SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – 11:55 P.M. ET:

THIS JUST IN – FROM LONDON'S EXPRESS:   POTATOES and cereals increase the risk of heart disease while high fat dairy products cut the risk, according to a new study which rejects accepted wisdom on a healthy diet.  The research, which looked at dietary habits in 42 European countries over 16 years, conflicts with current government nutrition guidance and has led to calls for new advice to be issued.  The work, published in the journal of Food and Nutrition Research, examined food consumption, heart disease and cholesterol levels in the most up-to-date international statistics and raised questions about the reliability of traditional data, much of which was carried out decades ago.  Dr Pavel Grasgruber, a sports scientist and lead author of the study, from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic, called for current dietary advice to be overturned.   I am throwing out the potatoes and immediately buying all the Friendly's chocolate marshmallow swirl that I can find.  This is truly inspiring research.  Er...of course it will probably be contradicted in a week or two, so have fun while it's still current.  Does the term "settled science" come to mind?

DISGRACEFUL! - FROM FOX:  Top Hillary Clinton aides were upset a Muslim man was publicly named as the shooter in a 2015 massacre that left 14 people dead, and a longtime Clinton confidant even expressed regret that the terrorist wasn’t a white man, according to purported emails released by WikiLeaks on Sunday.  The emails were part of a trove of messages stolen from the gmail account of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who has had a long association with the Democratic presidential nominee and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. The email chain began on Dec. 2, when digital operative Matt Ortega forwarded a tweet from MSNBC host Christopher Hayes that named one of the shooters in the San Bernardino, Calif., attack as Sayeed Farook. Consultant Karen Finney forwarded the email to Podesta, commenting, “Damn.”
Podesta responded: “Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk [sic] was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.”  I guess they consider themselves advanced intellectuals, the kind who would have described the Japanese pilots over Pearl Harbor as "sincere multicultural activists responding to their oppression by Western capitalist warmongers."

A CLASS ACT IN EVERY WAY – FROM FOX:  A beloved junior high school music teacher battling cancer took her last breath after her students sang a Christian song of love to her in tribute.   A video of Wednesday’s touching performance for Mariana Walker was posted on Facebook and let the teacher know how much she meant to students at Alvin Junior High School in Texas, KTRK-TV reported.  The students performed Hillsong United’s “Oceans” outside the home of the 69-year-old Walker who was in bed under hospice care.  “We had the windows open. We had the screen door open and she could hear that,” Walker’s daughter Alyx Vesey told the staion. “I think that gave her a lot of peace.”  The students also said a prayer for Walker before they left. She then passed away.  We hear so much about "bad" kids or irresponsible kids, or spoiled college students.  These are good kids, and there are plenty of them. 

October 16, 2016