Sigh: U.S. Navy Officer Jailed For Accepting Lewd Bribes

Cpt.Daniel Dusek is going to prison for 46 months. On top of that, he was ordered to pay a $70k fine and $30k in restitution to the Navy. His crimes: accepting luxury hotel rooms, meals, and prostitutes in exchange for making sure ships docked in certain ports operated by Glenn Defence Marine Asia. This Dusek rascal drank alcoholic beverages and accepted other ‘gifts’ that is said to amount in the tens of millions.

At the center of the scandal are several other nefarious characters that I do not feel like mentioning at the present time. Just know that Cpt. Dusek, at one point, was Deputy Director of Operations of the US 7th Fleet.

The height of Dusek’s crime wave occurred when he had the gall to park the USS Abraham Lincoln at Port Klang, Malaysia, which cost the U.S. gov’t $1.6 million.

“It is truly unimaginable to the court that someone in your position with the United States Navy would sell out based on what was provided to you – hotel rooms, entertainment and the services of prostitutes.”

“Captain Dusek’s betrayal is the most distressing because the navy placed so much trust, power and authority in his hands,” said US Attorney Laura Duffy.
“This is a fitting sentence for a man who was so valuable that his conspirators labeled him their ‘golden asset’,” she added.

No word on whether Cpt. Dusek will be enjoying the luxuries of Asian prostitutes in his new prison cell for the next 46 months.

Futures are higher by 62, so ignore everything I am about to tell you. A private survey in China showed just 22% of firms expanded their workforces in the first quarter. Moreover and importantly so, a paltry 33% of firms reported capital expenditure growth.

The quarterly survey of over 2,200 firms by China Beige Book International (CBB) also showed less hiring by companies, marking the second consecutive quarter of downward pressure on employment as executives scale back borrowing and spending.

Only 33 percent of firms reported capital expenditure growth in the first quarter, the lowest in the survey’s five-year history.

The share of firms reporting capex growth has fallen by over 40 percent since the second quarter of 2014.

“It’s unclear whether the economy as a whole weakened again in the first quarter. But policy challenges appear to have grown, and Beijing therefore may perceive the economy as weaker,” survey report authors Leland Miller and Shehzad Qazi wrote.

Nothing is unclear about this report. Reported GDP by the Chinese government is a farce. Their economy is slowing on a scale unseen in a generation.

Back to buying your e-mini futures. My apologies.

The human race is a scourge, a disease, thrusted upon the earth.

PEZ Candy abruptly cancelled their annual Easter egg hunt Saturday morning after parents broke the rules and turned what should have been a fun activity for children “into a mess,” the company said in a statement.

“We sincerely tried our best to create a fun, free activity for everyone to enjoy. Due to the actions of a few, the good intent quickly turned into a mess.” PEZ Candy USA wrote in response to a critical comment on its Facebook page. “We only wanted to do good for the local community.”

PEZ said it had over 9,000 eggs on three separate fields, designated for different age groups. Each had a specific start time, but parents rushed onto the fields before the allotted times.

“Somebody pushed me over and take my eggs and it’s very rude of them and they broke my bucket,” 4-year-old Vincent Welch told NBC Connecticut.

PEZ said they were powerless to stop the parents who rushed the field with complete disregard for the setup or start times. After the egg hunt was effectively ruined for the children, the company did their best to pass out candy to as many children at the event as possible, to make sure every kid got something.

“We made efforts to get everyone something before they left and passed out tons of candy and coupons and the front entry and tried to make the best of an unfortunate situation,” PEZ wrote. “This was not something created to frustrate or make people angry.”

Fucking ridiculous. No words.

Although I am not a religious man, I do observe the Christian holidays, having been brought up in a Catholic household, with traditional Italian-American grandparents who made sure Easter dinner was served at the ridiculous hour of 3pm.

In recent weeks, I’ve likely offended half of the readership with political rantings. Without fail, I get drawn into these meaningless acts of pseudo democracy every four years. Just know, Le Fly isn’t a zealot and couldn’t care less about political leanings. I live to criticize, ostracize and menace people, so please take my rants with a grain of salt.

Before we get into the mud of every day Wall Street filth, I want to wish all of you and your families a very pleasant Easter Sunday. Spring is officially upon us and with it debilitating allergies. Enjoy that too, friendo.

Easter bunnies are supremely creepy. The thought of a man sized rabbit sneaking into your house to bestow sweets to your children is beyond twisted. Yet, as a people, we accept this lunacy as something to look forward to. That’s how I view a prospective Hillary Clinton presidency.

Back to cooking my ham (extra allah u akbar (sic)).

As a church going atheist, I found this movie to be over the top, almost incendiary.

When this film was released in 2004, the homosexual Hollywood elite went apeshit and boycotted it. That was perfectly all right with Mel “fuck jews” Gibson, as he financed it himself and banked so much coin on this shit, he retired from Hollywood with two middle fingers in the air.

I believe he netted $300 million on this film.

The contents of the movie are insane and will make you pissed off at all of Jesus’ enemies, which is probably why Jews really didn’t want this movie to be seen.

In a politically correct world, this movie was and still is toxic for mass consumption. It bordered on torture porn and was generally a waste of time.

Nevertheless, I am certain religious folks will enjoy the story and come out the other end of this movie even more fanatical than when they started.

The world is going to hell and Tay is going to be at the vanguard of our extinction.

The Microsoft bean-counters apologized today for its super racist and retarded teenager Twitter AI, dubbed Tay. She went off the reservation and started to praise the likes of Hitler, exclaiming we’d build a wall, and also partake in a sundry of genocides–mostly geared towards minorities.

All very funny, until Tay’s AI is embedded in a T-3000 man exterminating robot.

“We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed Tay,” Peter Lee, corporate vice president at Microsoft Research, said in a blog post Friday.

The company will bring Tay back online once it’s confident it can better anticipate malicious activities, he said. “A coordinated attack by a subset of people exploited a vulnerability in Tay. Although we had prepared for many types of abuses of the system, we had made a critical oversight for this specific attack,” Lee said, without elaborating.

“As we developed Tay, we planned and implemented a lot of filtering and conducted extensive user studies with diverse user groups,” Lee said. “We stress-tested Tay under a variety of conditions, specifically to make interacting with Tay a positive experience.”

“We will take this lesson forward as well as those from our experiences in China, Japan and the U.S.,” Lee said. “Right now, we are hard at work addressing the specific vulnerability that was exposed by the attack on Tay.”

“We will remain steadfast in our efforts to learn from this and other experiences as we work toward contributing to an Internet that represents the best, not the worst, of humanity,” Lee said in his Friday blog post.

Sorry for the upcoming insulting tweets. Please send complaints to the eggheads at Microsoft.

The two brothers who killed dozens and injured and maimed hundreds of people in the Brussels attack had footage in their apartment from a camera hidden outside of the home of the director of a Belgian nuclear power plant.

Their plan was to attain radioactive materials and then use it in a bomb, in a  widespread assault against a highly populated area.

The footage showed the nuclear boss’s comings and goings and prompted investigators to conclude the terrorists “could have put national security in danger like never before”, the newspaper La Derniere Heure reported.

An official at the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control told The Times: “When you start filming someone in the way they did, the logical conclusion is that they wanted to abduct that person and to obtain radioactive material.”

Unreal.

Obama, talking to youth in Argentina, talks up the virtues of Cuba and how there is little difference between communism and capitalism. This is comic relief.

What sort of fuckery is this? According to people ‘in the know’, multiple vultures are seeking financing help from Microsoft to bid for Yahoo. Such entities include Verizon, Comcast and At&t.

Private equity parties who are descending upon the wounded Marissa Mayer are Bain Capital Partners, KKR & Co. and TPG Capital.

Why would Verizon, Comcast or At&t need Microsoft to make a bid for Yahoo?

I can’t believe they titled this ‘better than expected.’  One point four percent is an abysmal growth rate. Please.

More importantly, profits dropped by 3.1%, the most in 7 years.

Stripping out inventories and trade, the two most volatile components of GDP, so-called final sales to domestic purchasers increased at a 1.7 percent rate, compared with a previously estimated 1.4 percent pace.

Friday’s report also offered a first look at corporate profits for the period. Pre-tax earnings declined 7.8 percent, the most since the first quarter of 2011, after a 1.6 percent decrease in the previous three months. The estimate of nonfinancial corporate profits was reduced by a $20.8 billion settlement, considered a transfer to the government, between BP and the U.S. after the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Profits in the U.S. dropped 3.1 percent in 2015, the most since 2008. Earnings are being weighed down by weak productivity, rising labor costs and the plunge in energy prices.

“If profits remain depressed, the prospects for capex and hiring will come under greater pressure,” Sam Bullard, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Securities LLC in Charlotte, North Carolina, wrote in a research note.

Corporate outlays for equipment declined at a 2.1 percent annualized pace, subtracting 0.12 percentage point, the Commerce Department said.

The median forecast was for a gain of 1%. Now in the rational world, these numbers put the Fed on ice. But since they’re crazy and view things through a distorted lens, they might just view this as a hot number, one that calls for action.