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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, while relying mostly on natural gas, Greg Abbott and Ted Cruz lied when they blamed the New Green Deal that doesn’t exist for the Texas winter storm outages.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black franchise owner sued MacDonald’s citing persistent bias; the SEC sued Morningstar Credit Ratings for violating US securities laws in its ratings of commercial mortgage-backed securities; and, Biden is urged to end the Trump lawsuit blocking $2.3 billion in payments to some 300,000 aged, blind and disabled Puerto Ricans.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands of protesters took over Barcelona’s streets to demand the release of a rapper jailed on charges of rapping insults at the Spanish royalty; and, Japan's ruling party wants more women at their meetings, unless they talk.

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/2021/2/17/2016525/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, all those Republicans who shirked their impeachment responsibility and passed the buck to law enforcement, will not remember they did so when law enforcement attempts to charge Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, House Republicans slammed Joe Biden for using CDC guidelines to reopen the nation’s schools; the DHS can finally investigate far-right extremism after Trump blocked it for years; and, the SolarWind hack was “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vice-President Kamala Harris spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron, expressing commitment to strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries; and, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala made history by becoming the first woman and first African director-general of the WTO.

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/2021/2/16/2016317/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the fourteenth amendment to remove Trump will require court action.

Then, on the rest of the menu, federal authorities have targeted a massive N95 mask scam; a federal judge ruled against the Apaches’ bid to stop the transfer of their land to a copper mining company; and, Ammon Bundy is grifting to build a violent militia network on the backlash against Covid-19 safety measures.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leftist opposition party is headed to a landslide victory in the Kosovo election; and, far-right nationalists honored a WWII pro-Nazi general with a candlelight procession and flowers in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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/2021/2/15/2016083/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, GOP Senators Cruz, Lee and Graham met with Trump’s lawyers because they took an oath to be I’m partial, so help them God.

Then, on the rest of the menu, seven House Republicans are pushing to completely defund all enforcement of federal gun regulations; Kevin McCarthy says Joe Biden won’t meet with Republicans about an hour and a half after the President met with Republicans on a bipartisan infrastructure plan; and, President Biden has officially revoked Trump's 'emergency' declaration to fund his vanity border wall.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a leader of the Polish Women’s Strike and nationwide protests against a near total abortion ban, has been charged with criminal felonies; and, Yoshiro Mori has finally resigned as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following his sexist comments.

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/2021/2/12/2015510/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the House Managers anticipated the Trump defense and showed the incitement wasn’t from one speech, but over many months, if not years.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Republican senators vow to block interior secretary nominee Deb Haaland because she'll actually protect the interior; the conspiracy theory of the Capitol ‘False Flag’ has divided Republicans in Oregon; and, dozens of former Republican officials are in talks to form a breakaway anti-Trump third party.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Saudi Arabia’s most prominent women’s rights activists was released after three years in prison; and, Colombia has failed to protect its human rights activists, resulting in hundreds of slayings since 2016.

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/2021/2/11/2015273/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump got the pathetic legal representation he deserves.

Then, on the rest of the menu, officers of color who were barred from guarding George Floyd killer Derek Chauvin, have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit; Naval officials confirm that explosives missing from the Marine Corps base at Twentynine Palms, California is under investigation; and, the University of Alabama at Birmingham has removed the name of arch-segregationist George C Wallace from a campus building, today, tomorrow and forever.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where anyone arriving in England and found to have lied about visiting a country on the travel ban list, faces up to ten years in prison; and, rather than leaking from a Chinese lab, a team of international scientists have concluded the coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal.

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/2021/2/10/2015060/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, what the 2016 election and two impeachments prove is that fundamentally, the GOP and Trump do not believe in democracy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, even though they are not on the priority list, court staffers and judges are getting Idaho’s limited supply of the vaccine; a superior court judge blocked some of Los Angeles DA George Gascon’s progressive policies; and, about a month before the Capitol was breached by insurgents with military training, GOP senators deleted language from the Pentagon policy bill that would have made violent extremism a crime in the military code of justice.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea continued to develop nuclear and ballistic programs throughout 2020, in violation of international sanctions; and, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty to corruption charges at the resumption of his groundbreaking trial.

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/2021/2/9/2014852/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the firing of Lou Dobbs is not cancel culture, it is consequence culture.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after massive public scorn, parents who opted out of Black History being taught at a Utah Montessori charter school, have withdrawn their request; weary postal workers hope Biden will bring sorely needed change; and, Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas, has vowed to fight one of the greatest threats to the United States, white nationalist domestic terrorism.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Biden administration has initiated moves to rejoin the UN Human Rights Council; and, Pope Francis has appointed two women to the male-dominated Holy See.

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/2021/2/8/2014627/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in spite of a divided nation, Joe Biden’s approval rating stands unusually high at sixty-one per cent.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration will delay a last-minute Trump rule that would have drastically weakened the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act; a district judge ruled that Trump officials did not weigh the climate costs of a massive coal mine on the Montana/ Wyoming border; and, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee backed President Joe Biden’s nomination of veteran diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the US ambassador to the United Nations.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK expelled three Chinese spies posing as journalists in the past year; and, Sergei Lavrov warned Antony Blinken he better respect the Russia legal system, as if they ever respected ours.

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/2021/2/5/2014131/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Friday

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, DHS Secretary Mayorkas has a plan to address domestic terrorism.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the DHS terminated an unusual agreement with Arizona signed in the waning days of the Trump administration meant to restrict Biden’s immigration policies; a twenty-two year-old man found dead in the Oklahoma County Detention Center is the fourth inmate to die in the problem-plagued facility this year; and, the Virginia Senate passed a death penalty abolition bill.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Canadian government designated the Proud Boys as a terrorist group; and, the Myanmar military had to impose a coup because currently-deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi possessed illegally imported walkie-talkies.

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/2021/2/4/2013884/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays