SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:40 P.M. ET: 

GREAT MOMENTS IN EDUCATION – From the New York Post:  "A bored-to-death city teacher sent his wife a joke text Friday, playfully begging her to call in a bomb threat to save him from a monotonous meeting — but she misread the message and sent the cops to his East Harlem school.  The man, whose first name is Eric, had been sitting in a morning town-hall meeting at Renaissance Charter HS for Innovation, a fellow instructor told The Post.  Teachers typically run through the day’s events during such meetings. This one apparently wasn’t lively enough for Eric, who started text messaging his wife about his bad case of boredom.  'Call in a bomb threat,' he wrote, according to police sources.  His wife zeroed in on the B-word — overlooking the 'haha' he tacked on in the next message.  She called the cops, reporting a bomb threat at the school, which shares a building with three other 'haha.' She phoned the cops again to call it off — but it was too late."  No one was arrested once police concluded it was indeed a joke.

AT LEAST SOMEONE IS ON THE JOB – From the New York Daily News:  "A heavily-tattooed Mississippi mom busted for breaking into cars claimed she was hunting Islamic State terrorists, police said.  Lisa Carol Roche was allegedly caught burglarizing the vehicles stationed in the parking lot of East Central High School in Hurley on Friday.  The 41-year-old, whose children reportedly attend the school, is accused of pinching sunglasses and other personal items from the cars.  She was arrested and charged with commercial burglary of a vehicle.  During questioning, she bizarrely told cops she was, in fact, searching for jihadist fighters who she said could have been hiding in the cars."  It would have been cool had she found a jihadist.  I wonder if they would have arrested her.

TIN-EAR DISEASE STRIKES WHITE HOUSE AGAIN – The Obama White House honors the mosque that taught the Oklahoma City beheader.  From Breitbart:  "The White House has reportedly sent a top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official to the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City (ISGOC) to 'present a special thank you to the Muslim congregation' Oklahoma’s KFOR reports.  The beheader's mosque, the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, was founded by a sibling of a U.S.-designated Hamas terrorist, and in the past has welcomed an Imam who was a close confidant to al-Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.  David L. Myers, who serves as director of the DHS Center for Faith-based & Neighborhood Partnerships, was tasked with presenting a personal message from President Barack Obama. It read,'Your service is a powerful example of the powerful roots of the Abrahamic faiths and how our communities can come together with shared peace with dignity and a sense of justice.'"  There are no words.

SHARYL STRIKES AGAIN – From Mediaite:  "Former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told Fox’s MediaBuzz Sunday morning that her former employer nixed a story of hers two years ago that anticipated much of what President Barack Obama is currently saying about ISIS.  Attkisson very publicly split with CBS News in the spring following a string of stories on Fast and Furious and Benghazi; on the way out she accused CBS of being too compliant with the Obama administration.  'Two years ago I was being told by military and intelligence officials some of the same things President Obama just said in the 60 Minutes interview, about how terrorists were using social media to exploit the vulnerabilities where these Arab Spring uprisings had happened and so on,' Attkisson said. 'I proposed a story at CBS that would look at the regionally impact of what was going on rather than the country-by-country crisis, to look at the big picture, because my sources were saying that these things were connected.'  'Aaaaaaaand what happened?' asked a curious Howard Kurtz.  'The CBS managers were not interested,' Attkisson said. 'I firmly believe had the White House put that on the front burner and suggested a story like that, or let us, I think we would [run with it].'"  The mainstream media at work.

October 6, 2014