the ethynol boom. How desparate is it going to make the Iranians? The most interesting and underreported story this month is the Iranian oil infrastructure's apparently imminant collapse.

|12.29.06 @ 9:42AM|#

1. By mid-year, I will already be tired of hearing about the 2008 elections. Scratch that--I'm already tired of it.

2. Liberaltarians will be replaced in the imaginary political spectrum by Fundamentalcrats.

3. At least one major conservative pundit will publicly proclaim a conversion to the Democrats and promptly become irrelevant.

4. There will be fewer U.S. troops in Iraq by year's end.

5. An unusually cold winter will be blamed on global warming.

creech|12.29.06 @ 10:03AM|#

My God, Guy, who knew? Why aren't we talking about building a wall across the northern border? Why are we letting Canadian hockey players come in and take America jobs? Has
anyone been testing Molson and LaBatts to make sure it hasn't been adulterated to sap our precious bodily fluids? How can we profile Canadians (only those wearing Mountie uniforms are a dead-giveaway) in our airports and on our highways? Wake up, America!!

|12.29.06 @ 10:25AM|#

I like how you casually mentioned that "one euro will cost $1.50. (It's $1.31 now.)" When (not if) the dollar costs $1.50 in euros, that's the effect of the dollar index crashing below the support price of 80, which will cause a chain reaction of people selling the dollar, meaning to expect at least a 30%-50% drop in your purchasing power in 2007 thanks to massive inflation. Bernanke and Paulson went to China to persuade them to let the dollar devalue in stages, but the Chinese didn't play along. Anyone who pays attention to the lies, distortion, and outright fraudulent numbers that the Fed puts out knows that there are too many dollars and too much credit floating around. Expect interest rate hikes as the central bankers attempt to persuade China to keep holding on to US Dollars.

|12.29.06 @ 10:31AM|#

"as bravely predicted, no asteroid hit the earth in 2006."

Hey! We've still got two and a bit days left!

|12.29.06 @ 12:41PM|#

So now you're getting paychecks from Sylvia Browne, too??? Have you no shame Bailey?

|12.29.06 @ 1:14PM|#

Ron is clearly in the pockets of big asteroid.

|12.29.06 @ 1:45PM|#

I dispute your asteroid assertion. We certainly did not get levelled by a planet-killing large asteroid, but I'll bet we were showered with large numbers of small, unnoticeable ones.

|12.29.06 @ 7:14PM|#

I predict Saddam Hussein will indeed die, and will remain dead through the rest of the year.

|12.29.06 @ 7:18PM|#

You're gonna take a walk in the rain
And you're gonna get wet
(I predict)

You're gonna eat a bowl of chow mein
And be hungry real soon
(I predict)
Are my sources correct
(I predict)


They're gonna find the Queen is a man
But that Philip don't care
(I predict)
Lassie will prove that Elvis and her
Had a fleeting affair
(I predict)
Are my sources correct
Are my sources correct
Yes I know they're corect
(I predict)

Men, if you say your prayers
You'll never lose your hair

L.A. is safe
Ain't gonna quake
Ain't gonna quake
(I predict)

And somebody's gonna die
But I can't reveal who
Cold beer will cure a cold
Cold beer and pretzels, takes care of cancer
Moscow will march to France
They'll do the Can-Can Dance
Don't worry, it'll work out
Maxim's will throw them out

They're gonna stop Saturday night
So you better have fun now
(I predict)
They're gonna stop having the sun
So you better get tan now

And this song will fade out
And this song will fade out
And this song will fade out
(I predict)

|12.30.06 @ 2:20PM|#

5. An unusually cold winter will be blamed on global warming.

6. Someone will make this prediction again next year no matter what the intervening winter is like.

|1.2.07 @ 1:36PM|#

Guy, the Frostback Menace is still out there.

Hey, you don't pronounce your nom de net "Gee," do ya? Like Guy Lafleur?

Kevin