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[keepingitcountryon]

6/12/2026

[grumpyseaman]

The Last Ride Of Colonel Potter: Harry Morgan And Sophie's Final Hours Together

The veterinarian arrived at the Santa Rosa ranch early in the morning.

It was a quiet, still day.

Harry Morgan knew exactly why the doctor was there.

Sophie’s legs could no longer hold her weight. The beautiful chestnut mare who had carried Colonel Potter through the Korean War was finally tired.

She was lying in the tall grass of her pasture. Her breathing was shallow and labored.

When an animal reaches the end of its life, wealthy Hollywood ranch owners often step away. They pay a ranch hand to handle the heartbreak. They go inside the house because they don't want to watch.

Harry Morgan absolutely refused to look away.

The aging actor walked out of his front door.

He didn't wear a suit. He didn't bring an entourage. He walked completely alone into the dusty pasture.

He slowly lowered his own aching body into the dirt. Right next to Sophie.

He gently lifted her heavy head and placed it securely in his lap.

He didn't treat her like a famous television prop. To Harry, she was a fellow veteran.

For hours, the old man sat in the quiet sun.

He continuously stroked her neck. He spoke to her in that low, steady, comforting voice that America had loved for decades. He thanked her for her patience, her loyalty, and the years of peace they shared on the ranch.

When the vet finally prepared the injection to help her cross over, Harry didn't leave.

He held her tighter.

He kept his hands firmly resting on her neck so the very last thing she felt on this earth was the gentle touch of her old friend.

"Rest now, old girl," he whispered softly.

Her chest stopped moving. The pasture went completely silent.

Harry Morgan didn't stand up right away. He sat in the dirt, holding his horse, for a very long time after she was gone.

Television history remembers Harry Morgan as a brilliant comedic actor.

But the earth remembers him as a true cavalryman.

Because a true cavalryman never, ever leaves his mount to face the dark alone

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The old legacy

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Ozempic Was The Warm-Up. RETA Is The Killer

From https://www.zerohedge.com/the-market-ear/ozempic-was-warm-reta-killer

The phase 2 drug everybody already wants

Every biohacker, bodybuilder, founder, model and longevity nerd I know is suddenly talking about the same thing: RETA. Not Ozempic. Not Wegovy. RETA.

The drug is not even fully here yet and it is already circulating through black markets, anti-aging clinics and Telegram groups like contraband from the future.

The results people describe are borderline absurd: effortless fat loss, zero food noise, less alcohol craving, insane body recomposition.

And after looking at the latest Lilly data, one thing is becoming increasingly clear:

GLP-1s may end up being far more important than the internet wellness crowd understands — and far more disruptive than markets currently price in.

New fat pill king

Lilly’s retatrutide (“RETA”) is increasingly being viewed as the next evolutionary leap in obesity drugs.

Unlike earlier GLP-1s, RETA is a triple agonist - targeting GLP-1, GIP and glucagon pathways simultaneously.

Translation: even greater weight loss, potentially higher energy expenditure, and what increasingly looks like “medical body recomposition.”

In Lilly’s latest data, patients on the highest dose achieved more than 30% weight loss - results that start entering the territory previously associated only with bariatric surgery.

Source: Lily

Lilly

Lilly share price is riding the Reta wave pushing towards new ATHs and also the magic one trillion dollars. Congrats Indiana community & religion development (Lilly Foundation now close to $100bn in AUM and has the targeted aim of boosting exactly those two things).

Obesity

So much TAM. So much more obesity still to eradicate.

Dr Danish: "In a few years, obesity will be considered rare again"

Source: Epic

More more more

The truly crazy part? RETA may not even be the end game. Pharma is now moving into the era of triple, quadruple and potentially quintuple agonists - drugs targeting multiple metabolic pathways simultaneously.

The obesity war has effectively become an AI arms race for human metabolism.

Source: GLP1 Digest

Cancer too

And this is where the story gets truly weird. GLP-1s increasingly look less like “weight loss drugs” and more like broad metabolic master switches.

GLP-1s so far: Kills food noise. Cuts heart disease risk. Fixes sleep apnea. Protects kidneys. Reduces addiction.

Now: potentially slows cancer progression by up to 50%. Cleveland Clinic is presenting data at the largest cancer conference in the world showing they may cut cancer progression by 38-50% across multiple tumor types. They tracked 10,000+ cancer patients and found GLP-1 users had dramatically lower tumor progression across breast, lung, colon and liver cancer. The data is still early here but the effects outside of weight loss are starting to add up and pretty amazing.

Massive shift

We may be underestimating how large this shift really is. For decades, developed economies quietly adapted themselves around overconsumption: more calories, more snacks, more alcohol, larger portions, constant cravings.

GLP-1s do not merely change weight. They appear to change desire itself.

The habits stick

If people permanently eat less, snack less, order less takeout and drink less alcohol, entire industries suddenly have a problem.

"This may give restaurant owners food for thought. It shows the percentage of people dining at restaurants dropping sharply from 55% to 31% after they began taking the medication, while those visiting fast-food outlets and coffee shops falls from two-thirds to 37%. And while more than half of them used to order takeout and drink alcohol, only about a third do once they take the medication. And most significantly, our survey shows that, in most cases, GLP-1 users are continuing to eat and drink differently even after they stop taking it. Once formed, new habits broadly stick." (Deutsche Bank)

Source: Deutsche Bank

Restaurants under attack

Here is the cumulative net trading & performance of the US restaurant sector. Puking.

Source: JPM PI

Positioning

Long/short ratio is at multi-year low. 1st percentile.

Source: JPM PI

More GLP casualties

Also GLP victim - processed food.

Another GLP casualty 

Alcohol is the new tobacco trade -Cuervo now off 70% over the last five years. What's wild is that it isn't even levered - lost 70% of its enterprise value since 2021. Second chart is of Diageo. Perfect downtrend and a nice $50bn in market cap gone.

Healthcare

Healthcare vs. SPY looks tempting.

Source: JC Parets

RETA is not just a drug. It is a direct attack on the economics of overconsumption

Source: Ozempic Was The Warm-Up. RETA Is The Killer

[mindingmeown50]

[treadingsoftlyincombatboots]

This is why we should leave the UN. It is a corrupt, useless organization.

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In 1993, the UN sent a small force into the most dangerous place on earth.

Bosnia was burning. Villages were being ethnically cleansed. Women were being taken. Families were being executed in their homes. And the world's response was to send peacekeepers with strict orders to watch — but not intervene.

The UN's Nordic Battalion — NORDBAT 2 — arrived late in 1993. 840 soldiers, primarily Swedish, with a Danish tank company and a Norwegian helicopter unit. Young men from peaceful countries that hadn't seen war in decades. Countries where children grew up reading about conflict in history books, not living it outside their windows.

They thought they were going to keep peace.

There was no peace to keep.

What they found instead were militias executing unarmed civilians while UN observers filed reports. Humanitarian convoys being hijacked at gunpoint. Safe zones that were anything but safe. And headquarters thousands of miles away sending orders that had nothing to do with the reality on the ground.

The rules were clear: remain neutral. Do not engage. Stand down.

The Nordic soldiers started ignoring them.

When armed groups set up roadblocks and threatened civilians, the Nordics didn't radio for permission. They pushed through. When militia fighters opened fire on humanitarian convoys, the Nordics fired back — harder. When UN command ordered them to stand down from a confrontation, soldiers sometimes reported losing radio contact. Deliberately. Strategically. Because the alternative was watching innocent people die while holding a working radio in their hands.

Then came the incident that shocked the entire mission.

Shortly after deployment, a Swedish platoon was completely surrounded by a Croatian battalion. The Croats made a demand: hand over three Muslim nurses sheltering with the Swedes, and everyone walks away safely.

Captain Stewe Simson looked at the nurses. Looked at his men. Looked at the Croatian force surrounding them.

He refused.

He prepared his platoon for combat instead. Outnumbered, outgunned, surrounded — he chose to fight rather than surrender innocent women to certain death. The standoff held. The Croats eventually backed down. The nurses survived.

On April 29, 1994, the Danish tank company was ambushed by Bosnian Serb forces near the village of Kalesija — an engagement that became known as Operation Bøllebank. The Danes responded with devastating firepower. Danish Leopard tanks fired 72 main gun rounds. When it was over, estimates suggested up to 150 enemy soldiers had been killed or wounded. It was Denmark's first combat engagement since World War II.

UN leadership was furious. Words like "trigger-happy" and "reckless" circulated in official cables. The battalion commanders became deeply unpopular with their own governments back home. Reports were filed. Investigations were launched.

Meanwhile, in the villages the Nordic Battalion patrolled, something extraordinary was happening.

People were alive who otherwise wouldn't be.

Bosnian civilians began specifically requesting Nordic patrols. They trusted these soldiers in a way they trusted almost no one else wearing a UN badge — because these soldiers had proved, repeatedly, that they would not stand and watch while something terrible happened. They had shown, with their actions rather than their paperwork, that the lives in those villages mattered more than the rules in a binder.

Other UN units — bound tighter by their own governments' rules of engagement — watched in frustration, many of them privately in agreement with everything the Nordics were doing.

The contrast became impossible to ignore after July 1995.

Srebrenica. A UN-designated safe zone under Dutch protection. Over 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically executed while Dutch peacekeepers stood aside under orders. It became one of the worst atrocities in Europe since World War II. The Dutch government eventually resigned in 2002 over the failure.

The Nordic Battalion's record stood in direct contrast — proof that different choices, made by commanders willing to face consequences, produced different outcomes.

When NORDBAT 2 soldiers returned home, they were greeted as heroes by the public even as some officials remained uneasy about their methods. Veterans gave interviews decades later still haunted by what they witnessed, still carrying the weight of every moment they felt they hadn't done enough — even as survivors credited them with saving countless lives.

They were peacekeepers who found no peace to keep.

So they chose something harder. They chose to act like what they actually were: soldiers with weapons, training, and a conscience — standing between the defenseless and the people trying to destroy them.

They broke the rules.

And because of that, some people are alive today who would not otherwise be.

[batteredshoes]

June 12, 1963 Hollywood, California The Beach Boys recorded 'Surfer Girl' and 'Little Deuce Coupe' at United Western Recorders. Released together as a single, they were the first to credit Brian Wilson as producer.⁠

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Antonov An-124-100-150

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[thememedaddy]

[americanfreedomfighter]

[veritas7007]

[treadingsoftlyincombatboots]

Criminals, unAmerican traitors.

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[ltwilliammowett]

H.M.S. Prince – First Rate, 110 Guns (Jury Rigged) in Portsmouth Harbour. 1828

Shown with her original ornate stern balconies - before the introduction of the later closed stern design - the vessel is jury rigged, indicating temporary repairs or reduced rigging.

[frenchcurious]

Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS Sport Coupe 1970. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

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