Liar, liar, pants on fire!

From Claytoonz:

“Trump said, “I’m telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass. They are dying to make a deal. “Please, please, sir, make a deal. I’ll do anything, I’ll do anything, sir.” And then, Trump chickened out again without making any deals. Not one.”

“One nation that did NOT kiss Trump’s ass is China, who retaliated by raising their tariffs on us to 84 percent. Trump retaliated by raising tariffs against China to 145 percent. China is the only nation not spared by Trump’s 90-day delay.”

“What happened to make Trump chicken out with the tariffs wasn’t because he got 75 phone calls from nations ready to negotiate, but phone calls from oligarchs freaking out about the stock market. Trump says they got “yippy,” but nobody was saying, “Yippee.” Maybe something more like, “Yippee-ki-yay, …”

***claytoonz@substack.com

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Are these the actions and words from a supposedly intelligent (president) who knows what he’s doing, or a three year old cartoon character?

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OLWG 412


This week’s prompts are:
walk in radiology
got a job and started putting money away
sick, dizzy and disoriented
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I got a job and started putting money away. My buddies said I was crazy to work there. I felt I could be helpful to people receiving cancer treatments. I walk in radiology department and an older man was looking unsteady on his feet. He was sick, dizzy and disoriented, so I went to grab his arm. “Are you okay, sir? Do you need to sit down for a minute?”

He turned and looked me up and down, and said “Oh, Jimmy, I’m so happy to see you! It’s been a long time.” It turned out Jimmy was his grandson who lives far away from the care center.

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OLWG#412- The Ad

Destructive Dealing Don

From:NPR

The argument that the tariffs are about negotiations fits an image Trump likes to present — that he’s a master dealmaker, NPR’s Danielle Kurtzleben tells Up First. Trump said he’s spoken to multiple world leaders, including from Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. There has been some back and forth between the U.S. and China over retaliation, which has resulted in tariffs for goods from that country now being at least 104%

(Take a look around your home-especially your closets-where are most of your items made?)

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Yesterday, in a brief unsigned order, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to move forward with firing 16,000 probationary federal employees. The decision wasn’t a complete victory, as the court didn’t rule on whether the firings were lawful.

(Lawful? Is it me or are they just following Trump’s orders? This is no “supreme court”.)

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind.

That’s because chip industry insiders widely expected the Trump administration to impose curbs on the H20, the most cutting-edge AI chip U.S. companies can legally sell to China, a crucial market to one of the world’s most valuable companies.

H20 had appeared as if it, too, would be subject to a Trump administration crack down. And tech companies in China responded. In the first three months of the year, leading Chinese tech firms purchased $16 billion worth of H20 chips, The Information reported last week, stockpiling the components in anticipation there would soon be U.S. export controls on the chip.

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What is H20?

Model Explainability

H2O Explainability Interface is a convenient wrapper to a number of explainabilty methods and visualizations in H2O. The main functions, h2o.explain() (global explanation) and h2o.explain_row() (local explanation) work for individual H2O models, as well a list of models or an H2O AutoML object. The h2o.explain() function generates a list of explanations – individual units of explanation such as a Partial Dependence plot or a Variable Importance plot. Most of the explanations are visual – these plots can also be created by individual utility functions outside the h2o.explain()function. The visualization engine used in the R interface is the ggplot2 package and in Python, we use matplotlib. Skip to the Explanation Plotting Functions section to examples of all the visual explanations.

You can read more at:https://www.npr.org/

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W3 – 4-9-25

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*”She’s hurt, she’s crying, do you know what happened?”

“She’s definitely hurt. The trainer is with her.”

*”That was an intentional hit. Did you see that girl ignore her laying there and then she pushed her teammate for no reason at all?”

“They have tried to take her out of the game before. Yes, that pusher got a penalty.”

*”Take her out? This is high school!”

“Some coaches tell the team to be rough, especially on the captains.”

*”That’s horrible. Can you see if she’s alright?”

“She’s not going back in. She’s hurt badly.”

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**This actually happened on Saturday. She has a torn MCL, out for weeks.

W3 Prompt #154: Wea’ve Written Weekly

The Writer’s Workshop

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Things I could get rid of are mostly in storage. One unit is six hours away and has been there for 25 years. I know…ridiculous! I have sentimental feelings for some items stored there, probably don’t remember half of them, and I admit I’m a softie for keeping them. Since I can’t get to them by myself, they’ll probably be there forever.

Certifiable, I know.

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This Week’s Writer’s Workshop Prompts – April 10, 2025

Into the Dark

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A few years ago I saw light most of the time. My family was doing well, and I even received a few emails from my two sons. I’m always cautious in relaying good news because “just when you thought it was safe…” it seems to alert Murphy and he jumps on my shoulder. It sounds like an overused phrase, which it is, but so fitting in my life. Feeling safe in the light will disappear and let dark have its turn. Presently politics, our president and fate of my country is darkness personified.

Star’s shining light so bright

Even in the fog born night

Day light’s clouds appear

Darkness comes – problems near

Through life we have quilts of dreams

Light wins, dark’s only in the seams.

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**quote from Peter Benchley’s “Jaws”

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Friday Fictioneers

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Susan sat in the oncologist’s comfy waiting room chair and turned it a bit so she could look out the window. That’s when she noticed a struggling plant that needed something…water, less light? Susan was not a plant expert or have her daughter’s “green thumb”. The plant seemed to have a great flourishing start in the corner. Susan looked around to see no one was in the room but her. She moved the chair and picked up the stringy plant end and snapped it off near the healthy part. “Everything could use a healthy new start”, she thought to herself.

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11 April 2025