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•The cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan spotlights how vulnerable we all are to overpowering objective natural forces. My thoughts turn to Einstein’s pronouncement that “Time is the fourth dimension.” Had Japan suffered such a calamity at the time of World War II, the war might well have been stopped short by the hand of nature.

• Let me spin this fictitious scenario:

International dangerous political force George Soros seeks a way to bring down the USA, a country that has held a superior position for two centuries. Soros craves to convert the U.S. into a third-world nation without his firing a shot. He is searching for the greatest American character flaw. George surely knows how many ambitious Americans have yielded to overweening greed, now endangering even their own interests. Soros realizes that if American politicians squander enough dollars, the whole country will eventually collapse into bankruptcy and the average financially overextended family with it. Americans are suckers for acquisitiveness — they dig their graves with their credit cards. “Shopping” is the middle class American sport. Our U.S. public servants and their mates have naturally succumbed to the habit — they are lethally conditioned to splurging — of “buying now and paying later.”

• The president, after keeping the nation on tenterhooks waiting for his “fund-saving budget,” submitted a budget that hardly skims the outside rind off the pork he promised to eliminate. When you have figured out the “morality” of such politicians, will you kindly let me know? I simply want to find out the rules — I hope I have too much common sense to obey them.

• Libya’s Muammar al-Qaddafi was responsible for the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing and the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. How many Americans died at the hands of this monster? The U.S. under Ronald Reagan enacted a total trade ban on Libya and bombed targets near Tripoli and Benghazi. Has President Obama retaliated in any way at all? Recent Al-Qaddafi quote: “I call on those who love Muammar Gaddafi, who represents glory … to come out of your houses and attack the anti-regime demonstrators.” Al-Qaddafi refuses to resign. He says, “Muammar Gaddafi is not the president; he is not a normal human being.” (You can say that again!) After 2003, al-Qaddafi agreed to abandon terrorism and hand over to the U.S. his programs for developing missiles and weapons of mass destruction. The Wall Street Journal wrote, “There was no question that the Obama administration felt limited by Gadhafi’s adherence to the bargain. We had not promised to be silent about human rights abuses, and we were not, but there was no real energy behind our statements. We were doing business with Gadhafi, not trying to overthrow him.” Philosopher George Santayana said, “He who does not read history is doomed to repeat it.”

• Presidential game player Obama has refused to drill for oil in the scads of problem-solving locations on U.S. soil and offshore. You and I pay more at the gas pump while Obama caters to speculators who utilize the Libyan oil situation to reap quick profits. Note: Two years ago, when Sarah Palin said, “Drill, baby, drill!” she was shellacked in the press. Palin was right, baby, right! … and our president?