FEATURED POST: You Define Your Success a Writer

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The old me reared its fearful head just by reading the title of Dave McClure’s blog, “Late Bloomer, Not a Failure,” because that is how I had labelled myself.  Success, and a very specific image of it, was an obsession and secretly I feared I was a failure who had made regrettable life choices. I knew I wasn’t and have been on a journey to have my mind meet my heart with that knowledge but it didn’t really change until a little over a year ago.

My other hoody is Tom Ford. (this executive hoody is for sale by Betabrand. Really.)

I live between two worlds which both have heavily skewed versions of reality: Hollywood and Silicon Valley. Both are in love with youth and with bling. Don’t let the hoodies of Palo Alto fool you. What this creates is also a false sense of success, since it is…

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FIND A GRAVE: Stephanie “Madame Queen” St. Clair

Birth: 1886, Martinique
Death: 1969
Harlem
New York County (Manhattan)
New York, USA
Madame Queen was a female gang leader who ran numerous criminal enterprises in Harlem, New York during the 1920’s & 30’s. Born in Martinique, an island in the East Caribbean in 1886, she arrived in the United States via Marseilles, France in 1912. Along with her chief enforcer Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, she took on Dutch Schultz for control of the Harlem numbers racket. When Shultz was shot & mortally wounded in 1935, Madame Queen sent a telegram to his hospital bed which read, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap.” The incident made headlines across the nation. By the 1940s, “Bumpy” Johnson had took control in Harlem and St. Clair became less involved in the numbers game. She died quietly in Harlem in 1969. She was portrayed by Novella Nelson in the 1984 film “Cotton Club” & by Cicely Tyson in the 1997 film “Hoodlum”.  (bio by: Terrance Crooms)

Burial:
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum
Manhattan
New York County (Manhattan)
New York, USA
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Originally Created by: Terrance Crooms
Record added: Aug 26, 2012
Find A Grave Memorial# 96066386

Aryan Nation Prison Gang Takes Credit For The Bloody Attack That Leaves Boston Bomber Paralyzed?

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Infamous Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 21, was the victim of an “unfortunate accident” at Ft. Devens Detention Center.

Let me just insert this small disclaimer, I am not sure if this story is authentic in any way.

According to this article on Empire News, members of the Aryan Nation, a white supremacists gang within the same detention center as the ‘Boston bomber’ have taken credit for a bloody attack which left him unable to possibly walk again. The weapon? A banana peeler.

A member of the Aryan Nation claims that the attack did the American people justice. He also makes claims that “other gangs wanted him” but that they outbid them in a bounty supposedly held by prison guards. He then goes on to say that he and his fellow gang members were given sentence REDUCTIONS for following through with the grisly attack.

 The story definitely seems a little “questionable” based on some of the statements made here.  To my knowledge, there was no major news coverage of the story. I believe that if a story of this magnitude were true, everybody involved would be plastered across the breaking news scroll, guards included. The media loves a sensational story, no doubt CNN or Huffington would have a field day with this. Based on stories I have heard, a lot “stranger” things happen behind those hardcore prison walls. Violence would seem to be fairly typical, after all prison is considered the “concrete jungle”.

 That being said, I am kind of prone to believe this “news” reeks of total fabrication –but I’ll let you be the judge (and jury) of that.

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