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ARTS!!!
You Can’t Take It
With You,
will be showing next week on Thursday October 10th at 3:30, Friday
October 11th at 7, and Saturday October 12th at 2 and 7.
Amanda Roesser and Nicholas Gibbons kiss, Adi Chang is Russian, and Myles
Collinson is bald. So, there’s that.
Another
Important Message From Chris Halter!
Three out of four cross country runners are
discriminated against as "non-athletes."
100% of all discrimination comes from ultimate frisbee team.
At least one half of all cross-country runners report feeling objectified when they wear shorts.
Show you care by supporting the cross country team bake sale at lunch, by the library.
100% of all discrimination comes from ultimate frisbee team.
At least one half of all cross-country runners report feeling objectified when they wear shorts.
Show you care by supporting the cross country team bake sale at lunch, by the library.
What
Now?
The federal government is turning itself
off and on like a computer because nobody knows how to actually fix it.
September
Has Ended!
Somebody wake the lead singer of Green Day!
Grammar
On behalf of The Daily Urinal, Greg would
like to apologize for all of the grammatical errors that he didn’t catch in
this issue.
Yesterday’s
Lyrics Quiz
Mr. Rybak and Mr. Koczon got this one. It
was Beethoven’s 5th Symphony! I love Beethoven’s lyrics. They speak
to me.
Lyrics
Quiz
When I was seventeen
I had wrists like steel
And I felt complete
Articles
Figure It Out
By:
Chris Halter (DU Liberal)
Congress
spends, on average, about 11 weeks of the year on recess or not in session. So,
from what I understand, congress spends half its time on vacation and the other
half attempting to either defund or repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
That's at least what it seems like with the 43rd attempt to repeal the law
occurring just recently. I could be wrong but that seems like some pretty poor
time management by the House Republicans, especially considering that repealing
the ACA will only increase the federal deficit.
Even
more confounding than the sheer number of times the ACA has been voted on, is
the most recent Republican idea that the ACA is such a danger to the nation that
a government shutdown is more favorable than the ACA receiving funding. This
seems especially irrational considering that, according to a poll done by the
National Journal, 63% percent of Americans and 51% of Republicans oppose
shutting down the government in order to defund the ACA.
So
why—you may ask—do they continue to vote to repeal the law? Some Republicans
may respond by saying it's costing us jobs, that the ACA will raise costs for
employers and in turn force employers to cut jobs. The Urban Institute decided
to see if this was in fact the case by seeing the effect that Massachusetts’s
public health law had on jobs in that state. Keep in mind that the health care
law in Massachusetts laid the groundwork for the ACA, so the laws are
essentially the same. The institute found that there was no evidence to show
that the health care law in Massachusetts caused any significant job loss, and
the study actually found evidence to suggest that the law supported economic
growth.
Other
Republicans might throw the s-word around: socialism. They claim that the
government shouldn't be getting involved in health insurance and that doing so
would be another example of government overstepping its boundaries. To those
people, I not only pose the question of how significantly different this
law—which simply mandates health insurance while making it cheaper—could be
from the laws mandating car insurance. Also, as for the calling of the ACA a
socialist policy, by that definition, some of Ronald Reagan's policies could also
be called "socialist". His tax policies lowered the taxes on the
wealthiest Americans to 28% while at the same time increasing the middle class
tax rate to 33%. He was simply redistributing money from the poor to the rich.
Any good Republican will tell you that raising taxes to redistribute wealth is
socialist. Interesting how that works sometimes.
But it seems the Republicans
aren't mounting a campaign on the ACA itself, they're simply continuing a smear
campaign against Barack Obama. A refusal to compromise and an insistence to
oppose most, if not all, things he proposes is not a type of governing focused
on benefiting the American people, but on satisfying the far right of the
Republican Party. I think that there are many genuine Republican leaders who do
believe in the power of compromise, like the ones who stood up to Ted Cruz's
filibuster attempt. But I think the far right of the Republican Party pressures
some rational Republicans to act irrationally. At this point though, the
writing is on the wall: our government needs to take a step forward, and that
step doesn't involve a 44th vote. It involves avoiding a government shutdown
that would cripple the economy more than any public health law.
Oh, wait…
2 A.M.
By: Ryan Hastings (DU
Insomniac)
I hate my teachers so much!
Internet!
No. No Internet. Must. Focus.
I can sleep when I’m dead
MWAHAHAHAHA I COULD DO THIS FOREVER!
ZZZZZZZZZZ
Wha…wha…2:45? I fell asleep?
COOKIESSSSS
Math mathmath I love math.
I hate math.
Maybe I’ll transfer to public school.
Nope.
ZZZZZZZZZZZ
DAMMIT!
How did it get so late? Oh, yeah, I watched Breaking Bad for 5 hours!
Done with math, time for bed!
*checks the bishwhip* ENGLISH???
This book is terrible. What’s it called again?
The Odyssey.
If it takes you 10 years to
get home, you need to stop using Apple Maps!
20…more…pages…
YOU’LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE!
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