2010: Republicans still struggling to get into the Health Care Reform game decide to dust off Nixon's old 1974 plan. It goes over like a lead balloon. Reid and Pelosi seen rolling around the floor laughing.

2011: Health Care debate still going on. Northerners, especially from Vermont and westerners, especially from Colorado, point to the high diabetes rates in the southern states and demand a new “fat panel' to replace the void left by the old death panel. Obama promises no sanctions against McDonalds and pushes for more jogging to the fast food palaces.

2012: It's here, since the mid-term elections caused a shifting in power, the dems and reps ironed it out. You will go annually to your local body inspection station (BIS) (next to the electric car charging post) and get your body checked. You earn points for weight, cholesterol, and 17 other bodily functions, which determines your next year's premium. Some seniors, since their reduced benefits kicked in to help pay for the new plan, are seen dying their hair and trying to sneak into the new BIS under assumed names, adopted from the illegal immigrant friends they know (yes they are covered too).

2013: Crystal ball in the shop for repairs.

2015/2016: Obama consulting with Chavez and Mayor Bloomberg on extending his Presidency. Chelsea Clinton protests since she managed to get the qualification age lowered to 30. Schwarzenegger miffed at no new Austrian exemption bills proposed.

2010: Republicans still struggling to get into the Health Care Reform game decide to dust off Nixon's old 1974 plan. It goes over like a lead balloon. Reid and Pelosi seen rolling around the floor laughing.

2011: Health Care debate still going on. Northerners, especially from Vermont and westerners, especially from Colorado, point to the high diabetes rates in the southern states and demand a new “fat panel' to replace the void left by the old death panel. Obama promises no sanctions against McDonalds and pushes for more jogging to the fast food palaces.

2012: It's here, since the mid-term elections caused a shifting in power, the dems and reps ironed it out. You will go annually to your local body inspection station (BIS) (next to the electric car charging post) and get your body checked. You earn points for weight, cholesterol, and 17 other bodily functions, which determines your next year's premium. Some seniors, since their reduced benefits kicked in to help pay for the new plan, are seen dying their hair and trying to sneak into the new BIS under assumed names, adopted from the illegal immigrant friends they know.

OK, I predict that by 2012 the internet will have educated so many worldwide users about each other that overall hate and malice towards each other will have diminished. I predict many quiet and stalwart uprisings though as a natural consequence of this as populations refuse to be duped by their leaders' propaganda anymore. Things will level out by 2050 as a new generation armed with more knowledge than any before it, strikes back at ignorance which is the only true enemy of mankind.

Being kept brainwashed and in the dark has been so costly for most but very lucrative for some..

Yoda

Based on the past as the only reference for the future, I suspect there will be plenty of wars, disasters both natural and man made , death, destruction, corruption, violent crime, poverty, famine, political upheaval, ect…ect…

Fortunately on January 2, 2011, an alien spaceship will land and take away Rush Limbaugh as a food source, ending discontent as we know it.

(2) December 30, 2012
Moderate Democrats in Congress have been reduced by 1/3rd or more and replaced mainly by by moderate Republicans in several swing states and purple districts. The far left proclaims it glad to see them gone and claims that had they been more radical they would still be in office.

(3) January 2, 2020
Iran has its first successful test of a nuclear weapon

(4) December 30, 2030
Keynsian economics proclaimed dead.

2012: The collarless leisure suit makes a comeback in men's fashion.

2025: Major League Baseball finally gets rid of the designated hitter and the infield fly rule. Attendance soars.

2030: In foreclosure proceedings before the World Court, the US offers to turn over control of the government to China. China refuses, demanding control of a solvent country in lieu of the US.

1. Our economy has recovered

2. GOP takes full credit for the recovery

3. We have sent an additional 100,000 troops to Afghanistan

4. GOP wants to do another “surge.”

By 2015, scientists will have found a way to safely remove an implanted ovum, zygote, embryo, or fetus from a woman's uterus and either freeze it or implant it into the womb of a woman who can't conceive or whose partner cannot impregnate her. Abortion will remain legal for women whose reasons for needing one are not addressed by the reverse in vitro procedure (e.g., serious fetal abnormality or medical condition, possible health risks to the mother from a live removal of a fetus, etc.).

As opposed to how we usually jump to our conclusions?

2015 — Year by which the last dead-trees newspaper in the U.S. folds
2012 — Roe v. Wade overturned by Scotus; abortion still legal in 30 of the 50 states
2011 — Gay marriage legal in all 50 states, by SCOTUS ruling
2020 — Brett Favre comes out of retirement for the fourth time, but is permanently sidelined when tackled by an irate cheerleader
2013 — FaceBook and MySpace merge, but never soon go under due to dispute over new name. Half want MyFace, half want SpaceBook