Tamar Jacoby of the Manhattan Institute, a think-tank, predicts "a bit of a food fight" in the Senate over the shape of the final bill.
I predicted a fair bit of drunken sloppiness, an extensive list of new and short-lived best friends, and floors so sticky that I'd have to restrict my dancing to arm work only.
I predict a little bit of additional weakening next year and in those to follow as some of the shine wears off craft, consolidations and purchases remove the "craft" designation from some of the bigger breweries, and, with the number of breweries growing 20% this year to more than 7,000, oversaturation pushes greater numbers out.
But we can do a better job by far on the mechanics to be able to predict a little bit of the future, how fast this is going to happen in the future.
Seeing as Monday (traditionally the more intense of the two days) was predicted to be a bit of a wash out with the Belfast-in-October weather we've been having, it made sense to me to make Sunday the big one.
I would call a 90percentt risk of rupture predicted by pipeline experts a bit of a red flag," said Sakura Saunders, an activist who belongs to the Toronto Coalition Against Line 9 that brought the issue to the attention of several city councillors.
Predicting the oil price is a bit of a mug's game.
The predicted 1,000km range means quite a bit of diplomatic arm-wrestling may be involved, for the detectors would be of little use if built on American soil.
But it wasn't just CCTV that Orwell predicted with eerie accuracy -- like Tesla before him, Orwell was apparently a bit of a wizard at predicting the technology of the future.
This morning, that same Labour source said: "It's very hard to predict what will happen," which is a bit of an understatement.
Predicting is just educated guessing with a bit of luck thrown in.
