Handy List for Next Four Years

Chronicle readers:
   Clip this handy list and check off events as they occur over the next four years.
   [ ] Next major al Qaeda attack on U.S. soil (Date: / / ) (Dead: )
   [ ] First suicide bombing (of the "guy with explosive belt walks into shopping mall" sort) on U.S. soil (Date: / / ) (Dead: )
   [ ] Iraq elects radical anti-U.S. fundamentalist Islamic government.
   [ ] U.S. military dead in Iraq tops 5,000.
   [ ] U.S. military dead in Iraq tops 10,000.
   [ ] U.S. military dead in Iraq tops 50,000.
   [ ] Number of kidnapped and murdered civilian hostages in Iraq tops 100.
   [ ] Number of kidnapped and murdered civilian hostages in Iraq tops 200.
   [ ] Number of kidnapped and murdered civilian hostages in Iraq tops 500.
   [ ] War with Iran
   [ ] War with Syria
   [ ] War with North Korea
   [ ] Military draft
   [ ] Your son/daughter/relative/someone you know killed overseas
   [ ] World War III
   [ ] Economic recession
   [ ] Stock market crash/economic depression
   [ ] Deficit tops $10 trillion.
   [ ] Deficit tops $20 trillion.
   [ ] Unemployment reaches 15%.
   [ ] Unemployment reaches 25%.
   [ ] U.S. becomes fundamentalist Christian theocracy; Bill of Rights suspended.
   [ ] Michael Moore wins another Oscar.
   [ ] Osama bin Laden (wait till 2008 then circle one) caught/never caught