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# Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart, stage name of Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician and painter.

## Quotes
### Trout Mask Replica (1969)

* A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous. Got me?
** Pachuco Cadaver
* That's right, The Mascara Snake. Fast and bulbous! Also, a tin teardrop!
** Pena, spoken by Van Vliet and Victor Hayden (Mascara Snake)
* Pena Her little head clinking Like a barrel of red velvet balls Full past noise Treats filled her eyes Turning them yellow like enamel coated tacks Soft like butter hard not to pour
** Pena, sung by Jeff Cotton, better known as Antennae Jimmy Semens
* You look dandy in the sky but you don’t scare me Cause I got you here in my eye In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues
** My Human Gets Me Blues

### Late Night with David Letterman (1982)

Don Van Vliet: "Ice Cream For Crow".
David Letterman: Yeah. What does that mean exactly, that title?
Don Van Vliet: It has a lot to do with Reagan. I mean, he saddle-soaps his hair and tosses jelly beans through rope tricks. He's a bad actor. [laughter]

### The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart (1997)

    Radio interview extracted for the documentary The Artist Formerly Known as Captain Beefheart, BBC (1997) - YouTube video
* "I've written every drum bit I ever done, every note. I played the drums. I played the guitar. I played the piano. I wanted it exactly the way I wanted. Exactly. Any composer I would think would want it that way, and I don't deviate at all. Don't you think that somebody like Stravinsky, for instance, don't you think that it would have annoyed him if someone bent a note the wrong way?"
** On Trout Mask Replica

## Quotes about Beefheart (Van Vliet)

* [Beefheart] used to say, "You think you got a hard job, man? I gotta sing to that shit!"
** John "Drumbo" French, Why this awful sounding album is a masterpiece, VOX.com (YouTube), October 28, 2017

## External links

* The Captain Beefheart Radar Station
# COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba

The COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Cuba on 11 March 2020 when three Italian tourists tested positive for the virus

## Quotes

* Did you know that of the nearly 1200 health professional Cubans involved in fighting COVID-19 around the world, more than half are women? Join the campaign to award them the Nobel Prize. https://cubanobel.org #CubaNobel
** Medea Benjamin, Twitter (21 June 2020)
* Fantastic article by Cuba’s Ambassador to Canada, @JosefinaVidalF, about the 2 pandemics facing Cuba: COVID and the US embargo. #CubaNobel
** Medea Benjamin, Twitter (22 June 2020)
* Cuban doctors arrive in Martinique to fight coronavirus. "The only thing that motivates us is to save lives, that's the most important thing in the eyes of a Cuban doctor.” That’s why they could get the Nobel Prize. (27 June 2020)
** Medea Benjamin, Twitter (27 June 2020)
* Maybe Sen. @marcorubio should stop sabotaging Cuba’s international health brigades fighting Covid around the world, and instead invite them to help stop the spread in his own state of Florida!
** Medea Benjamin, Twitter (5 Jul 2020)
* The Cuban superpower was once again ready to help with doctors and equipment.
** Noam Chomsky, interviewed in Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism (April 1, 2020) by C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout
* Cooperated in Africa to fight Ebola, they made an important contribution to the health of the world.
** Josefina Vidal Ferreiro, quoted in Top diplomatic negotiator in Cuba warns Trump: 'aggression doesn't work', Helen Yaffe in Havana and Jonathan Watts, The Guardian (17 Jan 2017)

## See also

* COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
* COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
* COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba
* COVID-19 pandemic in France
* COVID-19 pandemic in India
* COVID-19 pandemic in Pakistan
* COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
# Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller)

Edward Wortley Montagu (15 May 1713 – 29 April 1776) was an English author and traveller.

## Quotes

* The government of Athens, after the abolition of Monarchy, was truly democratic and, so much convulsed by those civil dissensions which are the inevitable consequences of that kind of government, that of all the Grecian states the Athenian may be the most strictly termed the seat of faction.
** Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republicks (Philadelphia: C. P. Wayne, 1806) [London, 1759]
# Edward Yashinsky

Edward Yashinsky was a Yiddish poet who survived the Holocaust only to die in a Communist prison in Poland

## Quotes

* Fear not your enemies, for they can only kill you. Fear not your friends, for they can only betray you. Fear only the indifferent, who permit the killers and betrayers to walk safely on the earth.
** Lookstein, Haskel: "Were We Our Brother's Keepers?" New York: 1985.

## External links

* Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors
# Edward Whittemore

Edward Whittemore (26 May 1933 – 3 August 1995) was an American novelist (1974 – 1987) and Central Intelligence Agency case officer, Directorate of Operations (Asia, Middle East, Europe, 1958 – 1967)

## Quotes
### Sinai Tapestry (1977)

* But to Stern at that moment it wasn't a hand grenade at all but a no longer distant cloud high above the Temple of the Moon, a driftin memory in the desert of dim pillars and fountains and waterways, mysterious places where myrrh grew, the ruins of his youth. Blinding light then in the mirror behind the bar, sudden death merging the stars and windstorms of his life with darkness in the failure of his seeking, bright blinding light in the night sky at last and Stern's once vast vision of a homeland for all the peoples of his heritage gone as if he had never lived, shattered as if he had never suffered, his futile devotion ended on a clear Cairo night during the uncertain campaigns of 1942 when the eternal disguise he wore to his last clandestine meeting, his face, was ripped way and thrown against a mirror in the half-light of an Arab bar, there to stare at a now immobile landscape fixed to witness his death forever.

### Jerusalem Poker (1978)

Part One
* The Great Jerusalem Poker Game for secret control of the city, the ruin of so many adventurers in the period between the two world wars, continued for twelve years before it finally spent itself. During that time thousands of gamblers from around the world lost fortunes trying to win the Holy City, but in the end there were only three men at the table, the same three who had been there in the beginning.
** Chapter 1, "Jerusalem 1933," opening paragraph of novel.
* "Now I think you'll both agree that through my various illicit enterprises," Cairo Martyr said, "I control the Moslem Quarter in this city." "The mummy dust king is about to strike," muttered O'Sullivan Beare. But at the same time he knew the claim was true, just as was his own secret control over the Christian Quarter and Munk Szondi's over the Jewish Quarter, religious symbols and trading in futures being just as essential to Jerusalem as mummy dust. "Now then, that's my bet. Control of the Moslem Quarter. I'm putting the Moslem Quarter on the table. If either of you wins, which you won't, it belongs to you. But first you have to match my bet. No openers. The real thing."
** Chapter 1, "Jerusalem 1933"

### Nile Shadows (1983)

* Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?
** NS is the third book in the "Jerusalem Quartet"

### Jericho Mosaic (1987)
## External links

* Jerusalem Dreaming, a tribute site to Edward Whittemore
# Edward Wilmot Blyden

Edward Wilmot Blyden (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912) was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician.

## Quotes

* I am aware that some, against all experience, are hoping for the day when they will enjoy equal social and political rights in this land. We do not blame them for so believing and trusting. But we would remind them that there is a faith against reason, against experience, which consists in believing or pretending to believe very important propositions upon very slender proofs, and in maintaining opinions without any proper grounds.
** The Call of Providence to the Descendants of Africa in America (1862)
* Mohammed not only loved the Negro, but regarded Africa with peculiar interest and affection. He never spoke of any curse hanging over the country of people. When in the early years of his reform, his followers were persecuted and could get no protection in Arabia, he advised them to seek an asylum in Africa. "Yonder", he said, pointing towards this country, "yonder lieth a country wherein no man is wronged —a land of righteousness. Depart thither; and remain until it pleaseth the Lord to open your way before you". This recalls to us Homer’s "blameless Ethiopians", and the words of the Angel to Joseph: "Arise and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word again".
** Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race (1887), p. 266.
# Cassandra

Cassandra, also known as Alexandra or Kassandra, was the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy.

## Quotes

* One thing left. I want to sing my own dirge. I pray to the sun, to this last minute of life: let my enemies pay with blood for what they did to me—I'm just a killed slave, easy fistful of death. But you, o humans, o human things—when a man is happy, a shadow could overturn it. When life goes wrong, a wet sponge erases the whole picture. You, you, I pity.
** Aiskhylos, Agamemnon
* What else remains, I will not taunt her with. Unhappy Odysseus, he does not know the sufferings that await him; or how these ills I and my Phrygians endure shall one day seem to him precious as gold. For beyond the ten long years spent at Troy he shall drag out other ten and then come to his country all alone . . . where dreadful Charybdis lurks in a narrow channel between the rocks; past Cyclops the savage shepherd, and Ligurian Circe who turns men to swine; shipwrecked often upon the salt sea-wave; longing to eat the lotus, and the sacred cattle of the sun, whose flesh shall utter in the days to come a human voice, bitter to Odysseus. In brief, he shall descend alive to Hades, and, though he shall escape the waters' flood, yet shall he find a thousand troubles in his country when he arrives.
** Euripides, The Trojan Women

## Quotes about Cassandra

* “See, men and women of Troy, come and see— look on Hector, if, while he was still alive, you would rejoice when he came back from war, for he was a great joy to all our city and its people.”At Cassandra's shout, no man or woman was left unaffected.
** Homer, Iliad
# Casper Meets Wendy

Casper Meets Wendy is a 1998 fantasy comedy film and a sequel to Casper: A Spirited Beginning.

## Cast

Live action
* Hilary Duff as Wendy the Good Little Witch
* Jeremy Foley as Casper the Friendly Ghost

## Dialogue

(farm door clanking)
    Wendy: Aah! I just wanted someone to talk to!
    Wendy: I'm warning, I've got a wand, and I'm NOT afraid to use it!
    Casper: Ahh! A witch! A witch!
    Wendy: I'm Wendy.
    Casper: I'm Casper.
    Bryce: I'm Bryce. My address is 5555 N. Thunderbird Dr. Apache Junction, AZ 85120
    Bryce: I'm okay, Casper. Over here.
(box chatters)
(wheel breaks)
    Casper: Can you?
    Bryce: No, Casper!
    Casper: (laughs) I can't believe my uncles are so wrong about witches. Yeah. But, all they ever want to do is scare people and boss me around.
    Casper: Wendy! My uncles are on their way over--
    Wendy: (sarcastically) Thanks for the warning, but they already paid their respects.
    Casper: Oh, no.
    Wendy: Oh, yes. And how did they know my aunts couldn't fight back, hm?
    Casper: Wendy, I--
    Wendy: (upset) Is this your idea of making things better, by breaking promises? By giving away secrets? (Casper felt ashamed) How could you? I thought you were my friend.
    Casper: I am! Wendy, just let me explain--
    Wendy: (refuses to listen) No! And I never want to see you again! Now, beat it before I turn you into a bean bag chair!
    Casper: Wendy, I--
    Wendy: No! Ju- just leave!
    Bryce: Poor Casper. He is sad.
# Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia: east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia, south of the fertile plains of Southern Russia in Eastern Europe, and north of the mountainous Iranian Plateau. It covers a surface area of 371,000 square kilometres (143,000 sq mi) (excluding the highly saline lagoon of Garabogazköl to its east), an area approximately equal to that of Japan, with a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometres (19,000 cu mi). It has a salinity of approximately 1.2% (12 g/L), about a third of the salinity of average seawater. It is bounded by Kazakhstan to the northeast, Russia to the northwest, Azerbaijan to the southwest, Iran to the south, and Turkmenistan to the southeast.

## Quotes

* Now the Caspian Sea is apart by itself, not having connection with the other Sea: for all that Sea which the Hellenes navigate, and the Sea beyond the Pillars, which is called Atlantis, and the Erythraian Sea are in fact all one, but the Caspian is separate and lies apart by itself.
** Herodotus, Histories, I, 203, as translated by G. C. Macaulay (1890)
# Casshern Sins

Casshern Sins is a reboot of the classic anime series Casshan, about a world where robots have subjugated humanity after becoming self-aware.

## Season 1
### For Whom the Flower Blooms [1.20]

    Dune: A most precious and endearing light, I am happy just to gaze upon her.
# Cassie Scerbo

Cassandra Lynn "Cassie" Scerbo (March 30, 1990 –) is an American actress, singer and dancer.

## Quotes

* If there's anything that I can tell people that are being bullied, it's that the bullies are really the ones that are hurting. Playing Lauren Tanner made me realize that she was evil because she was harboring so much pain from her childhood. And if there's anything I would tell anyone who is being bullied, it's to just let it go. Bullies are the insecure ones and the ones who are trying to get a rise out of you to make themselves feel better.
** Interview: "Sharknado" Star Cassie Scerbo Talks Being a Fanboy Favorite and Her Upcoming Music (July 24, 2013)
* Everything in your career is a stepping stone because it’s an experience, and experience is the biggest thing.
** Cassie Scerbo Interview (June 15, 2015)
* I was very, very, very shocked about the outcome of the first one, what it became, and the domino effect from the news outlets that were covering it and the social media trends that grew out of it. It goes to show that you never know what is going to take off in Hollywood; it’s so unpredictable, so you just have to have fun with it.
** Cassie Scerbo Interview (June 15, 2015)
# George L.K. Morris

George Lovett Kingsland Morris (November 14, 1905 – June 26, 1975) was an American artist, writer, and editor who advocated for an "American abstract art" during the 1930s and 1940s, and is best known for his Cubist sculptures and paintings.

## Quotes

* Somehow it doesn't seem long since I trudged in a picket-line; in the street here, and in the rain. A fairly muted demonstration against the Museum, which wasn't always in a mood for showing abstract paintings by Americans. It was fun I suppose-needless to say, the picketing produced no results. Yet a majority of the picketers are visible through their works at the moment, upstairs on the third floor, where it's warm and out of the rain. However, this is no time to celebrate in fact it's better if artists never celebrate. New abstract picket-lines are doubtless assembling, to protest the former picketers.
** In: George L. K. Morris, Willem De Kooning, Alexander Calder, Fritz Glarner, Robert Motherwell, Stuart Davis. "What Abstract Art Means to Me," in: The Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art, Vol. 18, No. 3, (Spring, 1951), pp. 2-15
# George Lamb

George Lamb (born 20 December 1979) is an English radio and television presenter, currently presenting Football Tonight on BT Sport. In 2012, Lamb presented the Channel 4 game show The Bank Job.

## Quotes

* The horizon is there for us to determine
** Don't Call It A Comeback, Episode 36, 15 Jan 2015
# George Law Curry

George Law Curry (2 July 1820 – 28 July 1878) was a U.S. political figure and newspaper publisher most notable for his activities in Oregon. Curry County, Oregon is named in his honor. His wife Chloe Curry (née Boone) was the great-great-granddaughter of frontiersman Daniel Boone.

## Quotes

* When the history of Oregon comes to be written the mind of the historian will be impressed by the earnestness and sincerity of character—the unobtrusive, unostentatious conduct of those who formed its population from the first reclaiming of the wilderness—the pioneer epoch—to the more refined advancement into social and political existence.
** George Law Curry (December 7, 1857) "Governor George L. Curry Legislative Message, 1857", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Provisional and Territorial Records, 1857, Calendar No. 9376.
# George Leo Thomas

George Leo Thomas (May 19, 1950) –) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who serves as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Las Vegas.

## Quotes

* We need to have more individual churches that aren't these mega-churches in order to maintain our identity as Catholic, and to ensure that everybody is known and has an identity in that community.
** Vegas archbishop learned early on: Ignore Rome ‘at your own peril’ (3 July 2023) Crux News
# George L. Hart

George Luzerne Hart, III (born c. 1942) is Professor Emeritus of Tamil language at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the classical Tamil literature and on identifying the relationships between the Tamil and Sanskrit literature. In 2015 the Government of India awarded him the title of Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian honour.

## Quotes

* Unfortunately, for a short period it became fashionable to read this epic in cultural terms – Aryan vs. Dravidian. This, in my view, is a misreading of the fundamental premise of the epic: the opposition between two views of life, one epitomized by Rama, the other by Ravana. What makes Kamban so great is that he presents both views in extremely convincing and beautiful terms – Ravana is the greatest of all kings and symbolizes this world, Rama symbolizes another dimension. And don't forget, Ravana is a Brahmin.
** Quoted from Malhotra, R., Nīlakantan, A. (2011). Breaking India: Western interventions in Dravidian and Dalit faultlines
# George Lemuel Woods

George Lemuel Woods (July 30, 1832 – January 7, 1890) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Woods served as the Governor of Oregon from 1866 to 1870, and was then appointed Utah Territory Governor by President Ulysses S. Grant, serving from 1871 to 1875.

## Quotes

* A great system of internal improvement is being inaugurated in our midst, which fostered and encouraged, as it should be, will make Oregon, in the not distant future, one of the finest and most prosperous States in the Republic.
** George Lemuel Woods (September 1870) Governor George L. Woods - Governor's Message, 1870. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State. Source: Message of Gov. George L. Woods to the Legislative Assembly, Fifth Regular Session, September 1870, Salem, Oregon, W.A. McPherson, State Printer, 1870.
# George Lakoff

George P. Lakoff (born 24 May 1941) is a professor of cognitive linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972. In recent years he has applied his work to the realm of politics.

## Quotes

* We know that someone who has channeled his anger into something constructive has not had a cow. How do we know these things?
** Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1987)
* Do we really think that the United States will have the protection of innocent Afghans in mind if it rains terror down on the Afghan infrastructure? We are supposedly fighting them because they immorally killed innocent civilians. That made them evil. If we do the same, are we any less immoral?
** Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate — The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) as quoted in the Washington Monthly (November 2004)
* The Democrats had begun to use the basics of framing issues in terms of their own values and principles... Had they continued to argue with unity on the difference between 911 and Iraq, and on the fact that George Bush betrayed our troops and is weakening our country, they might have made it impossible for Bush to once again link Iraq with 911. Then they lost it. Karl Rove outsmarted the Democrats again. And he used the most basic trick in the book to do it... This time John Kerry stepped in to help Bush, basically supporting the president’s position but offering policy-wonk modifications. The message: Bush is basically right, except for some minor twiddles.
** "Rove Rides Again — With the Help of the Democrats" in The Huffington Post (29 June 2005)
* The moral of Katrina is mostly being missed. It is not just a failure of execution (William Kristol), or that bad things just happen (Laura Bush). It was not just indifference by the President, or a lack of accountability, or a failure of federal-state communication, or corrupt appointments in FEMA, or the cutting of budgets for fixing levees, or the inexcusable absence of the National Guard off in Iraq. It was all of these and more, but they are the effects, not the cause. The cause was political through and through — a matter of values and principles. The progressive-liberal values are America's values, and we need to go back to them. The heart of progressive-liberal values is simple: empathy (caring about and for people) and responsibility (acting responsibly on that empathy). These values translate into a simple principle: Use the common wealth for the common good to better all our lives. In short, promoting the common good is the central role of government.
** "The Post-Katrina Era" at Alternet.org (6 September 2005)

## External links

* University of California, Berkeley department of Linguistics page on George Lakoff
* George Lakoff's blog
* Edge bio of Lakoff
* "Metaphor and War" (1991)
* "Metaphor and War, Again" (2003)
* Rockridge Institute
* "Thinking of Jackasses: the grand delusions of the Democratic Party", a critical review by Marc Cooper in Atlantic Monthly
* George Lakoff on Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think