NY Happenings With A Special 20 Questions From Hillary - UPDATED

Just a couple of issues to discuss in no special order:

1. It sounded like a such a great idea. Replace the old telephone booths in NYC with new state-of-the-art cellphone powering stations with free WiFi and internet service complete with keyboards and monitors all paid for by the taxpayers! LinkNYC was born. Cool, eh? However, it has not turn out exactly the way that Bloomberg/DiBlasio envisioned it.

The idea that some Midwestern tourist or Wall Street executives would use these kiosks to power up their cell phones in an emergency and while they were waiting they could surf the internet to find stuff, read the news, keep in touch with loved ones sounded like a great repurposing of outmoded space. Again, that is not what's been happening though. See, along with these blooming kiosks, we have a blossoming garden of "homeless" living on the street. And, they have cleverly begun to occupy many of the kiosks to host "movie nights" with their other fellow "homeless" friends. Yeah, we have provided our ever burgeoning homeless population with free internet service with video screens for their very own outdoor entertainment centers, just pull up a chair. And the indoor-living neighbors that live around these kiosks have started to complain loudly about their outdoor neighbors occupying their streets playing movies loudly late into the night and through to the early morning.

I guess someone at City Hall has heard the complaints and is finally taking some action. It is being reported that the "internet browser" portion of this new service will be disabled...LINK Oh well, it sounded like a good idea at the time. Though I guess it['s better than their other idea. That was to outfit "homeless" with mobile WiFi equipment that people could pay to hook up to for a small fee to the human WiFi connection. I am not kidding...

2. And there's this...today Hillary Clinton sent a series of tweets from her sickbed to Donald Trump with the following 20 questions. This comes at the same time that it was announced that the NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has opened an investigation into Trump's charitable foundation for suspected "pay-to-play" donations. [Side note: NY AG Schniederman is also a consultant to the...yes...Clinton campaign.].

I have to admit I did a spit-take when I read the questions and I just had to consolidate them into one long list. Amazingly, many of these are questions she has herself refused to answer honestly. Especially the ones that could relate to recently disclosed emails about her own Clinton Foundation and the special access and favors to donors (foreign and domestic) given from Hillary's State Department after making hefty donations to the Clinton Foundation.

Her answer to all those "right-wing" attacks was that "It wasn't true. There has never been any cooperation between her State Dept and the completely separate Clinton Foundation even if it might look that way in all those emails. And anyway when she is President, they will never do it again. She vowed that Bill and she would completely disconnect from the daily Foundation operation, but Chelsea would have to remain because she has absolutely no connections with government and has no access to either of her parents.

All I can say is, that she and her campaign operatives have finally become completely divorced from reality.

1. Will you sever ties with your company linked to foreign leaders, questionable organizations, and criminals if you become president?

2. How will you handle non-cancelable contractual obligations with parties whose interests conflict with those of the United States?

3. While refusing to release your tax returns, how will you confirm that you do not have dangerous financial ties to bad actors abroad?

4. If you were willing to work with Qaddafi—a known terrorist and dictator—is there anyone you aren't willing to make a deal with? Who?

5. How can you be tough on Iran, given your business partnership with someone connected to Iranian money laundering?

6. Given that you've already questioned our commitments to NATO allies, what is your answer to this?

7. To what extent would your foreign policy be dictated by potential financial benefits for your business partners?

8. Will you disclose the nature of your personal and business relationships with all of the Russian oligarchs you are “close” to?

9. Have you or your campaign discussed U.S.-Russian relations with the Russian billionaires with whom you've done business?

10. How did the Russian mob boss who ran a criminal organization out of Trump Tower get a VIP pass to your Miss Universe pageant in Moscow?

11. With business ties to politically-connected Indian developers, how can you conduct foreign policy that puts the U.S. above your profits?

12. How can we be sure you'd be willing to be tough on any nation if necessary, if it would put your interests and profits at risk?

13. How can we know you won't (again) impulsively damage relationships with crucial allies to preserve your own ego?

14. We know you engaged extensively in pay-to-play here at home. Have you bribed foreign officials or other parties abroad?

15. To what extent are you and your family currently contractually tied to payments from foreign business partners, or governments?

16. You've mentioned ~120 foreign deals, including in countries with national security implications. Where and with whom are you working?

17. Will your children disclose all of the foreign trips and business deals they've undertaken during the campaign, and with whom they met?

18. We'll let @kurteichenwald ask this one:pic.twitter.com/xnIl6JazS3

18. We'll let @kurteichenwald ask this one: pic.twitter.com/xnIl6JazS3

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 14, 2016

19. In sum, how will Trump guarantee that if forced to choose between America's security and his own bank account, he won't pick the latter?

20. It's pretty clear: Trump's spent his life unscrupulously looking out for his own wallet above all. Why would that change as president?

I particularly like the last one. All of this reminds me of the same delusional disconnect when Hillary boldly proclaimed that all rape victims should be believed and listened to...

UPDATE - There are not words to describe this. Now the Clinton campaign apparatus isn't even pretending not to lie.



Discuss.