Joy Villa has Occupy Democrats on Facebook in a lather. She went to the 2019 Grammys in a dress with a "border wall" theme, obviously a nod to Donald Trump's proposed wall along the Mexican border.

Occupy Democrats described her as looking like a racist. The problem is, Joy Villa's father was Argentine, making Joy half-Latina. Her mother was half Native American Choctaw and half black. She's as mixed a bag of minority status as you're likely to find.

Ahh, yes, more wealth envy disguised as virtue.

Let us not forget this about Harrison Ford:

"Ford keeps his aircraft at Santa Monica Airport,[68] though the Bell 407 is often kept and flown in Jackson, Wyoming, and has been used by the actor in two mountain rescues during his assigned duty time with Teton County Search and Rescue. On one of the rescues, Ford recovered a hiker who had become lost and disoriented. She boarded Ford's helicopter and promptly vomited into one of the rescuers' caps, unaware of who the pilot was until much later; "I can't believe I barfed in Harrison Ford's helicopter!" she said later.[69]

Yes, Indiana Jones rescued a hiker...

"In March 2004, Ford officially became chairman of the Young Eagles program of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA). Ford was asked to take the position by Greg Anderson, Senior Vice President of the EAA at the time, to replace General Chuck Yeager, who was vacating the post that he had held for many years. Ford at first was hesitant, but later accepted the offer and has made appearances with the Young Eagles at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh gathering at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for two years. In July 2005, at the gathering in Oshkosh, Ford agreed to accept the position for another two years. He has flown over 280 children as part of the Young Eagles program, usually in his DHC-2 Beaver, which can seat the actor and five children. Ford stepped down as program chairman in 2009 and was replaced by Captain Chesley Sullenberger and First Officer Jeff Skiles. He is involved with the EAA chapter in Driggs, Idaho, just over the Teton Range from Jackson, Wyoming. On July 28, 2016, Ford flew the two millionth Young Eagle at the EAA AirVenture convention.[72]

As of 2009, Ford appears in Internet advertisements for General Aviation Serves America, a campaign by the advocacy group Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA).[73] He has also appeared in several independent aviation documentaries, including Wings Over the Rockies (2009),[74] Flying The Feathered Edge: The Bob Hoover Project (2014), and Living in the Age of Airplanes (2015).[75]

Ford is an honorary board member of the humanitarian aviation organization Wings of Hope,[76] and is known for having made several trips to Washington, D.C. to fight for pilots' rights.[77]

But, you know, chatting on a bedazzled smartphone at Starbucks is all that anyone should be allowed to do. Those "weekend wingnuts who go puttering around in small planes" can go suck it.

Right?

I don't envy the wealthy, I wish I could be one of them! What I detest is these hypocritical celebrities and politicans with 3 or 4 mansions, a private jet, and a host of other toys telling me that i must eat less beef so cow farts don't destroy the world.

What I detest is these hypocritical celebrities and politicans with 3 or 4 mansions, a private jet, and a host of other toys telling me that i must eat less beef so cow farts don't destroy the world. ~ Jay at February 11, 2019 6:04 AM

Well, Bernie has his 3 houses. Al Gore has his. Babs has her Malibu mansion and her NYC apartments. AOC has just been elected, so she'll acquire hers soon enough.

On the other hand, George W. Bush practices what Al only preaches.

When you're on your first week of Keto diet and bread starts to looks sexy

https://twitter.com/mabataku/status/1094416066044821504

That meeting Harrison refers to and wants you to attend? it is in Dubai, and he's going. Emphasis mine:

Harrison Ford delivered a stark warning about climate change as he prepared to travel to Dubai to discuss ocean conservation.

I doubt he's travelling commercial. He might be jetpooling with some other Hollywood lights. He's certainly not going by sail boat. Again, not one damn word about my carbon footprint. Want me to pay attention? live your life like you believe the words coming out of your mouth.

Everything old is new again, or the current crop of reporters don't know how to google.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/321439/

Cookie of optimism that may last me fifteen minutes. I'll chew slowly.

https://www.monmouth.edu/polling-institute/reports/monmouthpoll_us_020419/

I found a 2013 article from Forbes that estimates the number of registered private/executive jets in the world at about 19,000. That number may have gone up about 10% since them -- vendors typically sell about 600 per year, but about half of that many older ones are scrapped or lost each year. So figure 21,000. I'm guessing that of that number, about 80% are airworthy at any given time. (Some will be out of service for scheduled maintenance or repairs, some will be grounded for AD compliance, and some that have been parked for some time will not have current airworthiness status.)

So we have about 16,800 that are registered, current and airworthy at a given time. From what I've read, about 1700 were flown to Davos for the World Economic Forum this year. So about 10% of all of the flyable executive jets in the world went to Davos. Consider that Davos is largely a playground for the wealthy, and that not many of the WEF attendees actually attend very many sessions, and, well, there you are.

It's like watching two swarms of bees battling each other

https://twitter.com/alfonslopeztena/status/1094381713306857472

This a rather evil bridge. The sidewalk suddenly jutting out is not nice, either.

https://youtu.be/V3-UugI0JoA

The truck fire at the end is fully considered here

https://youtu.be/Fc0avTFZrvA

It's like watching two swarms of bees battling each other ~ Sixclaws at February 11, 2019 12:20 PM

It's getting so you can't tell the socialists from the fascists any more.

This cop has made these pages before.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/vallejo-cop-under-fire-for-assaulting-marine-has-aggressive-past-video-shows

She's as mixed a bag of minority status as you're likely to find.

Very, VERY intersectional!

As for Ford, this kind of crap makes me happy that Solo was killed off in Star Wars VII.

#BoycottHollywood

Florida Man strikes again!

Florida man thought he’d do donuts on an airport runway. Police weren’t amused

13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/chase-bank-shuts-down-proud-boys-leaders-personal-bank-account/

"Refusing Immigrants, Orban Asks Hungarian Women to Have More Babies"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/world/europe/orban-hungary-babies-mothers-population-immigration.html

First paragraphs:

By Patrick Kingsley Feb. 11, 2019

BERLIN — Faced with a plummeting population, rising labor shortages and widespread emigration, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary has long taken an unconventional approach to increasing the size and productivity of Hungary’s work force.

He offered university scholarships only to those who promised to stay in Hungary. He gave citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living beyond the borders. And late last year, he increased the amount of overtime employers can demand of workers — to 400 hours a year.

But on Sunday, Mr. Orban announced one of his most ambitious plans yet: Any Hungarian woman with four or more children will no longer pay income tax.

Anything to avoid immigration...

(snip)

From the second half:

...Still, demography experts said the measure was unlikely to succeed in its primary goal of growing the native Hungarian population. One of the few programs that historically succeeded in boosting the population took place in Communist-era Romania, a totalitarian dictatorship in which abortions and birth control were banned.

Like Hungary, France introduced financial incentives in 2005, but since then its birthrate has remained at around 1.9 children per woman, said Sarah Harper, a demography professor at Oxford University. And it might even have been lower without the influx of immigrants, whose birthrates are typically higher than native-born residents.

“You have to ask: how much is it down to the financial incentives, and how much is it migration and an ethnically diverse population?” Professor Harper said.

Sweden has managed to keep its birthrate above 1.8 children per woman — but only by making it far easier for women to return to work than in Hungary. Unlike in Hungary, child care in Sweden is free for all. Fathers can take parental leave as well as mothers, and in tandem they receive 55 weeks of leave at near full-pay, more than double that allotted to Hungarian mothers...

Ominous:

‘Victim’ Status Is the New Prejudice

Disgusting:

Young Man Who Alleges Assault By Opera Singer and His Husband Empowered to Come Forward By #MeToo Movement

"I don't envy the wealthy, I wish I could be one of them!"

That was funny!

"He's certainly not going by sail boat. Again, not one damn word about my carbon footprint. Want me to pay attention? live your life like you believe the words coming out of your mouth."

Oh, bullshit. There are bunches of people doing just that, and you just don't care.

The "private jet!" moaning is MORE wealth envy. Corporations buy into co-ops so they share the expenses, and they are the only means of getting where you really need to be on time, with your security forces AND your intact, proprietary information.

By the way - you can charter them, if you really think the TSA grope violates your rights and you need to travel.

You are flat wrong on this Rad. The only reason anyone cares about Ford's air planes is his ridiculous and preachy bits about climate change. This isn't wealth envy. It is blatant hypocrisy on Ford's part. If he practiced what he preached then he wouldn't fly in a plane. Wouldn't own one period. Instead he owns several carbon producing air planes, as well as carbon producing cars and motor cycles, while at the same time giving speeches about how too much man made carbon dioxide is going to kill us all. If you want you can argue that Ford believes what he says and isn't a hypocrite. Of course then you have to acknowledge Ford is attempting genocide, all be it in a particularly slow and inefficient way.

As IRA said "live your life like you believe the words coming out of your mouth." Ford doesn't.

"The only reason anyone cares about Ford's air planes is his ridiculous and preachy bits about climate change."

Which is why I respect Ed Begley Jr., even though I disagree with him on just about everything. Ed walks his talk.

"You are flat wrong on this Rad."

Nope.

Harrison Ford is outnumbered thousands to one by those who DO walk the talk - and you have no idea who they are. But that's kinda secondary.

The fallacy is called, "Spotlight", and it is ably demonstrated by claims that because the person does not practice what they preach, then the claimant will not do that thing.

Then we all get to observe a second example of hypocrisy, where a person who does NOT conserve conspicuously objects to another person who does not conserve.