Happy New Year to All.  May you and yours be blessed with good health, happiness, and prosperity in 2010.

With the approach of the new year, I thought that it might be interesting to solicit prections for 2010.  
Pray let this forum thread not be one of confrontation.  Let us each make our prediction on any issue
of our choice.  Then, with the Administrator's support, we can look back one year from now to see
which predictions were accurate and which were not.

My apology for starting this out with a political prediction, but here is my first.

Congressman Scott Murphy, NYS 20th, will lose his reelection bid in November 2010.

I predict that there will be fewer Democrats in Congress after the elections in November.

I predict there will be another attempted (possibly successful) attack on our country.

I predict the US Postal system will need a GIANT overhaul(bailout) to compete/or just change/disappear as techology changes......

I predict that nearly every conversation in this forum turns political at some point along the way.  God I hope I'm wrong.

For last year's words belong to last year's language

And next year's words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.

—T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

"Scoops and Predictions" is a segment on the Chris Matthews show.  

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Quoted from MobileTerminal:
I predict that nearly every conversation in this forum turns political at some point along the way.  God I hope I'm wrong.

So, MT, is your remark an assault on our First Amendment Freedom of Speech / Freedom of Religion?  

Sorry, I couldn't resist turning your prediction into something political.  

I guess I've been put in my place, thanks Brad.

I predict that DSS will move into the Rotterdam Industrial Park, that Bethesda House will sell its structure to a major hotel chain and buy a resort in Princetown, that Brian Stratton will finally get his calling to DC and McCarthy will take over as mayor and the ANGELO SANTABARBARA will go straight to HELL for being the jerk that he is!

Okay?

I predict that Susan Savage will announce her interest in challenging Jim Tedisco for his NYS Assembly seat.
I also predict that Tedisco will face a primary challenge for the Republican party endorsement.

I predict that there will be a renewed push for consolidation of the police departments countywide.  It will
begin again with pressure from Schenectady City Mayor Stratton.  

Now that local elections are concluded and Dagostino has landed in the Sheriff's Department, the past
opponents of this plan (Savage and the County Legislature) will support the call with the Rotterdam force
being the first to be merged, Glenville P.D. to be the last.

I predict that there will be an arrest of a known figure in the Rotterdam political scene.

I predict heavy snowfall in mid to late February, but a warm March with an early spring.

I predict that the Israeli military will make a strike with pinpoint accuracy against Iran's nuclear facility in 2010.
Rather than galvanize the Iranian populace, the reformists will seize the opportunity presented by the ensuing
panic and confusion to overthrow the fundamentalist and hardline Islamic regime.