Thursday, April 15, 2010

Politics 'N Haiku 041510

Give half, you betcha,
to retire at fifty five
with the same income

10 comments:

BJR said...

I don't believe it. You can't let go.

Americans are way too conditioned to keep wanting more. The only thing that gets their attention is a health crisis --- eg, cancer or stroke. Then they suddenly decide Life is Too Valuable to be spent in a rat race. And after the health crisis is over, they resolve to change their life and start smelling the roses, etc. So they retire. But they don't know HOW to relax. It's very sad --- but good for the economy to keep working to death, no? :-)

Mark Mortin said...

My desire to retire has nothing to do with the health care debate. And I would quit in a heart beat if I could retire with full benefits. There is too much else to do with life, for example, visiting you.

Anonymous said...

Does that include me? Do you enjoy visiting me or just BJR?

Anonymous said...

This has nothing to do with retirement however back to animals having a soul...You know this woman at the store had a assist-dog and I got into a conversation with her about her dog and you know she told me a story about the dog. The dog kept licking her forehead and the doctors insisted nothing was wrong. I can't remember everything she said maybe she had bad headaches or something well they finally looked a found cancer. I remember when I went to the zoo and an orangatan made a pile of carrots outside the cage and there is a picture of her with some stacked legos like a tall building. So I finally looked up Einstein's equation for the transverse mass of a fast moving particle which has that carrot designation. Well, I guess she got me in the ballpark of

Anonymous said...

Einstein's equations and there is one that was wrong. So it tells you how very very intelligent they are. Maybe you could "talk" to your dog and he could help you find a cure for cancer or something.

Anonymous said...

It's really sad that those miners in West Virginia weren't even able to get decent working conditions.

Anonymous said...

Oh, don't get me wrong. Anyone can make a mistake even a great genius like Albert Einstein. Maybe that quote by him meant nature could provide corrections if needed. What I wonder is if his error caused others equations and assumptions to be incorrect and if they were corrected. I saw a program about 9/11 and the building structure of the Twin Towers were discussed. They thought in theory that they could withstand an impact from an airplane however in reality it could not because I guess they forgot about other factors like jet fuel. I think the orangutan saw that because they work with reality all the time. I think if you look at all those equations some of them would apply to stresses and forces involved in what happened. And I don't want to blame Einstein. I wonder if we updated all the information and adjusted for his error. Oh, sorry I had that drop off after ballpark of I wanted to make sure I got this "published" before I had to go and possibly lost the comment. I hope I don't sound like a complete nut.

Mark Mortin said...

If you were a complete nut, what kind of nut would that be? Is a partial nut one that is a cross hybrid with another plant?

Anonymous said...

Ha Ha

Anonymous said...

Seriously, do you think what I am saying is true or maybe partially true?