I'm guessing you're the kind of person who grumbles about people playing rock band when they could be learning to play the actual instruments.

know one gives a damn about you

He does know that one gives a damn about him. Hence the security measures.

"Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea." Revelation 21:1

A Canticle for Liebowitz has been floating around high-school reading lists for a bit. Oddly enough I discovered both that one and Ender's Game through my high-school English class.

I'm not certain if you're setting up a strawman or really that selfish. Yes, the expense is worth it, because we want our children to have a better education than the one we had.

...arithmetic hasn't changed at all in the past 100 years. American History from 1500 to 1900 hasn't changed in the past 100 years. Newtonian physics hasn't changed in the past 100 years either

I agree with you on the math and the physics portion, but there is a valid reason to update history books. While the events haven't changed, our understanding of them has. New research brings new documents to light or shows new connections between peoples and events, some of which change the way in which we view things. I'm not saying history books need to be updated as often as they are, but revising them every 5-10 years to reflect our current understanding of history isn't a bad thing.

Seconded. In college I owned 4 pairs of shoes: one each of hiking boots, black dress shoes, sneakers, and flip-flops. After graduating and joining the military, I now own 8 types of shoes, 13 pairs in total in total.
3 pairs of hot-weather combat boots and 2 pairs of waterproof/cold-weather combat boots (issued by the military)
1 pair of black dress shoes for my dress uniform
1 pair of civilian black dress shoes (the same ones from college)
1 pair of jump boots (also for my dress uniform)
1 pair of hiking boots (also the same ones from college)
1 pair of work boots (for inclement weather and manual labor)
1 pair of running shoes that I have to replace yearly
1 pair of casual sneakers (for summer fishing and light yard work)
1 pair of oxford/boot hybrid-thingies for buisiness casual occasions

Of course I wear generally wear the same pair of combat boots five days a week, so there's that to ponder.

Peace? What peace? The war never officially ended. Combat hostilities still flair up. Did you miss the part where North Korea shelled South Korea in November of 2010?

This left me scratching my head, actually. After Korea, what conflicts were those where U.S. forces have came into open confrontation with Soviet-doctrine troops? Vietnam was, arguably, closer to a "counterinsurgency campaign", really. Do you mean Iraq? these guys were so outclassed hardware it's not even funny, so I don't think it's a meaningful comparison.

I believe the OP is referring to the wars-by-proxy of the Cold War era, where the Soviets would arm one side, the US would arm the other. The Yom Kippur War comes to mind.

I even refuse meet people from dating sites if they are from Israel

Well I wasn't convinced, but that statement made me a believer in your righteousness! Your Nobel Peace Prize is already on its way, good sir!