Buddhist temple vandalized for second time in two weeks Posted: Mar 20, 2010 7:14 PM EDT Updated: Apr 19, 2010 4:05 PM EDT By Shayla Reaves - bio | email LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE)- A Buddhist temple is vandalized for the second time in two weeks. It happened at the Phuoc Hau temple in the 8500-block of Old Third Street Road. Volunteers contacted WAVE 3 to help get answers. "It's hard to deal with this every year," Volunteer Jennifer Le said. Le arrived to help with yard work and discovered property destroyed by vandalism. Spray-paint covered statues and a temple sign near Old Third Street road. It now reads "Buddah's in Hell." "It's a really bad message that grown people will do this to a temple," Le said."This is our church, but it's temple. It's just a different religion, you know. There is no reason for any prejudice against it." This is the fifth time the property has been vandalized in the last five years, according to Le whose mother regularly attends services held there. It's a place families are working together to maintain daily for the monk who calls the property his home. "He say he don't feel mad, he don't get angry," Vietnamese Translator Minh Van Vo said of Monk Ven Thich Thanh Quang. " But feel bad for the person who did something." Egg shells are still on the property from vandalism two weeks ago, according to Le. Cleaning up is getting harder and harder to do. "It gets hard to replace this all the time," Le said of the temple that depends on donations to assist with maintaining the property. "I don't think you're a good Christian if you do this either. I don't think that's in the religion. I don't think you're following your faith if you do this either." The temple is located in LMPD's 3rd Division and WAVE 3 made a call to police to find out more information on the case. We were unable to get any details Saturday but we will continue to follow up. Copyright 2010 WAVE News. All rights reserved

Being Buddhist doesn't always make for an easy, non-suffering life in these neck of the woods. The Temple we usually attend has been vandalized annually by people proclaiming to be Christians, that mark up the statues and break them up. Spray painting on them "Buddah's in hell," and "Christ lives." It happened last year around Christmastime, two weeks in a row. This year, as a tenant of a house owned by a fundemental Christian, knowing not a single soul in the neighborhood less two kids that go to my daughter's school that she is good friends with and helped us move, and my best friend of 13 years, we woke up to this on our car this morning. I can't imagine who violated us like this. It deeply saddens me. Yet at the same time frustrates me because I want to take the same attitude as my fellow Buddhists, yet I am resentful at people who are ignorant and do not practice what they preach. Even if it wasn't connected to my landlord, and was some random people/kids, it was still unreasonable and in this area of the town the chances of them being Christian are about 95 to 10. That angers me too. But I am going to try to focusing on old Buddhist proverb etching my anger into water, or at least wood for now - and not stone. Stone is permanent, and not easily forgotten, or forgiven. It allows negative energy into the universe and therefore I will only get negative energy back. This I cannot afford. I am swarmed with negativity right now. I'm sick with strep throat, We are nearly packed to move to the shelter, and we are just counting down the days to begin a really tough haul. But I have to put this out there - Please be tolerant of other people. It is what Jesus has said in the Bible, it is why the fundemental Jews did not want him telling people there was another way. But there is not only another way - there is a myraid of other ways, and one of those is just being kind to your fellow human being.

Chasing cars around our heads

pepZ Movie - Snap Benefits give headaches

Double Murder of Children and hostage at local university-finally wrapped my mind around it....here's the blog to prove it:

As a former student of the university in question (without name droping ;-) ) their Mental Health services leave much to be desired for their students - although from what I understand they have gotten a BIT better, they still aren’t what they SHOULD be, just as they weren’t at Virgina Tech, or many of the other universities who don’t take into consideration that students are poor working people or kids with or without parental assistance, little or no insurance and they are all under A LOT of stress and pressure! And not just from classes, but from LIFE too! Coupled with financial issues and economic strain - the average student has a myriad of reasons to suffer from anxiety and depression that normal people don’t take into consideration.
NOW, I’m not condoning what she did, NOT BY ANY MEANS! Because what she did was heinous and inexcusable. I have been able to fathom a lot of crimes in my day, not excuse them, but fathom them nonetheless, but this one, this one I cannot even wrap my mind around!
And having depression issues myself, understanding and knowing the concept of mental illness and society’s stigma and watching my mother - a nurse - refuse to go to counseling and just get medication from her PCP so she doesn’t get "labeled" in fear of losing her licences, mental illness is shrouded in prejudice in the worst form! And tragedies like these, where people believe that these resorts are their only way out - THEIR ONLY WAY is the injustice and it is where we as a nation need to step in and say - where are we failing our mentally ill? Where are we as family members failing our family with mental health issues? Where are we as school, as friends, as neighbors, as a community failing our mentally ill?
On my last campus, they were more receptive to helping their students, and made it easier for me to start a sattelite group of a group already meeting here in Louisville sponsored by the National Depressive and Bi-polar Association. It was for students, faculty, AND the community surrounding all of Indiana University Southeast. Although, when I left the university and turned it over to other members, it eventually disbanded. It doesn’t mean that if I can do it, someone else can’t do it too. I have actually been trying to do the same thing out in my area of town again...why, you say, because it’s needed...AND IT’S ALWAYS FREE!!!! Imagine that, community members coming together to offer support, resources and networking to people in need...who heard of the such!???   >:-(

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Apr 27, 2009

Current mood:accomplished

Content & Organization
Points 10.5
Points Earned 10.5
All key elements on biodiversity are covered in substantive way. A central theme
in the paper is directed toward appropriate audience
>All elements were covered in good details
Within 2,500-3,000 words
>The paper was within the required word limit;  without the title and the reference pages, as described in the syllabus 

> Describes clearly the magnitude of the problem of biodiversity

>The problems of global biodiversity are clearly listed, as well as detailed

with good examples.

>Compares and contrasts the threatened, endangered, and extinct species, with

detailed examples of each

>Timely comparison and contrast of threatened, endangered, and extinct species

have been made, with detailed examples of each.

>Considers the ethical considerations of the native population

>Good treatment on the ethical impacts on the native population, and how that

influences their future.

>Describes the challenges faced, such as armed conflicts, health issues, and

other relevant points

>The summary of different challenges faced, as well as the impending crisis of

global biodiversity, is covered well.

Identifies possible solutions, and a practical "first plan of action."

>The paper meticulously extrapolates and convincingly outlines a reasonable

'plan of action' to meet the biodiversity crisis.

 

Organization/Development

Points 2

Points Earned 2

Paragraph transitions present, logical and maintain flow throughout

>The paper had a clear introduction, body, and conclusion.

Tone suited to content and assignment

Sentences complete, clear, concise, and well-constructed, with consistently

strong, varied views

>The essay was timely, and suitably dealt with diverse topics.

Sentence transitions present and maintain flow of thought

>The flow of thought was well-maintained.

Introduction provides sufficient background on the topic and previews major

points

>The introduction is well thought-out, and discusses all points of the paper.

 

Mechanics

Points 2.5

Points Earned 2.5

Conclusion is logically explained, flows from body of paper, and reviews major

points

>The conclusion is brief but to the point, summarizing the paper adequately.

Paper, title page, reference page, tables, appendices follow APA guidelines

>The APA requirements were closely met.

At least three outside quality citations within body of paper, following all APA

guidelines

>Excellent citation list provided.

Paper laid out with effective use of headings, font styles, white space. Rules

of grammar, usage, punctuation followed. Spelling is correct.

>This was a paper that was well-done, and thoroughly researched.

 

TOTAL POINTS 15

POINTS EARNED 15

Can the earth fit my big head?!

Current mood:accomplished

Hello Jeannette, you had a wonderful level of participation. Your comments
proved valuable to the overall class discussion,and a great deal of background information was exchanged. There were numerous posts that consistently had a very high quality. Moreover, an absent of typos
and grammatical errors made for an enjoyable read. Please keep up the
excellent work! you've responded to both DQs in a complete and
substantial fashion. I especially liked how you've taken the time to write
thoughtfully on the topics, and extend it out to fit in your own viewpoints.
Not only does this offer your own perspective, it covers the subject matter in
great detail, and generated interesting discourse on the subject. I
hope to see you make similar interesting DQ responses in future weeks.
Jeannette:
Yes, I did get your message but I'm again (yes, unfortunately) out on a symposium. I'll be back on Thursday, and will try to get back to you with your final grade. Please be aware of the comments left in your individual forum. The time difference makes it hard, since by the time I'm out (now!) it's past midnight in the east coast. Take care! I haven't found a more attentive and hard-working student as you -- and that's the truth.

Niladri

--
Niladri Sarker, Ph.D.
Faculty
University of Phoenix Online
Arizona (PST)
nsarker@email.phoenix.edu

Things that make you go hmmm....

Current mood:contemplative

So, James Dean rolled around today, picking up the phone to say hello and tell me he was profusely sorry. I'm not sure for what, however. It's really not my life that he sincerely f'ed up, my life will continue on unchanged. I mean my cell phone bill will take a bit to straighten out, but that's not anything I can't handle. Otherwise, I'm fairly unscathed. Aside from a few emotional wounds, that I cared not to inflict upon myself or Lou, I'd say we walked away without so much as a scrap...What he did to us isn't anything when you look at the proverbial bigger picture. But what I had to witness him doing to himself, now that is what crushed me. It was almost unbearable actually. For what little time I had to endure it. I don't think he seems to understand that though. That's the sad part. He doesn't realize that it hurts me more to see what he's doing to himself, and that's where my anger and frustrations come from, than it does to see him do what he's doing to me - because that's A. to be expected because he's a man - even though it's still painful because I expected more from him. and B. He's always treated himself with this self-loathing and disdain, and he's always resented me for pointing out he had more potential than he gives himself credit for...and his choices prevent him from living up to it. I should know I walked a few miles in those shoes :-p My one blog reader should know that ;-) - that is if even she is still reading my blog lol!Anyway - I lost my white horse nonetheless but through no choice but his own. However I can't stick around and wait another 15 years until he gets his head out of his butt to figure out how to function in the relationship we have both always wanted...So I give up...the saying always goes, if it was meant to be it will be...and after 20 years it hasn't been yet and he just totally screwed it up this royally because he was so terrified of normalcy then...yeah - I guess I can be a friend, but I'm at arms length because I have to be, not because I want to be. Hmmm - who does this remind me of????? LMAO!! :-p

Truly beautiful to behold- 7/4/1998

My beautiful baby girl...this was her thirteenth birthday present, and when I first saw them - it took my breath away as if I were seeing her for the first time again...I could never imagine such beauty in a smile or in eyes such as hers....they never fail to brighten my day, lift my mood, give me hope and keep me keepin' on! :-)

My ode to my ex-husband

Sunday, October 11, 2009
My ode
to my ex-husband

We were or weren't meant
to be
whatever it was, we took control
and let it reign
Your full of shit coursed through my veins
for years too long to count spilling over into
innocent victims lives and your words
never failing to pierce my ears like a diamond in my lobe rough and smooth.
Yet that's not Real You,
the deeper you dig
the more mud you find
and eventually enough kids and ex's to populate China!
I search for reasons
when people ask me why
out of all the gin joints in all the
worlds you walked into mine, and I chose you...
Your snaggle teeth
Your crooked swagger
your fucked up feet and your constant lager.
If I could erase my mind
spotless of you -
the laziness you create that would make a bum
look like a workaholic!
The smooth talking lies that makes Beelzebub out
to be as honest as a nun!
I loved to hate you
I hated to love you
I reveled in your disgust
It's an awaking from a deep sleep
to hear another
lingering like church bells in my brain
reverberating against the walls
in my brain as if I were back
on High Park Drive again -
listening to you scream, "She's all in your head!"
All over again, I realize whether you are in the Bluegrass
where all your ties will bind you to your past
or reclaiming your Hoosier status -
trying to discover "hoo-sier" kids,
or thousands of miles away,
sitting on top of the land of 10,000 lakes
hoping your all woes will be gone...
But take it from someone who knows
the tale tell heart will always beat,
as long as yours beats within no matter where you bury it -
and your mind will be forever unspotless
because the sun will
always find a place to shine on something
to trigger a memory within the skeletons
that you have buried in your closet -
it doesn't care if you are in the desert!
Good luck in your tainted nuptials
you've started this one off the same
with your duplicity and delusions...
and my against my heeds of honesty and fidelity...
Those ties - according to the emails received-
have long since been dashed to bits and bytes
just as the last...
My only hope was that it-
Your constant spread of suffering -
ended with me.

Life in a homeless shelter...no wonder they chose to live in the cold

Masquerade
changing faces
people on parade
leave the fate
of the real world behind you.
Doors closing
graduates retreating
to their rooms as it's curfew.
Drab gray
so dull the brightness wakes you in the morning.
Laying your head crawling into your plastic bed
listening to the wailing
of hungriness failing to be fed.
Snaggle-toothed, fork-tongued
Giants with the power of Hitler
disguising themselves
as sheep amongst the herd.
Sour eggs to fill
a starving babe
where is the meat and potatoes?
At home, with the deserving people
where it belongs?
Floating along,
day after day
week after week
as they drone on into months
as the world around you melts
into something surreal.
Take, break, fake...it...
'til you make it.
Through the endless charade of belittling
whittling your way back to from whence you came...

The Real World.

My Thoughts on the Army

Thursday, April 22, 2010

My
Thoughts on the Army

Lie, cheat, kill.
For who?
Uncle Sam!
Yes, Sir!
Yes, Mam!
How will I survive
being a stranger to my own soul?
Will I make it out alive?
Seventeen more hours,
to ignite a so called fire!
A major life decision,
in under a thousand - twenty minutes!
Sign here.
Sign there.
Sign your "John Hancock"
anywhere!
Will I remember me
after I am on a dotted line?
Will I get to see everybody in time?
All because of a broken heart.
After all that time I put in,
I thought we'd never part!
Out he walked,
Where do I sign?
By the way,
here's my mind!
My brain sure could use alittle washing!
Thank you, mother,
Thank you, father,
for your so called brother,
UNCLE SAM!

The current administration vs. living with an alcoholic

Current
mood:
worried
Category: News and Politics
I was just sitting here surfing the internet while watching
television, and a commercial for Al-Anon came on. It was describing what it was
like to live with an alcoholic. Before it announced exactly what it was
advertising for, it caught my attention, as it seemed like they were going to
make a reference to the current presidential administration. It described how you
feel afraid to speak, but afraid not to, etc. Then it instructed u to contact Al-Anon
family services. Is that the definition of irony or what?
Recently, after watching a
movie regarding John Lennon vs. the US, G Gordon Liddy was actually interviewed
in present day and he came across almost proud that he was a part of the Nixon
Administration. He bragged about how he lit his cigar from the candle of a
protester, holding a vigil for the war in Vietnam.
Upon seeing that clip, my
8 year old daughter asked, "Why don't they do that with the war now? She
was innocently referring to the massive protests and vigils for the war back
then. I didn't quite know how to answer that. How do you tell a child that
people are afraid, years after Lennon, King, Kennedy, and others are kept down
our voices are a moot point now? If our own president can be assassinated
because he didn't believe what "the people" (whomever that may be,
democrats or republicans, I guess it would be whichever person with the most
money (= power) and what they're agenda is), then Joe Blow, average American,
isn't going to do anything. Especially knowing what we really know about
history. Better yet, how do you tell them, our future leaders, that there isn't
hope left? "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" along with
"freedom" is just an illusion, an illusion to mask the ignorance of a
dying race.
I just hope that my
personal lack of motivation because of the vast inequities and inconsistencies
in what will be an 8 year hell, doesn't affect her motivation, but I can't help
but hope that she doesn't attempt any major upheavals in public thinking like
M.L King, John Lennon, and others of their generation...simply because we all
know how their causes turned out!
J~

Lisa comment over Bush
Blog

Yes, it is true that
in this country if you have a real chance on taking on the status quo, you
will die. However, I thinking that you might be mistaking apathy for fear.
A lot of people believe that it is just a coincidence that they all happen
to die. Besides, I think that people now equate happiness with the ability
to buy trinkets in the immediate. The chance that one day the big screen
television will come down in price is now our "pursuit of
happiness". I think that if you really want to get people to do
something about our government, it is not so much fear of the government
that you have to get rid of it is our mindless entertainment. Now, there is
one situation that I think you have to watch out for regarding fear. That
is fear that if you speak out that you will never get another job again. We
may have job protection by having our voting be anonymous, but when we
speak out it is there for employers to see.
Posted by Lisa
on Monday, June 25, 2007 - 11:52 PM

I'm not crazy I'm just a little impaired

Tuesday,
July 24, 2007
Current mood:
annoyed
Category: School, College, Greek
I am writing in red for a
reason, just keep reading!
I looked at the entire web coverage of this event in Virginia and
it is horrific!
First of all, there are a lot of campuses that lag response time
in handling emergencies; my very own University of Louisville is quite that
way itself. Lots of colleges want to protect their name and their reputation,
and therefore they try to keep things very hush, hush. I mean did they
HONESTLY think a random mass email was going to reach every student that
would be affected by this gunman in time? And if so, are they psychic?
Secondly, the media is trying to create a pity party for the man,
saying he had been teased all his life or whatever. I am sorry folks, I grew
up in a very abusive household, and the teasing I received in grade school
was not only relentless, but my parents just always thought I brought it on
myself. I haven't and will not open fire on anyone! My own university did me
really wrong, and I have always said there was a reason it has a bell tower!
Not that I, personally, would do anything, but the way colleges rape and
pillage their students and their finances, it's a wonder it doesn't happen
across the country every day! BUT MIND YOU THAT IS NOT ADVOCACY...IT'S THE
OPPOSITE! I don't think there is an excuse for what that man did, however you
twist it...period.
There were people killed and maimed that came from countries that
were looking to escape just that! And the Americans that were killed, well,
our government is too busy "PROTECTING OUR BORDERS" from that ever
illusive seven foot Arab on dialysis! This is ridiculous people! Absolutely
ridiculous! Especially when the man that did this was obviously trying to get
help, but people kept just "PASSING THE BUCK!"
Which is all too common amongst our universities, state, local,
and federal governments. I have experienced it my entire life, having been
"in the system" since I was a young child.
And yet we are sooo shocked it had to come to this!
And lastly, about the video, that doesn't make the shooter look
worse, as it does the people that kept pawning him off. It makes the
university look really bad at not handling only the shooting, but his
psychiatric care in general. The poor man needed help obviously medical
attention! And so many students, independent students don't have health care
to provide them with counseling or anything. And then the schools that are
smart enough to seek counseling, it isn't sufficient enough or extensive
enough for what someone with that mental illness may need. Or with those
underlying and long existing issues to work through. And I'm not blaming the
university all together, because our own government has some responsibility
in this too, but because of that almighty buck being passed down, the
greatest responsibility does fall on the school's shoulders!
Also, I read his two plays, which were posted on the web, and
everybody was dumbfounded at the violence in them...yeah, obviously those
people that were disturbed by them haven't seen any Terintino's films or some
of the other directors and playwrights this day and age! Even Shakespeare was
all about incest and murder and backstabbing and deceit. Terintino's films
have been cult-ified amongst young adults and teens! This guy was obviously
writing about something he knew about, or had experience with, or he wouldn't
have written it. Again, IT WAS NOT AN EXCUSE TO OPEN FIRE SOMEWHERE, but it
does offer intelligent insight into how disrupted this guy's life truly was.
I, myself, am appalled that we as a nation reacting like somehow we are not
responsible in an indirect way, for this man thinking this was his
only way...the ONLY WAY! We do have a responsibility, and I saw that on the
campus of the first school I attended, so the last school I attended I was
able to do something about it. With the help of school officials, I started a
group for people, not just students and faculty, but the community members
suffering from depression and mental illnesses. It ended up having national
sponsorship through the National Depressive and Bipolar Association, aka:
DBSA and the Disability Resource Center at the college. Those were our campus
resources...where were his???

Myspace confusion

Monday, May 28, 2007
Current mood:
hyper
Category: MySpace
Yeah, this whole Myspace thing is a bit archaic right?
Has anyone yet tried to search for even their own name? I didn't realize how
many people were out there with either Jenneh or my last name (blah-blah-blah
- like the football player) there actually was! And then try searching for
someone with a common name like Princess Consuela Bananahammock! It turns up
even more hits! You're more successful at finding Myspace pages on google!!
And what's up with this whole current mood thing? They really
could only come up with those emotions? what about manic (but not hyper - and
there are people who know the difference) or concerned (but not quite
worried), why is there a need to limit your
mood to those 20 or 30 something feelings. What happens when you are beyond blue, you are cerulean. Or,
when you are stoic or when you are dolorous? I understand that there
has to be a limit or else the list itself could go on forever, but there
should be some way to at least suggest or vote on something.
And yet another thing that really pisses me off is that I'm “sittin' har mindin' my own bi-dness,”
and I notice I have like ten emails in my box. I get all excited b/c NO ONE
(and I do mean NO ONE) ever sends me anything, they usually and seldom ever
respond! (Funny thing about that though is that they are mostly my friends, I
mean I truly NEVER expect to get an actual email from Hil' (that's what us
peeps on Hillary's friends list call her!), I do hope, still yet, that people
like my best friend Tiff will send me a kudos or maybe even a simple comment.
So, as I turned my attention to those emails in my inbox, a wave of
excitement swept over me, and I clicked to be utterly disappointed! At 6:30
in the a.m. some moron sends me a message with the subject line reading,
"Oh, there u are, I've been looking for u..." and I of course open
it thinking it's some long lost pal because of the less than user-friendly
searching methods, and it's a stupid ADVERTISEMENT for a ring tone! Then, the
next tag read, "u look really cool" and the same contents followed,
for all eight more emails. I was annoyed. And curious at the same time. Did
all these people stay up all night waiting to catch some dumb a&% online,
or have they been up all night searching pages and sending emails, and if so,
how in the HELL did they land that job? I already knew about the friend
requests and the massive amounts of them that are just using your page as a sales pitch. One girl kept
addressing other people in MY blogs and that was my first experience with
sales on my space for me-and the last! If I click on that pic and see
anything that is even remotely close to a sales pitch, then i use the best
advice a friend ever gave me, "deny, deny, deny" - he was an MP in
the marine corp. I sure do miss him! Yet I digress...
So, take heed, if you haven't already read my bulletin I have
posted, then I hope you read this, which is even less likely, since you
probably don't even read my page...but, regardless of whether you even know
how to read: I DON'T FALL FOR STUPID PYRAMID SCHEMES! AND the larger the
income claim, the LESS I take as credible! I do have an ex-husband, and he
was abducted by aliens from every planet in this galaxy that smelled
curiously of women's perfume, so the more grandiose your stories are, the further I run, in the opposite
direction! And if people out there actually BELIEVE those claims, then read
the following announcement:





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