Arizona Airport, Highways Shut Down; Flagstaff Receives Record Snow From Winter Storm Quiana

““Winter Storm Quiana continued to dump heavy snow on parts of Arizona Friday, prompting emergency declarations, closing schools across the region, shutting down interstates and bringing record snow to the Flagstaff area.

Flagstaff Pulliam Airport remained closed Friday morning, a day after reduced visibility forced its closure, KTAR reported. More than 38 inches of snow fell at the airport Wednesday into Friday, covering the runway.

With more than 35 inches of snow on Thursday alone, it was the snowiest single day on record for the city of Flagstaff. The heavy snowfall prompted city officials to declare a state of emergency.

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More than 300 flights were canceled Thursday at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, according to FlightAware.

Traffic on southbound Interstate 15 was being directed off the highway at Pimm, Nevada, because the road was closed from the state line to Bakersfield, California, until shortly after 3 p.m. local time.

The Nevada Highway Patrol said southbound U.S. 95, the other major route from Las Vegas to California, also closed because of hazardous road conditions and stuck vehicles. Traffic was being diverted back to Las Vegas at mile marker 35.

I-11 was closed at mile marker 2 south of Henderson because of the heavy snow.

Las Vegas saw its first measurable snowfall in more than a decade. Eight-tenths of an inch of accumulating snow was recorded Thursday at McCarran Airport, making it the fifth day this month the city has received some snow. Thursday was also the first time Vegas has received measurable snow since Dec. 17, 2008.

The last time Las Vegas received five days of snow in February was 1949, according to the National Weather Service.””
     — Pam Wright and Ron Brackett

Tags: clipping ∙ guest content ∙ Pam Wright ∙ Ron Brackett ∙ Flagstaff ∙ Las Vegas ∙ Winter Storm Quiana ∙ Arizona ∙ Nevada ∙ snow ∙ Pulliam Airport ∙ McCarran International Airport ∙ 1949 ∙ National Weather Service

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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In Democratic circles, anti-Semitism is becoming normal

The ACLU Condemns DeVos's Title IX Reforms, Says These Due Process Safeguards 'Inappropriately Favor the Accused'

Household debt hit a record high of $13.5 trillion last quarter

A Warm-Up For 2020: Arizona’s Maricopa County Just Stole The Senate Election

GOP Audits Elections Office In County That Swung To Democrats

Hanging On: Republican Congresswoman Mia Love Is Now Favored To Prevail In Tight Re-Election Bid

Stacey Abrams Acknowledges Loss In Georgia Governor's Race

Is an ‘Internet of Ears’ the next big thing for smart homes?

SAF, NRA File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Initiative 1639

Kansas City Health Department pours bleach on food meant for homeless people

Debra Messing Joins Alyssa Milano, Condemns Anti-Semitic Women's March Leaders

Gridlocked, in Fair Weather and Foul

Bubble Trouble: Seattle-Bellevue Metro Housing Market Goes South

Democrats’ Way Back: Is the Resistance rooted in reality?

Identity Politics and American anti-Semitism

Brenda Snipes submits resignation as Broward elections supervisor

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Liberal Scorned: The Media Turns on Facebook and Google

Trump backs sentencing reform bill he says will give ex-inmates 'a second chance at life'

The Institutionalization of Social Justice

There's a Good Reason Many Women Make Less Than Men

Loggers support Trump's claim that wildfires caused by 'poor forest management'

Global warming alarmists pissed off by Canadian gov’t report that nukes their narrative about polar bears

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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The election was tight, much tighter than anyone thought it could be.

Tags: Kyrsten Sinema ∙ election ∙ Martha McSally ∙ Senator ∙ Arizona ∙ GOP leadership ∙ voter dissatisfaction ∙ John McCain

As His Final Move in Office, Jeff Sessions Limits Use of Court Settlements to Reform Rotten Police Departments

I Think I Have Lost the Plot -- When Did AG Jeff Sessions Become a Liberal Icon?

What Causes a Normal Election to Spiral into Tribal Warfare?

Senate Judiciary Committee Report: 45 Interviews, Zero Evidence To Corroborate Claims Against Kavanaugh

China’s president vows to lower tariffs, increase imports amid tensions with US

Harvard's Racist Diversity

Why Are so Few Americans Able to Get Ahead?

Keith Ellison, Farrakhan groupie and go-to Congressman for anti-Israel activists, elected Minnesota AG

Note to Resistance media: The First Amendment wasn’t written to protect a reporter’s right to grandstand in the White House

Devastating wildfire blazes through California town: 'The community of Paradise is destroyed'

Florida Official Overseeing Vote Count Destroyed Ballots, Accused of Not Removing Dead Voters from Rolls

McSally vs. Sinema ballot update: About 9,600 votes separate the candidates, with Sinema in the lead

ABC, NBC Ignore Antifa Mob Assaulting Home of Fox News Host Tucker Carlson

Saudi prince MBS tells US evangelicals the world should focus on Iran, not him

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The Gods Do Not Vote, So Why Are You Asking Them?

Tags: election ∙ Florida ∙ Congress ∙ Arizona ∙ Republican ∙ AZ Prop 126 ∙ Martha McSally ∙ Kyrsten Sinema ∙ Doug Ducey

Sen. John McCain, American ‘maverick’ and Arizona political giant, dies at age 81

I do not and would not wish death on anyone.

As an Arizona resident who worked against his re-election the last four times, I wish he had retired years ago.

Governor Ducey will be empowered by an act of the legislature to appoint a Republican to fill out the rest of the term. And yes, Arizona state law requires that the appointee be the same party.

I had my disagreements with McCain.

So did Barry Goldwater.

I stopped trusting McCain during the Keating Five mess.

I could say more, but I'll wait a month or so.

I don't speak or write ill of the dead in the first month after their passing. It changes nothing, and everyone deserves the right to deal with their passions and memories.

Edited to add:

McCain to lie in state at Capitol in Washington, Arizona

I know it's supposed to honor the “most eminent citizens,” but I still think lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda is political opportunism.

Tags: Senator ∙ John McCain ∙ passing day ∙ Arizona ∙ election ∙ Doug Ducey ∙ lying in state ∙ political opportunism

“Delusions of Justice”

Tags: California ∙ secession ∙ Constitution ∙ American history professors ∙ politicos ∙ technocrats ∙ people ∙ state ∙ water rights ∙ Southwest ∙ Arizona ∙ Nevada ∙ Imperial Valley ∙ Mexico ∙ SCOTUS ∙ splitting the state ∙ treason ∙ MacGuffin ∙ Dred Scott decision ∙ Minersville School District v. Gobitis ∙ United States v. Rabinowitz ∙ First Amendment ∙ Tenth Amendment ∙ commerce clause ∙ individual citizens ∙ Thomas Jefferson ∙ Declaration of Independence

Funny thing about the honor culture, it takes generations to "die."

Tags: Crux Files ∙ honor ∙ reputation ∙ Michelle Malkin ∙ Louisiana ∙ Arizona ∙ sex offenders ∙ libertarian ∙ pagan ∙ reluctant advocate

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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❝❝To my knowledge, Arizona is the ONLY state to ever put MLK Day to a public vote.

Twice.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: rent control ∙ Stanford ∙ San Francisco ∙ Joe Arpaio ∙ Senate ∙ Arizona ∙ asset forfeiture ∙ Oklahoma ∙ Alan Dershowitz ∙ climate alarmist ∙ solar power ∙ censorship ∙ Rhode Island ∙ Jeff Flake ∙ surveillance

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: restitution ∙ compensation ∙ John McCain ∙ Arizona ∙ Senate ∙ zoning law ∙ housing ∙ farmers’ market ∙ racism ∙ DoJ ∙ sexual harassment ∙ Great Pinecone ∙ Vanity Fair ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ Scott Adams ∙ censorship ∙ GMOs ∙ Rose Marie ∙ Newt Gingrich ∙ election

Tags: Al Gore ∙ election ∙ Arizona ∙ climate change ∙ artic blast ∙ United Airlines ∙ UK ∙ Roy Moore ∙ gun law ∙ Ron Wyden ∙ #MeToo ∙ marijuana ∙ alcohol ∙ radical feminists ∙ occupational licensing ∙ victimhood ∙ freedom ∙ self destructive ∙ intel community ∙ Don Boudreaux ∙ Claire Wolfe ∙ Homeland Security ∙ no-go zones ∙ radical Islam ∙ Sheila Jackson Lee ∙ fake news

When there is no "least bad"

Tags: Original Vigil ∙ none of the above ∙ Arizona ∙ least bad ∙ Jan Brewer ∙ Terry Goddard ∙ SEIU

This is a page from the original version of Pagan Vigil. There are some formatting differences. Originally published at www.paganvigil.com/C127135145/E20110113130905

Memorial or political rally?

No shame
This was the thing that put me off blogging for more than two years.

I'm angry right now.

No, strike that. I'm pissed.

There is absolutely NO REASON to turn a memorial into pep rally.

Every single time I've commented on a mass killing, I've been flamed. So this time, I thought I would stay out of it.

And then I see the President turn a tragedy into a bloody political event. Complete with slogan. T-shirts. Bumper stickers!

This goes beyond double standards.

So what good does it do to follow the rules of propriety if the "other guys" break every single one?

How is this different from what Bush 43 did? Or for that matter, what that diseased Westboro Baptist Church keeps trying to do?

They've got no shame. And they try to use YOUR SHAME as a weapon against you.

Fuck them.

They have not the right or the power. I'm not going to give it to them anymore. No matter what I say, they'll turn it political. They will demand that I give up my thoughts for the ones they dictate. They try to turn my acts of respect into silent acquiescement to THEIR agenda.

Just like they do now.

I'll say it loud and clear.

Obama has no class. He turned something that should have healed into politics. T-shirts? By all the gods, the man's a coward and an opportunist.

Death is too important for politics.

Posted: Thu - January 13, 2011 at 01:09 PM

Tags: Original Vigil ∙ Tucson ∙ classic ∙ Arizona ∙ Gabrielle Giffords ∙ shooting ∙ memorial ∙ political event ∙ bumper stickers ∙ double standards

The toy manufacturer was caught by surprise at user's ingenuity

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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Barry Goldwater passing day

““I will offer a choice, not an echo.””
     — Barry Goldwater

Tags: calendars ∙ Barry Goldwater ∙ 1998 ∙ Arizona ∙ passing day

Soros, Clinton-Linked Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute

❝❝Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership.

The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain and “is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom.” It is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University.

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Critics worry that the institute’s donors and McCain’s personal leadership in the organization’s exclusive “Sedona Forum” bear an uncanny resemblance to the glitzy Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) that annually co-mingled special interests and powerful political players in alleged pay-to-play schemes.

The institute has accepted contributions of as much as $100,000 from billionaire liberal activist-funder George Soros and from Teneo, a for-profit company co-founded by Doug Band, former President Bill Clinton’s “bag man.” Teneo has long helped enrich Clinton through lucrative speaking and business deals.❞❞

Cindy McCain: Crony Philanthropist

❝❝It turns out the "freedom, democracy, and human rights" institute launched by Cindy and Sen. John McCain is supported by large donations from entities known for persistent rights violations, including Saudi Arabia, a U.S. defense contractor selling smart bombs to the Saudis, and a Moroccan mining company occupying land in Northwest Africa.

In fact, examining McCain's philanthropic record reveals a long history of personal abuse of nonprofit resources, shady connections, and shoddy work. For years, McCain has been playing the role of crony philanthropist, and now she is poised to bring her dubious advocacy to the highest levels of government.❞❞

Tags: Arizona ∙ clipping ∙ John McCain ∙ Cindy McCain ∙ McCain Institute for International Leadership

“Social Justice & Universities”

Tags: John McCain ∙ Joe Arpaio ∙ marijuana ∙ minimum wage ∙ Arizona ∙ short

So no matter what I’ve said before now, no matter what I’ve done before now, if I fail to do this now, I’m racist.

Tags: goal is freedom ∙ personal responsiblity ∙ Arizona ∙ good intentions ∙ criminal foreiture ∙ human rights ∙ reciprocity ∙ progressive ∙ mala prohibita ∙ victimhood ∙ civil forfeiture

My take on true believers of all stripes.

Tags: Original Vigil ∙ favorites ∙ true believers ∙ MLK Day ∙ Arizona ∙ Somebody Else's Problem ∙ Bonewits ∙ E pluribus unum ∙ power with ∙ classic ∙ Hillary Clinton ∙ George W. Bush ∙ Bill Clinton