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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, The MAGA crime spree continued as the Bannon Circus livestreamed itself finally showing up in court

Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA will not rewrite airplane emissions rules that were finalized under Trump; Amazon settled a lawsuit by California that the company failed to notify workers of covid cases; and, a Russian weapons test has threatened the crew of astronauts and cosmonauts on the International Space Station.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is wary of Russian military moves near the Ukraine; and, Poland arrested three far-right extremists in connection to an antisemitic demonstration in the town of Kalisz.


All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

- Ernest Hemingway
"A Moveable Feast"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/16/2064550/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bannon is expected to surrender to authorities today after being charged with two counts of contempt of Congress.

Then, on the rest of the menu, as many as one hundred sixty thousand active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families; part of a hotbed of abuse, graft and corruption during the Trump administration, hundreds of Bureau of Prison workers continue to commit crimes; and, conservative US bishops ignored the Pope and persist denouncing President Joe Biden.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain summoned the Cuban envoy in Madrid after Spanish media credentials were revoked in Havana; and, thick smog is choking the Indian capital New Delhi, as air pollution levels soar to lethal concentrations.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."

-- Julia Child

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/15/2064281/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new Yale poll shows seventy-two percent of Americans say global warming is happening.

Then, on the rest of the menu, House GOP supporters of the infrastructure bill have been hounded daily with domestic terror death threats; there are real medicare savings in the sweeping social agenda bill, but not overnight; and, COVID-19 hot spots around the country offer a worrisome sign of what could be ahead this winter in the US.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s far right demands strong borders in the Belarus crisis; and, the Myanmar military junta sentenced American journalist, Danny Fenster, to eleven years in prison for spreading false or inflammatory information.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”

― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/12/2063851/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, that sound you don’t hear is Kevin McCarthy’s silence on Gosar.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Homeland Security warned that the US faces a ‘heightened threat’ of domestic terrorism during the holiday season; US food banks struggle to feed the hungry amid surging prices; and, a US district judge approved a $626 million settlement over lead poisoning in the Flint, Michigan water supply.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where coronavirus cases are declining everywhere, except in Europe; and, Ethiopian authorities arrested and detained some 70 aid-delivering truck drivers contracted by the United Nations to deliver food, medicine and fuel.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/11/2063609/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Reuters tracked down the “untraceable” Trump supporters the cops couldn’t find, who threatened election officials around the country.

On the rest of the menu, political appointees in the Trump administration relied on faulty science to justify stripping habitat wildlife protections in the waning days of Trump’s term; the Biden administration will continue FEMA virus aid for the states through the First of April; and, Max Cleland did not deserve what Rick Wilson did to him.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Serbian police detained a local opposition activist for throwing eggs at a downtown Belgrade wall painting of war criminal, Ratko Mladic; and, Fumio Kishida is set to be reelected as Japan’s prime minister.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist
"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/10/2063380/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, California doctors and documents dispute Ron Desantis’ handpicked, anti-mask/ anti-vax Florida surgeon general’s claims about treating COVID patients at UCLA.

Then, on the rest of the menu, in a new legal filing, the Biden Administration warned that the recent court order blocking its vaccine mandate will cost hundreds and hundreds of lives, daily; with the passage of the infrastructure bill, the notoriously congested Brent Spence Bridge, that sits in Mitch McConnell’s backyard, will finally get a long overdue overhaul; and, two dissident Portland, Oregon academics are joining Bari Weiss in forming a sham university in Texas.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two coalition parties have signed a power-sharing deal to form a new Czech government; and, Mexican authorities have detained a man implicated in the Pegasus spy plot against journalists and human rights activists.


All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”

- Ernest Hemingway
"A Moveable Feast"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/9/2063140/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was called out for blaming Stacey Abrams for causing Trump’s election interference.

Then, on the rest of the menu, it’s been nearly a year since the Multnomah County DA referred a criminal complaint against a prominent riot cop to Oregon’s attorney general; once criticized for its sluggish response, Newark, New Jersey is winning the war on lead in drinking water; and, the Navy launched a ship named for assassinated San Francisco, California gay rights leader, Harvey Milk.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands protested in Poland against the nation’s strict abortion laws, after a pregnant woman died from medical complications; and, smart phone and internet blocks have complicated the civil disobedience campaign against the coup in Sudan.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."

-- Julia Child

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/8/2062886/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Rudy Giuliani was challenged under oath on his election lies.

Then, on the rest of the menu, two hundred House Republicans voted to allow age discrimination against job applicants; after Virginia, the GOP plans to forcefully race-bait as a core piece of their strategy in the 2022 midterm elections; and, Robert Santos was confirmed as the next US Census Bureau director, becoming the first person of color to lead the nation’s largest statistical agency.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Bank of England confounded market expectations and held UK interest rates steady; and, Sweden moved closer to getting its first woman prime minister.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”

― Douglas Adams
"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/5/2062387/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a single sentence can destroy a campaign.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department is stepping up its efforts to combat ransomware and cyber crime; the Feds are seeking tougher sentences for military veterans who stormed Capitol; and, prosecutors working to convict Kyle Rittenhouse, introduced surveillance video taken from an FBI airplane circling thousands of feet above the chaos.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a COVID-19 surge shows no signs of abating in Russia; and an international rights watchdog named El Salvador the most unsafe country for women in Latin America and the Caribbean.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

-- The Daily Picayune,
New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it’s time for the Democratic Party to “pivot and punch.”

On the rest of the menu, federal prosecutors expect foreign interference in the criminal cases related to Trump inauguration chairman Tom Barrack; a Trump-loving QAnon follower only got probation for shooting up the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon during the Black Lives Matter protests; and, the Republican defense of the Texas abortion law at the Supreme Court argued that women are too stupid to have rights.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Czech centrist and center-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government; and, CIA director William Burns is on a rare visit to Moscow to discuss US-Russia relations.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”

-- Shauna Niequist
"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/11/3/2061913/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays