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Dachsie
28th May 2022, 06:02 AM
SATURDAY, MAY 28

EDITOR'S NOTE There will be no Loop on Memorial Day. Remember to pray for those who gave their lives in service to our country.


COPS WRONG TO WAIT Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw admitted that police officers were wrong to wait for tactical backup for 40 minutes before charging into an Uvalde elementary school to take down an active shooter. "Of course it was not the right decision!" said McGraw. "Every officer lines up, stacks up, goes and finds where the rounds are being fired at and keeps shooting until the subject is dead, period." READ (https://www.dailywire.com/news/of-course-it-was-not-the-right-decision-dps-director-says-cops-should-have-charged-uvalde-school)


DEMS VS. PARKLAND DAD Max Schachter, father of one of the children killed during the Parkland school shooting in 2018, criticized Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, for blocking a school safety bill named after Schachter’s son Wednesday. Schachter called Schumer’s maneuver “heartbreaking.” READ (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/parkland-dad-schumer-blocks-gop-school-safety-bill)


PRO-ABORTION VIOLENCE CONTINUES Pro-abortion activists have continually made threats and committed acts of vandalism and violence since it was first revealed that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe vs. Wade. A number of pro-life and Catholic properties have been firebombed or otherwise damaged. One of the slogans found spray-painted at the scenes of such crimes is “If abortions aren’t safe, you aren’t either.” READ (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251392/vandalism-of-pro-life-pregnancy-centers-continues-across-us-with-incident-near-seattle)


MORE BISHOPS PRAISE CORDILEONE A week after Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco announced he would bar House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, R-CA, from Communion over her pro-abortion stance, 18 bishops have indicated their support for the move. “What Archbishop Cordileone did was actually an act of pastoral love and care for Speaker Pelosi, and for all those entrusted to his pastoral care who might have been led astray by her public support of the evil of abortion,” said Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland in a Friday video statement.” READ (https://catholicvote.org/here-is-a-list-of-bishops-speaking-out-in-support-of-archbishop-cordileone/)


TIGERS TO FUNDRAISE FOR CHILD SEX CHANGES The Detroit Tigers are slated to host a “Pride Night” game at Comerica Park on June 1, with ticket proceeds going to a number of radical LGBTQ groups. “Many of the groups that the Tigers are funneling ticket money to are actively promoting transgender identification — or even medical transitions — for children,” reports Nate Hochman of the National Review. READ (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-are-the-detroit-tigers-funding-gender-transition-surgeries-for-minors/)


FLASHBACK At a Catholic Familyland USA conference back in 2007, Cardinal Arinze was asked if politicians who support abortion should be allowed to receive Holy Communion. His answer still rings true today. SHARE

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IG BANS ANTI-GROOMING ACCOUNT Big Tech platform Instagram on Thursday suspended Libs of TikTok, a popular social media account known for exposing instances of sexually inappropriate conduct with minors on the part of Leftist activists and teachers. The last thing the account posted before the suspension was a video of a woman denigrating parents who express concerns about teachers talking with their children about sexual orientation and gender identity. READ (https://www.dailywire.com/news/libs-of-tiktok-suspended-from-instagram)


CORPORATIONS VS. FREEDOM Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Inspire Investing have launched a Business Index that rates large corporations by how hostile or friendly they are to freedom of speech and religion. “CEOs and business leaders have positions of considerable power,” said ADF Senior Vice President for Corporate Engagement Jeremy Tedesco. “They shouldn’t weaponize their influence or the companies they run to divide Americans or engage in speech censorship or anti-religious bigotry.” READ (https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251390/large-us-companies-rated-on-respect-for-free-speech-religious-freedom)

The 2022 Business Index (https://viewpointdiversityscore.org/business-index)rates 50 companies on the Fortune 1000 list according to a “Viewpoint Diversity Score” in the market, the workplace, and the public square. The 50 companies examined were organizations in the banking, payment processing, and cloud services industries.


TRANS DOCTOR CAUGHT Dr. Michael Webberley, a British medical doctor, was caught liberally prescribing sex-change drugs to children. In one instance, he prescribed puberty blockers to a 9-year-old girl after a 10-minute video conference over Skype. Webberley’s wife had in the past been fined for running an unlicensed transgender clinic out of her home. READ (https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/05/27/doctor-loses-licence-after-prescribing-transgender-9-year-old-puberty-blockers-during-ten-minute-skype-call/)


DRUG OFFICIAL FORCIBLY HOSPITALIZED Dr. Jeffrey Siegel, director of the Office of Drug Evaluation Sciences in the Food and Drug Administration, was handcuffed and forcibly hospitalized for “mental disorder” at 3 a.m. on May 9. The mysterious event has spurred concerns that Siegel, whose role in the Biden administration is to evaluate the safety of drugs, is unfit for the duty of making national public health decisions. READ (https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder-says-no-covid-thank-goodness) READ (https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder-says-no-covid-thank-goodness)


QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“I don’t wish to sound apocalyptic about this, but one has the sense that at present our society is simultaneously characterized by wildly disproportionate accountability for trivial transgressions and zero accountability for profound institutional failure.” –David Polansky LINK