Larry Predicts-2005

I am making the following predictions for this time 2005

1. I will be at least 10 pounds lighter then my current weight as of 12-31-04
2. I will end my 5 year cold streak on sexual intercourse
   
3. I will be enrolled in the University of South Florida and attending classes full time
4. I will (g-d willing) have a regular lady friend
5. The "second term curse" event against george bush will come out some time during the later part of 2005. It will ( most likely) have to do with the Iraq war, but it could be a smoking gun on the "Draft Dodger" Charge.
6. Senators Allen, Frist, Mccain, Hagel, and etc. Who are jockeying for the Presidential void being left by the lack of a clear successor for Bush will make the President's agenda slow down to a halt in the senate. -Intelligence reform, immigration reform, Tax reform, Social Security reform, etc will all be held hostage by a lack of a clear heir.-
7. While VIolence in Iraq won't decrease much, they will pull off an election and a government with some sunni parties and the Shia unity ticket will form a National Unity styled government. This will be the "End of the Bad News" Period in Iraq. Unless you work for the main stream media
8. Iran will continue to Shake down europe for Nuclear Black mail. But they will slow down their atomic bomb research enough that the US and Israel aren't forced to blow their stuff up.
9. Osama will still be "At-Large"
10. Kim Jung Il will be removed from office. A Military coup will oust him in an effort to actually get their country into the 14th century.
11. Democrats will not do well in the wacky "2005" elections. A Washington Statesque scenario will go down in NJ. I don't predict the world will change radically by the election night in 2005, but the democrats won't be doing as well as they did in 1997 or 1993.
    
12. I will be functionally literate in Arabic
13. Powell will have a book that is Kissinger/Macnamaraesque about his DepState Tenture.
    
14. Afghanistan will continue to have progress and no one will bother to report it
15. Rudy and Hillary will have some advance slash and burn work done on them to keep them out of the 08 race.
16. CBS will Stall the release of the rathergate report until (A) they name a replacement and (b) its time to run the "Dan Rather retrospective" stories. the report will be highly sanitized and No one with a major name in the Scandal (Rather, Moonvies, Mapes) will get more then a slap on the wrist
17. Don Rumsfield will resign as soon as he has a face saving moment to resign, and the ability to spin it that he resigned on his time table.
    
18. Bill O'Reilly will have more "Sex Scandals" come out of the works. and some form of Scandal Buzz will start around Sean Hannity.
19. Michael Jackson's trial will not start until late in 2005, if not early in 2006. He will start to auction off the beatles catalog to pay for his mounting legal fee's and Sir. Paul gets his revenge
20. Another Major Media scandal will break. This time it will hit an Organization at such a level it will be Dead to the audience.
21. Blogs will become trendy and hip.. 2005 will be the year blogs both become mainstream and jump the shark amongst Nerds
22. Howard Stern will not make Sirus the next big thing afterall.
    
23. Bush will pick a safe replacement for the Chief Justice's seat.
24. Alberto Will be the Ashcroft of confirmation hearings. Allot of Democrat sound and fury, and a largely bi-partisan vote of support.
25. Michael Moore's next documentary (Sicko) will actually have very few fraudlent techniques used, softening his critics up for his next ( more political) Work
26. The first federal court will award damages in a "Mcdonald's made me fat" lawsuit. It will be overturned but the harbinger of doom comes over fast food
27. The First challenge to FDMA will come up. the Mormon church will get a hedge position ready just in case government makes gay marriage legal
28. Pro-Wrestling will go even lower, until HHH gets caught cheating on his wife and is promptly fired by Vince. 2006 will be a come back year for the WWE
29. Colts win the Superbowl.. Dungy showing no love to the eagles
30. Hockey won't have their labor problems resolved
31. Two airlines will go belly up, serious talk of Nationalizing the airline industry will come up.
32. The Passion of The Christ and F9-11 will both get next to no oscar nominations.
33. "Lame Duck President" articles will become the cause celeb amongst the main stream media
34. a backlash will occur against all the Uber PC moves by the FCC.. things will go back to some semblance of normalicy in 2006
35. A Major "Gay" celebrity will reveal he really isn't gay. that he claimed to be gay for marketing his career
36. Bush will break out his first Veto
37. Iranian civil disobedience will still get no media coverage
38. Bush will begin to ignore more and more the crack down on demonstrators and christians in china.. the base will stay civil until the 06 elections. But the seeds for a "outsider" republican in 08 will be laid in in 05
39. Kofi Annan will attempt to scuttle the Investigation of the Oil-For-food scandal and get caught. He will resign in disgrace. Both the US and China backed canidates will lose out to a as yet unknown dark horse reformer
40. Tommy Lee will be diagnosed as HIV positive
41. Pope John paul will some how live 365 more days
42. Abbas wins the Palestinian elections, with Jimmy Carter's seal of approval but widespread voter intimidation and fraud recognized by every other observer. This will begin a civil war in the Palestinian Authority
43. The Gaza disengagement will Kill Ariel Sharon politically, and force him to call for elections after it is completed
44. Labor and Likud will both lose out in the new elections to a new party formed to "reform" the nation of israel
45. the death toll when all is said and done from the Tsunami's, plauges, and destruction of the nations effected will reach 1 million
46. In either Germany or Canada a Pro-American party will win control of the government
47. The RNC Chairman will be (falsely) outed as gay
48. Howard Dean will not become DNC chair
49. The catholic church will stop the hemoraging over kiddy sex scandals
50. And people will still complain that christmas is to commercialized like they have since the 19th century