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1. Cruz (I think Trump will derail himself.)

2. Cruz over Sanders (I think hrc will be indicted or close enough to whomever is indicted over the email scandal as to be permanently tarnished in the eyes of the independent voters…finally.)

3. black li(v)es matter will significantly disrupt at least one day of the dem convention.

4. Obama will admit he has evolved on his belief in a God, as in: there isn’t one.

5. Polygamists will win significant legal victories in the U.S.

6. A significant Muslim extremist terrorist attack will occur in Jordan.

1) Trump
2) Trump
3) Hilary pardoned before trial.

Dear r. Briggs:

I concur;
1. Trump
2. Trump
3. An ‘agreement’ between the Vatican and the German Lutherans establishing quasi-Catholic status (very much like the Vatican-Anglican Use ruling from a few years ago) for Protestors who no longer protesteth too loudly.
4. Large scale conflict amongst and between India, Pakistan/Bangladesh and China
4. The emergence of the Armenian Liberation Front, covertly funded and armed by Russia, to pay Turkey back (and take back land) for the Armenian Genocide of 1915, thus solidifying the Russian claim to the leadership of Orthodoxy.
5. The further covert arming and funding by Russia of the PKK Kurds as they begin to dismember Turkey as Russia steps up the Tournament of Shadows (aka The Great Game, as the Anglish Idiots call it)
6. A breakdown of relations (if any really existed) between the Vatican and the Orthodox, who will accuse Catholics of making peace with liberalism.
7. Serious Russian boots on the ground in Syria
8. Israel continues to edge away from Washington and towards Moscow.
9. The West will continue to confuse ‘Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards Men’ with ‘Peace on Earth towards Men of Goodwill’, as it continues to deny the schizoid core of Islam, wherein every interpretation of Mohammed is valid.

Pax,
John

1) not Trump, but that is not a proper prediction.
2) Clinton

3) War with Russia? No

4) ISIS attack in the States or Europe? Yes, again in France. In France, resentment against Muslims is much older than in other parts of Europe.

5) China and Japan come to blows? No.

6) Stock market crash? No, just a correction.

7). SJW apocalypse? If this means Social Justice Warrior, then no.

8)Federal laws requiring everybody gets to decide their own “gender”? nope.

9) Civil war? In the US of A? Not there, no

10) The end of global warming panic? Why leave money on the table. Of course not.

10) The return of beauty to art? Nope

11) Pope Francis announces there is no mercy without sin? Nope.

12) The neo-reaction/dark enlightenment becomes the formal replacement for conservatism, which finally admits its unification with liberal-libertarianism? Neo-reaction?

1 – Republican candidate: A man or a woman but not a both or an either.
2 – President: A man or a woman but not a both or an either.
3 – UN Security vote about Kurdistan will be vetoed by Russia.
4 – Increased tension in the south China seas.
5 – ISIS attacks Israel.
6 – A church in western Europe is bombed on Easter.
7 – First electric car with replaceable electrolyte on the market.

These are predictions, what I expect, not what I wish for:
1) Trump
2) H. Clinton
(Note: the old adage holds: “The people get the government they deserve.”
3) St. John’s College (Annapolis) beats Navy in their annual croquet game
4) Obama is impeached (not convicted)–> riots in all cities with population over 300,000
5) Iran nukes Israel
6) Israel nukes Iran
7) Everyone is nuked
8)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFkryh6hC-k

PS–according to my predictions, I won’t be around to collect a prize in 2017.

1) Cruz
2) Cruz
3) Two new energy sources will become viable (Brillouin, Rossi’s
E-cat) and will be attacked by the Green Radicals to prevent loss of their income from CAGW scam.

Q1. Donald Trump

Q2. Donald Trump

Other predictions: H. Clinton will lose out to Bernie Sanders because far too many Democrats simply can’t stand the sight of her (and I don’t blame them).

The Iraqi Army will finally retake Mosul and destroy I.S.I.S. in Iraq, but they will still be a plague in Syria, primarily because of the disunited opposition, the lack of international support for President Assad, and the obvious lack of trust between the Turkish government and the Kurds. Al-Baghdadi will be killed in an air strike.

Greece will finally leave the E.U., because their continued membership of it will be seen by even the most stubborn of Europhiles (ex. Merkel) as being untenable.

The cities of India, China and South-East Asia will continue to be choked by smog, and yet international bodies like the I.P.C.C. will continue downplay those nation’s contribution to the overall problem of atmospheric pollution because, after all, everything is the West’s fault. Third-World countries are never to blame for anything.

An election is coming up in Australia, and our Prime Minister will either be Malcolm Turnbull, that Labour leader who is so charismatic that I cannot even recall his name at the moment (Mr. 15%), or (once again) Tony Abbott. Or Julie Bishop. Who knows? Not even the God I don’t believe in could figure this one out.

There will be no ‘terrorist outrages’ this year. That’s right – none, zero. Sure, Americans will still blast away at each other due to their ridiculously lax gun laws, and the National Redneck’s Association will still harp on about how “it isn’t guns that kill people, but people that kill people”, but there won’t be another Paris or S11-style attack. This will make many think that there is a really, really big attack being planned, and – of course – the scaremongering media will do all they can to encourage this kind of paranoia.

The mainstream media will tell us yet once again that “last year was the hottest on record (even though it wasn’t), and this year looks to be even hotter (even though it will not be)”. We will see evermore desperate attempts to scare the more gullible of people into accepting the global warming/climate change/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it hypothesis due to ever-growing scepticism of this, utterly barmy, idea.

Pope Francis will allow priests to marry, both women and each other. He will give his support to “gay marriage” (an oxymoron if ever there was one), stating that “the story of Sodom and Gomorrah was never mean’t to be taken seriously anyway, it being apocryphal”. The mainstream media will chatter non-stop for a month about these developments, whilst utterly ignoring the countless protests, around the world, against these moves. There will be calls for the reinistatement of Benedict XVI.

Frederick Valentich will finally land his plane on King Island. People will ask him, “Where have you been these last 37 years?!”

Um, I predict you’re gonna have a coronary or a stroke.

Wow, ease off the caffeine, Mate!

“3) 2015 will have been the warmest year on record and irrefutable proof that every critic of AGW is a paid shill by ExxonMobil.
(4) Russia will keep its miserable economic track record and will keep pretending its winning something other than Phyrric military victories. I guess it’s a Russian tradition.” – Luis Dias

Is this sarcasm? It’s often difficult for me to tell when someone is just joking.

“Barack Obama will retire the wealthiest president after spending the year investing in options for companies then “leaking” plans to regulate (i.e. Buy firearm stock then *wink wink* “enable tough gun control via executive action, but never actually doing anything but rake in the dough)

And now for the crazy ones:” – Wade M.

And NOW for the crazy ones?

Dan D., who exactly needs to lay off the coffee? Not me, that’s for sure.

1) Following 3 acrimonious ballots, brokered GOP convention turns to someone not currently running (but too many possibilities to surmise who right now)…. then suffers massive defeat to Hillary Clinton.
2) Donald Trump sued for sexual harassment (at least once), settling out-of-court.
3) At least 3 major mass shootings (8 or more deaths) in the U.S. between June 30th and Sept. 30th.
4) More hurricanes and earthquakes in U.S. in 2016 than any previously-recorded year, and ocean temps continue rise to record levels (3 predictions for the price-of-one).
5) Stock market (DJA) ends year at least 10% higher than it began (…before crashing in 2017, as Republicans stifle all needed financial reforms).
6) Taylor Swift releases a CD that breaks all previous music sales records.
7) Stony Brook University will NOT make the Final Four of the NCAA basketball championship.

I predict a Clinton/Sanders ticket.

Republicans see they have no chance and don’t even field a candidate.

Bill Clinton begrudgingly accepts bothe the AG and DHS Secretary positions.

A slew of RINOs take all of the other cabinet positions, relieved that they can finally “come out of the closet,” as it were.

ISIS sees they have no chance against such a powerhouse combo and throw in the towel, converting en masse to atheists.

Putin hooks up with Bruce/Caitlyn, begins cross dressing and changes his name to Loretta.

All is well in the world.

(1) Who wins the Republican nomination? Trump

(2) Who wins the Presidency? Trump

(3) There will be at least three terrorist attacks on US soil in 2016. All three will be committed by home grown terrorists.

(4) Barack Obama will sign executive orders to limit the number of firearms sold and to whom they are sold.

(5) Barack Obama will sign an executive order instituting a carbon tax in the guise of high penalties on utility companies. The Republican Congress will not understand what happened.

(6) Guantanamo will finally be closed in 2016 with the remaining terrorists transported to a Federal Prison in California where they will be welcome.

GOP nominee: Bush

President elect: Sanders (our 3rd commie President)

1. Hilly goes to jail! Gets Martha Stewart’s cell. It’s quite nice, all things considered.

2. Obama selected by George Soros to be next UN Sec Gen.

3. Low birth rate in Germany seen as a Big Problem. ISIS offers assistance. Germany accepts! Frauleins flee en masse. Mail order Brauts anyone?

4. Pope comes out of the closet.

5. EU goes bankrupt. US Fed Reserve Bank merges with the People’s Bank of China.

6. US Senate contracts Lyme Disease and solons die en masse. No one notices for two weeks.

7. Brain-damaged ex-football players plan big demonstration; but then they forget to go. Supportive college students bash in their own heads in solidarity.

8. Sales rise despite sinking consumer confidence. Turns out consumers never had any confidence in the first place, but it doesn’t really matter.

9. Virtual reality replaces actual reality. No one notices for two weeks.

I would occasionally bid “Two No Trump” and get my partner in trouble not actually having the points to justify the bid.

Special Bonus Prediction #10:

Upon hearing the news of his election, Bernie strokes out and is reduced to a vegetable. The Presidency is assumed by his running mate and VP-elect, Lisa Jackson, militant lesbian communist and Obama’s one-time EPA czarina.

(1) Who wins the Republican nomination?
Trump
(2) Who wins the Presidency?
Trump

1-a-Trumps might win the the nomination but not the presidency.
1-b-most likely Ted Cruz will be the nominee. If he wins it means bye-bye the constitution.

2-Hilary Clinton will win the election

3-Briggs will still not understand that everyone has religious beliefs, even gays and not just Conservative Christian

4-There will be more mass shooting done by white Christian man than by black and muslim combined.

Wow. Talk about being angry!

1 & 2: Trump
3: Putin proclaims himself Vladimir II, Tsar of All Russias
4. The new Tsar conquers Constantinople
5. The EU dissolves; Germany and its hinterland constitutes the New Holy Roman Germanic Empire
6. The new Pope, Pius XIII, (Robert Cardinal Sarah) proclaims the crusade (Deus vult!)
7. George Soros is hanged as a traitor in Times Square
8. Jeb Bush applies for the Mexican citizenship. His application is refused

1) Trump
2) Trump
3) ISIS is beaten down but not dead yet
4) Iran violates it’s nuclear treaty

Something doesn’t sound right. Even on the busiest day that’s one comment per thousand visits.

I visit daily, but comment infrequently, if at all, as I do with most sites. It sounds right to me.
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Americans will still blast away at each other due to their ridiculously lax gun laws

“Americans” in general are not blasting away at each other – only the subset of barbarian city-dwellers (who obtain their guns on the black market). I notice that countries that don’t trust The People to possess firearms (America’s Second Amendment) also don’t trust The People to speak freely (America’s First Amendment) – rights that distinguish Citizens from Subjects.

Hey, you’re giving Barbarians a bad name! The Church would be very small without them. Just ask Charlemagne and his gang. It’s the Sophisticuff’s who are the problem.

(1)In Virginia Trump wins a plurality. I think Rubio wins nomination nationally.
(2) Nationally I must hope Rubio wins. I am the Appomattox Co. Republican Unit Chairman so I must do my best to make sure every Republican candidate carries the day in November.
3 War with Russia? no
4 ISIS attack in the States or Europe? Both. And very serious. Not like San Bernardino: On the scale of the Russian Jet crash: in several cities.
5 China and Japan come to blows? No, much too expensive.
6 Stock market crash? No
7 SJW apocalypse? Social Justice Warriors will join the ranks of the smelly-rank!
8 Federal laws requiring everybody gets to decide their own “gender”? no way. Chromosomes are Back! XX = girl; XY = Boy.
9 Civil war? No, rather Article 5 of US Constitution. Civil war in Sweden and perhaps Germany, but continuing in Libya, Syria, Turkey(?), Sudan. Most any place where more than a few Mohammedans live.
10 The end of global warming panic? Never! The weather is always changing and so will the Believers! I advocate for 1400 PPM! Let’s make this planet GREEN!
11 The return of beauty to art? Some books, some movies, some graphic art, some music but No: Art is dead. Overwhelmed by popular ignorance.
12 Pope Francis announces there is no mercy without sin? Manifest Idiotic galore!
13The neo-reaction/dark enlightenment becomes the formal replacement for conservatism, which finally admits its unification with liberal-libertarianism? Conservatives continue to win local elections, Liberals win National elections (I hope Not). Europe sinks to pogroms.
14 OIL: WTI at $75

1) Rubio

2) Clinton

Really? Y’all think Trump is gonna get it?

““Americans” in general are not blasting away at each other – only the subset of barbarian city-dwellers (who obtain their guns on the black market). I notice that countries that don’t trust The People to possess firearms (America’s Second Amendment) also don’t trust The People to speak freely (America’s First Amendment) – rights that distinguish Citizens from Subjects.”

1) The USA lack so much in the gun laws department that all gun or almost all gun are bought legally.

2) Republican blocked a law that would make it impossible for someone on the no fly list to buy a gun, making it legal for suspected terrorists to buy guns in the USA.

3) just as many Canadian, if not more, have gun to go hunting. The stricter law concerns ridiculous gun like semi-automatic and handguns. They are much harder to get and on the black market an AR15 can cost $30k to buy. It is also harder to buy bullets which are linked to your gun permit.

4) Canada or most European countries have nothing to envy to the US concerning freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not equal freedom of consequences

I surmise that English is not Sylvain Allard’s mother tongue.

The issues of free speech and an armed citizenry illustrate one of the fundamental differences between libertarians and progressives: Libertarians don’t trust The Government. Progressives don’t trust The People.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Bonus prediction: Sylvain and JMJ will not have their minds changed about anything.

Geezer, no it’s not

Nate, meaning that none of you will change their mind too. The reality is that you learn little when arguing with someone you agree with.

“The issues of free speech and an armed citizenry illustrate one of the fundamental differences between libertarians and progressives: Libertarians don’t trust The Government. Progressives don’t trust The People.”

The differences is not that at all. Progressivism believes in the power of the people and know that the government is inevitable. Anarchy is what you see across the middle east where no state is strong enough to reach and rule within its frontier. They fight to simply be be recognized as ruler of the land, but have difficulties collecting taxes and guarantying security to the population.

A strong and mostly fair, still not perfect, government is what gave the chances to guaranty security, and permitted people to accumulate wealth. The mega rich of the 1800s did not use guns to acquire their riches they used the law and had the government use the gun when there were strikes. The US government in the late 1800s choose to protect the right to acquire properties over the right to life of the workers who were treated like slaves. Forced to work 12-15 hours a day 7 days a week, with salaries that barely provided food and shelter.

More SJWism will happen. This is not a prediction as much as it is a warning. I’m sitting right in the middle if it in a B.ed programme. The next thing the teachers will push is removal of gender distinctions entirely. Non-hegemonic masculinity (read wussification) is the new big thing in such circles.

Very strange. I’m watching “Forensic files” and a guy who had several guns to protect himself (plus dog and fences), yet he ended getting murdered by his own gun. So much for gun as protection.

Sylvain,

Very strange. I’m reading the past 10 years of the NYC police department’s “Annual Firearms Discharge Report” and I see that more city police die from their own weapons (suicide or accidental discharge) than are killed by criminals. So much for gun protection in the hands of agents of the state.

Same rules as always, except that everybody must make two predictions:

(1) Who wins the Republican nomination? Ted Cruz

(2) Who wins the Presidency? Hillary Clinton

(3) Hadrut4 will record its hottest year/12 month period.

(4) The DPP candidate will win the Taiwan Presidential elections

(5) Gold will be above $1100 per oz

(6) There will be an ISIS inspired terrorist attack in the UK.

(7) Raqqa will come under siege but remain in ISIS hands.

Jim,

That’s not so strange since gun aren’t really good ro protect one self

Sylvain,

Wow. You non-sequitored my non sequitor of your non sequitor.

1. Trump
2. Trump
3. SJW’s will nuke the Hugo Awards again after the Puppies again fill most of the nominees.
4. Market will fall 30%.
5. China will have zero growth.
6. US into recession.
7. Google buys Twitter.

Jim,

The premise of the gun nuts out there is that their guns protect them. Reality is that guns kills more often people from the household than the number of murder by gun. About 10000 murder while 20000 die of gun accidental gun shot and suicide. And in the 10000 there are also people who are murdured by their own weapons.

Sylvain,

The premise of the police out there is that their guns protect them. Reality is — as I previously noted — guns kill more often police than the number of murder by guns.

Sylvain,

Please note that you still have not made a cogent argument. Your non sequiturs are showing … and giving rise to mine. You are consistent, though.

1) Cruz
2) Hilary Clinton (unfortunately; goodbye USA, it was nice knowing you while it lasted)

3) Mean global temperatures in 2016 will be claimed in at least one survey to be slightly higher than in 2015, but by less than all but a few outlying computer models predict. Pundits will claim that this is definitive proof that global warming is occurring. The trend in global CO2 emissions will continue unaffected by the Paris conference.

4) In the mainstream media, mention of a greenhouse effect caused by CO2 driving climate change will outnumber discussions of positive and negative feedback effects from interactions with the rest of the climate by at least 50:1. On the rare occasions when an expert mentions the words “feedback” or “tipping point”, the presenters or politicians won’t have a clue what they are talking about.

5) There will be at least one major Islamic terrorist attack in either North America or Europe, to which almost all leading politicians and most of the media will respond “This has nothing to do with Islam. Islam is a religion of peace.”

6) No politician or media commentator will feel the need to reassure us that “Buddhism is a religion of peace.”

7) Worldwide, there will be on average (mean) at least 3 Islamic terrorist attacks per day, almost all of which will be ignored by the Western media.

8) ISIS will largely hold its own in Syria and Iraq, gaining about the same amount of territory that it loses; but expand slightly in the rest of the world. Obama will continue to try to support the “moderate” opposition groups in Syria throughout the year, who will immediately pass on any equipment they receive to ISIS.

9) There will be at least one major crisis between North and South Korea involving exchange of gunfire, artillery fire, naval fire, an incursion of special forces or something similar, but they will pull back from open war.

10) The UK will vote to leave the EU by a small majority. The politicians will try not to honour the result in some way, perhaps by asking for more referendums until the “right” answer is achieved.

11) There will a major global economic crisis (possibly next year rather than this one, but we must be due another one soon).

12) There will continue to be an influx of “Syrian” refugees into Europe, with numbers of the same order of magnitude as in 2015.

13) At least one European country will go bankrupt this year and forced to default on its debts or receive a massive loan from the EU or IMF. Public sector borrowing will continue to rise in at least 90% of advanced economies.

14) A Christian will be arrested and brought to court, or fired from their job and lose their employment appeal, in either the UK, Canada or the US for commenting on either transgenderism, homosexuality or Islam.

15) There will be a formal split in the world-wide Anglican communion.

16) The LHC won’t report discovering any signs of supersymmetry.

More the 50% of the predictions already made will not happen.

Politics — We will told that we have been presented with a “stark choice.”
Some of us will not be able to tell the difference.

There will be much discussion about what to do about:
Isis (Deash), Putin, the Talliban, gun violence, immigration, school performance. Noting of substance will actually change.

Sports — The teams that scores more points than they allow will win more games than those that don’t.

Reality Television — Someone will profess their undying love to a man they barely know.

Game of Thrones — Someone important will die.
After a long wait we will finally find out that we are not getting a “The Winds of Winter.”

Movies based on Comic books will sell lots of tickets.

Comic books themselves will see declining circulation.

We will be told that we are seeing “unprecedented” weather patterns. Climate change will be fingered.

1. There is a 50% probability quantum physicists will declare God is both dead and alive.

2. There is a 65% probability there will be no more odd numbers since the term “odd” is too judgmental. The new more inclusive terms will be: even, steven.

3. There is a 75% probability “near infinite” will finally be defined as Infinity minus two.

4. There is a 65% probability the meek shall inherit the earth, which is 215 trillion dollars in debt.

5. There is an astronomically greater than 100% probability Manmade Global Warming will be overhyped.

6. There is a 45% probability (like addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) statisticians will formalize the functions of adjusting, tweaking, and fudging.

Required predictions:

7. There is a 75% probability the Republicans will nominate Noah Chance.

8. There is an 85% probability the next President will be Hope Less.