Alan Bates
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Retired Natural Gas Guy, native New Mexican, Naturalized Okie, hiker, bicyclist, picture taker, blogger, geocacher, rino, tree hugger, climate change believer, reader, reading tutor
Retired Natural Gas Guy, native New Mexican, Naturalized Okie, hiker, bicyclist, picture taker, blogger, geocacher, rino, tree hugger, climate change believer, reader, reading tutor
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“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
Top military lawyer raised legal concerns about boat strikes
The lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the operations against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed that the strikes are legal and was overruled, according to six sources...
www.nbcnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 AM
“The JAG at Southern Command specifically expressed concern that strikes against people on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean…could amount to extrajudicial killings, the six sources said, and therefore legally expose service members involved in the operations.”
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So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
November 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.
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We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
August 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Big cloud billowing up over the Gulf of Mexico just off Orange Beach, Alabama
#Weather #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #redneckriviera
#Weather #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #redneckriviera
August 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Big cloud billowing up over the Gulf of Mexico just off Orange Beach, Alabama
#Weather #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #redneckriviera
#Weather #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #redneckriviera
Can’t get enough of Gulf of Mexico skies. This is at Wolf Bay in Orange Beach
#skies #skywatch #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #vacation #redneckriviera
#skies #skywatch #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #vacation #redneckriviera
August 3, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Can’t get enough of Gulf of Mexico skies. This is at Wolf Bay in Orange Beach
#skies #skywatch #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #vacation #redneckriviera
#skies #skywatch #GulfofMexico #OrangeBeach #Alabama #vacation #redneckriviera
August 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I love hotel self serve waffles!!
August 3, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I love hotel self serve waffles!!
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Found a Western Kingbird at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area.
#burds #westernkingbird
#burds #westernkingbird
June 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Found a Western Kingbird at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area.
#burds #westernkingbird
#burds #westernkingbird
A squirrel at the Ray Harral Nature Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
June 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
A squirrel at the Ray Harral Nature Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
Tulsa Sunset this evening
June 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Tulsa Sunset this evening
Rainbow in my Tulsa neighborhood this evening
June 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Rainbow in my Tulsa neighborhood this evening
May 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Hiking on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area
May 28, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Hiking on Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness Area
May 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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April 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 5:23 AM
In years to come, the people who did this will be the ones who will go to jail.
April 7, 2025 at 5:14 PM
April 7, 2025 at 2:09 AM