Well, it is that time again for me to review my predictions for the year coming to an end and eat a little crow.
1. The contraceptive mandate will be found to be unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
Not yet. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeals of seven non-profits, including The Little Sisters of the Poor. Stay tuned.
2. A major component of ObamaCare will found to be unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court.
Not yet. Constitutional challenges are still winding their way slowly through the Federal courts.
3. Obama will veto at least ten pieces of legislation during the coming year.
Nope, just five. Prior to 2015 he had vetoed two bills.
4. Pope Francis and the Pope Emeritus will be perceived to be increasingly at odds.
Nope. Whatever the Pope Emeritus thinks about his successor, he has been maintaining a tight silence.
5. A major development will be announced regarding the possibility of a warp drive.
Nope, although there has been some tantalizing work on the EmDrive.
6. Hillary Clinton will announce that she is not running for President in 2016.
Not yet, although health rumors still swirl about her.
7. Unbroken will win the Oscar for best picture.
Nope. It did receive three Oscar nominations, albeit not for best picture. It failed to win any Oscars.
8. The synod of 2015 will be one of the most acrimonious synods in the history of the Church.
Well, certainly in the history of the modern Church.
9. A major miracle will occur which will spark further speculation that we are living in the End Times.
Nope.
10. Don will be wrong on one or more of his predictions.
That was certainly true in spades for this crop of predictions! I will try to do better for next year!
Well, I wouldn’t go out on a limb to predict SCOTUS will uphold the Constitution on anything, especially with regard to the aforementioned issues. Hillary could be In the last throes of Satge 4 cancer and will still run for president. Her lust for power would forbid her from doing otherwise. I had predicted she wouldn’t get the Dem nomination. It looks like that prediction will turn out to be wrong. I would like to predict she won’t win the presidency. But looking at the mess the present GOP field is making, that may be going out on a limb too far.
Actually, crows are much more intelligent than humans.
1: no crow ever voted for Obama.
2; no crow ever voted GOPe.
3. no crow ever made a bad prediction.
“5. A major development will be announced regarding the possibility of a warp drive.”
“Nope, although there has been some tantalizing work on the EmDrive.”
The EM Drive is not a warp drive per se. It is a reactionless electromagnetic drive. It violates the law of the conservation of momentum. I do not think it can work.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/EmDrive
No, it isn’t a warp drive but it is a baby step in that direction. Scientific laws remain laws only until they are revoked by the ongoing march of scientific developments.
How come this prediction didn’t appear on your list? The GOP will betray it’s base and end up deader than a dodo.
Because people have been predicting the extinction of both parties since their origins and both parties keep chugging along. The Democrats and the Republicans are the only game in town and everything else is merely a wasted vote. Conservatives upset with the Republican party, and I am in that category, need to make sure that a Republican is elected President in 2016 and to make sure that conservatives control the party in their locale and state.
Mac, You are doing far better than I. I have a list, each year, of things I want to accomplish/do. And, each year-end I have to change the year-number at the top of the list.
DonL, Scientific research (agreed to by 97.8% of scientists) proves that one in three democrats is as stupid as the other two.
@Donald:
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The following web link gives a brief discussion at New Scientist about the Roger Sawyer EM drive:
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https://www.newscientist.com/blog/fromthepublisher/2006/10/emdrive-on-trial.html
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Conservation of matter, energy and momentum are fundamental to the construction of our 4-dimensional universe of space-time, matter-energy. True warp drive does not invalidate those laws, but finds a way around them by fore-shortening space and time whether by warping its fabric or “drilling” a wormhole though it. The EM drive has no reactant output, yes produces forward momentum. This is not possible in our universe with its laws of physics, no matter what Roger Sawyer says. The EM drive like its Cannae predecessor is a wild goose chase. Sorry.
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PS, I will be among nuclear engineers most happy to be proven wrong. But the laws of physics are as immutable as the laws of God. Perhaps that is because for the physical universe the laws of physics are God’s laws, and only He has authority to suspend them. BTW, Einstein did not invalidate Newton’s Laws (which still hold true for most movements). Rather, Einstein refined Newton’s Laws. KE still equals 1/2 MV^2 except at velocities approaching light speed when the equation has to take in special terms to accommodate relativistic mass increase with velocity. Law is not and cannot be violated. (But I would like physics laws to be mutable for in that way we could get rid of that nasty weak nuclear force responsibility for radioactivity).
Don, I don’t think you understand the rage and hatred the average American voter has toward the GOP. Your leaders sold us out in Congress just a few days ago. Do you honestly believe we will support the bastards who shafted us? Yet you claim you have control of so many state legislatures. Were was that control when we needed it in Congress? The GOP might as well have been Demo’s! Yep, the GOP is a Donkey in an Elephant skin.
“Yet you claim you have control of so many state legislatures.”
More state legislatures than at any time in history to be precise.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/11/11/the_other_gop_wave_state_legislatures__124626.html
The Republicans on the state level have been making good use of their majorities by and large.
The Republicans in Congress simply are not going to shut the government down again in a showdown with Obama. They know they can’t override his veto and that the media will flay them alive over another shut down. I don’t particularly care for the GOP leadership in Congress, but I do understand that their options are limited so long as the Democrats control the White House and are completely undisturbed at the prospect of the government being shut down.