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‘Male Feminist’ Aleksandr Kolpakov Now Charged With First-Degree Murder

Posted on | June 1, 2017 | 1 Comment

Accused murderer Aleksandr Kolpakov (left) and victim Heather Anable (right).

When police in Colorado arrested Aleksandr Kolpakov, he was originally charged with second-degree murder in the May 13 shooting death of his live-in girlfriend Heather Anable. The charge has now been raised to first-degree murder, according to the Denver Post, which quotes a police affidavit unsealed by a judge Tuesday:

A neighbor who called 911 after the shooting told deputies that before the shooting, he was in his own unit next door where he found Kolpakov, naked and acting erratically.
“He stated Alek was ‘face-timing’ a female, not his girlfriend, on a phone and telling her he was poisoned and the mushrooms were poisoned,’” deputies wrote of Kolpakov’s neighbor’s account.
The neighbor gave some of his own clothes to Kolpakov and called Anable to come and get him, the report said. Anable came and took Kolpakov back to their shared apartment.
“(The neighbor) stated he then walked toward another friend’s apartment to the east and within 60 seconds heard gunshots,” the affidavit said.
The neighbor called 911.
Several other people called 911 to report the gunfire, including one person who heard a man and a woman’s voices as well.
“One reporting party stated he heard a female screaming, ‘I can’t believe,’ and then heard three gunshots,” the affidavit said. “He then heard a male saying, ‘You’re a monster,’ followed by two more shots while he was on the phone with 911.”
When deputies arrived, they had their own bizarre encounter with Kolpakov, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs.
“While on scene, deputies were approached by a male who was talking nonsensically,” the report said, later specifying that the man was Kolpakov. “He told deputies about rats, poison, a conspiracy and something to the effect of, ‘I had to put my sweet Heather down.’”

The police affidavit tends to corroborate an account of the incident which I quoted in my May 19 post about this bizarre crime:

Aleksandr, who according to my sources may have been a veteran who suffered from PTSD, was doing shrooms [psilocybin mushrooms, a powerful hallucinogenic drug] with Heather on Saturday night, when he became obsessed with the notion that Heather was trying to kill him and that she had poisoned him. Feminist Laura Athena, another member of Aleksander’s polyamorous harem, was apparently skyping with Heather and Aleksandr during their mushroom trip, when Aleksander started freaking out and making bizarre accusations against Heather. Both girls attempted to calm Aleksandr down, but he was inconsolable with fear and rage.

Some had speculated that Kolpakov, who claimed to have served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army, may have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but it turned out he lied about his record. In a statement, the Army said Kolpakov had been a private (E-2) in the Virginia National Guard from 2006 to 2008, and never deployed overseas. In Colorado, Kolpakov taught self-defense classes and operated a YouTube channel called “The Skeptic Feminist,” where he and Anable promoted atheism, feminism and polyamory.

Kolpakov claimed his videos were “all you need to teach atheists about Feminism or feminists about Atheism. Lambasting Religion and Misogyny, for the two are inexorably tied, while Standing Against Woman-Hating Gods and the Sexists Who Invent Them.”

(Hat-tip: Ian Miles Cheong at Heat Street.)



 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble

Covfefe Mystery Solved! You’re Welcome

Posted on | June 1, 2017 | Comments Off on Covfefe Mystery Solved! You’re Welcome

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In The Mailbox: 06.01.17

Posted on | June 1, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 06.01.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Will We Always Have Paris?
Michelle Malkin: A Conservative Mom Breaks The Pot Taboo
Twitchy: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Undermines His Own #ParisAgreement Hysteria
Louder With Crowder: Buzzfeed’s Abortion Propaganda, Debunked


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Let Quadrant Go Down In Flames
American Power: Lebanon Bans Wonder Woman
American Thinker: Hillary – No Class, And No Class Cheer
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Royal Rage News
BattleSwarm: Clinton Corruption Update For June 1 2017
Bring The HEAT: Future USS Gerald Ford Delivered To Navy
Da Tech Guy: J.D. Rucker – Yes, Jerusalem Is Israel’s Capital
Don Surber: Obama-Appointed Judge Lets Katie Couric Off The Hook
Dustbury: You Are Wrong, Copy-Protection Breath
Fred On Everything: Memorial Day And The Rising Gorge – More Than I Can Take
The Geller Report: In Missouri, Muslim Convenience Store Owners Indicted Following Federal Raids
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day
Jammie Wearing Fools: Bogus “Hate Crime” Alert – Noose Found In African-American History Museum
Joe For America: You’re Still Fired! Seahawks Tell Kaepernick “Not Right Now”
JustOneMinute: Foundation
Power Line: Greatest Hillary/Huma E-Mail Exchange Ever
Shark Tank: Hillary Clinton Blames The World For Her Presidential Loss
Shot In The Dark: Our Erdogan
STUMP: Priorities For Pension Funds – Climate Change Or Solvency?
The Jawa Report: Haters Gonna Hate, also, Ramadanabombathon 2017 Tour Plays Kabul
The Political Hat: Gun Non-Crime Bad, Gun Crime Good
This Ain’t Hell: John Thomas Burch Charged
Weasel Zippers: 5500 Non-Citizens Found On Virginia Voter Rolls, also, LSU Students Accuse “Violent” Tiger Mascot Of being “Symbol Of White Oppression”
Megan McArdle: What You’re Missing When You Work From Home
Mark Steyn: Scheer Surprise, also, The Larger Imagination Of “A Despoiler Of Women”


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Feminist Insanity at Taxpayer Expense: ‘Intersectional Quantum Physics’

Posted on | May 31, 2017 | 5 Comments

Whitney Stark is applying feminist theory to quantum physics.

“[N]ew materialist feminisms help to recognize how multiple phenomena work together to behave in what can become legible at any given moment as a body. By utilizing the materiality of conceptions about connectivity often thought to be merely theoretical, by taking a critical look at the noncentralized and multiple movements of quantum physics, and by dehierarchizing the necessity of linear bodies through time, it becomes possible to reconfigure structures of value, longevity, and subjectivity in ways explicitly aligned with anti-oppression practices and identity politics.”
— Whitney Stark, University of Arizona

“When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren’t the kind of institutions I had in mind.”
— Robert Stacy McCain, Dec. 20, 2012

How much taxpayer money goes into funding the University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT Studies? However much it is, it’s too much. Why should the prestige of a state university be used to promote dangerous lunacy? For that is indeed what is being funded by Arizona taxpayers:

A feminist academic affiliated with the University of Arizona has invented a new theory of “intersectional quantum physics,” and told the world about it in a journal published by Duke University Press.
Whitney Stark argues in support of “combining intersectionality and quantum physics” to better understand “marginalized people” and to create “safer spaces” for them, in the latest issue of The Minnesota Review.
Because traditional quantum physics theory has influenced humanity’s understanding of the world, it has also helped lend credence to the ongoing regime of racism, sexism and classism that hurts minorities, Stark writes in “Assembled Bodies: Reconfiguring Quantum Identities.”
A researcher in culture and gender studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Stark also holds an appointment in women’s and gender studies at the University of Arizona through its Institute for LGBT Studies.
She is a member of the Somatechnics Research Network, hosted by UA, whose scholars “reflect on the mutual inextricability of embodiment and technology.”
Stark identifies Newtonian physics as one of the main culprits behind oppression. “Newtonian physics,” she writes, has “separated beings” based on their “binary and absolute differences.”
“This structural thinking of individualized separatism with binary and absolute differences as the basis for how the universe works is embedded in many structures of classification,” according to Stark.

(Hat tip: Instapundit.) Many people will react to Stark’s “intersectional” theory by treating it as a joke, but it’s not a comedy. It’s a tragedy.

Whitney Stark is a queer feminist into social justice. After a BA in Media Arts from Antioch College she spent several years doing activist and NGO work, producing and teaching socially conscious video, media literacy and rape culture 101s, and working with homeless teenagers as well as pouring countless cups of coffee and working on a few terrible reality TV shows. Whitney is committed to principles of anti-oppression and increasingly shifting activism in order to work toward less violent ways of being, and to build beautiful, intentional community. She has just received a masters in gender studies through the GEMMA consortium.

That’s Ms. Stark’s biography from a 2013 edition of Graduate Journal of Social Science which she helped edit, co-authoring the lead article, “The Conditions of Praxis: Theory and Practice in Activism and Academia.”

However much time was spent writing that article was a total waste of time, and Whitney Stark’s career is a total waste of human life. Does anyone believe that, when her parents sent her to college, their hope was that she would become “a queer feminist into social justice”? Can you imagine the conversation Ms. Stark’s parents have with their friends?

“What’s your daughter up to nowadays?”
“Well, now that she has her master’s degree in gender studies, she’s an activist promoting principles of anti-oppression and also applying her queer feminist theory to quantum physics.”

The most difficult thing about Whitney Stark’s career is trying not to laugh out loud when you describe it. The “work” she does is not merely useless, but destructive, in that her “activism” consists of encouraging other people to waste their lives the same way she has wasted her life. Ms. Stark has devoted the past 15 years of her life to promoting a cult ideology that is nothing but self-indulgent solipsistic irrationalism. Could anything be crazier than Ms. Stark’s bizarre belief that, with a bachelor’s degree in media arts and a master’s degree in gender studies, she is qualified to amend quantum physics with “intersectional” feminist theory?

Because no responsible parent would wish their child to pursue such a fool’s errand, taxpayers should be angry about every penny of their money spent to subsidize this kind of “education.”

What is being taught by the University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT Studies? Is there anything at all in the curriculum that is socially valuable? One of their “initiatives” is the Queer Migration Network, “an interdisciplinary research initiative that critically examines how migration processes fuel the production, contestation and remaking of sexual and gender norms, cultures, communities, and politics that articulate hierarchies of race, class, and geopolitics.” Yes, this “research,” is being done at taxpayer expense in the name of the citizens of Arizona. What is the social dividend of this investment of the state’s educational resources? Is anyone in Arizona even asking these questions?

“What does queer theory have to do with teaching science in elementary schools and preparing elementary teachers to teach science?” This is a question I am often asked by colleagues, teachers, and graduate students. The question, while genuine, betrays an underlying disconnect between assimilationist perspectives focused on injustices experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in schools and the queer theory effort to disrupt the categories that privileges heteronormative identities. The question also betrays the tendency to link sexuality with the act of sex and sexual object choice and an uncomfortableness with bringing sexual taboo topics into the elementary classroom. In this talk I will address these concerns by exploring how queer theory can be a useful tool for re-imagining elementary science education and elementary science teacher preparation.

That’s the description of a presentation by University of Arizona Professor Kristin Gunckel hosted by the Institute for LGBT Studies. You see that queer theory isn’t just crazy nonsense discussed in academic journals, but it’s what professors are teaching young people who will be teaching your child in elementary school. And I repeat, this is being taught at taxpayer expense, in state-supported public universities.

When will people wake up? Am I the only sane man left on the planet? Is there not even one other person who cares enough about the future of our country to try to do something to end this madness?

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!



 

Category: Arizona, Education, Sex Trouble

In The Mailbox: 05.31.17

Posted on | May 31, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.31.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Democrat NYC Mayor DiBlasio Abuses Female Staffers, Makes Them Quit
Michelle Malkin: Kathy Griffin – The Bloodiest Beclowning
Twitchy: Secret Service Hammers Kathy Griffin
Louder With Crowder: Trump To Pull U.S. Out Of Paris Climate Accord


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Do The World A Favor, Break A Lefty’s Glasses
American Power: Why Things Won’t Go Back To Normal For Failed Elites
American Thinker: The Coming Of The Hatespeakers
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
BattleSwarm: Philippine Invasion Update
Bring The Heat: Ground-Based BMD Test Successful, Pentagon Says
Da Tech Guy: Baldilocks – Europe Looking To Unify Again
Don Surber: WaPo’s Attempted Coup By Fake News
Dustbury: The Newer, Lower Standard
Hogewash: When Cars Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Cars
Jammie Wearing Fools: Today’s Democrats Have No Problem Embracing Known Terrorists
Joe For America: Bikers Shocked At What Trump Administration Did For Their Memorial Day Ride
Pamela Geller: ACLU Opposes Maine Bill Criminalizing Female Genital Mutilation
Power Line: The Scandal Hiding In Plain Sight
Shark Tank: Rubio’s Syrian War Crimes Bill Passes Senate Committee
Shot In The Dark: Mordida
STUMP: You’ll Never Guess What Rahm’s Plan To Save The Chicago Schools Is!
The Jawa Report: Fatwa This! Black Helicopters Edition, also, Post In Which Honest Open Muslima Makes Jawa Report
The Political Hat: Canada Outlaws Cis-Normative Dissent
This Ain’t Hell: The Battle For Camp Nett, also, Alex Ward And His Toxic Femininity Problem
War Is Boring: Iraq’s Close Encounters With Stealth Fighters
Weasel Zippers: Feminists Sue University For Not Protecting Them From Mean Comments On The Internet, also, Texas Dem Legislator Admits He “Shoved Around” GOP Colleague
Megan McArdle: States Where Single-Payer Health Care Could Work, If It Could Work Anywhere
Mark Steyn: A Kinder, Gentler America…By Half, also, The Jolliest Of Rogers


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Feminists Blame ‘Male Violence’ in Mississippi and Manchester

Posted on | May 30, 2017 | Comments Off on Feminists Blame ‘Male Violence’ in Mississippi and Manchester

 

Willie Cory Godbolt, 35, went on a shooting spree late Saturday night in the tiny hamlet of Bogue Chitto, Mississippi. Eight people were killed in a rampage that began when a relative of Godbolt’s estranged wife called 911 to report a domestic disturbance. Godbolt’s wife had left him three weeks earlier, taking their two sons and moving in with her mother and stepfather. Godbolt shot the sheriff’s deputy who responded to the call.

“I was having a conversation with her stepdaddy and her mama and her, my wife, about me taking my children home,” Godbolt told a reporter for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger after he was arrested. “Somebody called the officer, people that didn’t even live at the house. That’s what they do. They intervene. They cost him his life. I’m sorry.”

Godbolt’s wife escaped, but he killed her mother, her aunt, her sister and three other relatives. The killer had a criminal history:

In 2005, he was arrested for armed robbery and aggravated assault after allegedly striking a man over the head with a pistol before stealing his jewelry and cash. In 2013 he was charged with simple assault. In April 2015 he was arrested for driving with a suspended license and and later that year for disorderly conduct. Most recently he was was arrested in 2016 for contempt of justice court and an additional assault charge.

With such a record of criminal violence, why wasn’t Willie Godbolt already in prison? That’s a question worth asking, in terms of public policy, because eight people including a law-enforcement officer are dead as a result of Willie Godbolt being turned loose by the system.

His niece, Kiyah Godbolt, wrote on Facebook that the killer was a good man — “a provider, a protector and a love” — but that “the devil won more this morning. The devil possessed him.”

Christians may see Willie Godbolt’s crimes as a result of satanic influence, but feminists rushed to place the blame elsewhere.

“This is Patriarchal terror,” Stephanie Lamy proclaimed on Twitter. “Man killed because of male entitlement & male violence.”

Here’s a question: If “patriarchal terror” and “male entitlement” are such a universal force of oppression, why aren’t all men everywhere going on murder rampages? Why are black people, 13% of the U.S. population, responsible for half the murders in this country? And why are black people 44% of murder victims? To ask such questions is to risk the accusation of racism, but when feminists generalize the blame for atrocities — using phrases like “male violence” which imply collective guilt — no one seems to object to this as anti-male hate propaganda.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail, and if the only ideology you have is feminism, every problem looks like patriarchal oppression. So guess what feminists say when an Islamic terrorist kills 22 people in a suicide bomb attack?

 

 

So, a radical Muslim slaughters innocent people, but this is “not about Islam,” declares lesbian feminist Victoria Brownworth:

The source of the violence is men. I know — we aren’t allowed to say it. But it’s the reality. Terrorism in all its forms — bombings, shootings, mass vehicular homicide — is the purview of men. . . .
Make no mistake, the victims were not random. The killers — Abedi did not work alone — wanted to kill as many young girls and women as possible. And he, they succeeded — with only a few exceptions, the dead and injured were girls and women.

Right — blame men, all men generally, males as a collective group, but radical Methodists are not the men who detonate bombs in terrorist attacks intended to inflict mass casualties on women and children. Lutheran extremists do not hijack jets and fly them into skyscrapers.

Philippa Willitts reiterates the blame-men-not-Muslims theme:

Targeting an event that would be predominantly full of girls and young women — and a not insignificant number of gay men — was no accident. Abedi could have chosen any event at that venue, or elsewhere, so we need to look at what happened to make it a Grande concert that he decided upon. We have to acknowledge the misogyny behind his decision, his goal of punishing women purely for having a good time, and tackle the idea that men can or should control women’s lives. . . .
As with nearly every mass attack, the perpetrator of this crime was a man. This is far more prevalent than mass killers (including those attacking pupils in American schools) being Muslims, but it is rarely addressed in the mainstream media analysis of huge killings like that in Manchester.

Let’s notice the either/or binary thinking involved in such claims. Apparently, it has never occurred to feminists that these three factors — male violence, misogyny and Islam — are closely related. We need not make any assertion about which factors are causes and which are effects to say that this correlation deserves scrutiny. However, feminists are so busy blaming men (as if all 3.5 billion male human beings on the planet are equally complicit in “patriarchal terror”) that they must dismiss or minimize the influence of Islam in the Manchester attacks, in the same way that they ignore the fact that nearly half the homicides in America involve black perpetrators killing black victims.

In Chicago, seven people were killed and another 45 were wounded during Memorial Day weekend. So far this year, 231 people have been shot to death in Chicago, but have any feminists cited Chicago as a symbol of “male violence” in American society? No, because it does not fit the feminist agenda to call attention to the failures of liberal policy in a Democrat-controlled city. The same warped political ideology that allows feminists to ignore the incessant violence in Chicago (where 21 women have been murdered and more than 100 wounded so far this year) also allows them to pretend that Islam poses no distinct danger to women.

Damion Daniels has an excellent article debunking the liberal claim that “right-wing extremists” are more dangerous than Islamic terrorists, but when the facts don’t fit the Left’s agenda, the Left will either (a) ignore the facts, or (b) cling to convenient lies. However, if you point out that liberals aren’t telling the truth, this makes you a “right-wing extremist,” and therefore dangerous. One of these days, liberals may tell the truth about something, but today is not that day.



 

Category: Crime, Sex Trouble, Terrorism

In The Mailbox: 05.30.17

Posted on | May 30, 2017 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 05.30.17

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Gregg Allman, Frank DeFord, Zbigniew Brzezinski, RIP
Michelle Malkin: Memorial Day 2017
Twitchy: So Much Losing! “Resistance” Spends Weekend Shrieking At @Sean_Spicier
Louder With Crowder: Socialist Students Get “Tricked” Into Rejecting Socialism On Camera

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: We Are Divided – The Three Enemies Of Western Civilization
American Power: Steven F. Hayward, Patriotism Is Not Enough
American Thinker: Will This Be The Week That Was For The Fox News Channel?
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Mad Dog News
BattleSwarm: Illegal Alien Protip
Bring The Heat: Portland “Right-Wing Extremist” Stabbing Suspect Actually Bernie Sanders Supporter
Da Tech Guy: The Unexpectedly Chronicles – Politico Blames Democrat Losses On Sanders
Don Surber: Illegals Protest, Lawmaker Calls ICE
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, also, And Here They Remain
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, Programming Note
Jammie Wearing Fools: Artist Adds “Pissing Pug” Next To “Fearless Girl”, Liberals Freak Out
Joe For America: Vile NH Democrat Chris Herbert Wants The Elderly To Get Out Of His City
JustOneMinute: American Heroes
Pamela Geller: CNN Claims Islam Was Part Of America’s Founding
Power Line: America’s Honor
Shark Tank: Rick Scott Says U.S. Needs To Cease Trade With Venezuela
Shot In The Dark: A Good Classmate With A Gun
STUMP: Not Even A Petite Bargain In Illinois Budget Wrangling, also, Mortality Monday – Memorial Day And The Civil War
The Jawa Report: Resistant Jihadi Pests On YouTube, also, Sandcrawler PA – The Bomber
The Political Hat: Will Donald Trump Make Volcanoes Great Again?
This Ain’t Hell: Trump Budget Calls For 2.1% Military Pay Raise, also, Senate Report On Wounded Warrior Project
War Is Boring: The West’s War On Terror Depends On The Wrong Allies
Weasel Zippers: 900,000 Bikers Ride Through DC To Honor POWs, also, James Rosen Calls “Sheer Scale” Of Obama Spying Violations Against Americans “Staggering”
Megan McArdle: Guys, You Broke The Congressional Budget Office. Thank You!
Mark Steyn: “How Can You Possibly Be A Muslim Feminist?”, also, Ramadan Bombs Away!

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Rule 5 Monday: O Girls!

Posted on | May 29, 2017 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho
Being in Maryland as I am this long Memorial Day weekend, and it being baseball season, it seems only right to pay tribute to the ladies who like the Baltimore Orioles. This young lady obviously likes the big sticks.
As usual, many of the following links are to pics generally considered NSFW. If your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/ husband calls foul on you for clicking these links without exercising the necessary discretion, the management is not responsible for any resulting injuries; nay, we won’t even refund the price of your ticket.
Post was delayed by erratic behavior on the part of my laptop and possibly the hotel wireless network.

O, boy!

Ninety Miles From Tyranny leads off with Hot Pick of the Late Night, Morning Mistress, and Girls With Guns, followed by Goodstuff with Maud Adams, and Animal Magnetism with Rule Five Man Test Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL’s thundering herd this week includes Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bond Girls, Rule 5 Peak, Pinups, Ivanka and Melania, Memorial Day Rule 5, and The Clinton Who Would Be King.

A View From The Beach offers Straight Outta Compton – Danielle Herrington, Fish Pic Friday – Amberjack, TanLines Thursday, Way Back Wednesday, Some Tiegen for Tuesday, “Fight to Win”, and Trump Tramples Fox Hostess Hopes

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Kelly Rohrbach, his Vintage Babe is Nancy Porter, and Sex in Advertising is covered by Victoria’s Secret. At Dustbury, it’s Carmen Bicondova and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery!


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