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Does anyone really believe the conspiracy theory about Hillary and drugs?

In the 1990s, some nuts published a video called “The Clinton Chronicles” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Chronicles) wherein they alleged that Bill Clinton, while governor of Arkansas, oversaw and empowered cocaine smuggling into Arkansas. It also alleges that several people who worked both under Bill and with Hillary in the Rose Law Firm were co-conspirators.

Hummm, let’s see..Was she busted for taking steroids? I new there was something different about her..him..her..!!??

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Something I Said-Papyrus Publishing, Minnesota’s Only Black-Owned Book Publishing Company

Something I Said BOOKS | Minnesota publisher works to deflect “mis-education”
Dwight Hobbes, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Anyone can talk community empowerment; Papyrus Publishing walks the walk. The Twin Cities-based small press, Black owned and operated, has as its mission to keep African American literature in front of readers. At the helm is Anura Si-Asar, an unassuming 30-something brother with crystal-clear focus. In the mid-1990s he and a handful of other professionals took a stand against what he calls “the impact of being mis-educated in this country via the public schools, the media and some of our own institutions.” The vehicle: Papyrus Publishing, Inc. Its catalog lists impressive offerings. Magnificent Dreams: An Autobiography of Colonel John E. Hazelwood is a memoir that serves as the family torch passing from generation to generation. Hazelwood speaks of his heritage beginning with his great grandmother leaving a southern plantation for a better life in Ohio. John reminisces about his childhood, college education and the years it took to go from ROTC to becoming a highly decorated, full-bird colonel in the U.S. Army. Shegitu Kiflom’s My African Heritage tells the story of a six year-old Ethiopian-Eritrean girl living in the U.S. Another product from Papyrus Publishing is the Metu Neteru Card Set. It’s deck of 40 cards marketed by Papyrus, copyrighted by the International Khepran Institute to help introduce students studying the language of Kemet (Ancient Egypt) to the philosophy of life encoded by the hieroglyphics. The company’s newest titles are Arthur McWatt’s Crusaders for Justice (published in partnership with the St. Paul NAACP) and Mahmoud El-Kati’s The Hiptionary: A Survey of African American Speech Patterns, a crisp study of Black language in America. Si-Asar takes a refreshing approach. Instead of authors dictating to Papyrus Publishing how the end product will look from editing to book cover, he says, “Essentially it is a collaboration between writer and publisher.” El-Kati appreciates the relationship of mutual respect. “It feels good. It’s progressive, democractic, empowering,” he says. Mahmoud El-Kati has taken a nod from Gwendolyn Brooks. Just as Brooks rejected major publishers to work with Third World Press in Chicago, El-Kati recently ducked a big-time house’s offer in order to stay with Papyrus Publishing. This seamlessly dovetails with Si-Asar’s guiding principle for the enterprise. It’s about putting the community first. “For thousands of years,” he reflects, “Africans along the Nile River used the papyrus plant to make the world’s first paper, on which all sacred documents were written upon. The papyrus stood as a symbol of prosperity. “We have thoughtfully selected the name Papyrus Publishing because we understand that our commitment to the community is to reemerge and reconnect knowledge back to them.” He adds, “Papyrus is a community publishing entity that emerged out of the community’s need to document and inscribe our experiences upon the hearts of our future generations to come, as our ancestors have inscribed us with theirs on papyrus and on the walls of hundreds of miraculous buildings of ancient Egypt and Sudan.” To be sure, Si-Asar has a great deal more than good intentions going for Papyrus Publishing. Look at his credentials: He has been on the board of BEST Academy the past two years, worked with Harvest Preparatory School from 1991 to 1997 and taught in the Minneapolis Public Schools’ Project Kofi. Accordingly, his program to counter propaganda has an experienced backbone. Further, Si-Asar has involved himself in the development of African children since 1988 at African American Academy for Accelerated Learning (AAAL) in Minneapolis (1988, 1989) and started the college youth development program Kijana through Inner City Youth League in St. Paul (1988-1990). He has studied and worked with the likes of El-Kati, Katie McWatt, Nathaniel A. Khaliq, Rose McGee, Mary K. Boyd and Kwame McDonald. Through the University of Minnesota, he has degrees in African/African American studies (B.A.) and Special Education/Educational Psychology (M.Ed.), and he has studied with professors John Wright, Rose Brewer, Frank Wilderson and Josie Johnson. Si-Asar has attended the International Khepran Institute and studied community and civilization building within African communities. Currently, he coordinates Imhotep Science Academy and the Imhotep Science Fair programs of the Powderhorn Phillips Cultural Wellness Center. Suffice to say, Anura Si-Asar is serious about community empowerment and adept at applying himself to that dedication. Papyrus Publishing Inc. is at 7409 Edgewood Avenue North, Brooklyn Park, MN, 55428. Contact them at 763-560-0760 or PapyrusPublishing@msn.com.
About the Author

Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archived at
www.tcdailyplanet.net/profiles/dwight-hobbes. Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader’s Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune and Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary column Something I Said).  He’s spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio’s UNOBSTRUCTED and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column “Hobbes In The House” in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks to domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter – produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues – produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can’t Always Sometimes Never Tell – produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst – produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright.  Hobbes spoke on the panel “Farewell To August Wilson” at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single “Atlanta Children” (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny’s Castaways and My Fathers Place.   He fronted the Boston blues band Midlight.  In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony’s Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille’s Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. www.myspace.com/dwighthobbesmusic

Can someone help me understand the Catholic church’s belief in regard to the Virgin Mary?

I’ve been protestant all my life, thought I was pretty well educated, but I just read something on a brochure that blew me away. It was published by Rose Publishing online, and is a comparison of the tenets of several denominations. This is what shocked me, only because I have never heard it before in my entire life: “Mary was conceived by her mother immaculately (free of original sin), remained a virgin perpetually, and was assumed bodily into heaven.” Where can I find these statements in scripture?
BTW, I posted this question because I am very curious about religious traditions, and about to embark upon a curriculum in Christian studies. I’m amazed by the flurry of answers I got so quickly, but more by the undercurrent of negativity in some of them! I guess that’s why they say one should avoid discussing religion and politics!

From a historical standpoint, in regards to the perpetual virginity of the virgin mother, no one believed that she had other children until the last two hundred years or so due to widespread mistranslation of Scripture and the non-scriptural practice of Sola Scriptura using improper hermeneutics.

When studying Scriptures as a body of work, in context pointing towards the atonement of humanity there is no other reasonable conclusion that one can come to other than the fact that St. Mary had no other children than Jesus. Also the historical and the Biblical accounts confirm that St. Mary was forever virgin. St. Joseph was not chosen as a husband in the normal sense but as the protector of St. Mary’s virginity. He was a much older man, likely a widower, chosen by God for this purpose. Let us look at the verses in question….

(Mat 12:46 DRB) As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speak to him.

(Mat 12:47 DRB) And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee.

(Mat 12:48 DRB) But he answering him that told him, said: Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?

(Mat 12:49 DRB) And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren.

(Mat 12:50 DRB) For whosoever shall do the will of my Father, that is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

The Greek noun used here is adelphoi which means brother and it is spelled exactly the same way both times it occurs in these Scriptures. One should note also that there is no such thing in Koine Greek grammar as a familial form of adelphoi. Now it is important to note that the language used here is in itself a translation from Aramaic for adelphoi used in the familiar way. In Aramaic there is no word which would distinguish ones biological brothers from other relatives such as cousins or even step brothers or sisters. The more acceptable term in proper translation would probably be something like brethren instead of brother. When Christ spoke he also used the Aramaic equivalent to adelphoi in the Greek, in a non-familiar sense when he said the following in verse 50, “he is my brother”.

As you can see with proper exegesis there is nothing in these verses to support the theory that St. Mary was not forever virgin and that she had other children besides Jesus. Please note that in all of Scriptures, no one is specifically called a child of St. Mary other than Jesus.

Please note the following:

(Mat 1:20 DRB) But while he thought on these things, behold the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, saying: Joseph, son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost.

(Mat 1:21 DRB) And she shall bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus. For he shall save his people from their sins.

(Mat 1:22 DRB) Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spoke by the prophet, saying:

(Mat 1:23 DRB) Behold a virgin shall be with child, and bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

St. Mary was a virgin when she conceived and was a virgin after giving birth.

(Luk 1:26 DRB) And in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from God into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth,

(Luk 1:27 DRB) To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David: and the virgin’s name was Mary.

(Luk 1:28 DRB) And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.

(Luk 1:29 DRB) Who having heard, was troubled at his saying and thought with herself what manner of salutation this should be.

(Luk 1:30 DRB) And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God.

(Luk 1:31 DRB) Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Jesus.

(Luk 1:32 DRB) He shall be great and shall be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in the house of Jacob for ever.

(Luk 1:33 DRB) And of his kingdom there shall be no end.

(Luk 1:34 DRB) And Mary said to the angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man?

(Luk 1:35 DRB) And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

The verses preceding show that she intended to remain a virgin when she said to the angel Gabriel, “I know not man”. Please notice in the following verses in St. John’s account of the crucifixion of St. Mary being put into the care of St. John. If she had other children and especially other male children the Jewish tradition would be that she would have been cared for by them. Jesus knowing the hardship of a childless widow placed her in good hands with St. John.

(Joh 19:26 DRB) When Jesus therefore had seen his mother and the disciple standing whom he loved, he saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son.

(Joh 19:27 DRB) After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour, the disciple took her to his own.

Last of all there is the difficulty of history and Sacred Tradition to overcome, which has always, without exception, called her the Blessed Virgin.

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

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