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It was weirder than that, even. The guy, who had a plausible Texas drawl, was very chatty and eventually revealed that he had previously lived in Minnesota. Oh, I asked, where? To which he replied, "St. Paul," then added, "actually, a St. Paul suburb, Roseville."

"I live in Roseville," I practically shouted. I asked him what street he lived on and he said, "William Street," a very short street that my family lived on for years.  We were able to determine by house numbers that his home was directly across the street from ours.

I was trying today to remember the name of the shop we visited and Google led me to the more recent one, but I think you are right, it was Hill Country we stopped at.

And SALT LICK BBQ, omg ...

Recalling the Wimberley Guitar Co. store and our visit to Jamie Kinscherff's shop.

Excerpt from CNBC:



Former President Donald Trump on Sunday falsely accused his November election opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, of using AI technology to fabricate images of the crowd sizes at her rallies, amplifying an unfounded conspiracy to explain the strong enthusiasm for the new Democratic ticket.

“Has anyone noticed that Kamala CHEATED at the airport? There was nobody at the plane, and she ‘A.I.‘d’ it, and showed a massive ‘crowd’ of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST!” the Republican presidential nominee wrote on Truth Social.


Trump was referring to an image of a large crowd gathered on the tarmac in Michigan on Aug. 7, cheering for Harris as she stepped out of Air Force Two. His comments parroted a false conspiracy that is being spread online by MAGA Republican commentators, some of whom have previously been caught promoting misinformation.

The Harris campaign replied that it is “an actual photo of a 15,000-person crowd for Harris-Walz in Michigan.” CNBC also licensed a Getty Images photo for the story that matches the photos being circulated.

The Harris campaign also used the opportunity to point out the contrast between Harris’ campaign schedule over the past week and Trump’s: “Trump has still not campaigned in a swing state in over a week... Low energy?”

The false allegation from Trump lands in the middle of an election where huge advances in AI tools have eased the process of spreading misinformation. This makes it more difficult than ever for voters to discern reality from internet conspiracy.

It would also appear that a RAM pickup ate their Subaru.

Kamala and Uncle Timmy stopped at this place for takeout tamales after their big rally yesterday:

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The place is known for its huge conchas, a specialty I didn't even know about until meandering around their site and then Googling.

Another one was "The last time I was in France, I couldn't believe how much Munich had changed."

Now this (Strib excerpt):

As Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz vaulted to the national ticket this week as Kamala Harris’ running mate, a curious claim started circulating on social media: that the Democrat had recently redesigned the state’s flag to look like the Somali National Flag.

The claim, which has also been promoted in recent days by conservative podcast host Joe Rogan, originates with misinformation that first appeared late last year as a 13-member commission was in the midst of a major redesign of the Minnesota flag and seal.

“Kamala Harris’s VP choice, Tim Walz, is the governor who just changed the Minnesota flag so it could resemble the Somalian flag,” posted Texas resident Philip Anderson on X. “This man has absolutely ZERO LOYALTY to our country and he says that socialism is a good thing.”

But Walz was not a member of that commission, nor did he have any role in selecting a final design that would become the basis for the new state flag.

The work was all done by a commission of graphic designers, Native leaders and other community members created last year by the Minnesota Legislature, which was responding to decades of criticism that the imagery on the state flag and seal is problematic.

The original state seal, which was at the center of the flag, showed a white settler plowing a field in the foreground while a Native American man on horseback rode into the sunset, appearing to leave the land. Flag designers also pushed for a new look for years, noting Minnesota’s busy design looked like more than a dozen other state flags and was hard to decipher from a distance.

While Walz signed a broader bill that included language to create the commission, their work was done independent of the executive branch and the Legislature. They had four months late last year and a budget of $35,000 to redesign both emblems, enlisting the public for ideas for a new flag and seal.

The winning flag design came from Andrew Prekker, a 24-year-old Luverne, Minn., resident who was one of more than 2,000 Minnesotans who created alternatives for the commission.