Post your predictions for 2006

If Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn marry early enough in 2006, my prediction is that they'll be separated by the end of 2006.

DIdn't happen, nothin' there.

Bush's popularity among poll-takers will remain high, at near 100 per cent. :')

That was inevitable.

Gasoline prices will continue above $2, with an average price of $2.20 a gallon.

Gas prices have been hovering around $2.30 a gallon around here (western Michigan).

The income tax cut will not be extended. Of course, I didn't check this out, so maybe it's not even up for renewal. If so, failure to vote in favor of extension will become a galvanizing campaign issue.

I've still not checked out the first part of that; didn't become a galvanizing campaign issue.

Opening up more areas of Alaska for drilling will also be an important campaign issue for Republicans -- those smart enough to take advantage of it.

You might say that was doomed from the start. ;')

Hitlery will win reelection to the Senate, but will continue to be repudiated by the mainstream Dhimmicrats (who are all single party state advocates, otherwise known as "leftists" around here), and will not attempt to run for the White House in 2007-2008.

Hillary was reelected. She's pushing (in a very Dhimmicrat way) for Iranian accountability vis a vis its Bomb program. She still hasn't announced her candidacy.

Howard Dean will screw things up so badly as the Chairman of the DNC, that he'll get to keep his job after November despite the poor showing in the 2006 election. [beyond 2006 -- The 2008 election will be another loser for the Dhimmicrats, who will be coming off seven straight years of opposition to US self-defense, and many more years than that of opposition to US interests in the world.]

That was a clinker. Dean has been given kudos for his 50 state campaign thingee, but the fact of the matter is, the MSM (as usual) acted as a partisan shill, regurgitating and reiterating DNC talking points, and Dean was hardly responsible for that. The 2008 elections are not going to go well for the Dhimmicrats, nor I think for the minor parties.

Egypt's opposition party will grow more vocal, disrupting what passes for Egyptian parliamentary deliberation, and the Islamic parties in Egypt will grow more bold and strident in public. Egypt's relations with the Mother-of-all-Terrorism (Saudi Arabia) will grow publicly stormy, not long after another series of attacks take place on Sinai targets.

I don't think most of that took place. The Saudis have been peeing their shawls about the rise in Iranian proxy warfare (Hizzies attacking Israel in Lebanon, Hamas attacking Israel from Gaza, some Shiite terror running around in spots in Iraq), and have been forced to make nice (or at least make nicer) with Egypt, and even to some extent, in its anti-Israel rhetoric.

India's restive (IOW, terrorist) Moslem population in Kashmir will escalate the carnage it has consistently carried out for years, in order to sabotage Pakistani-Indian relations, which have been improving.

A WINNER! That has been going on; in addition, the Pak-Indian relations are still improving, mostly because Musharraf is trying to hang on.

The Chinese gov't will complain about (fictional) US support for (probably fictional) cross-border terrorist activity by Moslems from various Central Asian countries.

Didn't happen. I guess the CIA is slippin'.

The US will announce a timetable for withdrawal from the Clinton War in the former Yugoslavia.

Alas, that didn't happen, but should have.

Greece will apply pressure on Cypriot Greeks to accept the brokered agreement regarding a Cyprus union, which the Cypriot Greek voters rejected in (I think 2005). Relations between Greece and Turkey will continue to improve.

Relations have been improving, despite some provocative events. Greek Cypriotes are hanging in there to get something that they are never going to get, and will wind up hanging themselves out to dry. There's an east-west split in the EU over Turkish membership; there will be no membership, but the economic benefits of membership will gradually be accorded to Turkey, making the political stuff (and the EU itself) look sillier and sillier.

During the summer of 2006, Moslem rioters will again rage across France. The more or less spontaneous violence of 2005 showed them what they could do, and that the French public and French government was toothless, so the violence will be even worse, and will be well organized. This will help, rather than hinder, French attitudes toward regime change in Iran.

How about that? The only times I'm right it generally involved Moslems causing mayhem.

The Iranian government becomes more strident as the young Iraqi democracy continues to assert its authority over its own territory and kills more and more of the foreign terrorists supported by Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. US forces prepare to move against Iran, even as the usually useless EU finally gives up on prospects of Iranian compliance with non-proliferation in the face of ever more crazed rhetoric from the dip**** who's running Iran.

I'm calling that a hit.

Ron Reagan (the son, obviously) explores a political career, perhaps running against Arnold in California.

I think he's still in the bathhouse.

Kevin -- A second group will launch a private manned spacecraft, and a couple of others will announce that their first launches will take place by the first Q 2007.

Nope.

Swordmaker -- Apple's first Intel CPUs will be shipping even more slowly than usual for Apple introductions. I think they've learned their lessons well, including the one about keeping up with demand in order to increase market share. Too bad no one thought of that years ago.

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