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Hey, Rich, how are you?

Good.

How are you?

I'm good.

A lot going on.

I mean, we have these dueling hearings, and there's so much going on at the same the same time it's hard to say on top of all

of it but then you get this just awful news about how terrible the crash between the

American Airlines jet and the Black Hawk helicopter and we've had a couple of good things put up on it on the

site already. Dan McLaughlin just put something I think that was very well done. And typical of Dan,

you know, extremely quick and right on point.

I do think it's a good reminder when so many things are happening so fast that you really

have to make yourself take five seconds to sit back and try to get the facts before you jump ahead.

That seems to be, to me, Rich, to be like a theme for about 15 things that we're going to end up,

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