I’m a Gulf Coast girl.  I saw enough snow to build a snowman in 1973 and that did it for me.  It was a lot of fun, glad it doesn’t happen too often.

Look, I pay a heavy price for living in the south – Texas in particular – but not having snow almost makes it worth it.  We have had a freeze this year.  It lasted a couple of hours while I was in bed.

So, my heart goes out to everyone who lives in the northeast today.  Well, except for Chris Christie – I don’t heart him at all.

If you live there or hear some reliable gossip about the weather, share it here.

There’s a live camera in New York City.

You can send me pictures of your neighborhood and I’ll post them here.

Click the little ones to get the big ones.  

Here’s Don A’s parking lot at 1:30 Texas time.  Don’s in Pennsylvania.  This is at Penn State near Beaver Stadium.

Republican Representative Steve King is generally way out there, but now he’s bringing back stories.

Rep. Steve King got a little mixed up in his remarks at the Iowa Freedom Summit this morning, accidentally remarking that Americans “come from every possible planet.”

The Iowa Republican quickly caught himself and said that the DREAMers protesting the right-wing event are the ones who really come from outer space.

Yeah, Tijuana – tenth planet from the sun.

Dr. Ben Carson claims to be a brain surgeon.  Personally, I think he’s a brain donor and didn’t keep enough for himself.

He is obsessed with gay people.  I mean, unnaturally obsessed.  He was speaking this weekend in Iowa and got all wacky about gay marriage.  He announced ….

“What I have a problem with is when people try to force people to act against their beliefs because they say, ‘they’re discriminating against me,'” Carson told reporters. “So they can go right down the street and buy a cake, but no, let’s bring a suit against this person because I want them to make my cake even though they don’t believe in it. Which is really not all that smart because they might put poison in that cake,” he added.

Okay, now let’s think about this.  Carson says his anti-gay position is about his Christianity.  Then he takes a deep breath and says Christians would poison people on purpose.

What the hell church has this belief?  If somebody doesn’t like what you’re doing, poison them.  That’s a helluva sacrament.

Carson also claims the left is intolerant because we don’t tolerate his religious beliefs.  Yeah, I also don’t tolerate the religious beliefs of Isis.

Okay, I’ve heard of football being a religion, but …

A full one in four Americans believe that God will play a role in deciding who wins the Superbowl.  That’s 80 million people, y’all.

I have to wonder if those are the same 80 million people who think God decides who the President will be.  Probably not, though.  That’s a whole ‘nother group of 80 million Americans who said, “Thank God!” after Mitt Romney lost.  It couldn’t be the same group because the Steeple People ain’t rootin’ for President Obama.

Anyway, here’s the deal.

With the Super Bowl just over a week away, 26% of U.S. citizens and 27% of sports fans say God has a big hand in determining the victors of sporting events, according to a recent survey by the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service.

And they also believe …

God also favors athletes who live successful, faithful lives, say 68% of Protestants and 65% of Catholics.

Successful?  Okay, I can see that.  Victory itsownself kinda favors successful people.  But faithful?  I dunno about that one.  Tim Tebow may disagree.

Thank to Irene for the heads up.

Guys, I updated the “Where I Go” links on the righthand side.  I took off those who have stopped blogging and added a couple of folks who mean a lot to me.

My friend and neighbor Bob Dunn has redesigned his site to reflect his new interest in photography.  Bob has become a gentleman farmer as he continues his quest to do everything there is to do before he hits the age of 60.

One of my favorite people, the smart, funny, mean as hell, and wise Judge Susan Criss has left the bench to become a trial lawyer.  Bubba and I went to Galveston yesterday to have lunch with her at Benno’s – crawfish, shrimp, oysters, and three hours of some most excellent political stories.  She doesn’t blog every day but she ought to.  Enjoy.

So Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney met in Utah last week.  Not by accident.  This was an arranged meeting.

Bush was asked about the meeting on a Friday at an event in San Francisco, the Washington Post reported. He said the two potential 2016 contenders, who are expected to vie for many of the same donors and voters if they both decide to run, chatted about the National Football League — but they didn’t really touch on the fact that they could be political opponents soon.

Top Five Things They Did Discuss:

1.  How to make funny limericks with Ted Cruz’s name.

2.  Who gets to kiss Sheldon Adleson’s hiney first.

3.  If deflated balls drummed up such interest in the Superbowl, maybe we should get Marco Rubio to deflate his.

4.  Two Koch Brother – two candidates.  You do the math.

5.  How can we both run for President without using our last names?