Sen. Ted Cruz has endorsed Republican nominee Donald Trump for President four months after dropping out of the race for president, returning to his work in the U.S. Senate, and beginning to campaign for re-election in 2018.
A statement from Cruz read:
This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history. Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election.
In Cleveland, I urged voters, “please, don’t stay home in November. Stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket whom you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.”
After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.
I’ve made this decision for two reasons. First, last year, I promised to support the Republican nominee. And I intend to keep my word.
Second, even though I have had areas of significant disagreement with our nominee, by any measure Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable — that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary.
Six key policy differences inform my decision. First, and most important, the Supreme Court. For anyone concerned about the Bill of Rights — free speech, religious liberty, the Second Amendment — the Court hangs in the balance. I have spent my professional career fighting before the Court to defend the Constitution. We are only one justice away from losing our most basic rights, and the next president will appoint as many as four new justices. We know, without a doubt, that every Clinton appointee would be a left-wing ideologue. Trump, in contrast, has promised to appoint justices “in the mold of Scalia.”
For some time, I have been seeking greater specificity on this issue, and today the Trump campaign provided that, releasing a very strong list of potential Supreme Court nominees — including Sen. Mike Lee, who would make an extraordinary justice — and making an explicit commitment to nominate only from that list. This commitment matters, and it provides a serious reason for voters to choose to support Trump.
Second, Obamacare. The failed healthcare law is hurting millions of Americans. If Republicans hold Congress, leadership has committed to passing legislation repealing Obamacare. Clinton, we know beyond a shadow of doubt, would veto that legislation. Trump has said he would sign it.
Third, energy. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s war on coal and relentless efforts to crush the oil and gas industry. Trump has said he will reduce regulations and allow the blossoming American energy renaissance to create millions of new high-paying jobs.
Fourth, immigration. Clinton would continue and even expand President Obama’s lawless executive amnesty. Trump has promised that he would revoke those illegal executive orders.
Fifth, national security. Clinton would continue the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism. She would continue importing Middle Eastern refugees whom the FBI cannot vet to make sure they are not terrorists. Trump has promised to stop the deluge of unvetted refugees.
Sixth, Internet freedom. Clinton supports Obama’s plan to hand over control of the Internet to an international community of stakeholders, including Russia, China, and Iran. Just this week, Trump came out strongly against that plan, and in support of free speech online.
These are six vital issues where the candidates’ positions present a clear choice for the American people.
If Clinton wins, we know — with 100% certainty — that she would deliver on her left-wing promises, with devastating results for our country.
My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that.
We also have seen, over the past few weeks and months, a Trump campaign focusing more and more on freedom — including emphasizing school choice and the power of economic growth to lift African-Americans and Hispanics to prosperity.
Finally, after eight years of a lawless Obama administration, targeting and persecuting those disfavored by the administration, fidelity to the rule of law has never been more important.
The Supreme Court will be critical in preserving the rule of law. And, if the next administration fails to honor the Constitution and Bill of Rights, then I hope that Republicans and Democrats will stand united in protecting our fundamental liberties.
Our country is in crisis. Hillary Clinton is manifestly unfit to be president, and her policies would harm millions of Americans. And Donald Trump is the only thing standing in her way.
A year ago, I pledged to endorse the Republican nominee, and I am honoring that commitment. And if you don’t want to see a Hillary Clinton presidency, I encourage you to vote for him.
During the first Republican presidential primary debate, all the candidates on the stage were asked if they would support whichever candidate won the Republican nomination. Only Trump expressed at the time that he could not yet make that commitment. Cruz was on that stage. Eventually, each candidate present at the first debate made the pledge to back the Republican nominee. Cruz re-affirmed that pledge in March as the race tightened.
Trump invited Cruz to speak at the Republican National Convention in July, where Trump was officially named and accepted the Republican nomination for president of the United States. Rumors flew around the convention speculating on whether Cruz would seize the public opportunity to endorse Trump. But while Cruz congratulated Trump on winning the nomination and made several indictments of Democratic nominee-to-be Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama, he stopped short of endorsing Trump, instructing those listening rather to “vote your conscience.”
That statement was made in this portion of Cruz’s RNC speech:
We deserve leaders who stand for principle. Who unite us all behind shared values. Who cast aside anger for love. That is the standard we should expect, from everybody.
And to those listening, please, don’t stay home in November. If you love our country…stand, and speak, and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution.
Austin Said:
Delicious !!!!! My people came from Lodz, Poland.
@ honeybee:
Well…live and learn…. I never heard of such a thing. I just looked it up and it is supposed to have been a delicacy of Eastern European Jews. Well, that’s what my family was and they never ever introduced it into our huge array of Jewish cooking. Neither did anyone I know in the whole 4,000 Community. Probably in THAT part of Eastern Europe it was not a favourite.
As I say, I looked it up and saw…”carmelized onions”…. No wonder we never heard of it….. But, if you like it that’s O.K. Some people love snails and frogs legs, prawns, oysters and a variety of drek. I think Robinson Crusoe acquired a taste for grilled seagulls sprinkled with well rotted hay…
In reality I love raw onions, and when young would eat them like apples. Still do, but chopped up, and mixed with tomatoes in an omelet, salmon or tuna mix. Always delicious.
Austin Said:
Pletzels are Jewish Pizza.
https://www.yahoo.com/style/pletzel-recipe-from-modern-jewish-cooking-113967940496.html
@ honeybee:
I would think that if I ate a combination of the delicacies you mention….. I would…as Florian Slappy would have said..”Ah is suddenly gwin’ ta become ain’t…”
“Pletzels is a typo for “pretzels” of course. Of all of those my favourite always was the PUrim delicacy Hamantaschen. They used to tell the kids that they were 3 cornered (pointed) because Haman’s ears were like that….as is (was) Hitler’s (yemach shemo). We kids lapped up all sorts of stories and rumours. It gave us confidence during the war because we knew G-D make sure that Hitler would end like Haman. Although we were neutral, several times German planes dropped bomb loads on Dublin, once just across the road in the front garden of the home of a local shochet. The whole house was made rubble but Mr. and Mrs. Rev. were dug out unharmed, as were their whole family of 3 girls and 2 boys. My house was destroyed, windows, front wall, roof, and etc. I was thrown out of bed and ended up blown from an inner wall to the front window still in my bed, which suddenly was full of glass, to the only part of the wall still partially standing. Spent the night under the stairs. Those happy days.
Austin Said:
No problem I still loves ya. I can prepare an entire Smorgasbord by my self. I can bake pletzels, challah, latkes, Hamentashen and cheesecake to die for.
@ honeybee:
I wasn’t sure, because you are a regarded as a renowned “kidder” by some, and also, I had just fallen into thinking that Bear’s comment was factual.
I have no idea how it ever came to be believed that chicken and fowl generally came to be regarded as “non=meat”. It’s just the same as beef or mutton according to the Laws of Kashrut. Of course I am NO Rabbi.
I was not aware of your background, or I would have taken your comment at face value.
Bear gives a pretty good run-down on Jewish Dietary Laws regarding Kashrut. In my family, if a utensil had been accidentally used for the wrong purpose, like a milk knife for meat, we’d stick it in the earth overnight, as a cleansing measure. Saved the trouble of boiling water, as described later on.
My family came from Latvia, and it’s possible that there are practices used in one area which might not be used in another’ they each might have developed their own customs. But NOT on anything which really mattered, like the Laws that Bear quotes.
I must say that I never heard that a dish used for cold treif was not regarded as just as treif as one used for hot items. I can’t imagine a plate used for cold chazar later being regarded as kosher.
Perhaps this was to do with the concept that the ancients knew even then, that heat expands material, allowing treif to enter. “Laws and Customs of Israel” (The Shulchan Aruch) which deals with all that was only assembled together by Joseph Karo in the 16th century. There are other Codes but his is the most used, I think. In my community many homes possessed a copy. It used to be a standard barmitzvah present……. when we preferred “fountain pens’…as Shelly Berman used to say.
We also had crockery and utensils, used only for Pesach, which each year just before the Chag, we would immerse in a bath with water constantly trickling in, and leaving by the overflow. This constant water movement obeyed the injunction of “live” water. This would last for 3 days.
Now I’m dizzy from all that. Mit Mazal…..
So a kasher Household would have 4 sets of everything.
Anyway, Honey, again apologies.
As to McCormack, listen to the 1925 recording, he made several, one in 1911, pre-electric, also very good, but the head-voice is not as clear. The 1925 rendition at the end of the record seems to go on, and on, like a fading echo, becore it comes back in full volume. Wonderful control, and beautiful fullness of voice where it mattered.
Let me know .
In practice, a pottery dish cannot ever be made kosher again, because they are porous and absorb, although there are convoluted ways, using majorly hot oven where it can be, but it’s not worth the trouble, and you’ll likely end up with a cracked dish anyway.
Metal items may. They can be kashered by boiling in water, and then pushing in a red hot fire iron, or metal rod, which temporarily heats the water past boiling point, making sure that all impurities are eliminated. The bubbling water should run over the edge of the pot, signifying the past-boiling point.
I should think that most on this site know more than I do about kashrut, which I learned about at home as a child.
@ Bear Klein:
@ Bear Klein:
Oy this Swedish cook is going to hell!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo
@ honeybee:No meat of any sort with dairy.
@ Austin:
Austin Said:
My Father was Jewish, my Mother ,”a convert”, was Swedish-Amer. and raised Lutheran. They had a ” tug of war” over religion in which I was the rope. I came on to this site to learn about Judaism and Israel. I asked you that question in all sincerity. I know you are not suppose to mix beef and dairy, but a chicken is a bird.
I have not been able to listen to your music yet, I have swamped by household task.
Did you listen yet to McCormack singing “I hear you calling me”..? Has anyone listerned to it……Any comments…?
@ honeybee:
Like McEnroe…I can’t believe you’re serious, You are a Jew aren’t you…?
Or are you kidding me expecting me to catch on. I know that American Judaism is really a Jewish offshoot, perhaps doing away with the dietary laws…… Enlighten me.
Next, you’ll tell me that you take the chicken out to the backyard block , and whack it’s head off with a machete.
Austin Said:
why ??????????
@ honeybee:
Rubbing a chicken (which is dead anyway and does not itch) with butter, is TREIF……. that is if you eat it afterwards.
Every Jew has his choice, I have always been strictly Kosher, even under what could be called difficult times, and likely the cause of my Vegetarianism, due to difficulty in finding kosher meat where I was living. I see no reason other than wilfulness and laziness to eat treif.. I try to keep Shabat, even if not so meticulous in the prayer part. I fast on Yom Kipur. I observe Kaporot, for each of my children, with money to be donated. When young, in our family a chicken was used. Ancient traditions yes, but it kept us all together…then.
Yet I am not a good Jew. Not good enough that is.
Austin Said:
I Sir am not a chicken. If I were a chicken then I would be a cannibal. The chicken was delicious, roasted with garlic and onions, rubbed with butter and spices. Wonderful gravy. I am unabashedly carnivorous and I enjoy Mark Twain.
@ honeybee:
Cannibal…. Reminds me of the evil days when I used to eat meat.
And the Mark Twain story that a man was telling the chiefs of the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) about the evil cannibals who had eaten two of his friends. The abuse of the cannibals by the chiefs was unending, until the man casually mentioned that the cannibals came from the Sandwich Islands.
There was an awkward pause…. and then one of the chiefs blurted out….”Well what did they want to come fooling around here for”….?
I always thought it was very witty. It was in a very small 92 page book of his anecdotes, of which there is no record in the lists of his works. Some of the anecdotes have been repeated in others of his books but not this one. Others are also not found. I’ve had the book since a child, that’s well over 65 years. It was old and well worn then and without even a cover back or front, with the pages simply stapled (very rusty) together top and bottom. But it had an index.
@ Austin:
I shall do it tomorrow. Right now I have roasting chicken in the oven. Supper to get !!!!!!!!!!
@ honeybee:
A little vignette about McCormack I just recalled. By the way, I just played your record and it was beautiful to my ears. It must have been one of the very first electric recordings which began in 1925, but I have a pre-electric, maybe around 1915-16 of him doing the same song, and believe me, I can’t tell the difference.
Now for the vignette. He was a very heavy drinker, like many Irishmen_and women- and had to be handled with great care. But…my late father and uncle had bought a theatre in SE Ireland, and they got McCormack, always hugely popular in Ireland (it was the only thing they could boast about in those days) for opening night. He staggered onto the stage as drunk as a lord, Leaned heavily against a podium his manager thoughtfully supplied, and sang, beautifully as ever, until he fell over. The curtain came down of course, and the show continued. He died 6-7 years later, a hopeless drunk, of DT’s and etc. One of the most magnificent talents gone to waste in his last 20 years.
But…..as soon as you read this, you must pull up Youtube, and play his “I hear you calling me”…the head-voice is so beautiful that no one has ever been able to dublicate it, no matter how great the singer. Do that right now and tell me what you think.
In fact, anyone who appreciates McCormack should listen to this recording.
@ Austin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VRNvAlrDmU
@ honeybee:
A most lovely tune. At one time I ran a dixieland Jazz Band, and this was one of our favourite tunes. Sheer beauty when sung by McCormack, because of the silvery, unique voice, particularly his unequalled “head-voice”…..but it makes a terrific Jazz tune. I like the little chord change at the 20th and 21st chords, a simple modulation bringing it back to the original key which I think is maybe D because it was for voice.
It’s played in almost all keys, we played it in F, best for the range of the horns, and the very interesting thing about it, is that it was telling a real story, about the writer’s deceased wife.
You should listen to McCormack’s beautiful singing of Rose of Tralee. No better word to describe it. It always reminds me of my dear late mother, who was born in Cork City, not far from Tralee. A favourite of hers too.
@ honeybee:
The songs yes….but the copy of the original old record which is actually a historic artifact…rarely. I would never listen to the crap pretending to be music, and not thr so-called “vocalists”, who always seem to be reacting to torture by red hot irons..These modern so-called bands. They are pure hard labour prison torture.
@ Austin:
Fate !!!!!!!!!!!! Yes , I have experienced prescience !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvpmTrM07bo
@ honeybee:
There are far too many coincidences between you and I…..I’m getting worried…… Did you by any chance take a course in mind reading…..? And you display prescience.
Austin Said:
I remember the name.
Austin Said:
No too much to store. You can find many of the songs now on you tube.
@ honeybee:
Do you still have those old records. I have a bit of a collection of old records too. I have an original “Gallagher and Sheen” And I have “Shine on Harvest Moon” sung by the composers Norah Bayes and Jack Norworth, although Norworth had very little.to do with the composition, really none. And a collection of very old John McCormack recordings which I love, the old one-sided ones, made around the beginning of the 20th cent. I have an original recording of “Hors D’ouevres” from I think 1915. A terrific recording is by Ambrose and His Orchestra, a top English band, in about 1934-35. Billy May Band does a clearer disc, because it was much later, but exactly the same arrangment, and the piano right hand comes in better. And if you want to hear great scat singing, pull up Bing Crosby and the Mills Brothers doing S-H-I-N-E. The Bros do it also by themselves almost as good. Real toe tapping a la carte.
Of course this is assuming that you have a good ear for music and can follow the chord progressions, especially for the Crosby scat part..
I knew the Mills Bros personally, although only 2, the other and father were dead.
Austin Said:
My Dad played “Cyrano” in High School. I painted Quanah’s portrait. I have in hanging above my second story staircase. I greet him every morning before I begin my day.
@ Austin:
Of course there are some who believe that the American Indians are one of the Lost Tribes. It was a popular theory about 70-80 years ago. Along with the British competing with them for a place as a Lost Tribe.
Of course there were NEVER 10 Lost Tribes at all. They remained in Babylon. And the “ten” were really only about 5-6. Because very early, Judah and Benjamin joined together, also Simeon. Levi was never lost, and a few others, I forget who, assimilated with other tribes until their identity was lost except on ancient cartographers’ maps of the territories of the Original Tribes. but even then, they were getting their info from the Torah account which was maybe 1200 years older, and long after the Tribes had disappeared into history.
@ honeybee:
I remember reading a life of Cynthia Ann Parker many years ago, and of course I know about Quanah Parker, the last great Indian leader.
He transferred to the American way of life very well…eventually.
The Commanche are regarded as the greatest light cavalry soldiers ever seen.
Your late(?) father had very good taste a la Brice, and odd ideas about Jews and large noses. (uness he was kidding)
The largest nose I ever saw in my whole life on a man was of the cousin of my former wife, it was perfectly formed but monstrously long. Cyrano would not have even bothered to enter in a long nose competition if this man was entered.
@ Austin:
The scourge of Texas was Quannah Parker. My Father’s favorite Amer. Indian Chief was Roman Nose whom he said was proof the Indian were Jews. Fanny Brice, my Father’s favorite performer. He had her old records to which I would dance, as a child.
@ Austin:
8 room school house two story . Border town lots of kids came on a school bus from the sounding ranches. Handsome cowboy, yes with a bouquet of wild flowers.
@ honeybee:
How the dickens do you manage to always dig out an apt video to emphasise the subject. You must have a great knowledge of how the computer works.. I don’t, can just barely type, send and receive…..
altough not always grateful for what I receive..but that’s a different subject.
And Fanny Brice was a great star. Unequalled so far.
@ honeybee:
I see you know abpout Roman NOse the famous Indian warrior and leader, the scourge of the white man for many years. \but \i think he was a Cheyenne, not an Apache, and I don’t know that you could havemet him in Texas….. but whoknows what surreptitious dates you sneaked out for after the family was asleep…..
@ yamit82:
@ yamit82:
Now you are both teetering at the edge of “Weiner-speak”….. Risky and risque.. I thought of it when \i first saw the comment “in or out of uniform” but my always present sense of modesty prevented me from responding…I had a bunch of schoolboy jokes to post about it but discreetly refrained. Always the gentleman I am. And as my good old sidekick always said…..
“I yam wot I yam”…..
@ honeybee:
One room school no doubt, built in a hurry when the town population produced about 10-12 kids ages from 4 to 15, and they all arrived on horses, jennets, cobs, or on foot. Did you have the handsome cowboy calling on you after class…..?
@ yamit82:
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/na-romannose.html
Of course Roman Noses ! Did they have horns ????
@ robert sklaroff:
A no vote for Trump is a vote for stinking HITLARY. results and consequences on your head.
@ honeybee:
REAL JEWISH INDIANS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAYt6dpCgOI