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                            My predictions come true
                                        
I forgot about this [1].

Fortunately, I kept a copy [2], because my prediction that these 2005
predictions would be swept under the carpet [3] were true!

And so were the 2006 predictions [4], oddly enough. I'm thinking that ol'
Fred there was getting some heat about failed predictions, because his
current predictions for 2007 [5] are not only served up using Flash (making
it harder to quote), but contain this lovely bit of verbiage at the bottom:

> No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
> or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical,
> photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under
> Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either
> the prior written permission of Fred Fassett. Please write to
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.
> 

“Predictions 2007 [6]”

Hate to tell you Fred, but your predictions have been reproduced, stored and
transmitted, electronically, just for me to read the darned things. The same
goes for anyone reading the page, including your loving fans.

Now, as for his predictions in 2005 … well … I read over the predictions, and
there isn't any that I can actually point to and say “it came to pass” or
even “it failed” because they're all so … obtuse. It's hard to see what he
was even predicting, except for his “[s]oon there will be some very strange
life forms coming out of the oceans,” but since he's got the hedge word
“soon” it's hard to qualify this one either way.

And his current predictions? Most are the “safe” type—cures for cancer and
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), weather will get more extreme,
economy will strengthen but spending will be cautious, stock market will be
unreliable (heh), etc. And a few are of the woo-woo type: “more genius
children will be born with more spiritual cognizance with messages from the
spirit world,” and “Western medicine and alternative therapies will be
combined—doctors will have to go back to school.”

So Fred, I'm not terribly impressed. And removing your past predictions? Tsk,
tsk, poor show.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/31.2
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/12/31/predictions_2005.htm
[3] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2005.htm
[4] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2006.htm
[5] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2007.htm
[6] http://www.psychicfred.com/predictions_2007.htm

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