Everyone break out your crystal balls, tea leaves, entrails, etc… and tell me your predictions for 2010.
Mine:
SETI finally hits pay dirt in June 2010
New Pope elected Feb 2010
DOW hits 12k, but drops back to low 11k shortly thereafter, and stays there for the year.
Beck and Limbaugh do a show together and both die of suffucation due to the large amount of bullshit that will envelope the room.
I’m going to pray number 4 actually comes true…
Only if they bother to check Discovery’s orbit.
Wow - you think B16 is going to kick it or resign in the next two months? That’s pretty bold.
I predict that Sylvia Browne will make numerous, wrong, predictions and take many unsuspecting people for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Ok… what do I win?
“Candid” photos of Sylvia and Montel’s physical love being expressed behind the dumpster of a St. Louis area Taco Bell…
The next political scandal will involve… throws dart at map …a Democrat from Wisconsin. After that, a Republican from Nevada.
A squad of elite Israeli commandos will rescue Gilad Shalit, over the course of a very interesting hour and a half. Much prodding of terrorist testicles will be involved. The Israeli government will give a speech the next day saying, what, you thought we were serious about releasing those convicted murderers? Give us some credit here.
The next would-be plane bomber will stuff firecrackers up his nose and claim he has a bad cold. Passengers will later describe the unxpected fireworks as quite beautiful, although one man’s hair will catch on fire. The snot bomber will suffer extensive brain damage, but no one will notice.
The scientific community will triumphantly annouce that they have sequenced the white cabbage moth’s DNA. Some people will even care.
The next celebrity scandal will involve word puzzles and a can of hairspray.
The Large Hadron Collider will experience technical difficulties, but physicists will assure us that many amazing things will happen when they get it running again in 2011.
10 predictions for 2010— Bank on these:
New calculations will determine that the asteroid Apophis is much more likely to hit the Earth than NASA has been saying.
“Flo” from the Pregressive.com commercials will run for political office.
A major lottery scandal will threaten the continuation of such games and trigger a federal investigation.
Vampires will decline in popularity. Witches will gain momentum. Zombies will hold steady.
A canned pumpkin shortage will lead to supermarket violence.
The Detroit Lions will finally turn it around in 2010
An earthquake will either topple the Leaning Tower of Pisa or make it lean a heck of a lot more.
Starkist will bring back Charlie the Tuna. This will launch a trend of commercial nostalgia.
The Outer Banks of North Carolina will have to deal with two hurricanes. One will be a major storm of at least Cat 4.
Finland will shock the world.
Anything else I can predict that will be both incredibly non-specific and incredibly likely to occur in any given time period?
It won’t be any better than 2009.
Mine, C&P from another thread:
There will be open conventional war between Columbia and Venezuela, with the U.S. giving air and naval support, money and advisors to the Columbians.
There will be a major Earthquake in the Los Angeles area, leaving nearly a thousand people dead.
The U.S. will become a major power in World Soccer, getting to the final four in the last World Cup of the Decade.
Joe Biden will be forced to resign the Vice-Presidency due to personal scandal.
Barack Obama will be re-elected but the Republicans will regain the White house in 2016.
China will begin a program to put a man on the moon, though they will not accomplish this by the end of the decade.
An earth size planet with liquid water will be discovered outside our Solar System.
ETA: these are for the next decade, not just 2010
You will try to improve your life, but it won’t work all the time.
That person you like won’t be as interested in you.
Don’t put all your faith in astrology.
David Blaine will come up with a statement you think is insightful.
Barack Obama will suffer a heart attack, possibly in October 2010.
Seattle will endure a terrorist incident involving a bomb of some sort in Summer, 2010.
China will attempt military action beyond their own borders. They will fail.
Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. They will succeed.
A member of Britain’s government will be involved in a kinky sex scandal.
Led Zeppelin will not reunite for a tour with Bonham’s son on drums.
A member of the Atlanta Braves will die.
Canada will experience an environmental disaster.
South Africa will prevent an attempted terrorist attack at the World Cup.
There will be a war in South America.
Somebody named “John” will lose his cell phone.
Empty auto showrooms will be converted into soup kitchens. Upscale Mercedes and Lexus will serve locally grown organic fruits and vegetables. Former Chevy and Ford will serve beans n’ franks.
He’s looking pretty weak…
Any money on this? 
Dang. Those are pretty specific.
Major broadcast stations in US (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) will fight, and win, getting money from cable stations to broadcast their crappy shows - and you are stuck with paying for it.
The British Royal Family has two shocking tragedies this year.
The host of a major prime time talk show will die suddenly.
There will be a serious event/tragedy at a landmark site filled with tourists.
A cure will be found for a disease that has caused many to die in the past.
Something very unexpected will happen during an awards ceremony that will be news for several days/weeks.
A Hollywood Legend will die, but the circumstances will be questionable, despite their age.
One of the biggest hit films of the year will be a comedy - not a drama or adventure film - making it one of the first comedies to ever maybe win the Oscar next year.
The next American Idol winner will be a black or Asian woman with a voice that has people tuning in just to hear her.
Canada will make major news this year - and it won’t all be good news, sadly.
Pittsburgh Steelers regain superiority and bounce back for another Super Bowl win, February 2011.
Big Ben throws for four touchdown passes and is MVP.
Book it.
KB.
Stamp prices will increase.
Gas prices will go up.
The federal deficit will increase.
Terrorist attacks abroad will continue.
Taco Bell will debut a new crappy food item.
Bickering will escalate in the senate.
A new “miracle diet” will hit the late night infomercial circuit.
Apple will release a new status symbol gizmo.
USB 3.0 will fail to take off.
Blu-ray will continue to be less profitable.
The Avatar sequels will suck monkey cocks.
M. Night Shamalamanologoafart will dig himself yet deeper.
The globe will warm, but only 'cuz it’s a coincidence.
Pakistan will finally be held accountable for it’s terrorist sheltering.
Chicago will have a farewell tour.
The robot vagina will be perfected. (fingers crossed)
AIDS will be curable via chewing gum.
Dominos pizza will lose their legal right to use the word pizza.
Britney Spears will give birth to her own step cousin.
Kanye West will be dispatched via machete attack, at an awards show, by a guy in purple suspenders, with a copy of Dianetics in his pocket.
Barack Obama will continue to be mortal, Rush Limbaugh will be canonized.
One major restaurant chain will go out of business.