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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kayleigh McEnany is called out for her Capitol Riot lies.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GAO reported the 2020 census for redrawing congressional districts has been 'compromised' following Trump's attacks; the more contagious Brazilian virus variant has emerged in Oregon; and, former Georgia NAACP field secretary, Urban League head and Clinton adviser, Vernon Jordan, has died at age eighty-five.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where nearly one hundred mobsters and white collar professionals are on trial in Sicily for Mafia fraud of the EU agriculture fund; and, US Ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, demanded the status of all Syrian detainees be made public.

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/2021/3/3/2019033/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after being called out by Trump at CPAC, Rep Kinzinger said that is not a bad enemies list to be on.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GOP is all but extinct in California, and pushing to the right is not likely to do it any favors; the Supreme Court will examine Puerto Rico's exclusion from the Supplemental Security Income benefits program; and, the largest and oldest power cooperative in Texas filed for bankruptcy protection to avoid responsibility for freezing people to death during the Polar Vortex.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Paris court sentenced French former President Nicolas Sarkozy to a year in prison on corruption charges; and, former Pope Benedict has chided conservative Roman Catholics who have not accepted his decision to resign as, “fanatical.”

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/2021/3/2/2018877/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as expected, Trump’s speech at CPAC was a firehose of falsehoods.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Tennessee has requested federal law enforcement investigate the theft of COVID vaccine in the state’s most populous county; police are investigating a vandalism and fire at the Buddhist temple in the Little Tokyo section of downtown Los Angeles; and, after carving the heart out of the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to combat racial discrimination in our elections.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany announced it will limit travel from the Moselle region of France over the COVID variant; and, a newspaper photographer was attacked and seriously hurt while covering youth violence in Reims, France.

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/2021/3/1/2018588/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the DC federal prosecutor's office is "reviewing the footage" of members of Congress who gave tours of the Capitol ahead of the pro-Trump insurrection on January 6th.

Then, on the rest of the menu, in the wake of the Breonna Taylor killing, the Kentucky Senate unanimously passed a bill to restrict no-knock warrants; Republicans are upset Biden’s COVID relief plan would help struggling libraries; and, Wisconsin hunters killed nearly double the number of wolves that the state allotted.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Belarusian court sentenced an anti-government protester to 10 years in prison on trumped up charges to keep Lukashenko in power; and, a German citizen was charged with espionage for passing the floor plans of the Bundestag to Russian military intelligence.

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/2021/2/26/2018177/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mnuchin was blending his final days in office into either a personal money-making venture, or raising funds from foreign nations for a Trump comeback.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Iowa Republicans approved to fast-track an election bill that dramatically limits voting; Biden ordered a review of the supply chains for vital goods; and, over one hundred-sixty Confederate symbols were taken down or removed in 2020.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a German court convicted a former member of the Syrian secret police of torture in a landmark ruling; and, the US will seek a return to the UN Human Rights Council after Trump ingloriously shunned the body in 2018.

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/2021/2/25/2017990/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, security officials described a woeful lack of preparedness for the attack on the Capitol on January 6.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the GOP's new Oregon leader is linked to the armed militia group that violently occupied the Malheur Federal Wildlife Preserve in 2016; a federal judge says California can finally enforce its net neutrality law that could become a national standard; and, GOP voter suppression measures target Black voter turnout in Georgia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UN has registered a steep rise in the murders of Colombian human rights activists; and, far-right incidents have surged in the German military.

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/2021/2/24/2017792/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ted Cruz was looking for a Fox News soundbite in his questioning of Merrick Garland.

Then, on the rest of the menu, GOP lawmakers say they need to kill the Covid relief bill because it helps too much; Republicans are outraged at the thought of aiding farmers who aren't white; and, Congressional Republicans are putting right-wing extremism above all else, even big business.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the EU is set to hit more Russian officials with sanctions over Navalny; and, the Italian ambassador to the Congo was among three killed in an attack on a World Food Program convoy.

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/2021/2/23/2017595/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP is so brainwashed only seventeen percent believe Biden was elected legitimately, while fifty-eight percent believe it was Antifa who rioted on January 6.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a North Carolina GOP congressman says the 'best stimulus' is one stripping workers of their rights during a pandemic; pioneering Black journalist, Beatrice Morrow Cannady, took on Oregon’s Ku Klux Klan, while challenging official hypocrisy; and, someone replaced the toppled Harvey Scott Statue at Mount Tabor park in Portland, Oregon with a monument to York, the only Black member of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Biden White House says the US is communicating with Iran over detained Americans; and, with Trump out of the picture, China calls for a reset in Sino-US relations.

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/2021/2/22/2017390/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there is a direct link from the MAGA Capitol Riot to white supremacy in US policing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, price gouging for lodging and necessities has skyrocketed amid the Texas polar vortex; a former Arizona GOP politician is contesting the first of three sentences for running an illegal adoption scheme prohibited by international compact; and PEN America has reached a settlement with the government over its suit against Trump that will protect journalists in the future.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two journalists in Belarus were sentenced to two years in prison for filming a protest against authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko; and, a Lebanese court dismissed a judge who had charged the nation’s top politicians with negligence over last year’s Beirut port explosion.

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/2021/2/19/2016932/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, to Big Lie Republicans like Greg Abbott and his friends on Fox News, “this very real and acute suffering” in Texas “is just a vehicle for their political objectives,”

Then, on the rest of the menu, frustrated US military commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors as thousands of troops refuse the vaccine; the share of US workers holding multiple jobs is rising; and, Trump's acts as president are 'fair game' for criminal charges.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a journalist from India was acquitted of defamation after she accused a former editor-turned-politician of sexual harassment; and, Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency said that Russia is counting on the COVID-19 pandemic to weaken the West.

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

Bon Appétit!

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, to Big Lie Republicans like Greg Abbott and his friends on Fox News, “this very real and acute suffering” in Texas “is just a vehicle for their political objectives,”

Then, on the rest of the menu, frustrated US military commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors as thousands of troops refuse the vaccine; the share of US workers holding multiple jobs is rising; and, Trump's acts as president are 'fair game' for criminal charges.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a journalist from India was acquitted of defamation after she accused a former editor-turned-politician of sexual harassment; and, Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency said that Russia is counting on the COVID-19 pandemic to weaken the West.

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

Bon Appétit!

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/18/2016730/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays