March 23, 2016

Did Donald Trump Really Credit His Great Brain to Limitless-Style Brain Booster Pill?

http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-donald-trump-really-credit-his-great-brain-to-limitless-style-brain-booster-pill/

by Tommy Christopher



Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is constantly bragging about his “great brain” (among other things), but is it possible that he owes that staggering intellect to a “brain-booster” pill like the one featured in the film (and now hit TV series) Limitless? Well, if you believe Fox News’ James Rickman, he did. According to an article credited to Rickman, Trump told Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that he owes it all to something called CogniMaxx XL:

Trump shocks Bill O’Reilly by revealing his secret to working longer and more productive hours (10 extra years to be exact). Now, he’s running for president so this pill’s importance is tremendous says O’Reilly.

By James Rickman – Fox News

Trump is a big fan of creating jobs, reading books, and doing puzzles, but according to O’Reilly, he also credits his success to an IQ boosting, brain pill that helped him with memory, and recall. “This pill is the real magic,” says Mr.Trump, referring to CogniMaxx XL.

“This brain booster is not heavily advertised but that’s what’s great about it– CogniMaxx XL puts all their money into finding the most organic, pure all natural ingredients and that it, it all goes into the formula, so you kind of have to be ‘in the know’ to get your hands on it, but I tell everyone I meet my ‘secret’ so I guess it’s not really a secret anymore.”

The only problem is, there is no “Fox News’ James Rickman,” and that website, although mocked up to look like it, is not Fox News’ website. The article is a fake, parked there to buttress an email solicitation that’s going around, and which my mom forwarded me this morning. This scam has, apparently, been running for years using other fake celebrity “endorsers” like Tiger Woods, Jamie Foxx, Denzel Washington, Jay Z, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Will Smith, and, of course, Limitless star Bradley Cooper. Snopes has previously debunked the exact same scam, only the pill was called “Alpha ZXT,” but both used the same fictitious reporter’ s name, and promised results similar to the drug “NZT” that’s featured in Limitless.

None of which is to say that Donald Trump shouldn’t try CogniMaxx XL. It couldn’t hurt, could it?

March 23, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.23: Arizona, Brussels, Ed Murray, ANA, Rolling Stone, a Brief Hiatus

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/23/1505226/-Hillary-News-Views-Arizona-Brussels-Ed-Murray-ANA-Rolling-Stone-and-a-Brief-Hiatus

By Lysis



Today’s edition of Hillary News & Views begins with coverage of Clinton’s big victory in Arizona, the latest evidence that a diverse electorate favors our likely nominee.

Politico reports:

A week after scoring a five-state rout against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton widened her already daunting lead over the Vermont senator by crushing him in Arizona.

But Sanders easily dispatched Clinton in Utah and Idaho, the other two Western states that voted Tuesday. Both states held caucuses, a format that has favored the Vermont senator.

Clinton, speaking to supporters in Seattle, said she was "proud" to have won Arizona before turning her focus to the Republican race.

The terrorist attacks in Brussels, she said, underscored the importance and gravity of the presidential election. "The last thing we need, my friends, are leaders who incite more fear," she continued.

“We can’t throw out everything we know about what works and what doesn’t and start torturing people," she remarked, in alluding to to Ted Cruz's call for more stringent policing of Muslim communities and Donald Trump's insistence that torture could have prevented the attack in the European capital that killed 34 and wounded hundreds.

"What Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and others are suggesting, it’s not only wrong, it’s dangerous. It will not keep us safe. This is a time for America to lead, not to cower. And we will lead, and we will defeat terrorists that threaten our friends and allies," she said.

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March 23, 2016

Cartoon: Shout, Shout, Let it All Out

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/23/1504938/-Cartoon-Shout-Shout-Let-it-All-Out

By Matt Bors

March 23, 2016

Cartoon: Shout, Shout, Let it All Out

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/23/1504938/-Cartoon-Shout-Shout-Let-it-All-Out

By Matt Bors

March 22, 2016

Just Too Bad for Hillary Clinton's Enemies

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/22/1505006/-Just-Too-Bad-for-Hillary-Clinton-s-Enemies

By Mudiaga Ofuoku



Not long ago, it used to be the case that Hillary Clinton's political enemies --- let's call them that --- were to be exclusively found on the Right. Not so any more. Today, you have just as many, if not more visceral, Clinton haters on the Left, too. Thinking about it, I sometimes don't know whether to laugh or cry.

This second anti-Clinton group first appeared on the political horizon eight years ago during the spirited, and at times brutal, primary contest between her and then Senator Barrack Obama. Today, this very group has morphed into a deadly species, has even become infinitely more dangerous than her foes on the Right, and I'm hard put to justify the hatred. I often gasp in disbelief when I read some of the ugliest things said about her today by many of those who call themselves Liberals , especially as the primary fight between her and Bernie Sanders is turning overtly desperate with Sanders becoming ugly and nasty in his denigration of her character. The septuagenarian once promised not to run such a campaign.

A.H. Goodman, an archetypal Clinton hater whose pathetic case I intend to address in detail perhaps soon, has managed to appear as the leader of Clinton enemies on the Left. Like Sanders, he calls himself a "social democrat". Demented in his view of the Democratic front-runner, Goodman hops from one publication to another willing to accept itself as a receptacle for his unceasing garbage about Clinton to dump it there.

For Goodman and the rest of his fellow travelers on both sides of the aisle, the overarching aim is to keep Clinton from getting the nomination even though the individual objective for each side is markedly different. Goodman and many like-minded Liberals delude themselves into thinking that Sanders is a stronger general election candidate than Clinton, whereas her Republican traducers believe the opposite is overwhelmingly the case. I hate to say that the Republicans have it right in this case, which explains their unflagging campaign against Clinton while ignoring her primary opponent.

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March 22, 2016

NBC/SM National Poll: Clinton Leads 53% - 41%. Pledged Delegate Lead, +321. AZ, ID & UT Tonight.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/22/1504820/-NBC-SM-National-Poll-Clinton-Leads-53-41-Pledged-Delegate-Lead-321-AZ-ID-UT-Tonight

By First Amendment


Pledged delegate totals: Clinton 1,176 - Sanders 855

Clinton’s national lead remains a healthy +12.

www.nbcnews.com/...

Sanders gained +1, but he didn't increase his overall support. His +1 gain came at the expense of Clinton’s -1 loss from last week’s tracking poll.

Clinton 53% - 41%



Since Clinton’s 5-state sweep last week, more Democratic-leaning voters now think Clinton will be the nominee. That’s a +7 increase since last week.

Though Clinton did not see a rise in those committed to voting for her, nearly eight in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters now think she will win the Democratic nomination for president, which represents a 61 point margin over Sanders. This is a 7-point increase from the previous week before her string of victories on March 15.

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March 22, 2016

NBC/SM National Poll: Clinton Leads 53% - 41%. Pledged Delegate Lead, +321. AZ, ID & UT Tonight.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/22/1504820/-NBC-SM-National-Poll-Clinton-Leads-53-41-Pledged-Delegate-Lead-321-AZ-ID-UT-Tonight

By First Amendment


Pledged delegate totals: Clinton 1,176 - Sanders 855

Clinton’s national lead remains a healthy +12.

www.nbcnews.com/...

Sanders gained +1, but he didn't increase his overall support. His +1 gain came at the expense of Clinton’s -1 loss from last week’s tracking poll.

Clinton 53% - 41%



Since Clinton’s 5-state sweep last week, more Democratic-leaning voters now think Clinton will be the nominee. That’s a +7 increase since last week.

Though Clinton did not see a rise in those committed to voting for her, nearly eight in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters now think she will win the Democratic nomination for president, which represents a 61 point margin over Sanders. This is a 7-point increase from the previous week before her string of victories on March 15.

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March 22, 2016

Hillary News & Views 3.22: Tackling Trump at AIPAC, Town Hall, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Endorses

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/22/1504779/-Hillary-News-Views-3-22-Tackling-Trump-at-AIPAC-Town-Hall-Ohio-Gov-Kate-Brown-Endorses

By Lysis



Today’s edition of Hillary News & Views begins with Clinton's speech to AIPAC, which assailed Donald Trump with an intensity his GOP opponents have failed to do.

The Daily Beast reports:

Until now, Trump has succeeded in knocking out almost all his Republican opponents by deriding them as weak and ineffectual. But unlike that hapless bunch, Clinton is coming out swinging.

As a pure performance, she hit all the right notes, her voice dropping when she recalled holding the hands of men and women in Israeli hospital wards whose lives were torn apart by terrorism, then rising with indignation that anyone could advocate neutrality. She didn’t name Trump of course, but anyone with even a passing interest in the region took note of his comments earlier this month that he believes in being “somewhat neutral” in his approach towards the decades-old conflict in the Middle East.
“Israel’s security is not negotiable, and anybody who doesn’t understand that has no business being our president,” Clinton thundered.
She conjured up the perils awaiting the next president, the unprecedented chaos and conflict in the Middle East, the ongoing terrorist attacks in Israel, the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere. “We have to get this right,” she said to robust and sustained applause. Outsourcing to dictators, a reference to Trump’s praise for Russian involvement in Syria, or thinking America no longer has vital interests in the region now that energy independence is on the horizon is “dangerously wrong,” Clinton said.

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March 21, 2016

We’ve Reached Havana (By President Barack Obama)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama/weve-reached-havana_b_9518152.html

By Barack Obama
44th President of the United States


President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama walk to the motorcade after touring Old Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 20, 2016.

¡Hola desde Cuba!

Michelle, the girls, and I are here in Havana on our first full day in Cuba. Cubans have lined the streets to welcome us, and it’s humbling to be the first U.S. president in nearly 90 years to visit a country and a people just 90 miles from our shores.



Like so many Americans, I’ve only known the isolation that has existed between our two governments. I was born in 1961, the year of the Bay of Pigs invasion. A year later, a Cold War confrontation over Cuba pushed the world as close as it’s ever been to nuclear war. As the decades passed, the mistrust between our governments resulted in heartache for our two peoples, including Cuban Americans, many of whom have endured decades of separation from their homeland and relatives.

I’ve come to Havana to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people. I’m here to bury the last vestige of the Cold War in the Americas and to forge a new era of understanding to help improve the daily lives of the Cuban people.

There continue to be real and important differences between our governments, including profound differences on the way to promote safety, security, opportunity, and human rights. But there’s so much Americans and Cubans share  — our cultures and passions, our hopes for the future, not to mention a love of baseball.

I know one visit, and one president, cannot erase the decades of history that have left so many Cubans in poverty or exile. But sometimes the most important changes begin with the smallest step. I believe in the Cuban people and their desire to build a future of their own choosing. And I believe that changing the way we do things between our countries will, over time, help make that possible.

So I’m looking forward to meeting and hearing directly from Cubans from all walks of life. And I’m confident that, working together with the Cuban people, our two countries can begin a new journey together that delivers progress for both our peoples.

This post originally appeared on Medium.

March 21, 2016

USA Today/Rock the Vote poll: In GE Hillary crushes Trump with Millenials by 33%. 52% to 19%.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/21/1504105/-USA-Today-Rock-the-Vote-poll-In-GE-Hillary-crushes-Trump-with-Millenials-by-33-52-to-19

By floridageorge





Some very good news for all of us, but especially for those downers who claim that Hillary would lose to Trump (for sure!) or that Millenials would not vote for Hillary because they would just not come out for her at all. Apparently Millenials didn’t get that memo.

Poll shows that Millennials would flock to Clinton against Trump

Opposition to Trump nearly unites the rising generation.

In a hypothetical Clinton v. Trump contest in November, voters under 35 would choose Clinton by a crushing 52%-19%, a preference that crosses demographic lines.

Among whites, she'd be backed by nearly 2-1, 45%-26%. Among Hispanics, by more than 4-1, 61%-14%. Among Asian Americans, by 5-1, 60%-11%. Among African Americans, by 13-1, 67%-5%.

And the yawning gender gap she has against Sanders would vanish: Clinton would carry young men and women by almost identical margins of more than 2-1.

Nearly one in four Republicans would defect to the Democrats if the GOP nominated Trump against Clinton. Just 7% of Democrats would defect to the GOP.

Among Millenials Hillary beats Trump 52% to 19%.

25% of Republican Millenials would defect to Hillary, on the flip side only 7% of Democratic Millenials would choose Trump.

"Trump would kind of make a mockery out of America," worries Cameron Lee Craig, 25, a stay-at-home mom from Amelia, Ohio, who was among those surveyed. "He's kind of a jerk."

The poll, the second in a series, is part of USA TODAY's One Nation initiative, a series of forums across the country on the most important issues of 2016. The online survey, taken by Ipsos March 3-10, polled 1,541 adults ages 18 to 34.

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