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TV Ads Put Focus on Reiner [Meathead uses taxpayer funds to push "free preschool" ballot initiative]
Los Angeles Times ^
| Feb 20, 2006
| Dan Morain
Posted on 02/20/2006 6:54:25 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: sandbar
If Meathead really cared about kids, he could have had the kid in the movie 'smoke' an unlighted cig. Wouldn't have changed the plot a WHOLE lot. You know, how they do on stage.
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posted on
02/20/2006 8:59:57 AM PST
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: joylyn
I agree. Early reading is insignificant. In Germany they don't start school til age 7. Somehow they manage. If the kids are not READY to learn that skill, they will not learn it. (Piaget said). Look at toilet training -- when they are ready, it takes about a day. When they are not yet ready, physically and emotionally, it could take a year.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:01:54 AM PST
by
bboop
(Stealth Tutor)
To: John Jorsett
Police sirens wail as a scruffy teenager, clutching a bag, runs frantically through the streets. Entering a schoolyard, he reaches into the bag. Out comes
a graduation gown, which he dons to receive a diploma. Great disguise! Nobody would expect that creep to be getting a diploma. He'll surely make a clean getaway.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:04:05 AM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(There are people in power who are truly evil.)
To: albertp; Allosaurs_r_us; Abram; AlexandriaDuke; Americanwolf; Annie03; Baby Bear; bassmaner; ...
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:05:56 AM PST
by
freepatriot32
(Holding you head high & voting Libertarian is better then holding your nose and voting republican)
To: John Jorsett
This is nothing more than an attempt to force private preschools out of business and build another huge special interest that feeds off government money.
If anyone thinks Reiner is doing this because he gives a rip about preschoolers, then they're more of a meathead than he is.
To: John Jorsett
It's babysitting for the "poor".
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:13:47 AM PST
by
subterfuge
("We're going to take things from you for the greater good..."---Hillary Rod-Ham Clinton)
To: Lizavetta
I think it's just the libs way to get free daycare for the poor. They can't get it by telling the truth so thay disquise it by calling it and "education" initiative. After they get this they'll start crying to include 3 yr olds...then 2 year olds...etc.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:18:19 AM PST
by
GOP_Proud
(Jack Bauer wears Dick Cheney jammies.)
To: John Jorsett
Life imitates art
Reiner played Meathead who lived off Archie Bunker's food, housing, utilities, furniture and possessions while remaining the perpetual, unemployed, professional, liberal student.
He is now living off residuals from Archie Bunker's reruns while remaining the perpetual, unemployed, professional, liberal know-it-all.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:18:58 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: John Jorsett
Reiner's campaign attorney said the ads were legal and not political. That's some really Clintonian reasoning on display there, Meathead.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:22:56 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: agrace; bboop; cgk; Conservativehomeschoolmama; cyborg; cyclotic; DaveLoneRanger; dawn53; ...
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:29:51 AM PST
by
Tired of Taxes
(That's taxes, not Texas. I have no beef with TX. NJ has the highest property taxes in the nation.)
To: markman46
yep, also there is a new prop on the November Ballot, to increase the cig tax to 2.00 a pack to help fund the emergency rooms in the state, and Old meathead is mad because it would cut into his pre-school plans.it will be interesting to see how all this plays out.
We had a big discussion about California wanting to increase cigarette taxes again the other day on another thread.
Since the Tobacco Settlement money started pouring into the state by the California smokers who pay cigarette taxes (Not Big Tobacco and not the state government, but the smokers!) we want the California people to ask just where has all this money gone since 1999? It was supposed to go for health care and for any sick uninsured smokers should there be any and for sick kids.
Now they talk out of both sides of their mouths saying they need more taxes from cigarettes to fund emergency rooms?? This is way over the top. If people in California don't start making the lawmakers out there to account for this money, then they deserve to have taxes increased again. Some big questions need to ask here!
Read this link to find out just how much smokers are already contributing to the state economy:
California Information
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:31:56 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: P-40
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:33:15 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: Tired of Taxes
Here in CA the talk is that this is just the first step into making universal preschool MANDATORY. Soon, if they get their way, parents won't have a choice in the matter. I have no idea what this will mean for CA homeschoolers, but I imagine it's going to be a fight.
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posted on
02/20/2006 9:34:44 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: SheLion
I try to lurk on all your threads, must have missed it, not real sure just where all the $$$ are currently going, will have to go to do a search.
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posted on
02/20/2006 10:05:53 AM PST
by
markman46
(engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
To: markman46
I try to lurk on all your threads, must have missed it, not real sure just where all the $$$ are currently going, will have to go to do a search.Probably for all their pork pet programs they don't want to give up! Now they need money for the real thing, so they figure they can just raise cigarette taxes again. This has got to stop!
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posted on
02/20/2006 10:15:02 AM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
To: SheLion
Since the Tobacco Settlement money started pouring into the state by the California smokers who pay cigarette taxes (Not Big Tobacco and not the state government, but the smokers!) we want the California people to ask just where has all this money gone since 1999? It was supposed to go for health care and for any sick uninsured smokers should there be any and for sick kids.You might be interested in this item from Dan Weintraub of the Sacramento Bee:
Uh-oh The four legislative leaders today sent a joint letter to the California Hospital Assn. expressing concern that a proposed ballot measure to increase the tobacco tax could put the state in violation of an agreement that settled nationwide litigation against the industry. That would lead to the forfeit of California's share of the settlement money from that lawsuit and force the state's general fund to repay bonds floated during the Davis Administration that essentially mortgaged that 25-year revenue stream to help bridge the state's budget deficit.
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posted on
02/20/2006 11:27:27 AM PST
by
John Jorsett
(scam never sleeps)
To: cgk
I think you're right. Remember Gore/Lieberman touting "universal preschool" in 2000? A federal mandate for "universal preschool" was part of their platform. When that didn't fly, it seemed the states started pushing it one by one.
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posted on
02/20/2006 12:12:59 PM PST
by
Tired of Taxes
(That's taxes, not Texas. I have no beef with TX. NJ has the highest property taxes in the nation.)
To: John Jorsett
The four legislative leaders today sent a joint letter to the California Hospital Assn. expressing concern that a proposed ballot measure to increase the tobacco tax could put the state in violation of an agreement that settled nationwide litigation against the industry. That would lead to the forfeit of California's share of the settlement money from that lawsuit and force the state's general fund to repay bonds floated during the Davis Administration that essentially mortgaged that 25-year revenue stream to help bridge the state's budget deficit.Yes, thanks so much! Someone else found this exact paragraph on the other thread yesterday. I sure was happy to hear it. Surely there is just so much taxes lawmakers can slap on a legal commodity!
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posted on
02/20/2006 1:11:06 PM PST
by
SheLion
(Trying to make a life in the BLUE state of Maine!)
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