“Gay” sheep made their fashion debut on the runway in NYC as the “I Wool Survive” collection premiered, featuring pieces made from the wool of alleged male sexually-oriented sheep. The event aims to promote a German farmer and his plight to rescue “homosexual” sheep. Michael Stücke, who is gay, oversees a flock of these rescued rams at an organization he dubbed Rainbow Wool. The rescue’s website claims that as many as 8% of rams are sexually oriented toward other males, which leads to them being slaughtered for being non-procreative. “Sadly, gay rams are often sent to slaughter because they can’t fulfill a farm’s ‘breeding role.’ We rescue them before that happens, giving them a safe home where they can live and love freely,” the Rainbow Wool website says, touting their inhabitants as “the world’s first gay flock of sheep.” The “I Wool Survive” fashion collection was created to advance this cause and bring more attention to the issue. Celebrity designer Michael Schmidt teamed up with the gay dating app, Grindr, to create the collection and host a fashion show at the Altman Building in Manhattan on November 13.  Stücke said in a press release that the 36-piece collection “proves that being gay is part of nature itself.” “The wool from these rams isn’t just material — it’s a message spun from animals who live freely and are loved,” he added.  Grindr’s senior vice president of brand marketing, Tristan Pineiro, explained why the company was interested in attaching its name to the collection. “It’s a great, feel-good story, but there’s also a message at the heart of it,” the marketing exec said, per The Washington Post. “It’s not just a fluffy story.” “The sheep are a kind of metaphor for all of us,” Pineiro went on. “Because they’re gay, they get discarded. They get thrown aside because they don’t conform to what they’re supposed to.”

Republicans in California have had a notoriously uphill battle when it comes to getting elected in recent years. However, the Democratic field in the 2026 gubernatorial race continues to grow larger, and it could spell trouble for the party with the state’s unusual “top two” primary system. Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) entered the race this week, with fellow Democrats including former Rep. Katie Porter, former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond being among the long list of people in the race, with former Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco being the two major Republican names in the race. If the field does not thin out before the June 2 primary election, it could result in an uncomfortably close primary victory margin for the Democrat who makes it to the top two – or an even seemingly unlikely scenario of both Hilton and Bianco advancing to the general. Primary polling has shown both of the Republicans alternating between first and third place spots, depending upon the poll, with Porter usually in coming in second. The field is so large that the margins between the candidates are fairly narrow. The former congresswoman’s campaign has been marred by controversy following a botched viral interview with CBS News and a Politico report of a video of her telling a staffer to “Get out of my f***ing shot!” It’s unclear if the Democrats will consolidate, given that many of the Democrats in the race took a shot at Porter amid the controversy, and she also took aim at billionaire climate change activist Tom Steyer’s entrance into the race earlier this week. “I don’t think it’s impacted my race. I think all along we truly have believed that we are going to be number one in this race anyway. And so really, it’s going down to number two. Honestly, what we’re seeing is complete disarray in the Democrat Party,” Bianco told The Daily Wire. He further added that “yes, it’s very possible with the right campaign that two Republicans end at the top,” saying that he’s heard from moderate Democrats wanting to back his campaign over the issue of public safety. “I mean, my starting point is that I’m very confident not just that I’m gonna get into the top two for the general election, but I’m actually gonna win this race, because California is just so sick of what’s going on,” Hilton told The Daily Wire, noting that the state of the race “reflects the arrogance and corruption and entitlement of the years of one-party rule.” “These Democrats assume that if they can just get into the top two, they’re gonna win,” he added. Right now, DailyWire+ annual memberships are fifty percent off during our Black Friday sale. Join now at dailywire.com/blackfriday. “I’ve heard this speculation that there may be two Republicans in the top two. We’ll see, but I’m just fighting to make sure I’m in the top two,” he later added, saying that issues like cutting taxes and lowering gas prices have been sticking points of his campaign. There’s even been statewide races in California where only Democrats have made it to the top two, such as Kamala Harris and Loretta Sanchez in the 2016 Senate race. Outgoing Governor Gavin Newsom has yet to endorse a replacement, and Sen. Alex Padilla notably decided against running for the position. Earlier this month, Proposition 50, which would add five Democrat-favored congressional seats to its map for the next three election cycles, passed by a wide margin, but Hilton says it should not be considered an indicator in the gubernatorial race. “In the end, the Prop. 50 campaign wasn’t really about the lives of Californians and how they’re being made so difficult by the Democrats,” he said. “I’m guaranteeing you, there’s going to be more, it’s not gonna stop here,” Bianco said regarding the pool of Democrats in the race.

The fate of the Trump administration — and perhaps Republicans in Congress as well — is tied to American sentiment about the economy. And right now, nobody knows what the hell is going on or which way is up. According to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday night: Stocks surrendered gains and closed sharply lower after a whirlwind day of trading that began after Nvidia posted strong results. The Nasdaq composite led indexes lower after being up on the day more than 2%. It closed 2.2% lower. Nvidia gave up an even bigger gain and finished the day down 3.2%. Why did they end up down? Because investors suspect there is, in fact, an AI bubble. That suspicion is not unrealistic. Whenever there’s a transformative technology, people seem to think that just because there is a bubble, that means that the underlying technology is not transformative. If you look back at the history of investment, however, there is always a speculative bubble around brand-new technologies, and it tends to clean out failing companies. You remember the successful companies. So you remember Henry Ford because Ford ended up being a wildly successful company. But there were dozens of other automobile companies that were startups at the time that ended up crapping out. In fact, Ford had several of them before he actually started the Ford Motor Company. The same thing was true of the internet. Everyone remembers that when the Internet bubble burst in 2000, Pets.com was seen as emblematic of the era.  But what we should remember is that the internet has completely transformed everybody’s life. We all work on the internet. We all do commerce on the internet; we all interact on the internet. The stock market bubble of 2000 did not mean the internet wasn’t important. There are idiots like Paul Krugman who tried to suggest that it wasn’t important. It was very important. That’s also true with regard to AI. People are looking at the current AI boom, and they’re thinking that at some point here it has to crap out, that some of these companies are not going to be able to develop the kind of margins or gross income that justifies the investment they are currently making. OpenAI is the most obvious example of a company that is not publicly traded, but has so many contracts with publicly traded companies ranging from Oracle to Nvidia that if it craps out, it could take down a bunch of companies with it, or at least severely damage their market capitalization. According to The New York Times: It would not be a stretch to describe this period of hyperactive growth in the tech industry as a historic moment. Nvidia, which makes computer chips that are essential to building artificial intelligence, said on Wednesday that its quarterly profit had jumped to nearly $32 billion, up 65 percent from a year earlier and 245 percent from the year before that. Just three weeks ago, Nvidia became the first publicly traded company to be worth $5 trillion.  That means Nvidia is now worth more, according to the stock market, than the entire economy of Germany.  But some industry insiders say there is something ominous lurking behind all this bubble news. They look at the same eye-popping growth and the same stunning wealth creation from Mr. Huang and see a house of cards. And they say it is hard to know what the damage will be if it collapses. Even Nvidia’s growth can be explained away because demand for the company’s chips doesn’t mean that people want to use AI; it means that companies are building giant AI systems in the hope that somebody will pay to use them eventually. This is going to be the question: At some point, the productivity generation from AI is going to have to start matching up to the investments that are being made. People are betting on whether there’s going to be an AI boom that justifies all this or an AI bust.  We don’t know which way it’s going, which is why people are freaking out. They’re also freaking out because if it does succeed, there will be some temporary jobs dislocation. There are a lot of jobs that will become obsolete. The history of job creation is that the economy becomes more productive. You get nicer things for cheaper prices. You work fewer hours; your grandparents worked many more hours than you do, for example. But it also means that there is — with technological change —  significant job dislocation, people losing the kind of jobs they’ve historically held, and then having to find new jobs. We’ve generated millions and millions of jobs in areas that we didn’t even know existed. This is just the way the economy tends to work. That doesn’t mean that the angst and heartburn about job dislocation are false. Thus, two things can be true at once: We can be in a transformative, amazing time for the economy, and the uncertainty and the concern can be real. And it can’t all be alleviated by the government.

The Christmas season is a wonderful time of the year. The smell of pine, red bows everywhere, and a bit of shopping can get even the grinchiest person into the season. Christmas music is one of the easiest ways to spread holiday cheer. We all have our favorite songs and artists that just make the season brighter. Country legend Willie Nelson has been entertaining fans for more than 60 years. At age 92, he doesn’t have plans to slow down anytime soon. He recently released a new song that got fans right in the feels. Willie Nelson’s Christmas Love Song is the holiday tune we never knew we needed, but can’t live without. @willienelson This is my Christmas Love Song to you Listen now! ♬ Christmas Love Song – Willie Nelson There Is Something Perfect About Willie Nelson Singing Christmas Music Willie Nelson has several Christmas albums, but it never hurts to hear something new. A Christmas Love Song has beautiful lyrics that fans adore. I want you to know that I don’t take for grantedThis wonderful life that we foundI am so blessed to call you mine that I had toStop and write it all down Those words ring so true for many of us. We don’t let our loved ones know just what they mean to us as often as we should. Willie Nelson has a way of reminding us just how blessed we are every day, not just on Christmas. Willie shared the song on TikTok, and his fans loved it. “Merry Christmas to Willie and his family! Sending Love and Hugs from Florida,” an excited fan shared in the comment section. “Thank you sweet Willie,” another person wrote. This fan agreed, writing, “great memory from, Willie.” In 2023, Willie Nelson told CBS News that writing music isn’t always easy, but the key is to wait. “They get to a point where the well runs dry,” he said of songwriters. But his best advice is to “wait.” This story’s featured image is by F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg via Getty Images. The post Country Icon Releases New Christmas Music At 92 Years Young appeared first on InspireMore.

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'End the war as quickly as possible'

30 years ago today, leaders from the detritus of the former Yugoslavia gathered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio to end a brutal conflict that pitted new democracies Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia against the Serb-dominated communist regime.  The war killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, caused billions in damage, and added ethnic cleansing, rape camps, and genocide to our contemporary lexicon. But while Croatia and Slovenia eventually joined NATO and the European Union, Bosnia-Herzegovina to this day remains locked in a never-ending nation-building vortex that has sucked its sovereign lifeblood dry, destroyed its economic future, threatened regional security, and deepened inter-ethnic distrust.  The leaders at Dayton envisioned a decentralized state composed of a Serbian Republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation with constitutional guarantees of self-governance and equality for all. But following the peace accord’s signing, foreign diplomats met in Bonn, Germany to neuter these guarantees and assign themselves “final authority” over Bosnia-Herzegovina through an all-powerful “Office of the High Representative.” As the 9/11 terrorist attacks refocused America’s global attentions, Europe was handed the lead to transition the country to normalcy.  These “Bonn Powers” have allowed successive high representatives to remove scores of elected officials (including presidents) and veto hundreds of pieces of legislation passed by elected officials. All this power was exercised in tandem with three foreign judges (German, Swiss and Albanian, respectively), who sit on the country’s Supreme Court to impose a fictional Bosnian civic one-man-one-vote identity.   This governance approach is anathema to both Croat and Serb communities as it would create a centralized Muslim-majority state. Those communities need only look to the Middle East to see the sad fate of Christians living under Muslim rule.  But the arrival of the current high representative, Christian Schmidt, a former German minister of agriculture, pushed the country to the tipping point. Last year, capping a series of interventions, Schmidt dismissed the elected president of the Serbian half of the country for “defying” his orders. It set off theworst political crisis since the war ended.  Meanwhile, pro-West Croats, suffering from three decades of discrimination within a Muslim-dominated federation that has reduced their population by 60%, see little future in a state that systematically denies them constitutional equality unless they obtain a separate confederate entity of their own.  Bosnia-Herzegovina’s dysfunction has given Russia,China, and Iran opportunities to undermine NATO’s vulnerable southern flank. Constant inter-ethnic tensions have radicalized a segment of the Muslim community, resulting in government-sponsored acts of anti-Semitism.  Enter the Trump administration, which urgently and deftly intervened to walk back Schmidt’s overreach. The Serbs retracted their threat to secede, but the fundamental obstacle to the country’s stability remains: hyper-interventionist European diplomats who resist giving up their nation-building powers.  Last May, President Donald Trump made clear his disdain for nation-building as “wrecking far more nations than [it] built.” At a NATO parliamentary event, Deputy Secretary of State Chris Landau warned that the United States was “not interested in imposing a vision of society that reflects the preferences of distant bureaucrats.”  The State Department last month reiterated that “the United States is no longer pursuing nation-building or heavy-handed international intervention… Now is the time for local solutions.”   Could Bosnia-Herzegovina finally govern itself after 30 years lost to the hubris of power-hungry European bureaucrats?  Not yet. In an unprecedent rebuke of the United States, Schmidt rushed to Berlin to shield himself against U.S. efforts to defang him. Within days, Germany’s ambassador in Sarajevo, himself a former senior OHR official, defended Schmidt’s role, doubling down on the Bonn powers as “essential for ensuring stability and progress in Bosnia and Herzegovina” despite clear evidence to the contrary. That was followed by a visit from Germany’s Foreign Minister affirming support for Schmidt as “indispensable for peace and stability.”  German muscle flexing against Washington, DC, however, does not change the reality on the ground. The high representative is the immediate source of political instability in the Balkans. Refusal to restore to Bosnia-Herzegovina’s three peoples the sovereign right to govern themselves merely abets radicalism from within and dangerous interference from without.  It is high time this nation-building experiment be put to rest.  The post Ending 30 Years of Failed Nation-Building in the Balkans appeared first on The Daily Signal.