A famed clothing company is filing for bankruptcy today. It's a sign that shoppers aren't finding any interest in American Apparel. I couldn't be any more happier of the news.
I've never bought anything from that company. I've never applied for a job there. I've always had a feeling that they would use discriminating tactics in hiring. AA founder's Dov Charney, a Canadian-American business mogul was fired out the cannon after he was caught up in a sexual harassment and discrimination scandal.
The company once held a gold standard of hiring practice. They didn't want any "trashy Black women" ever hired at their stores. Watch "the ones" who may shoplift from the store. Look for the "right types of customers". You know "the ones" who got money.
AA was having that going on at their stores.
So now the company will focus on trying to bring back customers. AA want to restart the company under Standard General, an American based hedge firm.
The company, which has seen spiraling sales and an ever-sinking stock price since the management upheaval began, proposed a plan that would keep its 130 U.S. stores open and maintain its Los Angeles manufacturing operation, the Times reported. No layoffs were mentioned in the Chapter 11 petition, which was approved by American Apparel’s board, and filed in Delaware, the newspaper said. The plan requires approval by the federal bankruptcy court, it added.
American Apparel’s shares closed at 11 cents each last week.
American Apparel’s brand recognition has far exceeded its sales numbers over the past decade with its “Made in the USA” ethos, provocative advertising, and colorful, scandal-ridden founder Dov Charney.
Charney didn't go quietly. He mounted a civil war within the board.
Notice something about this picture!
The new CEO Paula Schneider is facing mounting criticism. She promised a turnaround. It's a little too late for the turnaround. Schneider is considered inept among the shareholders.
American Apparel saw new legal fees, a workforce moving towards unionization, plummeting sales, and wider losses. It announced layoffs earlier this year, as well as store closures. Questions have been swirling around the company’s ability to pay a major interest payment later this month.
The bankruptcy, if approved, will mean just that. It will also wipe out Charney’s stake in the company, according to the Los Angeles Times. Standard General and other creditors will gain full control of American Apparel if the plan is approved.
“Not having the nuisance lawsuits, not having this massive debt, these are all extremely important things for the company to thrive,” Schneider told the Times in a Sunday interview.
Future's successful year. There's talk about him dating Blac Chyna. She's the ex-wife of washed up rapper Tyga.
After the past comes the present and then the future.
What A Time To Be Alive from Drake and Future came Number 1 on the Billboard Top 200. It pushing over 500,000 copies. It's well on its way to be platinum. The collaboration mixtape/album is the second Number 1 this year for both Drake and Future. This may be the first time Future scores a platinum album.
Drake release If You're Reading This It's Too Late in February and Future released Dirty Sprite 2 (titled DS2) in July.
Future is seeing endless possibilities. Last year, his high profile relationship with Ciara ended. Ciara gave birth to Future's son. Future has five children. He had one of his daughters from my closest cousin.
Rumors are swirling about his love life. There's talk about him dating Tyga's former girl Blac Chyna. The rapper isn't telling the world what he's doing but surely TMZ is agitating the possibility of this happening.
Amber Rose with Blac Chyna
Tyga is having a bad year. He is blowing money fast. He is dating Kylie Jenner, the now 18-year old celebrity agitator and her demands are seriously breaking him. He is apparently no longer on Young Money/Cash Money.
Tyga is feuding with former labelmate Drake. Last year, Tyga called Drake "fake" and "weirdo".
Drake rip him a new one. The boss Bryan "Birdman" Williams had him blackballed.
Blac Chyna is the mother of Tyga's son. She was pissed at Tyga for dumping her for the celebrity agitator. She called Kylie, an underage brat. Now she devotes her time trashing on him online and public. She says that he's a very desperate man who can't even take care of their son.
She and Amber Rose dog on Tyga for being foolish.
Rumor or fact? Future spotted with Blac Chyna.
To add insult to injury, Future may have gotten his girl. Tyga will likely address this relationship.
Future is a notorious cheater. The reason for the Ciara and Future break up was the allegations of cheating.
Future was pissed at Ciara for hitting him up on child support. Ciara started dating Russell Wilson, the NFL quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks. She is allowing their son around Wilson and Future is none too happy about that.
There's talk about a biopic about Def Jam. Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons pioneered the hip-hop label. Jay-Z signed on as an artist and distributed his independent label Roc-A-Fella and RocNation through Def Jam.
Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin created the legendary Def Jam Recordings in 1983.
Now there's talk about a movie being made in regards to it.
Michael B. Jordan and Jonah Hill are considering the roles.
Def Jam was founded by Rick Rubin in his dormitory in Weinstein Hall at New York University.
Russell Simmons joined Rubin shortly after they were introduced to each other by Vincent Gallo.
They would create on of the world's powerful hip-hop labels. The Def Jam umbrella includes Island Records and the legendary Motown Records. Each of these label operate as a separate entity under the Universal Music Group.
The last movie based on the rise of Def Jam was Krush Groove. The movie was a semi-biopic of Russell Simmons rise to media mogul.
Deadline reports that Universal is working to develop a movie based on the 2002 memoir of Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons, “Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God.”
The label that created Run DMC, Public Enemy, EMPD, LL Cool J, Rick Ross, Ludacris, 3rd Bass, The Beastie Boys, 2 Chainz, DMX, Jeezy, Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Iggy Azalea and Jay-Z.
The film would chronicle Simmons’ and Rubin’s creation of the legendary hip hop label that defined rap in the 80s. The pic is expected to “explore how hip hop grew from an underground sensation into a dominant and pivotal voice of culture and change.”
Russell has expressed that he is flattered that Michael B. Jordan is being considered to portray him in the pic, as Global Grind reports.
Insurgent Rep. Jason Chaffetz ordered an investigation into misconduct by the U.S. Secret Service. Some members snooped on him.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is an insurgent lawmaker. He announced his run for Speaker of the House. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) already blew it when he appeared on that annoying conservative agitator's program saying that the Benghazi committee was deliberately destroying Hillary Clinton's bid for president.
Chaffetz is a relatively annoying insurgent lawmaker who thinks the "government is too big".
Yet, Chaffetz gets a paycheck from this "big government". Chaffetz wants to be elected on this cutting government agencies and Planned Parenthood.
Chaffetz is the type of lawmaker who is obsessed with cutting agencies. Remember this is the lawmaker who openly bragged about cutting the State Department's budget. The budget that led to lack of security at embassies and consulates. That led to the Benghazi tragedy. That led to the blame game against President Barack Obama, National Security Adviser Susan Rice and Clinton.
The U.S. Secret Service was going to put the lawmaker's business out there. Joe Clancy, head of the Secret Service has formally apologized to the lawmaker.
The Secret Service put out some embarrassing stuff about the insurgent lawmaker. The lawmaker was none too happy about it. He wants some heads to roll.
Homeland Security released a report recently stating some disgruntled Secret Service members were searching up Chaffetz's files. He once tried to become an agent.
CNN reports that Director Joe Clancy said in a statement he was first aware of the "speculative rumor" of members of his agency discussing Chaffetz's records on March 25. Previously, Clancy said he first heard about the information from the media April 1.
Clancy said when he first heard the information it was "not credible and was not attributed to a source of information or indicative of any action."
An investigation released Wednesday by the Department of Homeland Security found that a top official at the agency encouraged colleagues via email to release records on Chaffetz contained "some information that he might find embarrassing needs to get out."
The Daily Beast shortly thereafter reported that Chaffetz had been rejected in 2003 by the agency he now oversees as a committee chairman.
Clancy said he didn't learn until later that Secret Service employees had accessed the private records of Chaffetz, and leaked that he applied unsuccessfully for a job at the agency.
"I feel it is extremely important to be as accurate as possible regarding my knowledge of this matter and I have personally spoken to Chairman Chaffetz to advise him of the additional information that I provided to the Inspector General," Clancy said.
Pathetic professor telling Black women to give up on Black men as if nonblack men are the saviors of Black women? Please, Mr. Banks, don't comment on a subject that you really don't know about.
The country's tightest controlled lockup. ADX Florence is a federal time out that harbors the most dangerous criminals the world deem an international threat to society. The GITMO detainees may end up here. Same with El Chapo.
A tiny peninsula of Cuba is under U.S. jurisdiction. Guantanamo Bay Naval Base is a U.S. Air and Naval base located in southeastern corner of Cuba.
That military base is under intense controversy. The base is home to a handful of foreign terrorists held at the naval prison.
In President Barack Obama's first term he issued an executive order to have detainees held in federal time out. The Republicans and spineless Democrats in Congress bitched and bemoaned about the danger these detainees posed and stopped in its tracks.
Less than 120 men are located at this federal lock up. The U.N. and many nations condemn this as a unlawful detainment of innocents.
Many of the detainees were planners for the September 11, 2001 attacks. Some are members of the Taliban and Iraq's insurgency.
Well there's talk that if GITMO closes the detainees may head to Florence, CO for federal time out.
Florence is the Supermax federal time out. It's the nation's most toughest iron college. It's considered the Alcatraz of the Rockies. This place holds most notorious criminals and terrorists the government deem too much of burden in public.
Congress will have to change the law before the inmates can be housed in a federal time out.
We'll see how this goes! After all, the inept Republican Congress fears man. They can't allow the families the opportunities to see justice. T
Conservative agitator gives White extremists a bone.
A local agitator in Houston got into a verbal tirade with a black caller. The agitator discussing the Umpqua Community College shooting tragedy.
The racist right has determined that the terrorist was of "mixed race" and he deliberately murdered Christians. Some of the claims are disputed. Again, I don't give a flying fuck about his motives, his race, gender, sexuality, religion, political views, and social standings. What he did was callous murder of innocent people.
The only true fact to this tragedy is the nine killed before the law got him is true.
The junk food media and the agitators are debating the politics of guns and race.
This trash is named Michael Berry. The folks over at Media Matters for America managed to capture the agitator's rancid rant about Black America.
Conservative agitator defends the Confederate flag.
Berry said "black people don't know how to exist without white people to blame their problems on" and "most white people would like to get as far from black people as they possibly could and never have to see another black person" during a call-in segment on his radio show, which he also used to promote October as "White History Month."
Berry asked listeners to call in and list stereotypical things white people like. When one caller said white people "like to talk about black people," Berry responded by describing how blacks and whites talk about one another. "Most white people would like to get as far from black people as they possibly could," said Berry, continuing, "Black people are obsessed with white people... black people don't know how to exist without white people around to blame their problems on."
The names of the victims were released tonight. The Thursday shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseberg, Oregon have once again brought to the forefront the gun debate.
Lucero Alcaraz of Roseburg -- 19 years old.
Quinn Glen Cooper of Roseburg -- 18 years old.
Kim Saltmarsh Dietz of Roseburg -- 59 years old.
Lucas Eibel of Roseburg -- 18 years old.
Jason Dale Johnson of Winston -- 33 years old.
Lawrence Levine of Glide -- 67 years old. Mr. Levine is the teacher.
Sarena Dawn Moore of Myrtle Creek -- 44 years old.
Treven Taylor Anspach of Sutherlin -- 20 years old.
Rebecka Ann Carnes of Myrtle Creek -- 18 years old.
These innocent lives were lost to a terrorist who had mental issues. However, the partisan agitators have found the real person who committed the criminal act. They fingered President Barack Obama for "politicizing" a tragedy.
The first thing that came out the gate was the Douglas County sheriff. He is under heavy criticism after it was revealed that he wrote to Vice President Joe Biden denouncing the gun control proposals.
He once told Biden that his coalition on gun violence is a bunch of bullshit.
Matter of fact, he was a Sandy Hook kookspiracy nut. While he's entitled to his opinion on gun control, he was unaware of the tragedy that would soon hit his town. The city of Roseberg hasn't had this type of tragedy happen since the high school shooting almost 10 years ago.
Douglas Sheriff John Hanlin saw Newtown happen before his eyes. The murder of innocent lives at the hands of a coward at Umpqua Community College. And he's still not budging on gun control.
Like in my earlier post, I've said that I don't give two fucks about the terrorist's race, motives, political views, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion and social life.
The right already said he's of "mixed race" and a supporter of BlackLivesMatter. There's a claim that the terrorist singled out Christians.
The left already said he's a "conservative Republican" and a supporter of radical groups like the Irish Republican Army and a gun aficionado.
None of this stuff matters. What matters is the police's official report and the terrorist's manifesto.
Karma. Oregon sheriff is catching flack for slamming the families of Sandy Hook. Republican sheriff slammed Vice President Joe Biden and the president over gun control.
Obviously, his social media will open the door to why he committed this act.
In my opinion, I see a callous murderer of innocent lives. Nothing more.
I'm trying my best to not blame people for the terrorist's actions.
Like I've said, I wouldn't dream of harming those because of failure.
I own firearms. I don't have no reason to use them in any event. I've been spurned by women. I've lost my great job. I currently work at a job that I can't stand. I drive a crappy car. I've been profiled by law enforcement and I've been robbed by thieves.
Yet despite all the bad luck, I don't go around saying I'm going to kill the world for my failures.
People with mental issues are often the reclusive, the rejected, the spurned, the loner and the forgotten.
It's time to change course. We need a real discussion on gun control!
Looks like the economy is stalling again. With China's economy stalling, global markets have seen a decrease in progress. China's economy is big enough to take everyone down.
U.S. employers added only 142,000 jobs in September keeping the unemployment rate stalled at 5.1%. That release closes out the Summer. Showing that a weak jobs report will result in the usual partisan blame game.
Weak job numbers assure conservatives the talking points saying President Barack Obama's policies have the country going in the wrong direction. Weak job numbers assure liberals the talking points saying the Republican controlled Congress have the country going in the wrong direction.
Average hourly earnings up just 2.2 percent from last year.
Employers decided to halt hiring causing a ripple effect on the economy. For the last two months, wages and hiring fell raising doubts on the economy. Is it strong enough?
With the service and manufacturing industry cutting hours and positions, many are finding it harder to obtain a better job.
Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
U.S. factories are feeling the global chill and shed 9,000 jobs in September after losing 18,000 in August, according to the Labor Department's survey of employers.
The recent pace of job growth should have been enough to push the unemployment rate lower because only around 100,000 new jobs are needed a month to keep up with population growth.
But the jobless rate held steady at 5.1 percent. The unemployment rate is derived from a separate survey of households that showed 350,000 workers dropping out of the labor force last month, as well as a lower level of employment.
Average hourly wages fell by a cent to $25.09 during the month and were up only 2.2 percent from the same month in 2014, pointing to marginal inflationary pressures.
This terrorist massacred innocent lives at a community college in Oregon.
Now as always we point the finger at.....!
The tragic shooting in Oregon at the Umpqua Community College in which now a confirmed 10 people (including the terrorist) were killed. The town of Roseburg, OR is expressing shock and sadness.
The terrorist Chris Harper-Mercer is a man who had issues according to the law.
Witnesses claim that he entered the campus around 10 AM and started firing non-discriminatory.
Some said that he bucked the English teacher and ordered students to the ground. Ordering them up one by one demanding to reveal their religion. He would buck the ones who claim they're Christian.
Some say that he was shooting at multiple buildings. We can't confirm much other than the terrorist killed and didn't seem to care who he killed.
He was quickly killed by the law after he tried to aim at them.
President Barack Obama visibly angry over this. He said that this stuff continues on and its numb to the public.
He was 26 year old sociopath who probably was rejected by society. He claims that he is a non-religious conservative Republican. Some say he was "mixed race". Some say he was a supporter BlackLivesMatter. Others say he wasn't. The friends and family say he was the "nice guy".
The nice guy is the most dangerous person to ever own a firearm.
Oregon's Democratic Governor Kate Brown and President Barack Obama have sent their sympathies to the family and call for the time to pray for the victims. The Douglas County sheriff said that he will never speak the name of this terrorist. He believes that giving him name drops amplifies more extremism.
I don't give a flying fuck about his political views. I don't care who he supports. Regardless of this nonsense, this terrorist murdered innocent people.
The terrorist wanted name recognition. He felt that the more he kills, the more name drops from the junk food media.
Why?
Cause he can't win a date online.
Democratic governor Kate Brown express shock and anger at the terrorist. She promises a swift investigation into the motives of this terrorist.
Yeah, I have this problem too, but damn I'm not going to kill anyone over it.
This terrorist ruined the dreams of many. This event has sparked President Barack Obama to speak out against the inept lawmakers in Congress. Their refusal to pass a reasonable gun control law is partly because of the lobbyist influence on them.
The National Rifle Association is pushing the narrative that more guns are needed to prevent mass shootings. The Republicans in the clown car have express sympathy for the victims. They stop short of telling the public that we need to change course on gun crime.
Gun crime is the number one threat in America.
Almost every day a person has lost their life to firearms. Regardless of how these events happen, a person dies because of a gun violence.
The terrorist's social media comes into question. Of course in the blame game, the junk food media tries to unearth the political leans, the criminal history and the social activities to paint this terrorist as....a political football.
Okay who's going to be blamed for the Umpqua College Shooting?
A) BARACK OBAMA
B) BLACK LIVES MATTER
C) LIBERALS
D) CONSERVATIVES
E) CONGRESS
F) TALK RADIO
G) THE SHOOTER
H) ALL OF THESE ABOVE
If you picked G as your answer, then you're correct. This terrorist deserves all the blame for the actions rendered today.
However, if you're here to place blame on everyone else but the shooter, you're not helping.
I know that the right and the left both point fingers at politicians, media figures and agitators. I'm just as guilty as many here reading this. I can tell you that I'm not a fan of conservatives. Matter of fact, I can't stomach them. I've listened to them. I've read from their blogs. I've looked at the comments from internet trolls and pseudo commentators.
The moment the president spoke about the routine of mass shootings, I tuned into that annoying conservative agitator's right wing carnival. Right out the gate, he blabs about the president "politicizing" a tragedy. Well this would be the 15th time in his seventh year as president.
It shouldn't even be this many. That network and conservative agitators running with the "hatred of Christians" meme. Once again, there's no confirmation of what the motives are.
Also, the conservative Craigslist went down the "I" count and it was front page.
Matter of fact, the remarks in comment section have been utterly nasty. Not only to the president but to the staff and students of Umpqua Community College for not allowing guns on campus.
When it turned out that the terrorist was a conservative Republican, the shuck and awe became denial and political catnip for the left. Matter of fact, Jim Hoft's Craptopia is trying to debunk the claims.
He said that the social media profile of the terrorist is a bogus copy and paste from liberals.
See if it was a Muslim or even a Black man, Hoft would run like the bullshit he is trying to link everyone and anything to the left.
Rather than place the blame solely on the insurgents (i.e. The Tea Party, Republicans and conservatives), I rather place the blame on America.
Exiting with hands over head.
I blame the country for allowing this constantly to happen. I blame this country for neglecting our civil duties to protect lives here and abroad.
We have country that has over 145 gun incidents since Sandy Hook. About 45 school shootings since Sandy Hook. Many of these events got covered by the junk food media. Some haven't.
We have heard shootings of news reporters, movie goers, innocent bystanders, and campuses of schools.
Over 8,500 shootings (assuring death) this year alone. At average 43.2 people are shot a day.
Over 2,300 people have been injured by firearms. That means 5 out of 10 people were killed by firearms every hour.
We don't have the names of all the victims yet. I would love to show my condolences to them.
Me and S. Baldwin seen it happen far too often. It's a part of the ongoing cycle of violence.
The president is right on this. We've grown numb to these events.
Because after a few days, we'll be focused on another tragedy or another political football for the agitators to debate on.
Those families deserve answers and government that can solve them. Saying that you believe in the Second Amendment and you believe that laws aren't going to stop violence is bullshit.
Some get the opportunity to hug their children and parents. Others will have the tragic opportunity to bury their family member.
I own firearms. I don't have no reason to use them in any event. I've been spurned by women. I've lost my great job. I currently work at a job that I can't stand. I drive a crappy car. I've been profiled by law enforcement and I've been robbed by thieves.
Yet despite all the bad luck, I don't go around saying I'm going to kill the world for my failures.
People with mental issues are often the reclusive, the rejected, the spurned, the loner and the forgotten.
And yet, we allow them access to firearms.
Developments continue as they unfold.
World News Today send our condolences those lost in this senseless tragedy.
The state of Oregon and America mourns the lost of lives in a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College.
World News Today send our condolences to the victims of this horrific tragedy. There was an unknown amount of victims in this shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseberg, Oregon.
I can't say how many victims died in this tragedy. But the causalities are high and it's expected to be one of the worst events in modern history. The terrorist was captured by the law. Not determined if the law put the threat down.
Around 10pm (PST) the first 9-1-1 call was made from inside the campus, stating the terrorist was walking through several campus buildings, shooting people indiscriminately.
The terrorist was pronounced dead after engaging responding police officers in a shootout. Most of the shootings occurred inside at least two buildings.
There has been over 142 school shootings since Newtown, CT. This would be the umpteenth mass shooting tragedy in the seven years since Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States.
President Barack Obama has had enough of this. He just spoke tonight on the today's tragedy.
Like I've said, there's a shooting everyday. Gun crime is the number one threat facing this country. It beats terrorism and Ebola. There hasn't been an attack on our soil by a foreign terrorist since 9/11.
The Republican controlled Congress is extremely inept. They haven't got the balls to pass any legislation that could stop these ridiculous mass shootings. They rather take away American's healthcare, deport immigrants, spy on mosques or get in between a woman's legs.
The terrorist is a 26 year old man from Oregon.
No one in this Republican-controlled Congress will say enough is enough. They're afraid of the National Rifle Association. They are afraid of that network and that old fart Limbaugh. They are afraid of a worthless politician running for president.
They will spend time deflecting the issue. They will say that the president is always politicizing a tragedy. Concern troll will find some way to say that if "we only had more guns" and "liberal laws allowed this".
So who's gonna take the blame for this tragedy?
A) BARACK OBAMA
B) BLACK LIVES MATTER
C) MUSLIMS
D) NRA
E) CONGRESS
F) THE SHOOTER
G) ALL OF THESE ABOVE
If you picked F, you're correct. The shooter deserves all the blame. But if you decide on picking you're picking the other choices, then you're part of the problem.
Terrorism at Oregon college campus.
This terrorist may have posted on social media.
There are reports that the terrorist may have warned about the shooting on the anonymous message board 4Chan.
CNN is reporting that police are investigating whether the posts were connected to the shooting.
The post Wednesday night at 7:19 p.m. local time said “Some of you guys are alright. Don’t go to school tomorrow if you live in the northwest.”
Witnesses said the gunman told the students in a classroom to stand up and state their religion before he began firing away, the News-Review, a local newspaper, reports.
The terrorist was named Chris Harper Mercer, 26 years old.
We will keep you posted on the latest developments as it occurs.
