Nurse said use Aquaphor, not Neosporin, for my (small) surgical wound from which she had just taken sutures, to help the healing. Failed to ask why. This article has my answer.

Top derms break down the differences between the most popular fixes for compromised skin.

Source: The Difference Between Salves, Ointments and Balms – Neosporin versus Aquaphor

Trade? Who needs it?

In a time of “testing her diplomatic skills in highly sensitive circumstances,” she blew it.

The Iranian government has executed a nuclear scientist who was believed to have cooperated with U.S. intelligence but who returned to Iran after claiming he had been abducted and tortured by the CIA.

The tale of Shahram Amiri was one of the stranger sagas to emerge from Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, testing her diplomatic skills in highly sensitive circumstances.

His death comes just over a year after Iran and the U.S. struck a deal aimed at reining in Iran’s nuclear program, an agreement Clinton was instrumental in launching.

She touched it, it turned to shit.

Source: Iran executes nuclear scientist reputed to have spied for U.S. – POLITICO

Her emails again. Foolish woman.

Hillary Clinton recklessly discussed, in emails hosted on her private server, an Iranian nuclear scientist who was executed by Iran for treason, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday.

I’m not going to comment on what he may or may not have done for the United States government, but in the emails that were on Hillary Clinton’s private server, there were conversations among her senior advisors about this gentleman, he said on Face the Nation.

Cotton was speaking about Shahram Amiri, who gave information to the U.S. about Iran’s nuclear program. The senator said this lapse proves she is not capable of keeping the country safe.

“That goes to show just how reckless and careless her decision was to put that kind of highly classified information on a private server. And I think her judgment is not suited to keep this country safe,” he said.

The revelation could cause further political damage to Clinton, who was already on the defensive Sunday after commenting oddly last week that she had short-circuited in a statement related to her honesty about the email scandal.

Source: Cotton: Clinton discussed executed Iranian scientist on email | Washington Examiner

Would queer the deal with Black Lives Matter and other civic groups on whom she counts.

The leader of the National Fraternal Order of Police, Chuck Canterbury, told The Hill that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton sent a message through her staff that she wouldn’t be seeking the group’s endorsement. The union represents a strong political force at 335,000 members.

“It sends a powerful message. To be honest with you, I was disappointed and shocked,” Canterbury told The Hill. “You would think with law enforcement issues so much in the news that even if she had disagreements with our positions, that she would’ve been willing to say that.”

Source: Clinton Doesn’t Want Police To Endorse Her – Blue Lives Matter

Summing up the nation’s Liar-in-Chief:

Welcome, once again, to the vertigo of the Obama “narrative,” in which the priority of his “most transparent” administration is not to deal honestly with the American public, but to spin a web of half truths, enmeshed in complexities, to cover up highly questionable uses of power — and then, if caught red-handed, use the bully pulpit to deride and dismiss the critics.

Source: The Mendacity Behind Obama’s Mockery of the Cash-for-Iran Story | PJ Media

The mother was heading out to calm the baby down. Embarrassed maybe. I know a six-times mother who would have reacted that way.

Donald Trump didn’t actually kick a baby out of a rally this week in Virginia, according to the eyewitness report of a journalist sitting nearby and the mother of the baby herself.

In a widely-circulated video that spurred headlines criticizing the GOP nominee, Trump was seen saying first that he loved the baby who had begun to cry during his rally, then just a minute later saying that the mother should get the baby out of here.

I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking, Trump said.

But Daniel Dale, a reporter for the Toronto Star sitting behind the crying baby in question, said the mother was never asked to leave and that the entire episode was Trump’s sense of humor being blown out of proportion.

The mother?

The mother, Devan Ebert, also told the Washington Post that the situation did not play out as the media had reported.

“The media did in fact blow this entire situation out of proportion,” she said. “I’m not looking to make it into anything bigger. All I’m hoping is that Trump personally is aware that I am in agreement with him and stand by the fact that I was never kicked out of the rally.”

She said it was “blatantly obvious he was joking” when asking the baby to leave the rally.

Left-leaning lemmings loved what they didn’t get. Fit nicely into their, ah, chosen view of the matter.

Source: No, Trump didn’t kick that baby out of the rally

Black and Hispanic journo’s here.

Ridiculous. Amateurish. Not a press conf. but a rally.

Later: Another report on same event, noting it was not precisely a press conference — if at least an unseemly, amateurish display discouraged (to no avail) by its organizers.

In any case, she preserves her record of avoiding media except where they are 1,500 friends, an omission that has not escaped NPR‘s notice.

At town hall meeting, Oak Park library, July 17, 2013 — from Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters — Rep. Lilly wants a committee, Sen. Harmon defends Democrats’ redistricting:

The high cost of college education was mentioned.Health care costs “are at the heart of it,” Harmon said, offering a unique perspective, connecting tuition costs to health care.

Lilly picked up on the cost of college, making it first cousin to funding of public schools. Missing not a beat, she offered a solution. “My first thought is to establish a committee.” Then she revealed her personal, unassailable conviction: “I believe our education system is in crisis, from kindy-garten [sic] on up. . . . This. Is. Crisis. Level.” (Said slowly, every word a stop.)

Legislators “should make sure it’s equitable for all citizens,” she said. “Our great state can do better.”

Asked about the state’s not paying what’s owed to personal care-providers, Lilly again waxed assertive: “This is, to me, a no-no. We need to pay these vendors, and that’s what they are, on time. It’s unconscionable . . . happening over and over. . . . That’s why I’m here,” apparently meaning in the legislature, probably not at the library, but who could say for sure?

She closed, telling the questioner, “Give us a call.” This while giving no telephone number or email address or even street address, which for what it’s worth was a few blocks inside Austin, one of the city’s highest-crime-rate neighborhoods.

The redistricted district:

This location was symptomatic of her low-profile, virtually nonexistent approach to representing mostly white, well-policed Oak Park, not to mention other communities in a long meandering (gerrymandered?) line moving northwest as far as Franklin Park, eight miles from her office.

The long meandering line (her district) was stark evidence of the state’s 2010 redistricting by the Ruling Party to make sure black and other Democrat office-holders are elected with at most token opposition. In another of these meetings, Harmon explained such redistricting as a civil-rights imperative, citing federal law in the matter.

He was apparently referring to the requirement to “remedy a violation” of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. If there was such a violation in Illinois districts in 2010, nobody talked about it. But for the senator, it provided respectability to Ruling Party redistricting.

Illinois Blues is available in paperback, epub and Amazon Kindle formats.

Where thou shalt not get the leftists upset.

Because when they get upset, they take over, and we can’t let that happen at an institution named after St. Vincent.