The Family Feud: It’s Thanksgiving. Television news and late night comedians have put out national security alerts about how to avoid family arguments at the dinner table. The only thing really worth arguing about is how and when to make the gravy. Hint: start yesterday.

New York City is braced with extra security for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Three thousand police officers will line the route backed by bomb and vapor-sniffing dogs. Sanitation trucks loaded with sand will block intersections.

Triple A estimates that nearly 50 million people have travelled at least 50 miles for the holiday.

Christmas shopping is now a big Thanksgiving tradition with major stores open for Americans tired of the argument at the table. Best Buy, Big Lots, Kmart, Macy’s, Sears, Target, Toys R Us, Walmart, and Bass Pro Shops will all be open later today. Git yer fishin’ gear.

In the NFL, the Vikings play the Lions and the Redskins are against the Cowboys today. In the college game, LSU is plays Texas A&M.

And Donald Trump is at his Mar-a-Lago getaway in Florida.

By Appointment Only: Trump yesterday named Betsy DeVos, an advocate of charter schools and school vouchers, to be Secretary of Education. Trump said in a statement, “Under her leadership, we will reform the US education system and break the bureaucracy that is holding our children back so that we can deliver world-class education and school choice to all families.”

DeVos was a big donor to the Trump campaign. Her husband is a billionaire whose father founded the Amway door-to-door soap sales company.

Earlier yesterday Trump appointed a big critic. He named South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has no foreign policy experience, to be the US Ambassador to the United Nations. Haley, 44, is the daughter of Indian immigrants.

She was a vocal critic of Trump during the campaign, saying last January that, “Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference.” She also accused Trump of failing to repudiate the Ku Klux Klan after the massacre of nine black parishioners in a Charleston church. Haley managed to get the Confederate flag removed from the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse.

Trump also offered Housing and Urban Development to retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who was among the squad of Republicans who ran for President.

Down for the Count: Supporters of Hillary Clinton are urging her to challenge the vote in several key states that cost her the election. As the presidential vote counting continues, Clinton is behind by only about 30,000 votes in Michigan and Wisconsin.

Several computer scientists say there may have been irregularities in electronic voting that could have cost Clinton the election. They are urging re-counts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

Clinton leads in the popular vote by 1.82 million.

Nation: A sixth child has died as a result of Monday’s Chattanooga school bus crash — A 17-story Kansas City waterslide billed as the world’s tallest is going to be torn down after a 10-year-old rider was killed in August. The slide, named Verrückt, the German word for insane, has been closed since the death of Caleb Schwab.

The Obit Page: Ralph Branca, the Brooklyn Dodger pitcher who threw the ball that became “The Shot Heard Round the World” for the New York Giants, has died at age 90. Branca was an All-Star three seasons in a row for the Dodgers, but he was never forgiven for the pitch that Bobby Thompson knocked over the fence to win the 1951 National League championship for the Giants.

Branca said years later, “A guy commits murder and he gets pardoned after 20 years. I didn’t get pardoned.”

Internet President: Trump posted a holiday message on the internet last night, calling for national unity. But, he admitted, “Emotions are raw and tensions just don’t heal overnight.”

Especially at the Thanksgiving dinner table.

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