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Now is it still true that there's a senator who's planning to, he might miss the vote I think he's a Republican. He might miss the vote on Kavanaugh because his daughter has a wedding. Is that still true? Because I saw I heard it yesterday but then I didn't see it on the news. So I'm going to say wedding. Kavanaugh. Senator I forget which senator it was. Senator Daines will be on Saturday and they…

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You just jumped the shark. Do you know how many times people have told me that I jumped the shark? Can you imagine? Well first of all Dilbert is entering its 30th year. So for 30 years I've been drawing Dilbert and it's been one of the top comics in the world for most of that 30 years. Probably 25 of those years it was one of the top comics in the world. And for at least 25 years I get about one message a week at minimum in which somebody tells me well now you jumped the shark. You know you were okay for those first four years but now you jumped the shark.

So for 30 years people have been telling me well today you went too far. Well it was okay yesterday but now you've gone too far. So I always laugh when I see it because if it's such a low awareness comment in my case.

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Let's talk about 3.7 unemployment as we enter the zone of the midterms. We're kind of now in the midterm zone meaning it's so close to the midterms that that's all we're thinking about. It gets harder and harder to say that the economy is all Obama's good work. Now I'm one of the few people in the world who is willing to say Obama did a good job. Trump is also doing a good job. I think it's possi…

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