Mom always said, "watch what you say." When my youngest was two he was halfway through building a Lincoln Log house when dinner was ready; I promised he could finish it after dinner. Two years later, he's working on another structure ... at 11:00 p.m. He reminded me that I said it was OK to build stuff after dinner. "Why not now?" he asked. A child's memory is ironclad; precedent had been set. I read the Supreme Court's (SCOTUS) opinion/ dissent on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) decision. SCOTUS's judgment is irrelevant. But how the judgment was reached is relevant because precedent has been set. Read the news, common words and phrases are being stretched like a Silly Putty comic book picture. Political emotions are hobbling normal discourse and will, ultimately, affect the foundations of aviation safety.
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