Ree-count:  The Green Party and its defeated presidential candidate Jill Stein say they have raised $3.5 million to force recounts of the Nov. 8 election results in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, three states where Donald Trump won, but barely. Stein says she’s doing it because of statistical anomalies in the voting and she wants to know whether the system is flawed.

Trump aide Kellyanne Conway taunted via Twitter, “Look who ‘can’t accept the election results.’”

The Stein campaign says it has the money for Wisconsin’s $1.1 million filing fee that must be paid today. Filing deadlines are Monday in Pennsylvania and Wednesday in Michigan. Stein doesn’t have a chance to turn the election in her favor. All three states would have to go to Hillary Clinton for her to come up the winner.

In Transition: The Trump transition team has broken into open disagreement about whether he should appoint Mitt Romney or Rudolph Giuliani to be Secretary of State.  Kellyanne Conway aired out the conflict tweeting, “Receiving deluge of social media & private comms re: Romney Some Trump loyalists warn against Romney as sec of state”

Romney was one of the establishment Republicans who was openly critical of Trump while Giuliani campaigned for him. Both Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have spoken out against Romney. Gingrich said that picking Romney would be “a real insult” to Trump supporters.

Trump had thanksgiving dinner with family at his Florida resort yesterday, but claimed to be on the job. He tweeted, “I am working hard, even on Thanksgiving, trying to get Carrier A.C. Company to stay in the U.S. (Indiana). MAKING PROGRESS – Will know soon!”

Permawar: A member of the US Special Operations Forces was killed yesterday by a roadside bomb in northern Syria, becoming the first American soldier to die in that country’s civil war. American forces have been in Syria to recruit and train Kurdish and Arab fighters in the effort to retake the Islamic State held city of Raqqa.

World: The Colombian government has reached a new peace agreement with FARC, the rebel group that’s been fighting for 52 years. Voters shot down a peace agreement on Oct. 2^nd, but this time the government is sending the deal to parliament for approval. More than a quarter million people have died in the war. — Wildfires burned through parts of the Israeli port city of Haifa yesterday, forcing the evacuation of as many as 60,000 people. The fires are believed to have been intentionally set.

Several homes have burned and the fires have burned brush and trees between apartment buildings.

The Obit Page: Florence Henderson, the actress who played the mother in the long-running sitcom “The Brady Bunch,” died in Los Angeles at age 82. Henderson had been a Broadway stage actress when she was tapped for the part that typecast her as “America’s mother.” The show that ran for five years during the height of the Vietnam War had a treacly naiveté that would never play on television today.

Shop ‘Til You Drop: Today is the shopping day unfortunately named “Black Friday” because it’s the day retailers begin to make a profit for the year. News reports tell you all about it because there’s nothing else going on today unless Donald Trump tweets.

The National Retail Federation expects holiday sales to grow by 3.6 percent, the most since the onset of the Great Recession, creating 690,000 new seasonal jobs.

Reporters are wandering the malls asking people what they bought, and the amazing thing is that shoppers actually tell them what they have bought friends and family for Christmas.

Time of Possession: Aretha Franklin sang the National Anthem yesterday before the Detroit Lions played the Minnesota Vikings and managed to make the song last for four minutes and thirty seconds.

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