I hope that I am not bothering you, but I had to write because I fear that if I do not plead my case with you personally, I could be sent back home.

My name is Lillie. I am a deeply religious girl from a small village in Italy. I am 18 years old, but I feel that I am very mature for my age. My problem is I continue to look for God out here. The others tolerate me, but they privately scuff at my “childish beliefs.”

They say Jesus was a myth created by aliens to get us to be civilized. I don’t believe that. I do want to stay out here and I feel that I can be of service to those who need Jesus in their lives. Maybe not the Girls or Girlz, what about the aliens that we meet in our travels.

With these suits we are so powerful that it is scary. With out God’s guidance we could misuse this awesome power. Two earth days ago(I think) we landed on a planet that was embroiled in a civl war between beings from the same solar system that were fighting over the control of that planet. They had lived side by side for about 8,000 years. But now they are at war over the best use of the planet’s scare resources, they have welcomed us as ‘friends.’

It seems that each wants to use us to help them defeat the other side. I look to God to give us advice as to who to side with. The girls say they look to You and the wisdom of the Girls to decide who will get the hammer and who will get the glove.

In a few days we will be landing in the mist of a raging 4 year war between these two parties. I am ready to defend whatever our leader decides, but I have my reservations about how the decision will be made. I’m sure you know as well as I do that we are the power to be reckoned with on this planet. We will force a peace on our terms.

My belief is that we should get to know who these parties are not just what they propose for the planet. My proposal that we send a party down to spend some time with each group to get to know their religious and social facts along with just what their proposal is for the planet was laughed at.

The Girls said that they were only concerned about what was best for the planet. They are not concerned about who is more alined with God.

Maam

Lillie

Ronda Robotham
Johnson & Wales University

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Jonolan, paging Jonolan, so sorry, dude, did not see your LOL q back to me…and just remember you asked for this.

I’ll give you the brief answer (not!): have you read your ‘Obama’s Race Card’ entry? I’m assuming you wrote it so – uh, I don’t get it, are you so white (I won’t mention your Johnson size) you don’t even see that your last paragraph has a racist leaning to it? & Ludacris’s lyrics are Obama’s fault? L can’t just write music in a free country? It’s no matter to me whether his lyrics pleased Obama or anyone else, he’s an artist and can write/sing/rap what he wants, that doesn’t mean O & L do hang time together as BFF’s.

Why did you attach it to the entry as though it was full of meaning and had some ‘attachment’ to blacks, O & L’s ‘friendship’ or even association, it was a subliminally white racist thing to do, in my opinion (my disclaimer). Were Obama’s people supposed to go in with big sticks ; ) and beat him to pull the tune? What if Dan Fogelberg or some other lamo white guy with no claim of knowing McCant (or met him at a party once) wrote a totally derogatory political song, would that make McCain wrong or responsible for it? I know your answer…

Look, the black community has had little in the way of great leadership since MLK Jr was killed; Louis Farakan, Jessie Jackson, name em’ almost always come off as just too over the top, so enter Obama with his white and black background and you F’in white males still can’t stand it. ‘He relates to blacks too much’ and ‘he’s this and that’ oh please…stop whining.

I got into a chat with a ‘white male repub’ and I imitated O’s groove dance fr the Ellen show while debating the whole thing, he laughed and said, impressive, I’d vote for you based on that, but you think that’s a show of good leadership coming from him or do you think women will just dig the move and vote for him? Inferring that we women would be stupid for doing that…or am I too sensitive?

Let me remind you that men as well as women did that shit with Kennedy, and we did not do that shit for Nixon, he was ugly and had no charisma, hahaha…Americans like to vote for issues and the right guy but I stated it once before on my blog we also like a ‘happening’ guy and a ‘power couple’ bc we like the appearances of having it all also. (this isn’t lost on me, I freakin’ bought in myself for a time, cannot fault anyone else…no tears though, just had to stop…)

So, Jonolan, I’ll say the same thing to you as I said to Mr Man of above debate, O already has got most of the right stuff (more so than Mr McCant in my opinion) down, but I am telling you right now it’d make me proud if every repub wife would smile and get in that booth, shake their groove thang and vote for Obama, I don’t even care if they lie to their threatened white male repug hubby.

We need change in the form of supreme court justices (in for LIFE) and on several other fronts, so you go ahead and promote the other white meat, I’m going for the right man this time, could not care less if he were suddenly purple. Meaningless to me…

By the way, why is it when white males are lost in an argument they resort to, ‘Do you model?’ Yeah, right, nice segue, so you’re getting nowhere with your lame rap so let’s see if I can flatter her into my bed…? Transparent, and oh am I supposed to change my ‘ways’ once you’ve had me, repug? Hahahaha… oh yes, repugnican by injection?? Oh I am slaying myself over here…

I hope that was kind enough, wouldn’t want to just kick your ass and be done, that gives me no pleasure but I think it’s worth it to you to reread your own racist laden content, and if you really don’t see it, Jonolan, then you and your Johnson have my sympathy.

Ciao, Zen Lill

Bonnie L. Vorenberg
ArtAge Publications didn’t.