2006 in Review

At this time last year, I made some predictions about what I thought would happen during the new year. Let's rehash that blog and see what happened, and what didn't happen:

• Iran's Nuclear Facilities are removed. Didn't happen, yet. Iran's president keeps toeing the line as to how far he can go with regard to developing nukes. My guess now is nothing will happen until Iran actually tests a weapon.
• The US begins a systematic withdrawal from Iraq. Uhm, not even close to happening. I suppose the holiday egg-nog was still having its way with me when I wrote this. The fact of the matter is we're actually considering sending more troops into Iraq.
• Hillary Clinton announces her run for the presidency. This didn't happen, yet. However, Hillary's by far the leading democratic candidate in a hypothetical race.
  
• Bush announces a strategic plan for a Plastinian State. I'm just making sure you're still reading. Ha, ha, this one still cracks me up.
  
• Abortion part deux takes place in front of the Supreme Court. Well, this didn't happen because of a couple factors: a) the issue was killed (probably a bad choice of words, I digress) in South Dakota, which was the alleyway for the Court to re-try the issue, and b) the GOP had their asses handed to them in October (which was un-forseen at this point in time).
• Osama Bin Laden will be captured or killed. Another year on the run means more time for him to plan the next big one. OBL successfully threw the dogs off his tracks for another year. However, his buddy in Iraq was not so lucky.
  
• The stock market has another so-so year. Not sure what happened here, but I was completely off. The market had a fantastic year, with the Dow soaring past the 12,000 mark.
  
• The Red Sox have a horrible year. I wasn't totally off on this one. I guess it depends on how one defines the word 'horrible'. The Sox were close throughout the year but tanked in August and ended up missing the playoffs for the first time in five years.
• Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey will get divorced. Ha! I was right on this one! Nick and Jess signed the dotted line and ended their three year marriage. Also noteworthy regarding this one is that Nick could already be back in the saddle again.

Next time, 2007 predictions!