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By Bill Fike
Since I was very young, at the end of each year, I contemplate about what the New Year would bring. Sometimes I would write down my predictions, sometimes not. However, since the date of my forum falls on December 29th., I will “step out on the limb” and share with you my predictions for this New Year of 2015.
1. Malaysian Air MH370 will be found at the bottom of the Indian ocean towards the end of March. The mystery will deepen, with the plane found entirely intact sitting upright, with the remains of the passengers still sitting in their assigned seats.
2. The Mar’s Rover “Curiosity” will find a fossil of an alien fish near an ancient dried up river bed on the Red Planet.
3. Congress will agree to a new immigration bill, only if our entire southern border is secured by anti-personnel land mines, as were used by the communist on the East German side of the Berlin Wall during the Cold War.
4. A couple from Bloomington will win $296 million dollars in the Power Ball Lottery Drawing sometime in the Fall of 2015.
5. Chief Justice John Roberts of the United States Supreme Court, will again anger conservatives, by casting the deciding vote in June, allowing Obamacare to survive.
6. Congress will still experience “gridlock”, as the Senate Democrats get even, and use the same filibuster rule against the Republican Majority.
7. On December 31, 2015 the Dow will close at 20,536.61.
8. For my last big prediction for the new year: In July Rush Limbaugh will take a leave of absence from the EIB Network and announce his candidacy to be the nominee for the Republican Party, with hopes of becoming President of the United States in 2016.
In the past years I have been lucky, and a few of my predictions have come true. I know my skeptics will say I am “full of baloney”, and that there is no chance that any of my premonitions will materialize. But some of you old timers will remember Greta Alexander from Delevan; she suffered the same criticism.
Happy New Year everybody, and let’s hope that number 4 will become reality, and my wife and I are the lucky couple!
Bill Fike owned and operated Winnie's of Bloomington, Inc., (Winnie's Menswear) from 1973 until his retirement in May of 2009. Bill also owned Churchill's Formal Wear, LTD. from 1996 until he sold Churchill's to James Carroll in March 2007. Bill and Cheryl just celebrated 40 years of marriage this past June 12, 2011 and they have one son, Joseph, and one daughter, Carmen. Bill was in the second graduating class of Illinois Central College in 1971, and then went on to Clark School of Aviation-Flight, obtaining both VFR and IFR flight certificates. Bill has been able to trace his family heritage back to his great, great, great grandfather's family, A.C. Herron's, (on grandmother's side), who was one of the original settlers of Bloomington.
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