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.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5776629/Judge-calls-drastic-rethink-way-use-knives-kitchens-stabbing-cases.html

Lessons from the past.

1947, when Jackie Robinson was going to enter into the National League and some players didn't want to be on the same team/field with him:

[Ford] Frick crushed the rising rebellion with a blunt ultimatum: “I do not care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter swift retribution. All will be suspended even if it wrecks the National League for five years.”

Fast forward to 2018 and Evergreen State, a favorite punching bag here:

Evergreen has doubled down on identity politics, Melchior says, advertising a “bias response team to handle reported slights, a three-day [white people] “time of absence,” cultural competency sensitivity and anti-bias training, plus an administrative reorganization plan heavy on “equity and inclusion.”

https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2018/05/23/evergreen-college-gets-an-f-in-lessons-learned/

Applications for the fall are down 20% since last year, and only 60% of first-time first year students will be returning, an 8% decrease over last year. But hey, 25 adjuncts have lost their jobs to paper over the financial short fall...

But the term ‘Asian’ is far too broad and smears innocent communities, said the complainants. They added that many Asian girls had been targeted by grooming gangs, too. But IPSO rejected their complaint. The regulator ruled that it was not ‘inaccurate to say the men were “mainly Asian”’. Nor did it give a ‘significantly misleading impression’, it said. Presumably, the editors’ code would also consider it accurate to describe these men as ‘mammals’, ‘humans’ or even ‘sentient beings’.

Joking aside, the complainants were right. The media’s use of ‘Asian’ to describe grooming gangs not only masks the ethno-religious identity of the perpetrators – it also throws Sikhs, Hindus, Pakistani-Christians and every other Asian under the bus. Gangs of Indian, Japanese and Korean men are not rampaging across Britain’s towns and cities, sexually abusing underage white girls. The men doing so are predominantly of Pakistani-Muslim heritage.

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/we-have-to-stop-saying-asian-grooming-gangs/21422#.WwtfQ1MvxmA

Yet some people claim that there is no such thing as fake news - Trump Falsely Slammed for Obama-Era ‘Baby Deportation Bus’ and Photos of Children in Cages

https://lawandcrime.com/opinion/trump-falsely-slammed-for-obama-era-baby-deportation-bus-and-photos-of-children-in-cages/

Where has this guy been living? under a rock? men are always expendable.

For those of us inclined to worry, the creation of Dolly the sheep 21 years ago signaled that males were expendable. Dolly, you may recall, was a cloned copy of her long-dead mother.

https://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2018/05/making_babies_from_scratch.html

Keep this handy when someone in Hollywood tries to lecture you about something or other.

https://twitter.com/jtLOL/status/1000003856145813504

Death by Snu-Snu:

https://www.facebook.com/PrincipeDesmadroso/videos/559948334406306/

"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."

Why does everyone in public office appear to have less sense than a ten-year-old schoolboy?

That's it, idiot. Focus on things, not on people. Those evil knives are silent killers! Oh, Nooo, it's not your public policies that have produced a wealth of targets for your criminals. It's that knives have sharp points. You've solved the whole crime problem, buddy!

(Ever see a straight razor? What do I do about my scissors and knitting needles?)

This may stop stabbings, doesn't stop cuttings