On Wednesday in San Bernardino a social services center for the disabled was the setting for a terrible shooting killing 14 people and seriously wounding over a dozen more. There were two attackers, Syed Rizwan Farook, a 28-year-old county restaurant inspector, and his wife or fiancee, Tashfeen Malik, 27. Wearing black tactical gear and wielding assault rifles Farook and Malik entered and sprayed as many as 75 rounds into a room at the center, where about 75 of Farook's co-workers had gathered Wednesday morning. Farook had attended the event but slipped out and returned in his battle gear. "We don't know if this was workplace rage or something larger or a combination of both," Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in Washington, "We don't know the motivation." So the question is, was this an ISIS attack? After all just recently ISIS released a video directly threatening the United states, so is this ISIS beginning to carry out their threats? At a family home in the nearby town of Redlands, they had 12 pipe bombs, tools for making more, and over 3,000 additional rounds of ammunition, very similar to what attackers in Paris used. Also the couple left 3 pipe bombs in the center which is even more like the Paris attacks, luckily the bombs malfunctioned. Investigators are trying to determine whether Farook, who was Muslim, became radicalized - and, if so, how - as well as whether he was in contact with any foreign terrorist organization, said a US official. The official also said that Farook had been in contact over social media with extremists that are under FBI scrutiny. Either way, Wednesday's rampage was the nation's deadliest mass shooting since 2012, when 26 children and adults were killed in Newtown, Connecticut and no matter what, it was terrorism.
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Recently ISIS attacked Paris killing over 120 people and injuring over 300 which lit a fire under the famous hacker group Anonymous. Anonymous is a group of activists and hacktivists that have, until now, participated in a lot of online illegal activity. Hours after ISIS claimed responsibility for the attacks on Paris, Anonymous released a video starting their largest campaign ever. #OpParis is the name of their cyberwar campaign where they will attempt to shut down all social media accounts and websites affiliated with ISIS. “Anonymous from all over the world will hunt you down,” the masked Anon spokesman in the video said. “You should know that we will find you and we will not let you go.” But is that enough to stop ISIS? Does it even help? Will shutting down ISIS's ability to use social media really be enough to put an end to ISIS attacks worldwide? I'm not sure, but it will definitely make it harder for ISIS. The final result of this online campaign was over 46'000 ISIS-associated accounts were shutdown, all with an average of 1'000 followers. But is that enough? No one knows. The truth is, no one knows anything about ISIS besides ISIS, even with Anonymous exposing all of their social media the world still can't guess if and when there will be more attacks. The only reason why we have any clue on who the next main targets are is because ISIS virtually told us. I get it, this all sounds cool, "Anonymous helping the world, handing out all of ISIS's secrets" but are they even helping? ISIS is still here, still attacking and still active online. The only thing Anonymous is really doing is giving news stations something to talk about. No matter what Anonymous has and will do to ISIS, social media is not the way to defeat this terrorist organization. ISIS is way to smart to be taken about because their twitter accounts aren't working. The world needs to stop hiding and physically make a difference because social media will not stop ISIS from killing. The Dallas Cowboys have a current record of 2-5, not a very good start to the season. With their starting quarterback (Tony Romo) and their star receiver (Dez Bryant) out with an injured foot, are the Cowboys done for this season? Dez should be good to play by next week and Romo should return around November 22 but will there be to much damage done to their season to even think of being a Superbowl contestant? In the past three games the Cowboys passing game has gone from 8th in the league to 24th. Which brings up the question; which quarterback would you use to be successful, Matt Cassel or Brandon Weeden? Cassel only had one touchdown with three interceptions but the Cowboys had their best run games of the season with his two starts. Weedon had one touchdown with two interceptions but he completed 72 percent of his throws in his three starts at QB. So statistically it comes down to what side of the football do the Cowboys want to be strongest, the run game or pass game. Once they've decided that it should be obvious which QB to start. The real problem is, I personally think they are to far gone. They are currently running with a five game losing streak and there next few games are tough ones, with their starting QB and star receiver injured I just don't think they can do it. Their team would have to win the next few games without their best offensive players and then, when they return, they'd have to win every game. It's to much for a struggling team to pull off. The Cowboys really are done for this season. During his weekly spot on “Inside the NFL” Tuesday night, Marshall explained that he went down on his knees after catching a touchdown pass from Jets quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and was asked by an official if he was praying. We have no way of knowing if Marshall is telling the truth, but NFL rules prohibit players from going to the ground to celebrate — unless they are praying. Marshal says that it is an inappropriate question for an official to ask and doesn't understand how the official couldn't tell that he was without asking, because in his opinion and mine as well, it was pretty clear what he was doing. What I don't get is why the NFL has a rule that states players can't go to the ground for celebrations, what's wrong with it? It's not like a player is going hurt himself or other players if he lays down on the ground. I'd understand better if someone had actually gotten injured during a ground celebration but it has never happened before.
Ironically, the alleged conversation Marshall had with an official came just days before an NFL player was forced to no longer write a message on his eye black supporting his late father. Wow, the NFL really can have their priorities mixed up in weird situations.
From Cambridge Lions running back to special teams and running back with the Indianapolis Colts, some people say Tyler Varga has done it all but he still has a whole NFL career left. It all starts in Cambridge Football where he excelled at a running back and full back possible, he could do it all, run, truck and juke. "He was a freak of nature, his thighs were larger then my waist in grade nine," Mark Paddock (Jacob Hespeler Junior Football Coach). With both parents being accomplished body builders, it was quiet easy for Varga to get the training he would require to always be on top. He started by throwing the football in the front yard wiht his dad when he was about five or six, then around eight he began his career by playing three seasons of flag football. He decided that he liked it enough to try tackle ball with the Cambridge Lions. He entered high school at Cameron Heights with six years of football experience. At high school Varga scored 100 touchdowns, earned team MVP all four years and in his grade 12 year he was named Canada's top high school football player. After high school Varga attended the University of Western Ontario for one season in 2011 where he was named team MVP, conference player of the year and CIS National Freshmen of the Year. He then left Western and went to Yale in the states to play football for the 2012-2014 seasons. He finished at Yale as a three-time All-Ivy honoree with 529 rushing attempts, 2,985 rushing yards, 5.6 yards per carry, and 31 rushing touchdowns. Following Varga's senior performance, he was awarded the Bushnell Cup, which honors the Ivy League Player of the Year. He graduated in 2015 with a degree in ecology and evolutionary biology. He made his NFL debut as a third string running back last week against the Buffalo Bills, it was a sad loss for the Colts but a great first regular season game for Varga. He had 1 carry for 2 yards, 1 reception for 18 yards and a first down, 2 kick returns for a total of 53 yards and he had 2 solo tackles. The colts face the New York Jets on Monday, let's hope it's a good week two for Varga. |
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