As of the 2000 census, only one of the Shiloh, Georgias, USA had enough people to make it worthwhile for a Wiki entry.

Pop. 423. Interesting place, if you like trailer parks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiloh,_Harris_County,_Georgia

See how easy it is?

@Carol Richards (September 4, 2008 10:35 PM)

Republicans Blast Republicans Better than the Dems!

Jeeez....

http://open.salon.com/content.php?cid=15442

Here are excerpts from the great blog essay Carol cites above, in case you didn't use the link to it (Thank you, Carol!):

"McCain Counts His Blessings"

"This week's Republican Convention has chiefly been about two things: introducing future President Sarah Palin, and John McCain's war record. Now, I'm on record as being highly suspicious of John McCain's Vietnam experience. Shot down? Taken prisoner? Tortured?

"First of all, I'm not so sure that beating a person, repeatedly and mercilessly, counts as 'Torture.' If I've learned anything from the past 7 years, it's that the definition of 'Torture' is highly fluid, and often hard to distinguish from simple hazing or misguided tomfoolery. McCain himself has voted AGAINST a U.S. Torture Ban, presumably because he understands that a little Torture isn't always such a bad thing. Similar to the hot button issues of Evolution and Global Warming, we're dealing with a lot of misinformation and conjecture. It's all very confusing.

" 'We Don't Torture' has been a mantra of the current administration, despite ample evidence that our government actually DOES engage in activities that might be construed (or defined by legal precedent) as 'torture.' It's very much an 'eye of the beholder' situation. You say po-tay-to, I say po-torture.

"In any case, the P.O.W. thing has been hugely beneficial to McCain in the current campaign, and he has not been shy about using it to his advantage at every opportunity. Lately, he has even taken to using it as an all-purpose answer to just about any question-- even questions which have nothing to do with his wartime experience. I think it's a brilliant piece of political jujitsu. I've actually started advising a few Republican Congressmen in tough re-election races to start emphasizing THEIR OWN five-and-a-half years spent in a Vietnamese prison camp. The way I figure it, in a tough year for the GOP, it couldn't hurt.

"McCain, of course, believes that, since his time in the Hanoi Hilton, he has been 'Blessed' with 'Opportunities', which explains his ownership of so many houses that he cannot even keep track of them all. It also explains his opposition to the recent G.I. Bill, which provides Expanded Education Benefits to soldiers who have served 3 years in our military since 9/11. McCain thought the benefits were too much, too soon-- that American men and women would enlist in the military just to whiz through those three easy years of service and reap the rewards of subsidized higher education.

"It really is an unbelievable scam-- ship off to Iraq or Afghanistan, and three years later-- presto! Free college.

"I don't pretend to speak for Senator McCain, but I'm guessing that he thought that the promise of 'expanded education benefits' would attract a bunch of greedy, freeloading opportunists looking to take advantage by ONLY giving up three years of their lives in service to our nation. You know the type. Frankly, the kind of person who only serves our nation for three years doesn't DESERVE 'expanded education benefits.' At least, that's the way I see it, and Senator McCain clearly agrees with me, or he would've voted for the bill (presumably.) Instead, he publicly opposed it for months, and when it came time for a vote, he didn't even bother to show up.

"McCain's viewpoint is easy to understand. Why do soldiers need 'benefits'? Why don't they just wait for their 'blessings' like he did? Surely every returning G.I. can find a beer heiress whose father was 'blessed' with all kinds of money. There must be hundreds of them out there, just waiting to share all those "blessings" with the next G.I. unable to afford college. If anything, McCain's plan sounds like a BETTER deal than the one he voted against. Expanded education benefits? Screw that. How about SEVEN houses and you never have to crack a text book?

"Sadly, Democratic Senator Jim Webb's GI Bill passed both houses and became law DESPITE McCain's opposition. Who knows how many Blessings and Opportunities our returning soldiers will miss out on while they pursue their degrees? How many beer heiresses will pass them by unawares whilst they are studying for their final exams? We may never know."

mk wrote: Dems tend to focus on their own individual constituencies more than a common Democratic party line or talking point.

Yes I have noted that the past two election cycles. A political provincialism and lack of coherent attack strategy (owing to lack of think tank input) which always precedes a loss.

So looks like in two months we will be back to 'square one' again, as McCain -Palin take the wheel and drive us all into perdition.

At least when the Ds paid attention to ideology they won more often (FDR, Trumam 1948, JFK 1960, LBJ 1964). But since doffing it for some metaphysical paradigm (and concomitant with more corporate $$$) things have favored the Rs. The fight has been taken out of the Ds.

As Michael Tomasky noted in an American Prospect article ('Dem's Fightin' Words') a few years ago, the Dems now fight only on rare occasions and for exceptional causes - citing Social Security, and keeping extremist judges off the Supreme Court. Since the emergence of the "gang of 14" coalition even the latter fight has been taken off the table.

My reaction exactly (via Sasha Issenberg, The Boston Globe).

ST. PAUL -- One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old.

The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by political ads in recent years, was pronounced dead at approximately 7:40 CST, when a video aired before delegates at the Republican National Convention included slow-motion footage of a plane striking the World Trade Center, the towers' subsequent collapse, and smoke emerging from the Pentagon.

The September 11 precedent was one of the few surviving campaign-season taboos. It is survived by direct comparisons of one's opponents to Hitler.

Country First!, except when trying to get elected.