Thanksgiving is upon us.
We will now engage in our national celebration of gluttony, greed, and
televised football games.
Gloria and I
are doing our share to minimize the gluttony aspect. We have celebrated Thanksgiving every year of
our marriage with duck fixed in some manner.
I believe this year will find the duck being fixed on a vertical roaster
in a closed charcoal grill. We will
manage two meals from one duck. We’ll
fatten out the table with haricot vert and baked sweet potatoes. I’ll fix a small blueberry relish this year
to accent the duck. The only real
gluttony items this year are two pies. I
bought a chocolate fudge pie for me and baked two sugar-free pumpkin pies for
Gloria, so that she gets a bit of dessert that she rarely allows herself.
The day is
bright and sunny; She and I have much to be thankful for. While we are separated from extended families
by hundreds of miles, we’ll be able to touch base with everyone.
The shooting
in Israel has seemingly stopped for a while.
The shouting about who won will continue as Hamas tries to convince
newly homeless families that moving from an apartment to a pile of rubble is a
military victory. Unfortunately, as with
the teavangelists here, the Gaza populace is easily excited, poorly educated,
and only to eager to believe misinformation when it is administered with a
heavy dose of anti-intellectualism, anti-Semitism, or both. All over the Middle East, Israel’s agreement
to a cease-fire is considered to be Israel’s defeat. At one level, it is. The last conflict has been costly to Israel
in terms of calling up reserves. It has
demonstrated a technical upgrade in the Israeli arsenal, but at an immense
price for hardware. All lives lost and
all Israelis injured are evidence of a conflict that should have never been
allowed to play out. World opinion
continues to demand of Israel what no other nation is asked to endure.
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