OK, I'm clueless. What hate organization? What on Earth is this rant about?
-----Original Message----- >From: Orchid Keeper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sep 23, 2008 8:33 PM >To: orchids@orchidguide.com >Subject: Re: [OGD] Houston Tex Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 278 > >My heart goes out to all hurricane survivors. >Here are some pictures. Houston rose to the task in Katrina, got hit by >Rita, and hit again. > >http://www.tpicks.com/pictures%20people%20have%20sent%20me.html > >And there was that Internet hurricane that never got into the press, the one >against the surviving businesses who faced organized assaults, DOS, and >every filthy tactic that hate-based crowd in Illinois could throw at us. > >Look at these pictures and understand one thing, those of you who do not >live in Texas have no idea what it is like not only to face this kind of >hurricane but then to face the second wave of attacks that came at the >survivors and everyone who tried to raise money to help them and to keep the >food pantries stocked for them. > >I will NEVER FORGET that Illinois crowd that attacked every single business >that was scrambling to raise the funds necessary to start over. People were >showing up in my town in the hotel rooms and first thing was to get hold of >family members and hold online sales to pay for recovery. Every one who >could help was on board. We had no clue of the depth of hatred we were about >to face online. > >I saw the silence that greeted a recent orchid business needing help. You >all can thank Leo Schordje and the culture of his Illinois hate-based >group for that. He named my business here because he thought he had helped >kill it off during the Katrina aftermath. > >There was an organized assault on every business who had an address >registered in the Hurricane region. Record numbers of us lost tens of >thousands of dollars when that Illinois-based hate group organized a >campaign of malicious complaints and internet libel, attacking people who >maintained their addresses in the weeks following the hurricanes while they >contacted their customers and made arrangements to recover. > >We didn't just face off with those petty thugs masquerading as >"scambusters" and promoting the kind of fake credentials Schordje wants to >use in the orchid world. FEMA came into our churches and told us we did not >have the right to open our homes and we told FEMA to get out. > >Then this year, during Gustav, while the Northern media sent reporters in to >harass (not interview) those who chose to stay, there was that horrific >little vignette in which a young man was being asked to compare Katrina with >Gustav, and this is what he said, while standing in front of a very sturdy >if unglamourous big gov't housing project building: "My folks were able to >stay in there (pointed at it) and so everyone who had a relative in the >projects did ok, but this time the projects are not here because this is one >of the last ones" and nothing is being built to replace them as the peop0le >have been evicted, hundreds of families, and this is outside of the >hurricane-displaced. > >Instead of rebuilding, the US government has been tearing down the remaining >sturdy structures, and now every time there is a hurricane, it gets worse. >The media prepares the ground by attacking the people who choose to stay, >and they hound the survivors from shelter to shelter. I watched one >chicago-area reporter verbally abuse some Cajuns who were holding a >traditional hurricane party, as if they were being stupid to wait out Gustav >together. > >They were in the same building in which they all survived Katrina, came out >dry, rested, and ready to rebuild!!!! And everyonje knows, now, that if you >leave, no matter how well your property may have survived, the governement >won't let you back in, and you may end up like some folks did here: they >ran out of gas with children in the car while they were turned away from one >full shelter after another. > > In Austin the media is even characterizing it as a big problem that a >senior citizen tennis match had to wait for the hurricane evacuees to be >removed from their athletic building. Those affluent individuals who can >rely on other affluent individuals by virtue of family/friend contacts may >do ok, but the wave of organized hate causes even them to hesitate to team >up and hold good old-fashioned barnraising-style benefits. They need to >start reading memoirs written by Jews from the 1930's, because the German >Jews were affluent, middle-class, secular people, and within ten years they >were herded into death camps, because the tactics of the Nazi media were so >efficient. > >The same tactics characterizes the US media as our gov't slowly commits >genocide by natural disaster. > > > 2. Houston Tex (Bill Bergstrom) > 3. Re: Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 275, How are our Texans? > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 4. Pteroglossaspis pottsii - a fairly new orchid to science. > (Prem Subrahmanyam) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:19:49 -1000 >From: "Bill Bergstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [OGD] Houston Tex >To: "Orchid" <orchids@orchidguide.com> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >My best friend in the world is Dave Hunt in Houston..He will phone as soon >as they are able..so...the phone wires and electricity are still down as of >the 20th..and that is the longest we have gone in twenty years without >talking Bill Bergstrom > >------------------------------ > >Message: 3 >Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:01:34 -0400 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [OGD] Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 275, How are our > Texans? >To: orchids@orchidguide.com >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Message: 6 >>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:30:00 +0000 >>From: K Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: [OGD] How are our Texans? >>To: <orchids@orchidguide.com> >>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" >> >> >>I hope Anita Aldritch, Nina Rach and our other Texas friends are surviving >the aftermath of Hurricane Ike. >> >>K Barrett >>N Calif, USA >> >> >> > >I don't know about the Texans, and though they surely got the worst of >it, but we had a hurricane here in Ohio too (75mph winds were clocked) >- though you'd never kow it from the news which has completely ignored >it. Ike was the only hurricane to make it this far. Normally the worst >we get from them is a thunderstorm. Over a half-million out of power, >trees down, roofs torn off, flooding in some areas. Not what we were >expecting. I am now in a public library (I'm glad I have always >supported them!!) which has had power restored in another part of >Columbus, using their wireless connection as I am still without power , >phone, internet, etc at home. All the food is spoiled and gone, a few >groceries have re-opened, and I have finally gotten my toppled huge >beloved pear tree cleared from the street, my car, and the sidewalk so >I can at least come and go, though the yard is full of tree. My American >persimmon clone I have been babying had the top beoken off as did our >japanese maple. But we didn't get the worst of it. And it does bring >home an appreciation of the much more dire conditions those on the coast >face. > >Though conditions in my new GH are not optimal now (no air movement or >temp control - the generator I bought last year as part of the project >froze up on the first try -so much for being prepared!) the good part is >thanks to my nervousness about the glazing coming loose from the frame, >I hjad put in extra supports to which I screwed it down, and though I >heard it wobbling and woo-woo-whooshing in the wind, it stayed in place! > >Tennis Maynard > >P.S. - The above was sent Thursday afternoon and for some odd reason, >bounced back. It is now Saturday just before midnight and the power has >only just now been restored - 16 hours shy of a week. Now to clean out a >refrigerator filled with mold, etc. Ugh! But the cool growing orchids >which had begun to suffer as the temps rose the last couple days and the >sun came out again, are looking forward to the refreshing breeze from >the evap cooler! > > > > > >End of Orchids Digest, Vol 10, Issue 278 >**************************************** >_______________________________________________ >the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) >orchids@orchidguide.com >http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
