I thought I'd make my predictions for the coming year. Some are more obvious than others. I don't think I get too ostentatious.
- The economy will go up and it will go down, especially as we measure it according to the sock market. In the end there will be a push to find another economic barometer because the stock market will be seen as too artificial.
- We'll have a new president; he'll be a minority, the first ever in the White House; Conservative Christian leaders will not be happy with him, but many other Christian leaders will consider his first months in a positive light.
- The Obamas will get a dog as they move into the White House. It will be a mutt (sort of).
- The Eagles will not win the Super Bowl. Some fans will continue to call for Reid's head. Others will call for a change of quarterback. Neither will happen before the 2009 season.
- Phillies fans will boo at least one of the World Series heroes before the end of the first home game. The Phillies will not repeat as World Series champs.
- There will not be a civil war that fragments the US, but some tensions will rise.
- Microsoft will not have a Y2K10 issue, but they will make news sometime in the year for a major attack on their operating system.
- Gas prices will go back up this summer but not to the $4 mark of last summer.
- In Iraq, the US withdraw will be behind schedule at the end of 2009. The Military will point to an escalation of insurgents uprisings as the reason.
- It will be cold in the winter and hot in the summer and everyone will claim climate is the cause for it seeming hotter than it used to be or colder than it used to be. At least one hurricane will strike the US and people will again focus on how much climate change has increased the chance of the event happening.
- Captain Phil will return the the Cornela Marie. His sons will rip him off, he'll get angry and say bleeeeep a lot, then in the end he'll tell them he's so proud of their progress on the boat.
- Jack will get the gang back together to search for the Island, but they won't find it this season. Or they will find it, but they won't find their friends on the Island.
- I'll continue to love my wife and she'll continue to be a better writer than me. My girls will continue to amaze me. We'll continue to wish we had more money, but, in reality, will be happy we don't have everything we want.
