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Ed Post your 2017 Predictions here

The second one is impossible to avoid.

Predicting that Trump will say something moronic that will be excused in zilion ways by usual suspects here is like predicting sun will be up tomorrow.

I think many prophets here "predict" obvious things for comedic effect.
 
Dow Jones drops below 15,000
Dallas Cowboys do not play in Super Bowl
Terrorist attack at major sporting event kills 23
Driverless car death toll 10+
Silver spot price hits $33.16 oz.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid both die within a one month period
Golden State Warriors defeat the Toronto Raptors 4-2 to win NBA championship
 
1. Alien life discovered in our solar system.
2. Someone famous thought to be dead re appears.
3. Christmas number one in the UK is Last Christmas by Wham.
4. Tom Cruise leaves Scientology.
5. EU breaks up, France , UK, Poland and others form a new alliance.
6. Trump returns to Trump Tower after living part of the year at the White House.
7. Trump and Pence become sworn enemies.
8. New King of Thailand abdicates
9. Queen Elizabeth II no longer performs royal duties, Charles, William share duties.
10. Justin Trudeau is involved in a major personal scandal, resigns.
 
Ice at high latitudes will do more weird **** that ice at high latitudes has never done before in human history.

The test roll-out of Amazon Wagon, a same-day local delivery option by remotely-driven horse cart, will be canceled before completion due to animal cruelty complaints. Development of the Amazon Saint Bernard, Amazon African Swallow, and Amazon Swarm Of Rats With Brain Electrodes delivery options will be put on hold. However, Kick It To Me™, a "crowdsourced" delivery option in which Amazon puts electronic direction indicators on its boxes and leaves them on the sidewalk outside their warehouses, and customers can earn micro-credits by finding boxes and shoving them in the general direction of their destinations, will be a huge success, especially after third-party developers create apps like "GoKickNow" and "KITM Wizard."

As a result of media hysteria following a few minor teenage pranks, Santa Claus costumes will be unwelcome, and scheduled appearances of live Santa actors will be canceled, in towns across the U.S. next Christmas season.

A selection of previously unreleased Prince recordings will be issued. Aimed at the growing analog LP collector's market, the recordings will be released only on vinyl and packaged in a round steel tin modeled after a vintage film reel container. The demand will be grossly under-estimated, making the item very hard to find. Retailers will quickly become tired of customers constantly asking, "Do you have Prince album in a can?"

Economic and technological developments will stimulate dramatic progress in perfecting and popularizing carless drivers.

The reward from a successful Kickstarter that I back will be disappointing.
 
In Australia there is a split in the Liberal Party. Several MPs resign from the party and continue on as Independents.
SSM legislation debated in parliament.
 
1. There will be a large earthquake in or around Japan.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000b1v8#executive
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us2000arxv#executive

I'm calling it a hit.

2. Donald Trump will not be impeached.

Hit.

3. A movie star - under forty, male - will die.

Hit for sure, but I don't think that there were any that were really big stars.

4. There will be a major oil spill in the united states.

Hit. Keystone Pipeline was notable of course, and the Delta House oil spill.

5. 2017 will be a worse than average year in the US for storms.

Hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Atlantic_hurricane_season

6. The Republican party will experience some major shifts in political positions that bring them into alignment with the Trump administration, rather than pushing back. (This doesn't mean that no Republicans will fight Trump; it means Republicans in general around the US will tend to adjust opinions to retroactively justify voting Trump into office.)

Meh. Going by psychic rules I could call this a hit. I think in spirit it's broadly correct, but I don't actually think the shifts were major.

7. Russia will invade another nation.

Miss.

8. Some new (doomed) fad will emerge in entertainment technology, along the lines of 3D or curved televisions. It may still be going strong at the end of 2017 but skeptics will be predicting it to be gone in another year.

Hmmm. I think that's a miss, unless I'm forgetting something.

9. The Affordable Care Act will still be around in some form for the whole year.

Hit.

10. A conflict between official government employees and people hired by Trump will cause confusion in a critical situation.

Again, by psychic rules I could call this a hit. There have been conflicts, there has been some confusion, but I don't know about "critical situation".


Hey I did pretty good!
 

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