What do you predict will happen in 2008?
In Kossack Kompetition #2 you will be invited to delve into the innermost recesses of your mind and take a good long look into the future.
But first, below the fold, are the results of Kossack Kompetition #1, in which Kossacks were asked....
What was the Most Extremely Annoying News Story of 2007?
Here's our Bronze Medalist:
It has already been mentioned but
the Anna Nicole Smith death and subsequent
paternity hearings occupied ALL of the news cycle for weeks. What was really nuts is that
the only time that they weren't reporting it, they were discussing whether or not they should be reporting it.
A closed loop of stupidity.
" Freedom is about authority "...Rudy Giuliani
by jnhobbs
Well said! One of my biggest pet peeves has been when NBC Nightly News or some other newscast will cover news about Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, or some other bimbo and draw some so-called "hard news" reason out of some unmentionable orifice. Or cover the fact that the news media are covering this story! I mean, why can't newspeople just be honest and say they're doing it for ratings?
And the Silver Medal goes to:
JRE's haircut
A completely worthless, senseless report that added nothing to anything in the world.
Hillary's cleavage comes a close second, of course ...
You kids behave or I'm turning this universe around RIGHT NOW! - god
by Clem Yeobright
I agree 100%. When did the MSM start playing "fashion police" and stop covering real issues? Also, LOL about Clem's sig!
And now for our Gold Medalist!
I recall
an especially weighty feature story on MSNBC detailing ad naseum what Paris Hilton was eating while in the hoosegow.
Can't resist adding an extremely annoying comment made by a political commentator this morning.
She said, not making this up:
But let's face it, there are a lot of states who haven't voted.
LOL!!!
It's an election, Tim, not an auction . . .John Edwards 10/7/07
by OrdinaryGal
LOL, too! This was wonderful--if what Paris is eating in jail isn't trivia, I don't know what is. And the political commentator's comment is hilarious!
Back to this weekend's question:
What do you predict will happen in 2008?
But first a couple of guidelines. When I devised these competitions, I'd intended them as a fun, entertaining respite from candidate diaries and any others having to do with the primaries, the general election, or related matters. So,
1.) Please no predictions involving candidates, campaigns, primaries, or the general election, and...
2.) No sports predictions. (Yawn--I couldn't care less who's going to win the Super Bowl, the World Series, or any games other than Kossack Kompetitions!)
I predict that any entry about electoral politics or sports will not win--and if all submissions are on these topics, there will be no winners.
But aside from these topics, let your mind roam free. There's still much more to make predictions on: world events, Iraq, the economy, energy, the environment, earth changes, the weather, the Bush Administration, scandals, non-electoral politics, education, health....even Extremely Annoying celebrities, crimes, and celebrity crimes!
Predictions can be either good or bad--they'll be judged on how interesting and/or entertaining they are.
Now I'm going to sit this out and let you have the floor until Monday when I go through the entries and congratulate the winners. And if you win the Gold, Silver, or Bronze, your entry will be published in Kossack Kompetition #3.
So--what do you predict will happen in 2008?