2009 Predictions: How Did I Do?

Here is a look at how the predictions I made at the beginning of 2009 turned out:

1)PREDICTION: Newly-elected Barack Obama will govern as a centrist and will show bipartisan openness and flexibility to best solve the nation's problems, uniting the country and thereby maintain a historically high approval rating throughout the year.

Wow, I was way off on that one...not even close on any part of it.

2)PREDICTION: Nancy Pelosi will have a staff member explain to her that natural gas IS, in fact, a fossil fuel and that you have to drill for it in order to find and use it.

Again, I was way off. She still doesn't know that natural gas is a fossil fuel. She does know, however, that her sixth facelift will not be covered by the new government healthcare plan.

3)PREDICTION: Barney Frank will finally admit that one of the primary causes of the housing meltdown and the ensuing financial crisis was his support for Fannie and Freddie, his unwillingness to reform them and their subsequent purchase of hundreds of billions in subprime mortgages that resulted in their insolvency and a gigantic taxpayer bailout.

Once again, I could not have been more wrong on this prediction. Shame on me.

4)PREDICTION: Charlie Sheen will end the year by threatening and holding a knife to his 3rd wife's throat in a drunken rage on Christmas morning.

I was spot on with this prediction. I really nailed it based on my exhaustive research.

5)PREDICTION: Tim Geithner will resign as Treasury Secretary and admit the inconsistency of cheating on his taxes while heading the department that oversees the IRS.

Nope. Wrong again. What was I thinking?

6)PREDICTION: The nation will finally wake up and realize that the TSA is the most wasteful, inefficient, unproductive agency ever created and that airline safety has not improved one iota since its creation.

No. This hasn't happened...yet.

7)PREDICTION: People will start to realize that the concept of anthropogenic global warming is the biggest and most expensive scam in the history of civilization and is part of a multi-trillion dollar power grab by private jet-flying, limousine-riding hypocrites.

I think I am finally starting to be right on this one.

8)PREDICTION: The people of the United States will continue to believe that the most important thing somebody can do after committing a crime, an act of infidelity or an unethical act is to go on Oprah and to weep openly.

I was totally right about this one.

9)PREDICTION: Christopher Dodd will admit the hypocrisy of being the Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee while receiving a sweetheart mortgage deal from Countrywide's Angelo Mozilo.

Totally off on this one.

10)PREDICTION: Hollywood will continue to make a disproportionately high number of movies that vilify our military and/or paint our soldiers and veterans as extremists and psychopaths.

Spot on.