2012 Predictions-time to man up.

[RandomGuy]

Two points for each prediction

Minus one point for each one that turns out wrong

Most points gets a six pack of good beer from RG in Jan 2013. Assuming we aren't all dead, of course.

[Blake]

I predict that I will be able to post on this board all throughout 2012.

[ChumpDumper]

I predict Nbadan will still be exaggerating the record of his 2005 predictions.

[johnsmith]

(not sure if that's actually Obama in that photo)

If it is, he must get his vertical from the white half of his family.

[Blake]

Two points for each prediction

Minus one point for each one that turns out wrong

Most points gets a six pack of good beer from RG in Jan 2013. Assuming we aren't all dead, of course.

I might suggest more points be awarded for degree of difficulty.

[TeyshaBlue]

I might suggest more points be awarded for degree of difficulty.

Agreed. Predicting a hurricane will hit a coastal town = .0125 points.

[silverblk mystix]

I predict that Politics in the USA will continue to be business as usual.
That each party will continue to blame the nations problems on the other party.
That politicians will continue to work for the highest bidder and will continue to place their personal agendas before the good of the nation and of the people.
Rich will get richer and the poor will continue to get screwed.
That people will continue to be sucked into the "politics" game and continue to play along with the system that is meant to keep the haves..."haves"...and the have nots..."have nots"...

That citizens will continue to believe that their "votes" really count.
That anytime someone mentions how worthless our votes are...that someone will trot out the old..."if you don't vote-you have no right to complain" quote that only keeps people playing this rigged political game.

That innocent people will be harmed throughout the world in the name of god.
...and in the name of freedom, in the name of greed,corruption,etc...

That the USA will continue to blindly promote the agenda of Israel-no matter what it costs or who gets hurt.

That citizens will demand and cry for "change"...when all they really want is the status quo...that nothing will change until a true "revolution" and overthrow of this system is actually desired by the "have nots."

If any of these are wrong....I will grow wings and fly.

[CosmicCowboy]

Hmmmm...

OK, I'll play.

Obama loses in 12 and it will be all about the economy.

Stagflation will set in, official unemployment will still hover around 10, real around 18.

No substantive deficit reduction agreement will be reached...interest rates will rise, consumer price index will rise, wages won't keep up with inflation. Housing prices will continue to fall across the country. Misery index will break all records.

Republicans will end up with some weird ticket like Romney/Bachman to keep the crazies in line.

Gitmo will still be open.

Oil will still be 100+ a barrel

Arab Spring will turn into Anarchy Summer as civil order fails in many parts of northern Africa. The artificial post colonial map will degenerate more into traditional tribal zones.

Boutons will still be batshit crazy.

[baseline bum]

Some asshole gets elected president
The party of douchebags will control congress

[Spurminator]

Rick Perry gets the GOP nomination with a minority or female VP candidate that we haven't even heard considered as a GOP Presidential candidate to this point.

Obama retains the Presidency by a slim margin, thanks in part to a conservative third party candidate siphoning votes away from Perry.

The emails of executives at a major financial institution will be hacked and released on Wikileaks.

Pandora will merge with XM/Sirius to offer user-generated playlists and original content across multiple platforms.

Maria Bello will win the Primetime Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role in NBC's Prime Suspect, which will not be renewed for a second season.

The NFL will have a Super Bowl. The NBA will not have a Championship.

There will be at least one hurricane in the Gulf.

There will be no selective service.

[Crookshanks]

Hmmmm...

OK, I'll play.

Obama loses in 12 and it will be all about the economy.

Stagflation will set in, official unemployment will still hover around 10, real around 18.

No substantive deficit reduction agreement will be reached...interest rates will rise, consumer price index will rise, wages won't keep up with inflation. Housing prices will continue to fall across the country. Misery index will break all records.

Republicans will end up with some weird ticket like Romney/Bachman to keep the crazies in line.

Gitmo will still be open.

Oil will still be 100+ a barrel

Arab Spring will turn into Anarchy Summer as civil order fails in many parts of northern Africa. The artificial post colonial map will degenerate more into traditional tribal zones.

Boutons will still be batshit crazy.

That's toooo easy - you should lose points for that one! :lol :lol

[ElNono]

WC will vote for the red team
WC will argue that some people legally able to vote shouldn't be allowed to vote
WC will tell you statistics are meaningless at X point in time/blue pollster made them
WC will tell you statistics are significant at Y point in time/red pollster made them
WC will get bitter and remind us about libtard media bias
WC will make some patently absurd claim
WC will try to get out of said patently absurd claim by moving goalposts/invoking some technicality

:lol

[Wild Cobra]

LOL...

You sure are infatuated with me.

WC will vote for the red teamI'll give you a 90% likely on that. Depends who the republican nominee is and who the 3rd party candidates are.

WC will argue that some people legally able to vote shouldn't be allowed to vote

Only those who are not actually net tax payers, but living off others hard earned money.


WC will tell you statistics are meaningless at X point in time/blue pollster made them
WC will tell you statistics are significant at Y point in time/red pollster made them
I will only maintain the concept that facts make statistics, but statistics don't make facts. I will temper that with if I feel the polling was biased or not also.


WC will get bitter and remind us about libtard media bias

I don't need to be bitter to remind people about libtards.

WC will make some patently absurd claim

Maybe to you. Start opening your mind.

WC will try to get out of said patently absurd claim by moving goalposts/invoking some technicality

:lol

If you say so.

I still can't believe how obsessed you've become of me. You should go see a shrink.

[ElNono]

I just made a bunch of predictions. We'll see if I'm right or not. Not sure why you feel the need to respond, tbh. Where are your predictions?

[Wild Cobra]

I just made a bunch of predictions. We'll see if I'm right or not. Not sure why you feel the need to respond, tbh. Where are your predictions?
LOL...

I'm curious what you are so infatuated with me.

Why are they about me?

[ElNono]

You're just too predictable, so I feel I get a better shot at winning this... I'll end up being right or wrong. We'll see.

Let's see your predictions.

[Wild Cobra]

You're just too predictable, so I feel I get a better shot at winning this... I'll end up being right or wrong. We'll see.

Let's see your predictions.
I haven't been paying enough attention this early in the game. I have no prediction yet.

[ElNono]

Fair enough.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Elnono wants answers.

[Winehole23]

The NFL will have a Super Bowl. The NBA will not have a Championship.Ouch.

[Nbadan]

haha...no Manny...

[DMX7]

ElNono, WC has pretty much already conceded that all those things are going to happen. May as well end that part of the thread here.

[ElNono]

ElNono, WC has pretty much already conceded that all those things are going to happen. May as well end that part of the thread here.

I'm certainly not expecting surprises with my picks. :lol

[Blake]

haha...no Manny...

I don't see any 2012 predictions from you yet.

[ElNono]

I don't see any 2012 predictions from you yet.

http://mit.zenfs.com/102/2011/06/James-Verone.jpg

[MannyIsGod]

Why would I make a prediction on anything this far out? To get some sort of props out of you, Dan? :lmao

I told you, I don't need Spurstalk to make me feel better. You guys have fun though. I predict it turns out that ElNono is the only one making sound predictions.

[RandomGuy]

Why would I make a prediction on anything this far out? To get some sort of props out of you, Dan? :lmao

I told you, I don't need Spurstalk to make me feel better. You guys have fun though. I predict it turns out that ElNono is the only one making sound predictions.

I will predict that the Chinese property bubble will begin burst mid to late 2012. It will get ugly over there.

I wonder how that will affect the election here, as it will likely not be kind to our stock market as the companies with exposure to China will be rather soundly punished.

[DarrinS]

I predict that there STILL won't be 50 million climate refugees that the UN predicted would exist by 2010.

[Wild Cobra's Surgeon]

I predict Wild Cobra will finally come in for a check-up.

[Wild Cobra]

I predict Wild Cobra will finally come in for a check-up.
You're a joke.

If you were my doctors replacement, you would know when I last went in.

You have my doctors name completely wrong, so who would believe anything you say?

I admit I did a double take from your initial post though. I believe you said Dr. Jensen, right? Well, that is a similar name to the doctor my daughter sees.

[ElNono]

:lol You really thought that was your doctor or that he's a doctor at all?

[CosmicCowboy]

You're a joke.

If you were my doctors replacement, you would know when I last went in.

You have my doctors name completely wrong, so who would believe anything you say?

I admit I did a double take from your initial post though. I believe you said Dr. Jensen, right? Well, that is a similar name to the doctor my daughter sees.


He stalked your daughter on Google Earth...:p:

[Blake]

You're a joke.

If you were my doctors replacement, you would know when I last went in.

You have my doctors name completely wrong, so who would believe anything you say?

I admit I did a double take from your initial post though. I believe you said Dr. Jensen, right? Well, that is a similar name to the doctor my daughter sees.

good lord

:lol

[Wild Cobra]

:lol You really thought that was your doctor or that he's a doctor at all?
Oh no...

Not at all.

I did a double take because the name was close enough, and I have paid money to a doctor with a similar name as Jensen for my daughter. I had a momentary thought that somehow, someone hacked into my financial records or something.

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao

[TeyshaBlue]

I had a momentary thought....

Well, that's an improvement.:lol

[clambake]

basket case

[DMX7]

You're a joke.

If you were my doctors replacement, you would know when I last went in.

You have my doctors name completely wrong, so who would believe anything you say?

I admit I did a double take from your initial post though. I believe you said Dr. Jensen, right? Well, that is a similar name to the doctor my daughter sees.

How the fuck did I miss this? :lmao

[Wild Cobra]

How the fuck did I miss this? :lmao
Glad to provide some amusement.

[DMX7]

Just for the record, most people's doctor (i.e., the person they go to regularly for routine medical checkups) isn't also there surgeon.

[Wild Cobra]

Just for the record, most people's doctor (i.e., the person they go to regularly for routine medical checkups) isn't also there surgeon.
Maybe you should tell the Troll, that.

[DMX7]

Maybe you should tell the Troll, that.

Well you seemed to go along with his premise.

[Wild Cobra]

Well you seemed to go along with his premise.
Not at all. You assume wrong of what I said. When that fucktard first came with that troll name, I started a post to make that point. I never posted it because my instinct was to ignore the ass, but I often do what I know isn't best and responded later. The only time I ever went to a surgeon was when I had a vasectomy more than a decade ago.

[DMX7]

The only time I ever went to a surgeon was when I had a vasectomy more than a decade ago.

:lmao

[Wild Cobra]

What's so funny?

You sure crack up easy.

Are you losing it?

[admiralsnackbar]

I often do what I know isn't best.
You? Poppycock, my good man!

[RandomGuy]

You're just too predictable, so I feel I get a better shot at winning this... I'll end up being right or wrong. We'll see.

Let's see your predictions.

Somebody will end up with RG's six pack, heh.

[GSH]

Some asshole gets elected president
The party of douchebags will control congress

I'm not going to bother with the rest of the thread. Baseline reached perfection on his first try.

[Wild Cobra]

Somebody will end up with RG's six pack, heh.
But ElKnowitall's predictions about me don't count, since he is basing it on a solid consistency of my views.

[ElNono]

:cry

[Spurminator]

Not looking too good for me so far...

[redzero]

You're a joke.

If you were my doctors replacement, you would know when I last went in.

You have my doctors name completely wrong, so who would believe anything you say?

I admit I did a double take from your initial post though. I believe you said Dr. Jensen, right? Well, that is a similar name to the doctor my daughter sees.

:lol

[Nbadan]

This is what you get when amateurs attempt to make predictions.....

[RandomGuy]

I predict that there STILL won't be 50 million climate refugees that the UN predicted would exist by 2010.

Asia climate disasters displace 42 million: ADB

http://news.yahoo.com/asia-climate-disasters-displace-42-million-adb-161354328.html

ADB = Asia Development Bank.

No data on Africa in the news. Given the size, the remainder wouldn't be hard to find, I would guess.

(Note: 50M is .7% of 7Bn)

Since they aren't Americans, US conservatives don't place much value on their misery or existence, it seems to me. Easy to ignore.

[JoeChalupa]

I still say it will be an upset if Obama wins but I won't predict any outcome at this point. Way too early.

[RandomGuy]

Hmmmm...

OK, I'll play.

Obama loses in 12 and it will be all about the economy.

Stagflation will set in, official unemployment will still hover around 10, real around 18.

No substantive deficit reduction agreement will be reached...interest rates will rise, consumer price index will rise, wages won't keep up with inflation. Housing prices will continue to fall across the country. Misery index will break all records.

Republicans will end up with some weird ticket like Romney/Bachman to keep the crazies in line.

Gitmo will still be open.

Oil will still be 100+ a barrel

Arab Spring will turn into Anarchy Summer as civil order fails in many parts of northern Africa. The artificial post colonial map will degenerate more into traditional tribal zones.

Boutons will still be batshit crazy.

Hmm Obama won, unemployment is down (official), no stagflation, oil has been less than $100 most of the year.

You got, aside from Boutons sanity projection,

No substantive deficit reduction

and

Gitmo will still be open

Arab spring is devolving, to be sure, but that didn't happen in 2012. That is a huge unknown even now.

[RandomGuy]

I predict that Politics in the USA will continue to be business as usual.
That each party will continue to blame the nations problems on the other party.
That politicians will continue to work for the highest bidder and will continue to place their personal agendas before the good of the nation and of the people.
Rich will get richer and the poor will continue to get screwed.
That people will continue to be sucked into the "politics" game and continue to play along with the system that is meant to keep the haves..."haves"...and the have nots..."have nots"...

That citizens will continue to believe that their "votes" really count.
That anytime someone mentions how worthless our votes are...that someone will trot out the old..."if you don't vote-you have no right to complain" quote that only keeps people playing this rigged political game.

That innocent people will be harmed throughout the world in the name of god.
...and in the name of freedom, in the name of greed,corruption,etc...

That the USA will continue to blindly promote the agenda of Israel-no matter what it costs or who gets hurt.

That citizens will demand and cry for "change"...when all they really want is the status quo...that nothing will change until a true "revolution" and overthrow of this system is actually desired by the "have nots."

If any of these are wrong....I will grow wings and fly.

More true than most would like.

I owe you the six pack.

[silverblk mystix]

More true than most would like.

I owe you the six pack.


I'm not the kinda guy that would say -"told you so"...


but...

thanks.

[Blake]

I predict Wild Cobra will finally come in for a check-up.


You're a joke.

If you were my doctors replacement, you would know when I last went in.

You have my doctors name completely wrong, so who would believe anything you say?

I admit I did a double take from your initial post though. I believe you said Dr. Jensen, right? Well, that is a similar name to the doctor my daughter sees.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

[RandomGuy]

Some asshole gets elected president
The party of douchebags will control congress


DING DING DING

Understatement of the century from 2011. Jeebus. you win.

[RandomGuy]

I predict that Politics in the USA will continue to be business as usual.
That each party will continue to blame the nations problems on the other party.
That politicians will continue to work for the highest bidder and will continue to place their personal agendas before the good of the nation and of the people.
Rich will get richer and the poor will continue to get screwed.
That people will continue to be sucked into the "politics" game and continue to play along with the system that is meant to keep the haves..."haves"...and the have nots..."have nots"...

That citizens will continue to believe that their "votes" really count.
That anytime someone mentions how worthless our votes are...that someone will trot out the old..."if you don't vote-you have no right to complain" quote that only keeps people playing this rigged political game.

That innocent people will be harmed throughout the world in the name of god.
...and in the name of freedom, in the name of greed,corruption,etc...

That the USA will continue to blindly promote the agenda of Israel-no matter what it costs or who gets hurt.

That citizens will demand and cry for "change"...when all they really want is the status quo...that nothing will change until a true "revolution" and overthrow of this system is actually desired by the "have nots."

If any of these are wrong....I will grow wings and fly.

Also good.
.