{"id":4032,"date":"2007-09-23T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-23T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4032"},"modified":"2017-11-24T12:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T18:48:23","slug":"the-skrulls-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/23\/the-skrulls-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Skrulls Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/missouristatenews\/story\/A8BBC360436B2B0B8625735D00394165?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Alien foe imperils KC conventions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When the mayor named a 73-year-old grandmother to the city&#8217;s park board &#8212; which considers issues like off-leash dog areas and outdoor party permits &#8212; the move might have gone largely unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p>But Frances B. Semler&#8217;s appointment could now cost the city millions of dollars because she is a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group that advocates vigilante patrolling of the Mexican border and reports illegal immigrants to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Her membership has drawn sharp criticism from the National Council of La Raza, the nation&#8217;s largest Hispanic advocacy group, and the NAACP. Both groups are threatening to show their displeasure by canceling conventions scheduled to be held in Kansas City.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s disappointing; instead of a real alien foe, we&#8217;ve got the normal victim groups threatening Armageddon over a secure borders advocate, both of which call her a racist no doubt with no self-consciousness that their very groups work to isolate and elevate particular races by name (Colored People and The Race).<\/p>\n<p>I almost wish it were the Skrulls, because at least they shape shift instead of forcing everything else to change shape to accommodate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alien foe imperils KC conventions: When the mayor named a 73-year-old grandmother to the city&#8217;s park board &#8212; which considers issues like off-leash dog areas and outdoor party permits &#8212; the move might have gone largely unnoticed. But Frances B. Semler&#8217;s appointment could now cost the city millions of dollars because she is a member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17818,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/17818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}