Cameron Fuller

[Treyson Bourguet @treysonbourguet]

Woke up this morning and went through my checklist:

• 4-0 ✅
• The sky is, in fact, not falling ✅
• Bear Bachmeier is still Bear Bachmeier ✅
• Winning is still better than losing ✅

Alright, we’re good. Go Cougs 😂

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

Study the news, you'll conclude that things have never been worse.

Study history, you'll conclude that things have never been better.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

This CANNOT be real…
Can it?

[Jeff Fuller @jjfuller72]

BYU is 5-5 since 2000 vs SEC teams including 1-0 vs Ole Miss (I was there and enjoyed seeing Kyle VanNoy wreck the Rebs) despite only 3 of those 10 games being played in Provo

If we include OU and Texas as SEC teams, BYU is 6-3 all-time vs those, so clearly a winning record

Tennessee paid $2M to not have to go to Provo after the Cougs took them down in Neyland.

Ole Miss backed out of planned home and home with BYU that was scheduled for 28/29.

And you say to play and beat the SEC teams or stop crying... 🤣🤣🤣

[W S @WildSentences]

Generational move by the husband

Hope she never leaves him

[kyle @Kylypso]

Whoops

[Sarah Matthews @SarahAMatthews1]

The GOP’s entire midterm pitch: Democrats are socialists and communists hellbent on destroying America.

Trump this week: Starts it by praising a socialist and ends it by rolling out the literal red carpet for a communist.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On this morning 250 years ago, the British hanged a 21-year-old American schoolteacher as a spy, and in trying to make him disappear quietly, they accidentally made him immortal. His name was Nathan Hale, and it is worth sitting with just the last few hours of his life.

He had been caught the night before, behind British lines on Long Island, carrying notes on enemy positions hidden in his shoes. There was no real trial. A man out of uniform with military intelligence on him was a spy by the rules of war, and the sentence for spying was death by hanging, no ceremony, no honor. General Howe ordered it done in the morning.

What we know of that morning comes mostly from the enemy, from British officers who were there, and it is the small human cruelties that stay with you. Hale asked for a clergyman to attend him in his final hours. The request was refused. He asked for a Bible. That too was denied. He was a devout young man about to die, and they would not give him even that comfort. A British officer named Montresor, watching, was troubled enough by the young man's composure to later make sure his story was told.

In his last moments Hale was allowed to write a couple of letters, one to his mother, one to a fellow officer. He wrote them, and then the British provost marshal, a notoriously brutal man named Cunningham, took those letters and destroyed them in front of him. The reason given was chilling in its pettiness: so that the rebels should not know they had a man in their ranks who could die with such firmness. They did not just want to kill him. They wanted to erase him.

Then they marched him to the gallows, and there, according to the accounts that survived, this young schoolteacher who had failed at the one dangerous mission he ever attempted, stood calmly and spoke about duty and country with a steadiness that unnerved the men sent to kill him. The famous words attributed to him, that he only regretted having but one life to lose for his country, may be polished or borrowed from a play he loved. But everyone who was there agreed on the essential truth beneath the wording: he met his death without flinching, and he made even his executioners remember him.

And that is the irony that redeems the whole sad morning. Cunningham burned the letters so no one would know how bravely Hale died. It did not work. The story got out anyway, carried by the very enemies who watched it, and a young man the British tried to erase became one of the most enduring symbols of the Revolution, honored two and a half centuries later, on this exact day, as the first American to die spying for his country. They denied him a Bible and a chaplain and burned his last words, and still they could not make him small.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

This is truly a great man. He has invested more in Ukraine than 185 countries combined.

Meet Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels.

Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion.

Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times.

In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery and called the president of John Deere:

“How many combines are available in Europe?”

“Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.”

“I’ll take them all.”

Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines were provided to Ukrainian farmers.

He even tested demining equipment himself - on his own farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When a Ukrainian deputy minister expressed doubts, Buffett told him:

“Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.”

Andriy Stavnitser initially asked him for $1 million for Superhumans. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center.

“$14 million.”

“Okay. And what do you expect in return?”

“Nothing. Build it.”

Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated more than 1,700 patients.

But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics.

It is food: 642 million meals.

And that is only part of it:
* 344,000 windows replaced after Russian attacks;
* 9 bridges, 4 power plants, 2,500 generators, and 18 DNA laboratories;
* Much of Bucha rebuilt with his funding.

“I already have more friends in Ukraine than I do at home,” he says.

He celebrates birthdays in Ukraine, comes for Christmas, and even has a Ukrainian godson.

Friends, this is truly a great man - someone who understands that he cannot take all his money with him when he leaves this world.

I simply want to thank him and wish him well.

Whatever else one may say, this is real help from a person who had no personal obligation to Ukraine.

He simply chose to help.

Source: translated from the original text by Oleh Bairak.

[This Day In Sports Clips @TDISportsClips]

September 16, 2019: Mike Leach analyzes who would win a Pac-12 mascot battle royale.

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

Not every religion is led by a former SCOTUS clerk and state supreme court justice, but @LDSchurch is.

All of us non-LDS Americans should be grateful for the forceful advocacy of @OaksDallinH in support of the rule of law, the Constitution, and American democracy.

These secular concepts allow for the robust practice of faith. And so many people of faith strengthen those secular concepts.

[lesfifita @lesfifita]

So much love and respect for BYU @kalanifsitake @Pouha91 and the people of Provo.

From the minute we parked, it was “Welcome to Provo,” “Good luck today,” “Go Cats.” People offered us food and drinks from their tailgates. Inside the stadium, same thing even ice cream at 2nd quarter . And their crowd was electric

I sat in ADA seating with my father in law and he was wearing his Fifita #1 jersey. People constantly checked on him and treated him with nothing but respect, even when Arizona made a play. They probably thought i was his care giver, lol.

Made me think, this is what real competition should look like. Welcome people into your home, treat them with respect and grace, then when the ball is kicked off, try to knock each other’s heads off.

We hosted our first league games Sunday , six games from 9AM–7PM. I told our staff: make everyone feel welcome. If someone genuinely can’t pay at the door, let them in. Let them watch their kid.

If we want to change the culture at the high school and college level, it starts in youth .

And I don’t think it’s a coincidence faith is at the center of BYU’s culture. Jesus welcomed everyone to His table.

Compete hard. Cheer loud. Want to win BAD. But still love people.

Appreciate the love , Provo.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

[Ce jour-là dans l'Histoire @CeJourHistoire]

Les chênes qu'on abat aujourd'hui dans cette forêt ont été mis en réserve sous Louis XIV. Ceux qui les remplacent seront coupés vers 2300.

C'est la seule forêt de France métropolitaine exploitée sur un cycle de plus de deux cents ans.

Elle s'appelle Tronçais, elle est dans l'Allier, et elle couvre 10 600 hectares.

Tout part d'une décision de 1670. Colbert fait délimiter et réaménager la forêt, et il la réserve à la marine du roi.

Le calcul est simple et démesuré. Un chêne bon pour un vaisseau met deux siècles et demi à se faire. Les arbres qu'on met de côté ce jour-là seront coupés par des hommes dont les arrière-arrière-grands-parents ne sont pas encore nés.

Pour obtenir ce bois, on fait pousser les chênes serrés les uns contre les autres. Privés de lumière sur les côtés, ils montent droit et perdent leurs branches basses tout seuls. Le tronc grandit sans nœuds.

Le plus haut de la forêt mesure 47,50 mètres.

La marine, elle, n'en a presque rien tiré.

Le temps que les arbres soient mûrs, les coques se construisaient en fer. Et les charpentiers de marine avaient surtout besoin de pièces courbes, pour épouser la forme des bateaux. Tronçais ne produisait que des troncs droits.

Ce qui était un défaut pour la marine est devenu une valeur ailleurs. Un bois droit, sans nœud, à grain serré, se fend en lattes régulières. Et des lattes régulières, cela fait des douves de tonneaux.

Les grands vins de Bordeaux et le cognac vieillissent dans du chêne de Tronçais.

Le bois des fûts qu'on remplit cette année vient d'arbres qui poussaient déjà avant la Révolution.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

We're not taking in so much money. It wouldn't be easy enough. And Congress would have to approve it.

Also, what clearly makes it a bribe: If he thinks he can do it without Congress, that means he could do it now. So the only reason to do it after the midterms is bribery.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

AMERICA THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD 🫡

[Leena-Palestine @Leena53022916]

*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*

[The Oxford Comma @RealOxfordComma]

Much obliged, Sheriff.

[Cougar Football Archive @BYUstatsMAN]

36 years ago today, BYU defeated No. 1 Miami 28-21 at Cougar Stadium. Ty Detmer passed for 406 yards and 3 TD while Ervin Lee's 4th quarter interception helped preserve the Cougars' lead.

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