The Morning Dispatch: Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup

Plus: Your Morning Dispatchers reflect on the year’s blessings.

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Happy Wednesday! In case you’re looking for new things to worry about, NASA and SpaceX launched a mission overnight seeking to test humanity’s ability to change the course of space objects “should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the future.”

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • In what the administration described as an attempt to temporarily lower oil and gas prices, President Biden announced Tuesday the Department of Energy will make available releases of approximately 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the next few months. The move, the administration said, is being undertaken in coordination with several countries—China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom—that also plan to release some of their national stockpiles.

  • Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday amid Russia’s buildup of military forces along the country’s border with Ukraine. Ukrainian Brig. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov told The Military Times this week that Russia is preparing to attack as early as January of next year, and CNN reported Tuesday the Biden administration is considering sending additional military advisers and equipment to Ukraine.

  • The U.S. Navy announced that an American warship once again sailed through the geopolitically sensitive Taiwan Strait on Tuesday as part of the United States’ “commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.” China’s foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian condemned the move as “deliberate disruption and sabotage,” declaring that the United States should stop “making provocations,” and “playing with fire.”

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    Mark Wm L

    When I deployed after 9/11, I decided I would reward myself when I returned with finally getting the dog I'd wanted ever since I was a kid (but my parents would not allow). Due to being on a Captain's salary, I wasn't able to indulge in the luxury of a pure bred boxer and instead adopted from the local humane society what I was told was a boxer mix, but sure looked like every Pit/Lab mix I came across in the ensuing years. Flashforward twenty years and a co-worker of my partner shared her boxer had just had a litter. So, nearing the half-century mark, I finally became the proud owner of a purebred Boxer pup in 2021. He has been a sheer joy with never-ending exuberance about all the things that are new to him in this big world!

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    The Bell Tower

    Both my daughters learned to swim in the last 365 days. One is 4, one is 2. Living in Florida, this is by far the best thing that’s happened this year.

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    Scarlette Tarte

    I am thankful for the Dispatch writers and the commenters...proof to me that not all of us have gone insane in this country.

    And I am thankful I am above ground. Every day above ground is a good day!

    Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, even Alex Delarge. I feeling generous today, lol!

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    Michelle O

    1. Over the river and through the wood is a Thanksgiving Song! 2. My thanks to the Dispatch community. 3. At least I have a job, even if I hate it. Otherwise, I'm afraid, this year began very badly for me and I'm just thankful it's almost over.

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    Greg Hurley

    I’m still happily married to the same marvelous woman. I’m closer to the Lord than ever. My 3 “boys” are all very healthy; 2 are graduating this year and one is getting married. I know that the wedding and the graduations are things I will be thankful for next year, but being at this spot, being able to watch as they approach finish lines after long journeys, it’s a pretty special place to be. I have good friends. I have lots of family and I love them dearly (I’ll be feeding 31 of them today!). I still have my Dad and my father-in-law and mother-in-law who I do treasure. Neither my wife nor I have had COVID yet. And I am thankful for The Dispatch and staff and Dispatchers. Y’all constantly remind me that the world is much more reasonable and hopeful and kinder than the one I see on TV or experience on Twitter.

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    David Hendrickson

    1. I've spent a year going to a support group, and this is the longest period of my life that I haven't been depressed. Through doing so, I've learned to forgive myself, and I've gotten better at not letting perfectionism cripple me.

    2. I met a nice young lady on Memorial Day, and we've been dating ever since. This is the first time that I feel like I've been truly responsible and consistent in a relationship.

    3. I started a job at a pro-life nonprofit, and I've already gotten to direct our summer camp and coordinate volunteers for our state fair booth.

    4. I moved out of a terrible house exactly one year ago, and I get along with my new roommate very well.

    5. I visited my estranged grandpa recently. It was brief, but rewarding.

    6. I'm visiting family I haven't seen for almost three years.

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  7. Dan Sides

    Stable health, career and family.

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  8. Brilliantly Oblivious

    I am thankful that in a world awash in to quote another publication) “crushing morosity, The Dispatch stands as a refreshingly informative and reliable source for news and analysis.
    Now a quick relish recipe: 1 bunch cilantro, 1 small red onion, 1 clove garlic, a handful of cherry tomatoes, a handful of nuts, 2T olive oil, 2 T lime juice and 1 T sugar or substitute. Put everything in a food processor and process until desired smoothness.
    Happy Thanksgiving to all!.

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    Mike Kupfer

    I'm thankful for the hard-working and smart people who developed the COVID-19 vaccines in record time, as well as for the trustworthy people in government who evaluated the vaccines. Also, after reading about so many bad things happening in the world this past year, I'm thankful not to have been personally affected by any of the insanity (knock on wood).

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  10. James Peck

    My mother is journeying towards her final days. She is 100 years, 6 months, and 20 days old. My father died in 1961, when I was just 3 and a half. Last week, while visiting my mother in her assisted living apartment, I found a letter from my father to my mother's parents, dated 1952, asking their permission to marry her. This letter was mixed in with other papers. I read it. It left me in a sobbing mess. I learned how much my father loved my mother. So, tomorrow, I will give thanks, deep, sincere, thanks that I have these parents, especially this mother. I also learned Daddy could write a love letter! My goodness, could he write a love letter!

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