Stupidity Watch 1

     The trifecta of intolerance is racism, prejudice, and bigotry, but if you're even one of them you are morally reprehensible. Everyone is supposed to agree on that, right? But people stand by and allow bigotry, prejudice and racism to go unchecked, and there are others who endorse them because they're also bigots.      Racism is easy to understand, racism is being prejudiced against somebody because of their race, or color of their skin, prejudice is the broader term that encompasses all other reasons to be nasty to any identifiable group, say due to sexual orientation or religion, and a bigot is, "a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group."      Simply being born in another country exposes a person to the culture, morals and religions of that country, and to...

Pawns For Putin The United States has spent the last 20 years building a ring of anti-missile facilities around Russia and the former Soviet Union to stop Russia’s ability to launch nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles or ICBMs at the United States, the beginnings of the ring were just to contain Iran and North Korea, but when the ring is finished in the near future even Russia should no longer be a nuclear threat to the United States.  A handful of countries have ICBM defense systems, but they are mostly all based within the countries except for Russia who also has the remnants of the Soviet defense system.  We have missile defense systems on the U.S. mainland like other countries, but we also have the ring of defense systems built closer to the countries in Asia that concern us, which gives us two lines of defense, and we are separated from all of our potential nuclear threats by the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic Oceans which gives us more time to react and make mul...