Al Franken - Prophet?

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I happened to read (again) Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them" a few months ago. When this "Swine Flu" came up it made me think of a particular chapter so I pulled out the book and found that Senator Franken saw this coming way back in 2003!

Chapter 39: Vast Lagoons of Pig Feces: The Bush Environmental Record

I want to draw you a word picture of a lagoon you may remember from Gilligan's Is­land, where a caged lion or an Indian in a canoe might wash up just to get that week's episode rolling. This lagoon is a rectangle the size of three football fields, lined with 40-mil high-density polyethyl­ene and filled, to a depth of thirty feet, with pig shit.

Now imagine that, at the bottom of the lagoon, pebbles have punctured the liner, allowing the liquefied pig shit to seep under and ferment. A bubble is growing. The polyethylene liner rises like a creature from the brown lagoon. It breaks the surface, spilling a pungent stew of untreated feces and urine into a nearby creek. An undocumented Guatemalan worker is ordered to puncture the liner with a shotgun blast. Retching, he fires. The swollen liner re­treats into the fetid depths. Mission accomplished.

The next day, however, one of the most magnificent sights in all of nature, a shit geyser, explodes into the afternoon sky. Those working nearby watch the pillar rise ten, then twenty, then thirty feet above the lagoon. It is as though the Earth itself is afflicted with a virulent case of projectile diarrhea.

Hold that image in your mind.George W. Bush is the worst environmental president in our nation's history. As you read this, his self-interested coterie of in­dustry shills are dismantling the protections that you and I take for granted.

http://skeptically.org/gov/id11.html

Okay, Senator Franken didn't see exactly this happening, but he did bring up these disgusting corporate Big Meat Farms. And the company he mentions...

Today, a single company named Smithfield owns more than 70 percent of the state's hogs. Small farmers are learning that you can't beat Big Meat.

Yeah, it's the same company that owns THAT pig farm in Mexico.