Wednesday, September 30, 2020

LIMBAUGH WAS SPOT ON ABOUT THE DEBATE LASTNIGHT.

Editorial Note: Yesterday on the Rush Limbaugh show, Limbaugh said that debate would show Bidden would show contempt toward Trump, and that happened. The monitor, Chris Wallace of FOX  news became Biden's nurse maid. It was Wallace who said he wanted to be invisible, he ended up front and  center of the debate. 

Limbaugh also mention how the DNC press will cover it, he was right there too. Here is the transcript of yesterday's show.

The Debate Bar Couldn’t Be Lower for Biden (And I Still Think He Won’t Show)


Here is the video of the debate from CSPAN


Here are a view stories reflecting that:


With Cross Talk, Lies and Mockery, Trump Tramples Decorum in Debate With Biden

Interrupting Joe Biden nearly every time he spoke, President Trump made little attempt to reassure swing voters about his leadership. Mr. Biden hit back: “This is so unpresidential.”---NY TIMES


Biden says president has made U.S. more divided as Trump interrupts and slings insults

The bickering overwhelmed a debate that displayed substantive differences between President Trump and Joe Biden on the nation’s converging crises. The president’s interjections and jeers led moderator Chris Wallace to repeatedly plead with him to follow the agreed-upon rules.--Washington Post


Trump, allies hammer Wallace after tense debate--The Hill


Analysis: Trump needed the debate to change a race he’s losing; instead, he doubled down

Trump has tried for a year to find attack strategies that would throw Biden off stride. So far, none has done the job. At the debate, he just repeated them.---LA TIMES


Editorial note: That was just a few samples how the DNC press viewed last night's debate.

Here are a few stories from the right side media:


Here's How We Know Trump Won the First Debate--PJ MEDIA

President Trump didn’t always respond effectively or in a timely manner to Joe Biden’s false accusations. Biden’s insults and interjections were the polar opposite of presidential. Chris Wallace might as well have worn a Biden campaign button. But through all the noise of Tuesday night’s debate, complete with the usual partisan post-mortems featuring Biden supporters mostly assessing Biden as the winner of the debate and Trump supporters mostly assessing Trump as the winner, there seems to be a far better metric by which we can definitively determine last night’s winner.


Chris Wallace Just Gave The Most Embarrassing Moderator Performance In History

'Well, first of all, I guess I’m debating you, not him,' Trump said to Chris Wallace during Tuesday's 2020 presidential debate. Fact check: True.--The Federalist


The First Debate Showed Why Biden Will Win

Not being Hillary Clinton was enough for Trump to win in 2016. He doesn't have that virtue now.--National Review


Slow Joe’s So-So Show

Give him credit for surviving a 90-minute debate, but Biden’s mumbling, stuttering performance doesn’t inspire confidence.--American Spectator




TODAY'S TOP HEADLINE...


Poulos unanimously reappointed to head Statewide Reentry Council.

Washington State Commerce Dept.


OLYMPIA, WA — The Washington Statewide Reentry Council unanimously reappointed Christopher Poulos to serve a second three-year term as executive director. The decision by council members came after a successful first term of notable activities and accomplishments.


“I am incredibly honored that the council had the faith in my work and our progress to reappoint me for a second three-year term,” said Poulos. “Successful reentry and community reintegration occur when internal healing and growth is met with external opportunity. We remain committed to doing everything within our power to help facilitate both.”


Since Poulos’ appointment to this position in October 2017, he has worked with council members, legislators and advocacy groups to help secure the passage of 19 council-priority bills into law.


Additionally, he built strong interagency relationships, serving multiple state and national criminal justice-related task forces and working groups. He did this while also engaging with incarcerated people, community members and stakeholder organizations across Washington to promote successful post-incarceration reintegration.


Over this upcoming three-year term, which begins on Oct. 1, Poulos and the council have focused on six major categories of work: racial equity, housing, centering community, education, employment and improving communication. Currently, the council is working with multiple coalitions on legislation aimed at ending housing discrimination against individuals with criminal records and expanding voting rights to people living in our communities while remaining on community supervision.


As a response to COVID-19, the council provided direct funding to community organizations assisting with reentry efforts and held listening sessions to better connect resource providers throughout the state. The council has urged the Washington Legislature to continue expanding funding for community organizations to offer more support to these vital programs.


Additional council priorities include supporting efforts to reform community corrections, increasing “good time,” and expanding the Department of Corrections housing voucher program.


Poulos, who was formerly incarcerated, developed his expertise on addiction and criminal justice policy through life experience long before entering government work. As a teen, he experienced homelessness and substance use disorder, eventually resulting in a drug-related conviction and a three-year federal prison sentence. Following his release, Poulos graduated cum laude from the University of Maine School of Law.


During law school, he served as president of the American Constitution Society and represented youth facing criminal charges. He also served at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under the Obama Administration and worked with The Sentencing Project. Poulos also advised Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) on addiction and justice policy and served on several local, state and federal task forces related to criminal justice policy.


Before his executive director role for the Statewide Reentry Council, he served as executive director of Life of Purpose Treatment at the University of North Texas, where he was also an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice. Poulos has also recently served as an adjunct professor of Political Science at Seattle Central Community College and an adjunct law professor at Seattle University. Currently, his work promotes equal access to the law and seeks to end mass incarceration and the associated consequences now facing the tens of millions of people in the U.S. with criminal convictions.


The work of the Washington Statewide Reentry Council has garnered significant local and national attention since it was established in 2016, including an article about voting rights in the Harvard Law and Policy Review and stories in the Seattle Times, New York Times, NBC News and elsewhere. Poulos himself has openly shared his personal story with the Washington Post, NBC, Inside Olympia and others, and in a 2015 TED Talk.



TODAY'S NEWS HEADLINES...


World News:


UN chief, Prince Charles, rally ‘coalition of the willing’ to end biodiversity destruction.

Here's our special LIVE coverage of the UN Summit on Biodiversity, where activists and senior UN officials are calling for urgent action on biodiversity, to help ensure sustainable development for all.


Libyan rivals conclude talks on key security and military issues.

Delegations from Libya’s warring sides meeting in Egypt have concluded two days of security and military talks in efforts towards a lasting ceasefire, the UN political mission for the country, UNSMIL, has reported. 


As historic virtual debate wraps, ‘our political leaders demonstrated their commitment to multilateralism,’ says UN Assembly President.

For the first time in the history of the United Nations, global leaders were not able to meet in person for the General Assembly’s annual debate, but the 193-Member body’s President said on Tuesday that the precautions forced by the COVID-19 pandemic “did not prevent multilateralism from operating at the highest levels.”



NATIONAL NEWS:


FDA Issues Final Guidance for Certain Labeling Recommendations for Breast Implants--FDA


DHS Wall Construction Update: September 29, 2020--DHS

BLUF: The Trump administration is building new wall and doing so faster than ever before. Currently wall construction continues at the southwest border (SWB) with the administration’s goal of 450 new miles of wall system on track for the end of the calendar year.


Trump Administration Proposes Down listing of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Under Endangered Species Act.

FORT BENNING, Georgia – U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and Fort Benning Garrison Commander, Col. Matthew Scalia, were joined by public and private representatives today to celebrate the proposed down listing of the red-cockaded woodpecker from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).--Dept. of Interior



BUSINESS & FINANCE NEWS:

Agencies issue two final rules

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System--THE FED


IRS provides final regulations on income tax withholding on certain periodic retirement and annuity payments.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued final regulations PDF updating the federal income tax withholding rules for certain periodic retirement and annuity payments made after Dec. 31, 2020.


Statement of FTC Bureau of Competition Director Ian Conner on Peabody Energy Corporation and Arch Coal’s Abandonment of Their Proposed Joint Venture.




STATE NEWS HEADLINES:


Public comment period extended for the Kalama second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement--DOE


Winter recreational crabbing opens in several marine areas around Puget Sound beginning October 1.


USDA extends waivers: WIC continues to provide remote services--DOH



IN OTHER NEWS HEADLINES...


Clallam County weighs mining, environmental concerns

Public hearing continued on three potential laws--PDN


How Seattle’s mayor wants to close the revenue hole

Seattle's mayor outlines $6.5 billion in spending for 2021 that will cover COVID-19 relief programs and $100 million for communities of color.--Seattle Times


3 Seattle companies to provide thousands of meals to Seattle Public School students.--Seattle PI

Editorial note: You should see the portion size of these so called meals...a joke! Reminds me of the kind of meals Michelle Obama offered!


Did the first presidential debate help Trump or Biden? Here’s what betting odds show--The Olympian


Losing The Swiss hurts. It’s also a reminder Tacoma has bounced back before--Tacoma News Tribune


Sex ed mandate sparks bitter Washington state ballot fight--THE SPOKESMAN REVIEW


Debates set for Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction candidates--Bellingham Herald