September Predictions

Here's how I did with my September predictions:

Something of George Washington's or some new discovery about George Washington will surface. A letter by or a painting of him that hasn't been known about will come to light from a private individual.
Well, not exactly on target with this one. The only thing I could discover "new" that came to light about George Washington was a new biography that was published on September 30, 2010, by Ron Chernow called "Washington, A Life." The New York Times reviews the book here.

A new kind of dinosaur bone will be discovered, something large and carnivorous like a T-Rex but a different species. This will be found in a landscape like a high desert; it is sandy, wide-open, some shale-y or sandstone kind of rock, but not flat.
A listener on my radio show directed me to this link, confirming the find: http://apracticalpsychic.blogspot.com/2010/09/dinosaur-prediction-is-accurate.html

A royal family in one of the Scandanavian countries -- I feel it is Norway -- will be making an announcement that is a cause for celebration, such as a wedding or engagement. It will bring the royal family back into the public in an adoring or romantic kind of way.
I'd have to say I got this one dead wrong. I did find something like a wedding in Sweden, where the crown prince Carl Philip moved in with his girlfriend on September . The link to that story is here.
However, what's more interesting is the princess Martha Louise of Norway has announced that she can talk to the dead and to angels, and as a result many citizens feel she is unfit to rule. The bishops actually came out against her. You go girl! That story is here.

A species of bat will either go extinct (the last one in captivity) or a bat from a species that was thought extinct will re-emerge.
Technically I got this one right.. IF I'd said that the species will emerge in a place where it was never seen before. A kind of bat was found in Somerset, UK, where there has never been a confirmed sighting of this type of bat before. A quote towards the end of the article says "There were no previous records of this type of bat here and it is great to have an extra species to add to the Somerset list." Read the whole September 2010 story here.

Reverend Sun Yung Moon and/or his church will be in the news this month because of a very large gathering or a group wedding.
Looks like this happened October 10, 2010, not September. There was a very large gathering for the Unification Youth in New Jersey in September. Also, Rev. Moon regained control by buying back the Washington Times. Not sure these predictions were specific enough; I was on about the wedding but got the month wrong.

A cross on a church in the south of the United States will burn or topple. I feel this is metaphorical rather than literal.
Although apparently it's literal. A cross at a church in George was burned, but appears to be accidental.

A very bad storm will hit the New England coast at the end of September, causing a great deal of damage to homes especially on the Connecticut coast.
Did okay with this one. Tropical storm Nicole hit the coast with torrential rain and 60 mph winds on September 30th. Connecticut Light & Power which provides power to most of the state, had 4,538 customers in the dark at 10 p.m., including 85 in Greenwich and 258 in Stamford. Though this may not be the storm I foresaw, because the one I saw was truly damaging. Hopefully I'm wrong on this one, and Nicole was the storm I was seeing.

I'm not sure predictions are my strong suit. It's hard for me to cast around out there in the ether to find something, though I probably did better than chance. But who knows if this information is something I had subconsciously stored away -- for instance, maybe somewhere, on some level of my mind, I knew that Rev. Moon always has huge group weddings at this time of year? I don't know whether what I'm doing is really predicting or not. Clearly some, like the dinosaur find, are pretty on-target; but is the chance that I came up with that the same as the odds are that I would?

I'm going to pursue predicting for a while longer, to see if I can satisfy my own curiosity about it. Don't know that I see the relevance of it, at least in the sort of things I've been "predicting" so far. Where it would really be helpful is in predicting terrorist attacks or assassination attempts, that sort of thing. But God help me if I start predicting that stuff, because I'll probably get arrested. I'm not even sure I want to be a doomsday predictor.

What a drag it must have been to have Nostradamus at a party. I so don't want to be that guy.