Vicious Rants of an Angry Yellow Man

The following are my fearless predictions for the coming new year:

On the domestic front:  Obamacare will run into more glitches and will hurt Obama's poll numbers.  But Obamacare will survive and stay as law.  Its popularity will gain in the future but certainly not this year.   The GOP will come out slightly ahead in the midterm election but will not be able to win the senate.  So we will have more stalemates in Congress and not much will be done.  But in a sign of the decreasing influence of the Tea Party in the GOP there will not be disasters due to battles over the debt ceiling and budgets this coming year.  Stock market will gyrate up and down during the year and finish about 500 points lower.

On the international front:  Syria will dispose its chemical weapons but the civil war and massacres will continue.  A deal with Iran and nuclear weapons will be made.  Israel will not be happy but won't strike Iran.  No significant progress will be made between Israel and the Palestinians.  Tension will increase between Japan and China over the islands but both sides will avoid any confrontation of force.  North Korea will make more empty threats but Dennis Rodman will try to defuse tension by bringing  a team to North Korea.  He is lucky in that Kim Jong Un will not call him uncle.

On the sports front: New England to win Super Bowl.  FSU to win BCS.  Pittsburgh to win Stanley Cup.  San Antonio to win NBA.  Kansas to win NCAA basketball.  Brazil wins World Cup.  U.S. wins the medal count at the Olympics.  Tiger Woods wins a major next year.  Serena Williams wins two majors.  Djokovic wins Australia and U.S. Open while Nadal wins the French as usual.  In a shocker Federer wins Wimbledon and retires.

Given my poor predictions with the Big Ten bowl games so far, I would take all of the above with a grain of salt.