A NEW CUTESIE PHRASE!

Aight, I created a new phrase. I want you all to incorporate it into your daily speaking. Spread it around. Put it on your greeting cards. I can actually say I came up with this on my very own. It's a genuine GREGLIONS creation to be passed on from generation to generation ad nauseum.



It's LOVE without the heaviness.

You can luz someone a lot more safely than loving them, got it?



The possibilities are endless! Feel the LUZ, spread the LUZ, give LUZ and you'll get LUZ back! AHHH.



ALL YOU NEED IS LUZ LUZ. LUZ is all you need.



Met a new girl who refuses to go to bed with you until you say the magic three words?

Just tell her "I luz u" and you'll be in like Flynn.

Then when you leave her for her sister, cousin, mother, etc. and she screams,



"BUT YOU SAID YOU LOVE ME!"



You can counter with, "No, I said I luz u!"



and remember to thank me, GREGLIONS for giving you this wonderful new phrase, thus guaranteeing my place in history ;-)

USA, WE THE PEOPLE, WHO GETS SERVED?

“ULTIMATE LOYALTY TO SERVE COUNTRY” General Yueh Fei ‘s mother SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, CHINA

I read that today. It made me think of the term patriotism. From the Latin, Patria, country.Serve your country. But what is your country? What is loyalty? At any given point in time, a country is governed by an elected administration. They are transient. The people’s will is like fashion. It changes. It’s whimsical. So again what is country? Is it the literal geographic coordinates we occupy? If so how does one determine how one may best serve one’s country?

I dismiss the idea of service to a given administration. I didn’t vote for GWBush. Look at the shape this USA is in today. It’s monumentally depressed. It is engaged, against the will of the majority of the people, in a synthesized war predicated on the flimsiest excuse of “to prevent terrorism over there from coming over here”. This manufactured war is costing blood of men and women who mistakenly think they are serving their country. In reality they are serving the greed of war profiteers, Bush and his cronies, who could care less about the deaths of these people.

Which brings me to my current outrage that American citizens could honestly think that electing John McCain as our next President will fix the ills that our nation is currently beset with. The definition of insanity is: performing the same actions repeatedly and expecting a different outcome.

John McCain has voted 90% of the time exactly in step with Bush. So he shall be more of the same. That is NOT what we need to fix this country.

And again, my point is you can not serve a country until you decide what your country is. Or what you imagine it to be. I am an American by birth. But far too often I feel like a stranger in this land.

My definition of what my country is this: A place that lets me pursue happiness and flourish. Where I can watch my children lead happy lives. Where there is unity and harmony among the people. Where my taxes are used for services like education, health care, food and shelter.

I pay taxes. I am of the mindset that you get what you pay for. I am most certainly NOT getting what I’m paying for, and neither are you my fellow citizen.

Barack Obama is not an experienced leader in the sense of having governed or mayored etc. But he is an intelligent man who gives one the impression that he genuinely wants to help ALL the people, not just the small minority of the very rich. That makes better sense to me.

INDEPENDENCE DAY?

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
(I'm feeling cynical) Fire up you Bar B Q's my fellow Americans! Ice up those beers! And get ready to gape and agog at those pretty mid-air EXPLOSIONS! Woo Hoo! Pretty colors! LOUD BANGS! OMG! 4TH OF JULY 1776, This new nation, these yoonited states topple the rule of British Impreialism! How better to comemerate that than to slap some steaks on an open grill? Fire it up! Let's fast forward to the present shall we? So. Here we are. 2008. Gas prices climbing, owwww. Sustainable war in Iraq drags on, ka-ching! to the wealthy war profiteers whose money is drenched in the blood of young men and women who may actually believe that they're defending these continental US. Political campaign that is a joke. You keep telling yourself that your one vote matters, ha! The puppet masters will put McCain in the White House regardless, since he will further their not so secret agenda, which is basically: pocket more wealth, and fuck you to the middle class, lower class, whom they view as expendable.
John Mayer sings, "Waiting on the world to change" and that irks me. Since waiting is so passive. It's just as disdainful as Paul McCartney saying that Mother Mary came to him and said, Let It Be. Hey GREG, lighten up babe, it's a holiday, here man, drink a beer, down a few shots of tequila, get laid or something, dude you have a Negative Nelly attitude. You need to get happy...SHADDUP!I am like Charlie Brown on Christmas, I'm not feeling the spirit. The irony is that this very day, the fourth of July is supposed to be celebrating the American Spirit of REVOLUTION (change). People with SPINES back in the 1700s decided that they had had ENOUGH and started KICKNG ASS AND TAKING NAMES.When will WE THE PEOPLE, do that? Or is it WE THE SHEEPLE, BEING GOOD LITTLE LAMBS WAITING FOR OUR VERY OWN SLAUGHTER?...