Hurricane Katrina raised also some old nagging questions that continue to haunt and hurt Americans, especially the colored people and those that value the rights of the unborn citizens of this great country.

•  Chicago Tribune’s columnist Clarence Page wrote also about the race issue in the New Orleans’ hurricane-caused tragedy. Mr. Page said in his recent column: “Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is right. In their mad dash to win coveted, middle-class and mostly white suburban swing voters, both parties have pushed issues of race and poverty offstage in recent presidential contests, especially since the welfare reform law of 1996. New Orleans made America’s invisible poor visible again, and most Americans did not like what they saw. It is there, in our shared disgust over this tragic abandonment of the most needy in our own country, that we might find a new politics—a coalition of the poorly served—if we can find the right leaders.”

•             To read Mr. Page’s whole column, please make a click at this hyperlink Chicago Tribune | We're still 2 nations, after all these years or copy and paste to your browser http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0509140007sep14,1,3074374.column?coll=chi-news-col&ctrack=1&cset=true (Editor's Note: This link is no longer available in the Chicago Tribune web site.)

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• The Los Angeles Times reported that “hundreds of dogs and cats left stranded by Hurricane Katrina are being flown by chartered commercial jets to shelters and homes in California by wealthy donors, including a dog-loving Texas oil billionaire and his wife. The airlifts – each costing about $45,000 – were sponsored by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens and his wife, Madeleine, part of a larger effort by animal welfare groups to find homes across the country for animals in crowded shelters in Louisiana and Mississippi.”

•             To read the Los Angeles Times article, as written by Richard Marosi and Donna Horowitz, please make a click to this hyperlink A Bone, a Bath and a Window Seat - Los Angeles Times or copy and paste to your browser http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-petlift15sep15,1,2420299.story?coll=la-headlines-california&ctrack=1&cset=true  (Editor's Note: The Los Angeles Times' link no longer can be accessed.)

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