2008 Predictions

[CajunMama]

I don't have any. What are yours?

[cycloneye]

I did relativly well in the 2007 predictions. 2007 Predictions

Lets see how many of the 2008 ones I have right:

1-There will be a small recession in the U.S. Economy.

2-The political situation in Iraq will not be solved,meaning the U.S. forces will have to stay one more year.

3-A well known movie actor will die of a heart attack.

4-A U.S.swimmer will win 8 gold medals in the Beijing Oylmpics.

5-Israel will bomb the Iranian nuclear plants.

6-A hurricane will affect somewhere along the U.S. coastline.(Between Brownsville and Maine)

7-The 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season will have 15/8/3.

8-A very good cure for cancer will be discovered.

9-The Boston Celtics win the NBA Championship.

10-O.J. Simpson will be innocent in the trial of Las Vegas case.

[Cyclone1]

Ohh awesome thread.

-A very strong tornado will effect downtown Kansas City.

-The asteroid will miss mars.

-A named tropical cyclone will crossover from the Atlantic to the Pacific, whether it be renamed or not.

-It will snow in the deep south, accumulations as far south as northern Florida, flurries will be as far south as Port Charlotte.

-britney spears will concieve another child.

-An earthquake will hit San franscisco.

-American idol will have the best season yet, with more singers becoming recognized by record companies than ever before.

-fox will air and cancel 30 new television series.

-And finally, a hurricane will cause Storm2k to break the record of most users ever online, with over 1,300 users online.

My predictions, as of now.

[lurkey]

WGA will stay on strike until April. The SAG, while agreeing to an agreement similar to the WGA agreement, will go on strike for a week just for the principle of the matter (DGA will settle quickly). Television viewing levels at the big four will never recover from any of the strikes.

[TexasStooge]

Here are my predictions:

- Tornadoes will strike the North Texas region...again.
- The Writers Strike will end early.
- ION Television (formerly Pax TV) will cease operations due to lack of ratings.
- A great cure for Muscular Dystrophy will be revealed.
- All Dallas area sports teams will win the championships.
- The Texas Rangers Baseball Team will improve.

That's all I have for now.

[HURAKAN]

2008 Predictions: From the Book of Sandydamus

1. "The Chinese will face many struggles, but its economy will continue to grow, as it will its population."

2. "A cyclonic storm will form in the tropics, many could feel its wrath."

3. "Rain will accumulate in the valleys, in the mountains, it will become snow."

4. "The states, who are united, will feel a political heatwave that will end in one of its constituends becoming their next president."

5. "In the mids of the East tensions will continue as nothing more than pride is disputed."

6. "The Earth will follow an ellipse around its star, the Sun."

7. "The earth will rumble, and those left will have to follow the pheonix's teachings."

8. "The war in Mesopothamia will see no end."

9. "Many will claim the end of the evil leader, but the dark light will still be there."

and the last one ...

10. "Those breathing by the anniversary of their births will see another year upon them."

[Chacor]

Fidel will step down in 2008 as President but remain a member of the Cuban assembly, with Raul taking over.

[Brent]

1. John McCain will be elected President of the United States, beating Hillary Clinton in the general election by a sizable margin.(Giuliani's whole strategy of not winning anything til Florida and Super Tuesday will backfire)

2. Situation in Iraq will continue to improve but in Pakistan it will get much worse and will be a major issue in the Presidential campaign.

3. The asteroid will narrowly miss Mars on January 30th(may have to rethink this icon_razz.gif )

4. Small recession in the U.S. economy early in the spring due to the housing crisis.

5. Famous Hollywood actor will die

6. Major earthquake will strike California

7. Active hurricane season with at least one major hurricane a serious threat to the U.S. mainland.

8. A large tornado will affect a major U.S. city

9. There will be major relief from the drought in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic

10. There will be a collision between two airplanes in the U.S., at least one a large jet.

11. Writers strike will drag on til the summer, when scripted TV does return late in the year, there will be much less of it.

12. O.J. Simpson will finally be found guilty(we can hope)

[Stephanie]

1) The Phillies will once again go to the NL Divisional playoffs.
2) The 2008 football season will see the Eagles return to the playoffs.
3) There will be two major snow events for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast during January and February.
4) Drought conditions will eaze a bit for the Southeast as La Nina loses her grip. The Southeast won't be totally out of the drought situation. A tropical system from the Gulf of Mexico in August will help.
5) A Democrat will win the Presidency.
6) The economy will be either in or close to a recession for the first 6 months of the year.
7) Gasoline prices will remain where they are now with seasonal fluctuations.
8) A major heat wave will affect the megalopolis of Washington DC - Boston during July. Blackouts can happen.

A few more:

9) More jail time will be doled out to big name athletes due to the steriod abuse investigations, especially now that Marion Jones has been sentenced.
10) The US-Mexican border fence will not go through as planned due to cost issues. More patrols will be setup instead.
11) Amnesty to illegal immigrants now in the country will be granted ONLY IF they register with US Immigration within a specified time period.
12) The Atlantic City casino industry will see a year of flat or slightly negative revenue growth due once again to competition to surrounding slot parlors and the economy.

[Category 5]

I love those first 3 steph.

Heres mine

1. The Patriots will win Super Bowl XLII
2. The Eagles will win the NFC East in 2008
3. The Phillies will win the NL East again.
4. Florida and Oklahoma will run the table in College Football and go to next years national title game.
5. Snoop Dogg and Ricky Williams will be busted again.
6. Britney Spears will get into at least 21 fender benders, and drive away from all of them
7. LSU will beat Ohio State
8. Memphis will win the NCAA basketball championship
9. Tim Tebow will win the heisman again
10. Opal Storm will become a Florida State Fan
11. The 2008 Hurricane Season will go 14/6/3, and people will complain.
12. A Major winter storm will strike the Northeast/Mid Atlantic in february.
13. A major heat wave will hit Washington DC around election time.

I'll add more as I think of them.

[Squarethecircle]

- The wizards at MIT will calculate a 213.454634743 repeating percent probability of the Patriots winning the Super Bowl (may include regional bias).
- Cal Tech will dispute these figures, claiming only a 156.32% chance.
- The drought will slowly wither away (a hope as well as a prediction).
- Maggie Simpson will again cause bodily harm to a minor or single-episode character.
- A 3.7 magnitude earthquake will hit DC. By some strange act of god, the only damage will be to Dick Cheney's liver.
- Dennis Kucinich will become a communist and attempt to socialize the tenth district of Ohio, failing to realize that he has already done so.
- I may or may not come up with real predictions in early January.

[Ptarmigan]

My prediction for 2008.
-Patriots will win Super Bowl XLII.
-A mild recession will happen and will last at most for 6 months.
-Housing crisis will get worse.
-A powerful Arctic freeze will come down and break many records.
-America will win the most gold medals in the 2008 Summer Olympics.
-An active hurricane season, 15/8/5.
-Texas will win the NCAA basketball champions.
-Houston Astros will win the World Series.
-One of the hurricanes will make landfall, most likely on the Eastern Seaboard.
-TV will become a reality show wasteland as long as the WGA strike goes on.
-WGA strike will end in April at earliest.
-OJ Simpson will be tried and found guilty, expect a media spectacle.
-There will be more mass shootings.

[Regit]

- John Edwards will be elected President of the United States.

- Life expectancy for Americans will fall, while in most other Western countries, it will rise.

- The Pats fail to win the Super Bowl.

In football:
- Ohio State wins the Big 10.

- Oklahoma wins the Big 12.

- Clemson wins the ACC.

- Florida wins the SEC.

- USC wins the Pac-10.

- West Virginia will win the Big East.

- The Freedom Tower will rise at least 25 floors above NYC streets.

- A major American newspaper will become free of charge, sending shock waves through the newspaper industry.

- Sirius will complete its purchase of XM.

- The stock market will drop over 700 points in one day, causing media overreaction.

- A UN report will suggest that the cure for cancer is fewer than 20 years away.

[Cyclone1]

I've got more!

These are just, literally, the first things that come to my mind, no thought put into it, nothing. If any of this comes true, then I'm psychic.

*looks at crystal ball*

-I see a heavy-set, famous woman having an emotional breakdown on national TV, but instead of making fun of her, America will be more-or-less supportive and sympathetic.

-I see a disaster in southern Georgia or northern Florida. Possibly A fire. Let's hope I'm wrong.

-Something more specific, the Super-Bowl Halftime show. The music will stop, and the audience will sing at least one chorus of Free Fallin' in the middle of the song, before the music starts again, and Tom Petty takes over again.

-A wind record will be set this year, from either a tornado, a tropical cyclone, or another wind force, either way, a wind record will be broken.

*comes out of trance*

Okay there are my pure-psychic predictions, if they all come true, you can see my show in Vegas in January, 2009. The Amazing Psychlone1!!

[TexasStooge]

Here's some more of my predictions:

- Mitt Romney will be elected President
- The 2008 Hurricane Seaon Predictions will be 17/8/4
- There will be another Dust Storm in Texas on February.
- The recall list is reduced.
- I'll probably go on vacation at a beach with family and friends during the first part of summer.
- MySpace will probably be sued for another tragedy.

[wx247]

Well, I did pretty well in '07 let's see what '08 has in store.

1) Mike Huckabee will be the next President of the United States after defeating Hillary in the general election.

2) A new face will take over after the '08 election as the anchor of the CBS Evening News.

3) A major eastern US city will suffer a significant heat wave lasting more than a week, leading to several deaths.

4) A third party candidate will do suprisingly well in the general election.

5) A female celebrity phenom will attempt suicide and it will be discussed ad nauseum by the media.

6) The Mississippi River will flood, rivaling the 1993 incident.

7) The Super Bowl will be rattled by a controversial play that makes the losing team bitter for years to come.

8) A musical will win the Oscar for Best Picture.

9) A serial killer will leave a Midwestern city holding its breath this Spring. The suspect will be caught, but not before several terrifying weeks.

10) The hurricane season will be unusually quiet in the Atlantic, with no landfalling US hurricanes.

[cycloneye]

Bumping for more predictions from the members as it was at the second page.

[Chacor]

Fidel will step down in 2008 as President but remain a member of the Cuban assembly, with Raul taking over.

2. An unexpected winner will be announced in the US Presidential race.

3. There will be a major weather-related disaster, costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars, in the Western Hemisphere (North/South America/Caribbean).

4. A new record will be set by a tropical cyclone.

5. A general election will be called in Britain.

[Cryomaniac]

1. A young female singer will die while on charity work overseas.

2. A hurricane will form in the south atlantic.

3. There will be a drought in the UK in summer (Would kind of make up for '07...)

4. Castro will either die or retire. Maybe both.

5. Amy Winehouse will take an overdose.

6. The Patriots will win the superbowl.

7. Clinton will win the US election, ahead of Ron Paul, conspiracy theroists will go mad.

[Chacor]

5. Amy Winehouse will take an overdose.