[RobRoy]

It’s clear a lot of people really have a hard time backing down, no matter what.

Glenn Beck calls it “Arguing With Idiots”.

I was an idiot regarding Nixon. I was fully in support of him during watergate, until one day I had a moment of clarity and completely reversed my position.

Same thing happened with this issue, but I am much quicker now to slay my own misconceptions - yes, it’s true that I thought this was absolutely a missile at first. “Clearly” many people have yet to have that “moment of clarity” on this issue. I suspect many never will. Their spiritual brethren regarding 9/11 are called “truthers”.

[cripplecreek]

Seems to me that if there was something to hide, the military would have hid it a lot better by simply saying “yeah we launched it”.

[The KG9 Kid]

Sometime next month, I expect, some pop culture question will arise asking Americans what annoying and played out words or catch phrases should be made extinct at the start of the new year.

I submit the word ‘Clearly’ for this list. There’s very few times that this criminally overused adverb can honestly be used anymore, and the opportunities seem to keep diminishing daily.

The word ‘Clearly’ has become truly nothing more than a wildly swung bludgeoning tool in a fallacious argument, hoping desperately to hit the piñata.

[Seven plus One]

It’s clear a lot of people really have a hard time backing down, no matter what.

An airplane heading to Phoenix would have flown over the cameraman's head as shown in the bottom image, it would not have disappeared into the west. Phoenix is not west of Los Angeles. Personally, I don't give a damn what it was, I wasn't there. The video shows a rocket exhaust. If it was an airplane, then it was a rocket powered airplane, headed out to sea.

People can become kind of intransigent when presented with the argument: You idiot, this matter is settled! Ask Algore about that. Piss on their (our, my) leg and tell them that it's raining, and watch them (us, me) disagree, even with the Navy and Glenn Beck on your side.