By the end of 2008:

Social Security will be on its way out.

We will have attacked at least one more Muslim country.

There will have been at least one more major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, possibly on a soft target like a mall, a fun park or a casino.

We will close our Canadian border after that country's repeated refusal to allow U.S. law enforcement to "root out" terrorist cells there.

Oil prices will be taken off the U.S. dollar scale and begin to use Euros.

The U.S. dollar's value will sink below the Canadian dollar.

Roe v. Wade will be reversed and 30 percent of the states will move to criminalize abortion.

"Intelligent Design" will find its way into public school curriculum as a theory on par with evolution through the federal mandates of No Child Left Behind.

We will have rounded up thousands more Americans who are Muslims. They will be "non-tortured" (waterboarded, shocked, sodomized, etc...) by the government.

The Democrats will lose filibuster power in the Senate - either through Frist's so-called "nuclear" option where he changes the rules, or because the 2006 elections will bring the Democrats down to 40, and folks like Lieberman and Landrieu will never vote with the block.

Alberto Gonzales will be appointed to the Supreme Court. Scalia will be confirmed as Chief Justice.

The Supreme Court will rule that the Texas redistricting was legal, paving the way for at least 6 more states to follow suit, thus assuring at least 50 extra seats for the Republicans in 2010.

Foreign press will report that several major U.S. media companies are directly on the payroll of the Bush administration.

Foreign press will report that Halliburton benefitted from the Iraq oil-for-food scandal while Cheney was CEO.

Foreign press will report that U.S. black ops are being in part financed by heroin production in Afghanistan under the watchful eye of Karzai.

Republicans will talk of pulling out of NATO.

Abbas will be assassinated. Hamas will take control of Gaza.