Josh Pierce http://joshpierce.net my story. one word at a time. Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:03:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Daily Digest for September 4th http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/04/daily-digest-for-september-4th/ http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/04/daily-digest-for-september-4th/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:03:01 +0000 admin http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/04/daily-digest-for-september-4th/ blog (feed #11)
Published Daily Digest for September 3rd.
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Joshua Pierce It’s 0144 in the morning and you are sleeping while I preserve good order and discipline on duty. I hate you.
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Published You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, lifeless fingers..
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Published Daily Digest for September 2nd.
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Published Censorship of violent images is not the answer..
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Joshua Pierce Stuck on duty on my day off. Awesome…
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Published The Streets – Alleged Le Gends.
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The Streets – Alleged Le Gends
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Joshua Pierce Finally done with all college work for these two classes!
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Joshua Pierce So glad there is free wifi at the barracks now. Makes duty so much easier.
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]]> http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/03/daily-digest-for-september-3rd/feed/ 0 The Streets – Alleged Le Gends http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/03/the-streets-alleged-le-gends/ http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/03/the-streets-alleged-le-gends/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:41:46 +0000 admin http://joshpierce.net/?p=2222 The Streets – Alleged Le Gends

Some people live their lives by a little red book
The points for right lying out and guides them good
They never really mimic every word by eye
Cuz’ if they did they’d be in a whole world of strife
The book’s quite old school, but then it was tough
It contains some quite experimental justice
The thinking people are thinking that without this book
That without these verses we’d pillage and murder but,
Following this red book word for word
Leads you to actually pillage and murder
Could it be so what we think to be right,
Is simply the opinion that survived?

Do what you think’s right, and you will feel alright
Cuz’ when you’re bad you will feel sad
that’s the religion I live by

There’s a bloke in the book who made everything
He knows every individual and every trick in them
Way above emotion, never getting stressed
But when men choose against him, gets jealous
People fight for him in crippling wars
But since he has the power of infinite awe
we’re merely itching on futilities floor
Should we really be needing to assist him at all?
If he loves us all, knowing all we think
Should he only like people with faith in him?
Given I can’t control what I truly believe,
Can I be forgiven for only believing who I see?

Do what you think’s right, and you will feel alright
Cuz’ when you’re bad you will feel sad
that’s the religion I live by
Do what you think’s right, and you will feel alright
Cuz’ when you’re bad you will feel sad
that’s the religion I live by

Could it be time to avoid this bush?
So we wouldn’t be blind when joining up coulds
Could we see both sides of the coin for the good?
Breed less strife on our voyage for good?
Getting threatened by men with questions
we’ll never get anywhere rejecting evidence
Could we test everything instead of betting,
On alleged legends?
If we teach that it’s right to blindly believe
If we reach to the sky to define our meaning
Well I agree what’s right will keep driving people to fight with people

Do what you think’s right, and you will feel alright
Cuz’ when you’re bad you will feel sad
that’s the religion I live by

]]> http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/03/the-streets-alleged-le-gends/feed/ 0 Censorship of violent images is not the answer. http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/03/censorship-of-violent-images-is-not-the-answer/ http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/03/censorship-of-violent-images-is-not-the-answer/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:37:02 +0000 admin http://joshpierce.net/?p=2143 The topic of violence in video games and the media has been hotly debated over the past decade or so due to the rise in video game consoles with their increased graphics capabilities for realism, and the War on Terror raging in the Middle East. The bush administration tried to impose a ban on explicitly violent images in video games, depicting raw, gratuitous acts of murder, rage and mortality. The news networks showing action from the front lines filter their media streams to show only explosions and bodies from the enemies, and rarely bodies of the fallen United States service members. Do these images affect our children in such a way that calls for censorship?

It is the parents’ responsibility to monitor what their children watch and listen to on the television and internet. It is not the government’s responsibility, nor its right to censor these images in any way. There is also no substantial evidence showing that these images and video games affect children in a negative manner. It is the parental upbringing and social aspects that affect the children more than anything. The media wants to show children playing “Grand Theft Auto”, which depicts and encourages beating prostitutes, stealing cars, and killing, and then the child going out and torturing and murdering small animals as their reasons for censorship of violent images. What they fail to bring to light is coming from a broken home, with no father figure, an abused mother, in a poverty stricken town also being factors. I grew up watching rated “R” movies, and playing violent video games and I turned out just fine. Japan, the leader in manufacturing and devloping violent video games has around 39 (.03 per 100,000) gun related deaths per year; the United States averages 11,127 (3.601 per 100,000). Obviously, violent games aren’t the reason for our children’s “morbid” behavior.

The video games aren’t just the only area that political figures are trying to work their gnarly propagandist fingers into; music is also a hot topic. After the Columbine massacre, scapegoats were being tracked and hunted down by the dozens, and Marilyn Manson was a prime target. The media wanted to point blame at his lyrics which support death, worthlessness, bestiality, violence and destruction as the reason for Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold’s motives for shooting up the high school. Again, it’s easy to point the finger at music / other outlets for the children’s psychotic behavior because taking responsibility as parents is sometimes just too rough. Germany has more Manson listeners than the United States, and fewer gun related violent crimes per year than we do, holding in at just 381 (.466 per 100,000). Obviously, censoring music isn’t the end all solution to this “epidemic”.

So if it isn’t the video games, media, or music causing all these problems in our children, then what is it? As Michael Moore pointed out in his documentary “Bowling for Columbine”, maybe it is our violent past and history. Maybe these children get the images and tendencies towards violence from learning about the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and hate crimes during the 60’s from their school textbooks. But wait, schools around the country, and what they teach is mandated by the U.S. Department of Education. Surely, the same political administration that is trying to censor violent images from all other facets of media isn’t the same one causing the unbalanced, lunatic behavior in our children. The government couldn’t possibly be the ones to blame for the surge in high school shootings over the past 15 years, the increase in gun-related violent crimes, the torturing of cats in the alley ways.

The solution to this problem is a simple one. Be better parents. Enforce ethical morals. Encourage good behavior. Set the example. Strike down with the righteous hand of authority when the children break the rules, so they are less likely to do so in the future. Take accountability for what your children listen to and watch. Teach them the difference between what is right and wrong, and show them that just because it is in the media, music and video games doesn’t mean that it is how real life is, and how they should be acting. Censorship doesn’t work. What works is being proactive in your child’s development, and taking a part in what they do on an everyday basis.

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Published Daily Digest for September 1st.
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]]> http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/02/daily-digest-for-september-2nd/feed/ 0 You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, lifeless fingers. http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/02/you-can-have-my-gun-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-lifeless-fingers/ http://joshpierce.net/2010/09/02/you-can-have-my-gun-when-you-pry-it-from-my-cold-lifeless-fingers/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:12:48 +0000 admin http://joshpierce.net/?p=2058 Ever since the dawn of Human civilization, man has created, carried, and used weapons for self-defense. The cave men had rudimentary clubs and rocks; the Egyptians had stone and bronze knives, swords and bows; the Romans had shields, spears and swords; the modern world has, thanks to the advent of black powder, guns. Personal weapons have earned their weight in gold by serving their defensive purpose for millenniums. Our founding fathers brought along with them, wherever they went, a small fire arm as a defensive measure; why can’t we?

It is written in the Bill Of Rights, Second Amendment, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” That passage is a very powerful one that explicitly states that our right, as American citizens, to carry weapons shall not be infringed upon. Think about that for a second, and let it marinate for a few moments in your brain housing group. Even back in 1776, when we were a fresh and young country, still teetering on our newly founded legs, our fathers of the free world found it so important to have the right to carry weapons, if we so chose, that they placed it just after the right to free speech.

Activists against our own liberties to freely carry concealed weapons for personal defense use a variety of excuses to why we shouldn’t be afforded the opportunity to express and practice such rights. One common propagandist notion is that more guns equal more violent crime. This idea is completely absurd for the fact that criminals are already using guns to commit crimes. The guns that they use aren’t legally owned or licensed, and that is not going to change. What this law allows is for permits to be issued to residents, following a course on proper gun control and handling, to conceal a legally licensed and owned firearm in public. Criminals aren’t going to go through the hassle of registering their firearms that they purchased from the truck of their drug-dealing buddy’s car to commit their crimes.

There is no empirical evidence anywhere, showing that the issuing of conceal-carry permits affects the crime rate in the state in any negative fashion. In fact, just the opposite happens! Statewide murder/non-negligent manslaughter rates for Florida have dropped from 11.4 per 100,000 residents in 1987 (when they passed their conceal-carry law) to 7.3 per 100,000 residents. Nationwide, the rate of murders fell by 8.5 percent, and rapes and aggravated assaults fell by 5 and 7 percent after passing such laws. Clearly these proponents of propaganda want to twist the facts and generate fear of weapons throughout to get their ideas passed.

Another confounded argument against our God-given rights is that guns are not useful tools for self-defense. This is a completely and utterly preposterous view because criminals are both aware, and fearful of facing an armed opponent. There are documented studies showing that criminals tend to attack the weak. If they perceive a life-threating encounter with a potential prey, they are more likely not to attack. Without knowing who is armed, and who isn’t, potentially everybody is a threat to them, and in so, inherently reduces the risk of the attack in the first place. This alone is a passive self-defensive measure that is shared not only with our criminals, but with all animals on the planet. A lion singles out the weaker water buffalo from the herd because it poses less a threat than the healthy, full grown bulls. The non-venomous Scarlet King snake shares similar color markings as the poisonous Coral snake to fool predators into thinking it’s a dangerous meal. The little 80 year old grandma a criminal is about to car-jack might be packing a .44 magnum in her purse. This split second pause in guaranteeing their assurance in safely pulling of a crime puts the criminal at the disadvantage. There are countless other arguments for the right to bear arms that would fill a novel, but these two are the most notorious. Having a practical, well governed system to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons not only reduces crime rate, it puts the criminals at a disadvantage.

There are countless other arguments for the right to bear arms that would fill a novel, but these two are the most notorious. Having a practical, well governed system to allow citizens to carry concealed weapons not only reduces crime rate, it puts the criminals at a disadvantage.

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Published Daily Digest for August 31st.
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Published Daily Digest for August 30th.
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Just destroyed a big old toad with my lawn mower out back! [usmcsgt]
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Joshua Pierce Just destroyed a big old toad with my lawn mower out back!
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Good job @Digg on fixing the outgoing RSS feeds! Thanks! #digg #thanks #twothumbsup [usmcsgt]
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Published Daily Digest for August 29th.
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Received Where the Wild Things Are.
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@kevinrose Good to hear! looking forward to having the site back up and running full time! #digg #kevinrose [usmcsgt]
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One last essay in college then I’m done! Atleast till next semester… [usmcsgt]
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Joshua Pierce Working on turning this piece of crap laptop I came into possession of, into a digital picture frame.
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Published Daily Digest for August 28th.
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Joshua Pierce "I wanna go to heaven for the weather, and go to hell for the company!"
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