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MORE FEAR MONGERING FROM OUR DHS PROTECTORS

Here we go again. Time to make the sheep cower, while our DHS shepherds protect us from another phantom wolf. How predictable. DHS has to substantiate their $1 billion annual budget by acting like they are saving us from phantom predators who never materialize. I guess they’ve run out of dupes to lure into fake terrorist plots, so now they just issue dire warnings of impending doom. Our government keepers are not only using the Oregon shooting as their latest attempt to disarm law abiding citizens, but now they are using it to make our special millennial snowflakes beg for the police state to protect them and save them from being killed by anonymous posters on social media. They have successfully freaked out every college and university in the Philadelphia area, as if the police, FBI, or ATF have ever successfully foiled a real terrorist plot.

Some anonymous idiot on 4chan makes some vague threat referencing the Oregon shooter as part of some rebellion, and now every school in the Philly area is on lockdown. They were interviewing students who say they will hide in their dorms rather than venture to class at 2:00 today. What a fucking joke. What a bunch of low IQ pussies. The fucking idiot in Oregon was a 26 year old emotionally disturbed virgin loner from a broken home who was probably on psychotropic drugs (not a peep from the MSM about that). He had no friends and lived in an apartment with his mommy. He wasn’t part of a revolution. Use your fucking brains people.

I thought the fucking NSA captures every electronic communication in the country. They can’t figure out who supposedly made the threat because they posted anonymously. Give me a fucking break. They can trace the IP address to a location. They can supposedly tell when they are hacked by Russians or Chinese, but they can’t track down a poster on a website?

This is just more bullshit from our government keepers to make us beg for their protection. Never let a mass shooting go to waste. I wonder what threat level I should be observing today.

FBI, ATF warn of threat of violence against ‘university near Philadelphia’

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) —

The FBI and ATF are warning about a non-specific threat of violence against “a university near Philadelphia” on Monday.

The FBI released the following statement over the weekend:

Out of an abundance of caution, the FBI Philadelphia Field Office notified local colleges and universities of a social media posting which threatened violence at a Philadelphia-area college or university for Monday, October 5. No specific college or university was identified in the posting. We encourage students, faculty, and employees at area colleges and universities to follow the guidance of their campus security officials. The FBI will continue to work with our federal, state, and local law enforcement partners to investigate threats of violence, and, as always, we ask the public to report suspicious activity to law enforcement.

The threat was posted on 4chan, a message board where everyone is anonymous, last Friday, the day after the shooting in Oregon. It praises the gunman as a fellow member of the “Beta Rebellion.”

“On October fifth, at 1pm Central time, a fellow robot will take up arms at a university near Philadelphia,” the post reads.

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I don’t see Dartmouth on this list. Pansies.

Playboy Names UPenn Top Party School For 2014

Believe it or not, the University of Pennsylvania was named the top party school in the nation by Playboy magazine on Monday, making that the first time we can recall an Ivy League university claimed such a title.

Syracuse University, this year’s top party school according to the Princeton Review, was placed at No. 10 by Playboy for the 2014 countdown. Other known party animal hot spots like West Virginia University and the University of Iowa came in third and fifth, respectably. The University of Wisconsin-Madison scored the runner up slot.

“Casual sex is rampant, as coeds value careers over coupling,” Playboy writes. “Philly’s boisterous bar scene keeps off-campus-carousing options numerous. School-sponsored day drinking hits a high note during Spring Fling, an outdoor music fest that pulls in acts such as Passion Pit, Tyga and Janelle Monáe and turns the Quad into a sloshed mosh pit.”

As Playboy notes, UPenn does have an above and below ground Greek scene where bros make shopping trips to get 174 bottles of vodka. Still, we just watched the I’m Shmacked video for Penn’s “Spring Fling,” and it seems kind of tame compared to some of the other videos.

Playboy explained in an email that they determined the rankings based on “access to nightlife and musical events, and creativity when planning social gatherings.” The magazine also used information from the National Center for Education Statistics, the NCAA and the U.S. Economic Census.

Among Playboy’s “Party Pioneer” honors, Vassar was dubbed the “Coolest Indie Music Scene” and Oberlin College is named the “Sexiest Small School.”

It’s hard to draw too much of a line on the history of Playboy’s party school rankings, since they were sort of haphazard up until 2009, and have been annual since then. The first ranking appeared way back in January 1987, and popped up again in 2002 and 2006.

You can get the top 10 ranking below or pick up Playboy’s October 2014 issue for more details.

10. Syracuse University

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9. University of Texas

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8. Colorado State University

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7. University of Miami

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6. University of California – Santa Cruz

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5. University of Iowa

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4. University of Arizona

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3. West Virginia University

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2. University of Wisconsin

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1. University of Pennsylvania

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University of Pennsylvania track star jumped to death over grades: Family friend

Madison Holleran, 19, was stressed about her 3.5 GPA in the weeks before she jumped from a parking garage in Philadelphia on Friday, the friend said. The freshman’s tragic death stunned friends and family in her hometown of Allendale, N.J.

By Joe Kemp AND Nina Golgowski / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Monday, January 20, 2014, 10:39 AM

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Madison Holleran, 19, a star member of University of Pennsylvania’s track team, died after she apparently jumped off a parking garage in Philadelphia on Friday.

A beautiful and brainy University of Pennsylvania track star jumped to her death from a parking garage Friday after stressing out over grades, a family friend revealed Monday.

Madison Holleran — a freshman at the Ivy League school who hails from Bergen County, N.J.— made dinner plans and sent messages to friends without a hint she was feeling suicidal, said family friend Bob Weckworth.

“People talked to her within hours of her act of suicide and there were no red flags, warning signs, nothing,” he told the Daily News from the family’s Allendale home.

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The 19-year-old was majoring in philosophy, politics and economics at University of Pennsylvania.

“This kid didn’t have a boyfriend. There were no drug issues. There were no mental health issues in her background. It was just the last two, three weeks where they saw a change in her,” said Weckworth, a friend of Madison’s father, James Holleran. “Something snapped.”

Cops said Madison, 19, jumped from a Philadelphia parking garage at 7 p.m. Friday. It was not clear Monday if she left a suicide note.

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A makeshift memorial at the scene where Holleran died after jumping from a parking garage in Philadelphia on Friday.

The death of the teen — who won numerous athletic awards as a student at Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey — left her friends and family stunned.

She left a flood of photos on her social media accounts showing her smiling with friends. One posted on Instagram just an hour before her death shows a beautiful image of Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square at sunset.

“She got a 3.5 her first semester, and I think just the high expectations that she put on herself was that that’s just not acceptable,” Weckworth said.

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The Philadelphia parking garage where Holleran jumped to her death Friday.

When she came home over Christmas break, she was a changed person, he said.

“She was not happy at Penn, but the parents had told her then, ‘Don’t go back. We’ll transfer. We’ll look at other schools. There’s no reason to go back, it’s OK,’ ” he said.

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It was not immediately clear what may have prompted the teen — a star athlete in her hometown of Allendale, N.J. — to jump to her death.

University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann said Madison’s death left the campus “deeply saddened.”

“She was bright and well-liked with an incredible future ahead of her,” Gutmann said in a statement.

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Holleran posted this picture of Rittenhouse Square to her Instagram account about an hour before she jumped to her death on Friday.

Steve Dolan, Penn’s director of track and field-cross country, said Madison’s teammates were crushed by the news.

“We will always carry her in our hearts,” Dolan said.

The school announced that formal recruitment for sororities would be postponed out of respect for Holleran, who was participating in the events.

Holleran — who was named by the Star-Ledger to the all-state girls soccer and track teams last year — was majoring in philosophy, politics and economics, NJ.com reported.

“As our school community mourns the loss of Madison, we extend our love and prayers to the Holleran family as they grieve, and we respect their privacy during this extremely difficult time,” Joseph Occhino, principal of Northern Highlands High School, said in a statement.

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