Thursday, November 4

Predictions  

I've been down since Wednesday. It could be the election results. It could be that I'm trying to (prevent from) get sick. I dunno. I don't think I had that much emotionally invested in this election, as the result is certainly what I had been predicting. Things as a rule aren't going to change much right now, and that would be regardless of who won this week. But things will change over time. Things that I don't now, and certainly won't later, agree with. And I think that these things may be even disagreeable with others that I know voted for Bush.

Some predictions off the top of my head that I'll probably refine later.

Draft

You betcha there's going to be a draft. There are a couple of people that voted for Bush that are going to be extremely pissed off when they find out that their 14 year old sons will be shipped off to boot camp as soon as they graduate high school. You can't run off to Canada any more, that's not an option. And from what I've been reading, there will be no deferments. College will have to wait till after they are back from their tour of duty.

No peace for Iraq

The next four years will show no credible increase in security and/or liberty for Iraq.

More war

There will be one more war. Chances are, it will be with either the Iranians or the Syrians. Empire building has to be continued. North Korea won't be attacked. In this way I should add…

Bring on the nukes!

There won't be a war with North Korea as they will simply be nuked into submission. This will be probably occur in the last year of the administration, and will be justified as North Korea throws one of their nukes uncomfortably close (possibly on) US territory.

The trouble with China

This part is extremely cloudy. Either we start war with China because they have a better economy than we do at the time, or we help them take over Taiwan, to put China in our pocket.

In the short term, tomorrow they release the job figures for October. If it's up, it isn't up by what they thought it should be or it will be revised downward next month, but I have a feeling that it will actually be down.

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