IT’S time for everyone to make their predictions for ’05. But here are a few that surely won’t be coming true next year:

* Michael Moore will make a documentary based on fact.

* A New York-area sports team other than the Yankees will win a championship.

* State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will announce the target of his next big probe: lawyers.

* Gov. Pataki will go to Albany and put in a full day of work.

* The New York Times will run a story about some positive development in Iraq.

* The New York Times will run a story about anything George Bush has done well.

* Donald Trump will decide that self-promotion can be tacky.

* Gov. Pataki will discover something in the state that isn’t yet taxed – and decline to tax it.

* John Kerry finally will decide if he backs the war in Iraq.

* Someone in government will be admonished for 9/11.

* Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, repulsed by pols who get fat checks from law firms while shilling for them in Albany, will give up his own $1 mill-plus fees and quit Weitz & Luxenberg.

* Silver, repulsed by pols who get fat checks from law firms while shilling for them in Albany, will quit the Legislature.

* France will play a leadership role in the war against terrorism.

* France will play a minor role in the war against terrorism.

* France will play any role in the war against terrorism.

* Albany will pass a budget on time – and spend no more than what’s expected in revenues.

* Democrats will offer a way to save Social Security without hiking taxes.

* Tiring of life in a cave, Osama bin Laden will emerge, renounce terrorism and sing the praises of Fox News.

* Someone in New York will plan to build on his own property – and no one will object.

* Martha Stewart will launch a reality TV show – on investing.

* George Soros will buy ads warning that terrorism is real and demand a tough response.

* Health-care union boss Dennis Rivera will call for the closing of an underutilized hospital.

* The American Civil Liberties Union will declare that all members of al Qaeda are Muslims and that, therefore, frisking old ladies at airports diverts resources from the War on Terror.

* George Bush will declare that all members of al Qaeda are Muslims and, thus, frisking old ladies at airports diverts resources from the War on Terror.

* Britney Spears will perform a show – fully dressed.

* Al Sharpton, Dennis Rivera and the Campaign for Fiscal Equity will say that the city’s public schools are depriving minority kids of a proper education – and demand vouchers to give them a way out.

* Moveon.org will admit that Donald Rumsfeld played a key role in toppling the Taliban, liberating 28 million Afghanis, ousting Saddam, liberating 25 million Iraqis, disrupting al Qaeda and bringing democracy to the Middle East.

* Or even just one of these.

* A day will go by with no news of Scott Peterson.

* FBI agents will invoke the Patriot Act and finally examine books that a suspect checked out of a library.

* City Council Speaker Gifford Miller suddenly will realize that the city’s onerous taxes are caused by out-of-control spending – and call for less spending this year than last.

* Mayor Bloomberg will call for less spending.

* Gov. Pataki will call for less spending. (And really mean it.)

* Any elected official anywhere will call for less spending.

* Someone will make it across Midtown on a weekday afternoon in less than 30 minutes.

* The U.N. will quit Gotham.

* George Bush will discover that there is no letter “u” after the “c” in “nuclear.”

* Pundits (even this one) will admit being wrong occasionally.