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Cockstradamus: The Year of the Chicken is near

Two years ago, poultry’s greatest oracle saw 2008′s Summer of $4.00 /gallon gasoline as the beginning of the end of this affluent society’s fetish with faux man-made global warming-moral preening. Getting to work and buying food trumped feel-good, paganistic gaia worship.

Now, twenty years after a generation was indoctrinated by Al Gore and two years into the Great Recession, comes this:

By a 55% to 32% margin, most voters continue to believe finding new sources of energy is more important than reducing the amount of energy Americans now consume. Support for finding new sources of energy has been this high or higher for months.

Complete Cockstradamus-confirming Rassmussen poll results here and previous energy and environmental prognostications here.

Too bad we have a representation without consideration regime instead of a government that reflects the wishes of We the People. I think the disconnect portends a future affirmation of a long-running Cockstradamus forecast of civil disobedience before any GOP super-majorities could reverse the ObamaDem socialism and now Mark Levin agrees.

Braves-Gamecock

Early last Spring when future Braves Hall-of-Famers, John Smoltz and Tom Glavine were struggling with facing up to the end of their careers, Cockstradamus predicted that both would either be Braves broadcasters or employed as coaches or in the front office by the Atlanta Braves.

Both are in the broadcast booth this year and Smoltz is arguably the most entertaining color commentator ever.

The year of the Chicken is coming

When will civil disobedience start? 2011? Not sure, but I am confident that next year will see a significant increase in the number of households that keep and raise chickens for food, thanks to the refusal of ObamaDems to allow us to bail ourselves out of this deep recession in which the under-employment rate rivals that of the bulk of the years of the Great Depression at upwards of 18% and higher.

The chicken is a very efficient recession-blunter what with the eggs, breasts, thighs, wings, alarm clock and strong male role model.

Cock-a-doodle-do, and yes, the only debate left about Tiger Woods is by how many strokes will he win this weekend’s Masters.

Cockstradamus says by 2 strokes over Lee Westwood.

Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer, Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Minority Report columns

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

Originally published @ Examiner.com, where all verification links may be accessed.

COMMENTS

  • penguin2

    start raising their own chickens for food. Between the EPA and the infamous Interstate Commerce Clause, there is nothing to stop the government from making sure, this too, is limited. And to think, it all started with a farmer who wanted to grind his excess wheat into flour for his wife to bake the family bread.

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  • Scope

    will kick up drastically this summer if gas reaches $4 per gallon as is being predicted. The civil disobedience will be much more than just raising your own chickens. The drill here, drill now crowd will be in high gear once again. We just have to keep pushing for our own oil and gas even when prices drop. Imagine if we didn’t listen to Clinton back in the 90′s. That 10 years it takes to get the oil out of the ground would be flooding the market right now.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    operating oil derricks overnight

  • JSobieski

    The State of Michigan only recently turned home daycare providers (people who care for other people’s kids in their own homes) into SEIU union members without any consideration. They just started taking union dues out of the government subsidy checks for the low-income clients.

    This would seem impossible only a few years ago. How long until we have the EPA or FDA come into our home garden to confiscate our own food due to some perceived “safety” issue?

  • http://thesandsinstitute.org Vassar Bushmills

    …a bowl berth, NCAA, who cares.

    But I have wring one’s neck before. And anything that has “sneak” in it, I’m for it.

  • Scope

    while the Democrats were waiting for their anointed One, it seemed that nothing much interesting was happening in the Congress, the House in particular. I was clicking into Thomas many days and finding that most days were consumed by taking more and more acres of land, were being taken into the Federal Government. They were attaching as much land as possible to the “national park land.” Back all that long time ago, they took over thousands and thousands of acres. The Republicans just went right along with it, and didn’t seem to notice that Pelosi was making her move in anticipation of a Marxist takeover of the country. Who would have woken up to the takeover? I saw it happening, yet, most thought it not worth their time. To everyone in Congress, it was nothing more than renaming a post office. Isn’t there something in the Constitution about the Federal Government only allowed to own just so much of our real estate?

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  • Achance

    DOI is “reviewing” the status of ANWR now and designating as wilderness will make it untouchable for any sort of development. The ADN/AP story is here: http://www.adn.com/2010/04/10/1220833/state-leaders-oppose-updating.html

    It sounds good for Alaska politicians to say they oppose it, but ANWR is federal land and there really is nothing Alaska can do if the fed decides to designate it as untouchable wilderness. If it is so designated administratively, I suppose there is some potential for a suit based on such a designation being outside the fed’s statutory authority under ANILCA, but that is a long hard slog through the 9th Soviet, which is sure to rule for the Greenies, and then on to the USSC. If it is done by act of Congress, and the Ds have the votes easily – nobody likes Alaska, so its an easy vote, there’s nothing to be done but try to elect a Republican Congress and repeal it.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama designates ANWR as where we must roost them.

  • Achance

    There a millions of birds on the Arctic Coast in summer; its a major nesting and breeding ground for many migratory species. But when winter comes, the birds go. All that over winters are some predators like owls and falcons and the ubiquitous ravens – and not many of them. In winter, ANWR and the whole Arctic Coastal Plain is about as empty and desolate as you can imagine a place being – nothing but flat and white as far as the eye can see.

    I hate chickens! We always kept them for eggs and meat. Lots of meals began with my grandmother delivering the eulogy for that “good old hen” we were about to eat. And they were stringy, tough, bland tasting things and if you were eating chicken on a farm in those days, it usually meant you were just about out of beef and pork. There were several big commercial chicken farms around and we boys could get paying work cleaning the barns or gathering eggs in some of the smaller unmechanized one. The stench will live in infamy forever!

  • GregInFla

    We are starting this, and expect our 15 eggs to hatch next weekend. We have two Easter chicks (one red and one blue) that have been a blessing already. And if someone asks about our chickens, the response will be: we have an aviary, and are practicing “green” lawn maintenance. Chickens kill the insects (which turn into more nutritious eggs) and fertilize the soil without the use of those harmful chemicals that the enviro-politicians are railing against. No chemicals getting into the water table or in runoff into surface waters. Plus, if you get Java chickens, you are helping save an endangered species. And who can argue with that?

    With our local government here buying land to protect scrub jays (which must be doing better because they need MORE land), and complaining about auto emissions, playing the green card just might be our best argument. I do not have to drive to the store for eggs anymore, thus helping the enviro’s causes. Backyard poultry and chickens in the city are truly getting popular.

    GC, your column is quite timely, as I will be going out today to get materials for our chicken tractor.

  • hickorystick

    my dad shot one on the Yakutat Peninsula, and we ate that thing all winter. Moose are lean already, and a roast of it is like eating tofu. And no, for others who read this, it doesn’t taste at all like chicken.

  • Achance

    that I like. Long as I can afford it, I’ll be stopping at the grocery store for beef and pork rather than going out and shooting moose, deer, and bear. Anyway, the deer here aren’t any bigger than your average dog, so you have to practically go on a deer genocide to fill your freezer with meat.

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    Roswell passed an ordiance about how close to the property line, chikens could graze and ATL is considering an ordinance as the govt is set to stop Americans from bailing themselves out (i.e. working to be able to damn f***ing well be able to mfing able to eat!!!!!!!!When do we take to the streets to get back a little bit of liberty!!! While the govt workers make sure no rooster wakes them up early as they feed off our wages and taxes!!!!!!!!!!) .

    A storm is coming from people fed with chicken meat!

  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine

    horse dung 3 feet deep in the rainstorms, wood burning stove smog, etc ad infinitum….

    A man gotta eat or fight…hence, game cocks.

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  • Achance

    That’s why I parted company with my family at a very young age; as Scarlet said, “I’ll never be poor again.”

  • GregInFla

    Chicken laws around the USA. Legal in Chicago but illegal in Miami.

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  • http://www.examiner.com/x-1597-Charlotte-Law--Politics-Examiner Mike gamecock DeVine
  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    2 out of 3. Go Giants! :-D

  • Alberta

    I mean, maybe it is just the couple of seasons of Jamie Campbell talking, but I heard the booth on Peachtree (they took away the TBS up here), and it was one of the best.

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