Political Note #286   Kathleen Williams MT CD AL

Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com  Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website.  A Bus Ride in Detroit.  Masks Political Note #286   Kathleen Williams MT CD AL 2020                             General Election In 1916 Montana elected Jeannette Rankin the first female Member of the United States Congress.  Kathleen Williams https://kathleenformontana.com is trying, for the second time, to be Montana's second female Member of Congress. Kathleen Williams is a distinctive character who could only come out of the American West.  She hunts and fishes. She skis, hikes and canoes. She…

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Political Note #283 John Ossoff US Senate Georgia

Check out the website: https://lenspoliticalnotes.com  Look at the recent Daily Bits on the website.  The Passover Story Political Note #283   John Ossoff US Senate Georgia 2020                             General Election Georgia on my mind.  Georgia has three very big elections coming up in November. Let’s see who votes. Let’s see who is allowed to vote.  In 2018, Democrat Stacey Abrams lost the race for Governor to the then Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp. She lost by 55,000 votes or 1.4%.  700,000 voters were removed from the voting rolls,…

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Haaretz and the Exodus, Part II

So far, there are Semites in Egypt.  Canaanites thrived, first as rulers, then not.  The Hyksos were expelled into the desert.  But they were former rulers, not former slaves.  And their expulsion is too early to be the Biblical Exodus. In the middle of the 14th century, around 1350 BCE, the Pharaoh Akhenaten, adopted monotheism.  It is unclear whether there was a connection between his monotheism based on a  sun god and the God of the Israelites.  Bohstrom points to a vizier’s tomb, a man who served both Akhenaten’s father and then Akhenaten.  The man was  named Aper-El or Aperia…

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Haaretz on the Exodus, Part i

Every year for Pesach, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz publishes an article or two that argues the Exodus never happened, didn’t happen the way the Haggada tells us, or actually did happened. This year, Haaretz published on April 5 an article by Phillipe Bohstrom, an archeologist. Bohstrom acknowledges that  “The Exodus could be a distant Semitic memory of the expulsion of [the] Hyksos, or small-scale exoduses by different tribes and groups of Semitic origin during various periods. Or it is a fable. He suggests there is a logic to accepting that there is something real in the Exodus story:  “Psychologically ….…

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