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Thread #117295 Message #2525196
Posted By: Donuel
26-Dec-08 - 06:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: Predictions for the new year
Subject: BS: Predictions for the new year
things we will hear: "Hey you look like a dozen bucks!"
"Are you gonna eat those chicken feet?"
Things we will see:
"Will do global consulting for food"
"Will trade a million dollar house for $200K of canned goods."
Things that will happen: The new Homeland security economic threat code color will be brown everyday from now on.
Instead of having a run on the bank the bank will run off shore.
Bush will be moving to his Bolivian Ranch and sell his Crawford Ranch to Saudi Arabia.
New portable electric companies will sell you 24 hours of limited electricity for $20 when your electric company shuts you off.
Neighborhood mechanics will do well keeping old GM cars running like they do in Cuba.
The Wall Mart model of telling employees to file for food stamps will become the business standard.
Now that cash is scarce you can smoke pot without criminality in Massachusettes. The law was written so loosly that people who are pursued by police in Boston for smoking pot may not even get a civil fine since they are not required by law to identify themselves. They will pass a pot licensing law next.
Kidnappings that are common place in Mexico and Columbia will visit now visit mainland America.
House Republicans will know what it is like to live in fear like an abortion doctor in South Carolina.
Sarah Palin will make a movie with Schwartzeneggar and Fred Thompson. Al Franken will pan the movie.
When California declares bankruptcy new tolls will be put on nearly every acces road into the state.
House Republicans will revive the phrase "Communist Sympathiser".
The Atomic technology that Bush allowed to be shipped to the United Arab Emerites in the last weeks of his presidency will be resold to Iran and Azerbyjan.
Cheney will be found in a hidey hole, unshaved and filthy.
60% of Malls will close down entirely. Kids will go back to hanging out at the drugstore.
Pakistan will be accused of sending a tactical nuke into India. India will be accused of nuking themselves.
China will begin proposing new agrarian reform instead of Industry and send peasants back into the now highly polluted countryside to grow food for America.
Al Gore will become the target of right wing terrorism for his salacious and agencized claim that global warming is man made.
A 10 meter asteroid will create a major misunderstanding.
Don Rumsfeld will not be seen live on TV again.
Cheney and Rove become an "item" aka the dynamic duo and do the talk circuit.
The burglary rate will double will the murder rate remains the same.
Electric bikes will see a renaisance.
A new internet provider will emerge that undercuts the industry.
Bernie Makoff sets a good example that is emulated by more hedge fund/Ponzi managers.
The once fascination with the rich and famous becomes a battle for survival that involves private police forces.
The FDA actually prevents a harmful drug from reaching the market.
The evangelical political scheme to test the tax free status backfires.
Intelligent design turns out to describe the economic collapse of the US with amazing accuracy.
Time share property resorts all try to become Indian Casinos.
In an effort to combat current market share losses, Fox news becomes even more offensive rude and disgusting.
Comcast cuts back so much that all gurantees of service are revolked.
Concert Halls nationwide open their doors to swap meets for extra income.