Here were my December 2005 predictions for 2006....

• The Republicans will pick up seats in the House of Representatives, but stay about the same in the House of Lords

Couldn't be more wrong. The Dems picked up the House, and the Senate hinges on a sick Dem.

• Iran will announce that it has the bomb, unwisely.

Bingo

• Saddam's trial will drag on for 6 months, then his appeal, and he'll be hung in 2007

Bingo - minus 2 days

• The MSM newspapers will lose another 2 1/2% of their readership and the other media channels will continue to trail any outlet that doesn't trash America every day.

Bingo

• Osama, a wet spot on a cave wall, will not be found, but Zarqawi will - dead.

Bingo

• There will not be another major terror attack this year in the US- from my lips to God's ear

Bingo

• There will be major terror attacks in Europe, Asia, and around Russia's borders

Plenty of attacks, some big ones foiled ( like that airline attack ), but nothing that caught the world's imagination

• Hillary and McCain will announce right after the mid-term elections

Bingo

• The Palistinians will devolve to what will be, in effect, a civil war*

Bingo

• A coalition government will be formed in Iraq, with a large portion of religious MPs, but not enough to totally implement their agenda.

Bingo

• North Korea will continue to be a low-grade thorn in the world's blanket

This one is a gimme

• The Insurgency will leave Iraq and become active in countries that they are afraid are becoming too democratized, ie, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan.

Wrong on this one. Iraq is still the magnet

• I'll get my Python

Nope, I suck.

• Another seat will open up on the Supreme Court for Bush to fill...with Janice Rogers Brown

Nope, I suck