SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 10:15 P.M. ET: 

CHICAGO STORY – FROM THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE:   A woman police believe was pregnant was among five people killed and 13 wounded in Chicago shootings Friday into Saturday morning.
The woman was one of four victims slain in a rifle attack in the Brighton Park neighborhood Friday night, police said.  The quadruple homicide happened about 8:40 p.m. in the 4700 block of South Fairfield Avenue, police said.  Another fatal shooting Friday happened about 11:15 a.m. on the Southwest Side in the 6400 block of South Talman Avenue in the Marquette Park neighborhood, police said.  Pretty standard for Chicago.  We reported earlier in the week that African Americans are leaving Chicago in large number, to escape the horror.  Please notice the silence of "Black Lives Matter" and other propaganda outlets regarding the Chicago murder rate.  I guess only certain black lives matter.

DISCERNING JOURNALIST COMMENTS – FROM FOX:   A former New York Times labor reporter has been slammed on social media for a snarky tweet hitting the White House for letting an 11-year-old boy mow the Rose Garden lawn last week.  Steven Greenhouse, who worked for the Times for 31 years and still writes for the paper on occasion, took issue with the feel-good story of the boy, Frank Giaccio, of Falls Church, Va., who showed up at the White House Friday to cut the grass at the invitation of President Trump.  “Not sending a great signal on child labor, minimum wage & occupational safety – Trump White House lets a 10-year-old volunteer mow its lawn,” Greenhouse, who covered unions for much of his time at the newspaper, tweeted.  The Daily Wire website slammed Greenhouse’s tweet as the “dumbest” ever posted on Twitter.  But The Times probably saw it as a noble contribution to social justice. 

AND ANOTHER – FROM AFP:   Washington (AFP) - Maria was forecast Sunday to surge to major hurricane strength as it nears the storm-battered eastern Caribbean with 85 mile (140 kilometer) per hour winds, the US National Hurricane Center said, on a path similar to that of mega storm Irma earlier in the month.  Storm warnings and watches went up in many of the Caribbean islands still reeling from Irma's destructive passage.   As of 0300 GMT Monday, Maria was a Category One hurricane, the lowest on the five point Saffir-Simpson scale, located 100 miles (165 kilometers) northeast of Barbados while bearing west-northwest at 13 miles (20 kilometers) an hour, the NHC said..."Rapid strengthening is forecast during the next 48 hours, and Maria is expected to become a major hurricane as it moves through the Leeward Islands," the NHC warned.  The hurricane season won't end until the middle of next month.  It's pretty clear the weather is Trump's fault.

September 17,  2017