I am, the seer, the mystic, the all-knowing, and the best damn swammy around. After all, didn’t I predict Hurricane Katrina a week before it happened, the tragic death of the crocodile hunter, and others? (If you want proof you can read these stories).

Here is a list of predictions for the year 2009.

1. The Palestine/Israel conflict will rage for a time and then sputter out like these little wars always do, with both sides offering concessions, with neither seriously intending to observe them.

2. Caroline Kennedy will easily win elective office.

3. A catastrophe will overtake a portion of the Southwest U.S. I see people fleeing in panic with smoke and debris.

4. A respected television journalist will be diagnosed with a terminal illness.

5. Barack Obama will see the opposite in popularity polls to the outgoing Bush. Whereas Bush was popular back when he started his Iraq adventure, then lost popularity when the war turned out not to be the cakewalk he thought, Obama will enjoy a brief period of high popularity after taking office, but will make a novel attempt to deal truthfully with the American people (unlike Bush), and ask them to sacrifice. This will cause Obama to sink in the polls as Americans don’t like to sacrifice and be told the unpopular truth. Eventually, Obama’s presidency will be vindicated in the eyes of the people as Bush’s was not. However, Bush four years from now will claim credit for setting up the pre-conditions for Obama’s success.

6. Rosie O’Donnell’s horrible TV variety show will be cancelled.

7. I see the color green and I don’t know why. Something about the color green will have a big impact on the economy, and not for the better.

8. The stock market like a diseased heart will continue to flutter up and down, up and down. The boom times are over. Americans will alter their driving and spending sociologic habits (doing with less), which in turn will help take some pressure off the planet’s ailing ecology (less driving less pollution). However, the end is in sight for solitary American hegemony in the world, one super power and all the smaller countries begging favors. America will have to learn the painful reality of being just one country among more equals, its former monopolistic power status diminished when faced with China, and emerging regional coalitions, for example, a united Europe, and others.

9. Vice President-elect Joe Biden will say something that will get him in trouble.

10. A storm that will make Katrina look like child’s play is brewing this year in the Gulf of Mexico.

11. A new study will find out that coffee is good for you after a previous study said it’s bad for you.

12. The on-going enmity between India and Pakistan is bad news in 09.

13. A major film or music star will suffer disgrace.

14. Major fires will again ravage parts of California.

15. A liberal politician well known to many Americans will die.

16. Expect a big return on your money if you possess gold or gold-related stocks.

17. Some kind of new discovery to battle a major disease like cancer will become known, as will treatments for diabetes and heart disease. However, the gains will continue to be offset by bad habits, wrong eating and obesity among children that will reach near epidemic proportions.

18. The Dallas Cowboys will have a good year.

19. An underwater earthquake triggers a big wave.

20. The prospect of some form of health care for all Americans will take shape in 2009.

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