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When my wife and I were getting married we had a interesting interview with the florist who we eventually hired. He told us that he used to be the florest for most of the Mafia families in NY and that it would take a week or two to get the massive amount of flowers necessary. I asked him what do you mean weeks, didn't they bury people within a few days? "Well said the florist, If it was a really big funeral, they would usually give me a weeks notice before the guy would need a "funeral." Just like my...

In case you missed it, the Obama administration challenged the Congressional Budget Office's ObamaCare cost predictions on Saturday. White House budget director Peter Orszag criticized the CBO after it issued a cost estimate that halted momentum for an independent Medicare panel that Obama wants. Orszag accused the CBO of exaggerating the future costs of the current proposal, which the CBO estimates at nearly $240 biilion over the next ten years. Yeah, because we all know that government programs regularly cost less money than expected, right? Not exactly. Turns out, CBO estimates are kinda like the first quote your mechanic gives...