Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for August 21, 2011

Good thinking.

I agree with the sergeant

When you see one of those things close up, you understand how literally horrific the practice is.

Wise move.

This comic always is amusing because it is a COMIC. Reality, folks, is I’d personally like to be one of the thousands employed for years on end by a hole in the ground. (Hint: Take a look at anything metal around you. Guess where it came from? I personally like modern civilization.)

Well it could have been coal and the whole area would have been stripped.

Good for you Horace….would have done the same

Making up for all those trees you’ve cut down for no good reason H?

I wonder why he thought of strip mining. If the land is completely solid, tunneling would be the only option, leaving the topsoil intact.

Yes, I’d buy the land and start digging. “Boo hoo, you’re evil,” said the environmentalists.

Horace had half of a good idea; I would have kept the lump of gold without telling anyone where I got it from.

Reminds me of the ending of Jack London’s Burning Daylight, where he’s walked away from his $30 million (it started in the Alaska Gold Rush) and had a nice life again—and then, on his land, he realized there was a vein of gold he could mine. . . .

Wealth does not necessarily bring happiness. I like that I had little of it while raising my kids, now that I look back and see so many whose lives have been ruined by wealth. The kids have all done OK and I told them real wealth was in their education (which has proved true). I will spend my last decades with SSA, but at least my contributions were large (so better benefits) and I have less than 2 decades to wait it out.

That was very ‘cheval’-rous (chivalrous) of you, Horace.

We are the last. The earth is being worn out, used up. There will be no replacement to what we took from the earth. The earth is lit up like a light bulb every night. They are now going to dam the Amazon river? Think of what will happen when that is completed? Virginia is being ruined. I know more, but I can’t sit here and worry about it, there isn’t anything I can do about Big Business and the Politicians that sell their souls. The news media no longer ’’watch’’ the wrongdoings, how can they when they sold their souls as well.

Oh, the comic strips? Makes one think of things, but action is not what we do as a people in the USA anymore. We were scared silent. When was the last time we marched on Washington to let those jokers take notice that we won’t take it anymore?

Great idea, Horace! You should probably (in my opinion) choose earth over riches.