{"id":500,"date":"2006-12-31T16:47:38","date_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=500"},"modified":"2006-12-31T16:48:49","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:48:49","slug":"2007-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"2007 Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another round of annual predictions. Out of my <a href=\"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?m=200512\">10 predictions last year<\/a>, I&#8217;m claiming five were right on &#8211; a 50% accuracy rate. That&#8217;s pretty good for a charlatan. So without further ado, here is what I think 2007 has in store for us:<\/p>\n<p>1. Republicans will fail to gain control of the U.S. Congress in 2007 elections. (Yes, I know there are no scheduled federal elections but this is still a pretty risky prediction if you are among the moonbats that swear George Bush is a dictator who is ending our democratic government).<\/p>\n<p>2. Saddam Hussein will be executed before the end of January 2007.<\/p>\n<p>3. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will resign as President of Iran after nude photos of him appear on the cover of National Enquirer. Before resigning, he will try to claim &#8220;I was young. I needed the money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>4. An Eastern European country will pass a law allowing the death penalty for spammers. Amnesty International will support the law.<\/p>\n<p>5. I will write a parenting guide called &#8220;It takes a Daddy.&#8221; The Today Show will book me for March 17th, but will drop the segment after realizing the book isn&#8217;t titled &#8220;It takes a Paddy&#8221; and therefore is not appropriate for a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day story.<\/p>\n<p>6. Microsoft will publish Windows as open source software after seeing the rising threat of desktop dominance from Linux. In a competing strategy, Apple will triple the price of Mac computers.<\/p>\n<p>7. The San Diego chargers will almost win the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>8. The pope will again continue to remain Catholic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another round of annual predictions. Out of my 10 predictions last year, I&#8217;m claiming five were right on &#8211; a 50% accuracy rate. That&#8217;s pretty good for a charlatan. So without further ado, here is what I think 2007 has in store for us: 1. Republicans will fail to gain control of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=500\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2007 Predictions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}