Well, here I stroll once again in where angels fear to tread and make my predictions for 2017:
1. President Trump will issue a pardon to Hillary Clinton.
2. Isis will be eliminated from Iraq.
3. There will be more than one assassination attempt against President Trump, each unsuccessful.
4. Pope Francis will attempt to excommunicate one or more of the Cardinals who oppose him.
5. There will be a major confrontation between Trump and Putin, and Putin will back down.
6. Two Democrat US Senators will switch to the Republican party.
7. The economy will enjoy growth unprecedented since 2008.
8. There will be a naval clash between Japan and China.
9. The Cubs will repeat their World Series triumph.
10. McClarey will be wrong in some of his predictions.
I’ll go along with you on number ten….
I’ll have to give you credit for the clearly specific and difficult predictions. Timidity is not your calling card with this stuff.
I would be more inclined to predict;
1.At least one celebrity will criticize Trump.
2. There will be lots of shootings in Chicago
3.Hillary will announce something.
4. John McCain and Lindsey Graham will agree on something.
5.The Dow will reach 20,000
6. A new study will prove an old study wrong.
7. A hip hop singer will sing something I can’t understand.
8 The Media will actually do their job and finally criticize the president.
9. There will be a large controversy in the Vatican.
10. Inner-city poverty and crime will continue.
As we all know, 2017 marks the 100th anniversary of Fatima. “Something(s)” will happen I’m sure. Whether it’s something(s) I would like to see remains to be seen. What would I like to see ? Vindication for the good in a constructive and positive sense. — For example a universal return to public morals without it being occasioned by some horrible tragedy or suffering.
“Two Democrat US Senators will switch to the Republican party.”
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Do you have an idea of which two?
Probably Manchin of West Virginia and either Heitkamp of North Dakota or Joe Donnelly of Indiana.
4. Pope Francis will attempt to excommunicate one or more of the Cardinals who oppose him.
Nah, if he really is the progressive every makes him out to be, then direct excommunication is simply too on the nose and confrontational. Instead, you will see lots of passive-aggressive death-by-a-thousand-cuts.
1) The truth will remain the truth.
I’ve got no others. I don’t think I’ve ever been this unsure of the future on the world stage. So many of the big players are opportunists, and they can sense change. I wouldn’t want to be a Yemeni or bet against the Cowboys this year. Otherwise, we’ll see what happens.
Well Don, so far you can already claim 1 out of 10 correct, and the year hasn’t even started.
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1. The idiots that screamed they’d flee (I thought about typing “flea”) America when Trump won will one, stay in the USA and two, continue to give evidence that they are vociferous imbeciles.
The trend for 2017 – compass-neutral directions, to avoid giving offense:
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“Drive Sorth until Exit 5 – Turn Ut – Continue 1.5 miles Est”
Don
I’m all for number NINE
I. Obama may do it first. In any case I hope it comes with an obligation for her to testify against all her accomplices.
4. I don’t think it will be an excomation but his holiness will try to force the issue somehow, it will probably back fire to no short term benefit for the Church.
8 in the next three four years. Also the chance of a China Philippines clash is just as likley
I see you have potentially created the Liar’s Paradox with your last prediction! If all of your other predictions are correct, then your last one is wrong. But if it’s wrong, it’s correct. But if it’s correct, it’s wrong…. Let’s hope Trump doesn’t pardon Clinton, both because she doesn’t deserve a pardon, and to monkey wrench the paradox created by prediction 10.
Very good and very reasonable Don. My expectation is for something much more dramatic than you have outlined. My guess is some kind of divine intervention tied in with the 100th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima, e.g., Pope Francis repents or dies and we get a conservative Pope, Vatican is demolished by earthquake or meteor, a dozen Cardinals join SSPX, etc.
My fear, and God forbid, is that an attempt on Trump will be successful.
And an unsuccessful attempt at his life could bring Trump into being more dictatorial than Obama already is.
I’m joining the disagreement with #4. It’s just too…formal. It takes strict actions that seem out of character.
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LQC- thankfully, we’re protected from that by Trump not having the “whatcha gonna do, STOP me?” power that Obama has from being a Democrat and good at playing the grievance games.
Are the two democrats Graham and McCain ?
Timothy R.
Are the two democrats Graham and McCain ?
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The American Conservative Union reports that Mr. McCain has voted their way 82% of the time over the 34 years he’s been in Congress and that Mr. Graham has voted their way 86% of the time over the 20 years he’s been in Congress. McCain’s voting record had a phase-change around 1997 and his means have been around 77% of all votes logged since that time. There’s no secular trend in his voting record. Mr. Graham’s record does appear to have growb less starboard over the last 8 years. (There was no trend prior to 2009, when he voted to the right about 90% of the time). His median score post-2008 is still 75%.
I’d have to know what the ACU supports before I’d be sure that someone voting with them means they’re actually conservative– sort of like when I hear some “pro-life group” announcing that so-and-so has an awesome score with them, while someone else does not…and when you dig in, it’s because so-and-so is “pro life” in the welfare, ban guns, remove the death penalty and nanny state way, rather than the “don’t kill babies” way.
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Now, according to the ACU’s website, their ratings are on secretly chosen legislation where they don’t tell anybody ahead of time that they’re going to record it for comparison. I would guess that they’d protect their brand by choosing uncontroversial conservative issues where there isn’t broad agreement between the parties.
Here’s McCain’s chart:
http://acuratings.conservative.org/acu-ratings-chart/?UID=1373
You’ll note the 67% for last year, and that before ’98, it bounced all around above 70; since the, it just bounces all around. This is a pattern you’d expect of, say, a Zell Miller.
Here’s Graham’s:
http://acuratings.conservative.org/acu-ratings-chart/?UID=759
that “trend” would be better described as “dropping like a rock.”
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Lifetime ratings are rather misleading when we’re talking about career guys.
#11. A Naval Ship to be named after you…The Deplorables. The petition is circulating. 🙂
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/13/white-house-petition-suggests-naming-next-navy-ship-uss-deplorables.html
What a great way to remember the failure of the beast.
I was thinking of the remarks I’ve heard, and the attitudes coming from, the Book Ends.
Where’s Captain Katzenjammer with his belt when we need him ?
Timothy R.
Jesus appeared to a bishop, proffered a sword (the rosary) and said repeatedly “Boko Haram is gone”. Now there are reports that the military leaders in Nigeria are talking about having defeated Boko Haram.
I think there have been dire predictions for 2017, and probably true, but- where sin abounds, Grace does more so. So I think 2017 will be a great occasion for grace and many surprising good things will happen.
Nigeria Boko Haram: Militants ‘technically defeated …
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35173618
Ok. I’ll explain. The “Book Ends” ARE the Katzenjammer Twins. The “Captain” might turn out to be Trump. As Arnold liked to say, “Vee shall see”.
Timothy R.
I’d have to know what the ACU supports before I’d be sure that someone voting
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The specific votes they make use of to produce their indices are indicated on the annual ratings. In contrast to the situation 40 years ago, the Democratic and Republican caucuses separate into distinct piles. This has been so since about 1995. There’s only one Democrat in Congress who has a lifetime rating over 30, and only about 10 with a score higher than 20. No Republicans have scores lower than 30. Among the Republican caucus, McCain’s scores are around the 35th percentile and Graham’s scores are around the 48th percentile.
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The Democratic caucus was more variegated when Zell Miller was in Congress and about 14% of the caucus at that time had lifetime scores above 30% (of whom about 2/3 were Southerners). Zell Miller was only in Congress for about 4 years and he had the highest score logged by any Democratic legislator in that time, so I’m not sure how he’s supposed to be indicative of much of anything.
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I think those trading in the RINO discourse would be more concise if they’d just say Ted Cruz is the only authentic Republican in the Senate. Does seem a tad sectarian, though…
Strawmen do frequently seem a bit “off,” especially when you’re trying to defend what amounts to C students in classes that should be an easy A.
Strawmen do frequently seem a bit “off,” especially when you’re trying to defend what amounts to C students in classes that should be an easy A.
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I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean. If you fancy that 35% of the Congressional Republican caucus or 48% of the Congressional Republican caucus are crypto-Democrats, you are welcome to try to make that case.
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Again, 86% of the ballots in the 2008 Republican presidential donnybrook were won by John McCain, Mitt Romney, or Mike Huckabee. In 2012, Mitt Romney won 52% of the ballots. In 2016, Donald Trump and John Kasich won 58% of the ballots between them. In 2000, George W Bush and John McCain won over 90% of the ballots. In 1996, Robert Dole won 57% of the ballots. In 1988, George Bush and Robert Dole won over 80% of the ballots. The people pushing the RINO blather might ask themselves why so many of the bearers of authentic Republicanism seem to assiduously avoid voting.
I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean. If you fancy that 35% of the Congressional Republican caucus or 48% of the Congressional Republican caucus are crypto-Democrats, you are welcome to try to make that case.
Why on earth would I defend yet another of your strawmen, especially when you choose to ignore a really simple and flat statement in favor of building a new one and then charging off after a new windmill?
Why on earth would I defend yet another of your strawmen, especially when you choose to ignore a really simple and flat statement in favor of building a new one and then charging off after a new windmill?
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The term ‘strawman’ does not mean what you fancy it means.
You vigorously attack arguments that only you’ve advanced, while ignoring the arguments that are being made.
Pretty much textbook.
In his opening remarks on an episode of his long-running TV show Wall Street Week Louis Rukeyser said that people who make their living by crystal-ball predictions have to eat a lot of crushed glass.
Mr. McClarey’s Chicago Cubs will keep the universe intact by preventing such a paradox.