A judge has called for a drastic rethink on the way we use knives in kitchens in a bid to reduce the number of young men dying on our streets because of knife crime.
And he has come up with an idea for a scheme that could be rolled out across the UK where members of the public could take their kitchen knives to be ‘modified’ and the points ground down into rounded ends.

Judge calls for 10in pointed kitchen knives to be ground down to a rounded end

This article reflecting another idiocy coming out of the Less-Than-Great Britain reminded me of “El Afilador.” Back when I lived South of the Caribbean,  there was this guy in a moped with a grinder attached to the back who would drive around announcing himself as a door to door knife sharpener. He used a pan flute and simply played a scale up and down. Wives would come out with their knives and he would sharpen them back to cutting life for a few coins.  We never used him because my dad had a talent for sharpening that was almost scary, but the sound of the pan flute was forever associated with the sharpening guy, “el Afilador.”

Decades later, we moved to South Florida and it shocked the heck out of me to hear the same scales played in a pan flute and lo and behold, it was a sharpening guy, Cuban-American style.

With the advent of cheap cutlery and basic tools to do sharpening at home, the tradition of El Afilador is not doing very well but maybe we can breathe new air by sending them to London and instead of offering their trade to bring back to life pointy sharp kitchen utensils, they can make a pound or two rendering blunt and “safe.”  Of course, they would have to be renamed “El Des-Afilador” to be true to their new nature.

Some memes went raunchy and decided to leave those out. Enjoy a few selections.

Via 90 miles

 In mid-February of 2014, two 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas students assaulted a 14-year-old baseball player near the high school stadium. They kicked the boy, a police report said, held him to the ground and simulated a sexual assault through the teen’s clothing with a baseball bat.
One of the assailants was Broward Sheriff Scott Israel’s son, Brett Israel, according to the incident report.
When the attack was reported to authorities, Brett Israel and the other 17-year-old, Anthony Broderick, were not arrested. They were suspended from the Parkland high school for three days based on the school’s conclusion that they had committed a simple battery, and that the suspension was consistent with the Broward County School District’s discipline “matrix.”

Four years later, alleged assault by Sheriff Israel’s son becomes a news story

The School Resource Officer wrote the attack as simple “battery” and the attackers get a slip on the wrist.
Four years later, same SRO fails to do his duty and cowardly hides while the high school is being shot up by Nikolas Cruz. He retires in record time with a full benefit’s retirement package.

I am a suspicious man so forgive me if I see a big ass trade of favors here. One thing is for sure: Scott Peterson’s fully funded retirement was achieved at a pace not found in any bureaucracy in the world. My guess? Favors were paid.

“Things move around, things rub together and that potentially can start a wildfire.”

She has revealed one of the deepest and most intimate problems that attack Floridians. 

Hat Tip to Non-Floridian Joe C.

This is the picture doing the rounds and identifying Hogg’s Publix Die In.
Not quite the emotive and inspirational thing possible. The “advocates” end up being considered a spill that needs to be cleaned up in the refrigerated section as they are ignored by the shoppers.

But God! Little Hogg must have creamed in his Huggies Pull Up diapers with all the attention from the media.

Hogg is the one in the middle with orange t-shirt. And megaphone? Because he needed to address the thousands and thousand of admirers in mobbing the Fruit and Vegetable sections of that Publix.

And since Hogg’s stunt is now responsible for Publix stopping all contributions to political causes like LGQBT and Planned Parenthood, I am sure he is not quite a darling among the hardcore base of the Democrats. You could say that Hogg can now be labeled as Homophobic and Anti-Abortionist.

Bravo!

PS: The “Die Ins” were pretty much in life support after the Vietnam War and died miserably when the Berlin Wall fell.