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Donald Trump is apparently the new "Hippy Dippy" weatherman

The late George Carlin was by far and away my favorite stand-up comedian of all time. I was fortunate enough to see him perform live once, where, about halfway through his performance, I felt pain in my chest and tears stream down my face from laughing so hard. One famous routine he did was called "Al Sleet, the Hippy Dippy weatherman," where he'd say something like this (in a high-as-all-hell type of voice): "Hey, que pasa? What's happenin'? I mean, que pasa? What's happenin'? I'm Al Sleet, your hippy dippy weatherman, with your hippy dippy forecast, man. Tonight... dark, light in the morning, and the weather will be changing on and off for a very long period of time." I bring this up because, when he appeared on the Hugh Hewitt radio show, Donald Trump said the following about global warming: "I'm not a believer in global warming. And I'm not a believer in man-made global warming. It could be warming, and it's going t...