Quoted from Box A Rox

I remember Saratoga's downtown in decline.  It's business men and politicians invested (as with Schdy's Proctors) in the cities
history, it's old buildings, and it's commerce.
Saratoga like Schenectady has a 'cash cow' of being a college town... only Saratoga promotes it's city, while this board only
drags Schdy through the mud.

Saratoga's largest asset is it's Race Tracks which bring millions each year to support it's year round population.  

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

Saratoga County really is overrated  -- it is WAAAAAY down on the list of places that I would ever choose to live in.

Quoted from mikechristine1

If it's overrated, please explain why property values increase and taxes are low and homebuyers flock there in HUGE numbers

Quoted from benny salami

It's overrated they don't have uneducated DEM morons raping the taxpayers. While cooking the books and lying about job creation. Both Skidmore and Union are very small colleges. Saratoga has a nationwide reputation and not for cockroaches. The City moron voters just elected another Proctor's stooge who sounds like DVR on taxes. Schenectady COUNTY taxes are 4X Saratoga County-and they aren't building a new nursing home. That won't cost a penny? lol. One major difference you can actually buy shoes, clothes or a mop in Saratoga. Apples at the Green Market don't generate sales taxes.

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The Golden Calf as polemical allegory


     The Golden Calf story is an alternate tradition, and the material in Exodus Chapter 24 is contradictory. The former contains references to animal sacrifices, Levites, priestly rites of purification and ablution, concerns about seeing God and dying, and most notably, a reference to a golden calf, all of which date the material to a time after the institution of Levitical law and placing the material in a time after the period of the divided Kingdoms. Aaron made one calf but then is made to say 'gods' (plural) to repeat the words Jeroboam used when ordaining the calf idol religious centers.

     How stupid could Jeroboam have been to make calves and then use the very words that Aaron used to ordain the calf centers, when it was well known, even the motivating factor that the reason for the institution of the calf centers was because the people remained fiercely loyal to their previous traditions? Jeroboam said to himself, "they will kill me." He could not have then been stupid enough to make two calves, for then the people would have killed him, if we assume that the calf stories were known in that day.

     The story of the Golden Calf and the surrounding material is not historical, but rather is a polemic. The readers who were contemporary with the parable would have understood exactly what the point of the story was. The writer is posing a question, and answering it: what would Moses would have done, if he was alive to see those people kissing the calves? That a group of priestly, discontented Levites wrote the story is also demonstrated by the priestly concerns embedded in the narrative, as I noted above, and there is also an implied threat in that the people will 'drink bitter waters,' waters contaminated with ground up calf idol.

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

(yawn) there are many other counties that are 100 times better to live in than Saratoga County

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

(yawn) there are many other counties that are 100 times better to live in than Saratoga County