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Okay, J5IRQ returning hopefully briefly. So anyhow, I was doing some reading yesterday and I thought it was really interesting to find out that ... I'm probably not going to find it. I'm not even sure what website it was on. I was reading it. Anyhow, it's interesting to find out that most bureaucracies, EPA, I guess you could say NOAA, the FCC, the FDA, all these different organizations. Strictly speaking from the Constitution, they shouldn't have any law making ability. The Constitution doesn't give that to them. Now lazy Congress people have given it to them. And funny enough, those really didn't start until around the Progressive Era in the 20s and 30s-ish. I mean probably, let's say from 1900 and 1950 or 60s we can say. And that 40 to 60 year period is when almost all of them came into existence. It's amazing to me for over 150 years or so, we didn't need those type things. Now granted, we didn't have the technology in the industries that we have today. But again, I don't think they should have the law making ability or the power behind that ability to push their agenda. I think they should be advisory boards instead of being bureaucracies is what I think. And then leave it up to the states to actually implement those recommendations. I mean it's basically what's happening now with healthcare, right? I mean look at New England. Great, I believe Maine's part of it. They've created their own health advisory system. California, Oregon, and Washington I believe has done the same thing. So it's not unprecedented to give states rights. In fact, up until the 1860s, 70s, states had the power and federal government did not. Of course the Civil War changed that and the Reconstruction Era changed a lot of that. So yeah, I just found it really interesting that the bureaucracies that most people, I think on both sides of the aisle, are tired of, really isn't constitutionally mandated at all. So they can go away, to be honest. They could be revamped. Congress does have the power of the purse. However, most of them fall under the executive branch, which puts them under the purview of the president for operational things. Anyhow, just some reading and I thought, I didn't have really much to talk about. I thought, y'all might find that interesting. KJ5, IOQ, back to Met Control.