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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Michael Flynn is “a disgrace to his uniform” and “needs to be rebuked” by the military.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is hit with subpoenas after threatening CDC staff; the Covid-19 Stimulus bill would make unauthorized streaming of movies or music a felony; and, dozens of email accounts at Treasury were compromised in the wide-ranging Russia espionage campaign, “the full depth of which isn’t known.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent local journalist is the fourth media personality in Afghanistan to be killed in just the last two months; and, Kenyan medical workers started a nationwide strike to protest the lack of personal protective equipment and health insurance during the pandemic.

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/2020/12/22/2003447/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the latest aggression by Vlad again exposing Trump’s blind spot on Russia should be a “big wake up call for us all.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is taking one more shot at women's health care while it can; Georgia’s two neo-Antebellum senators have a nifty new separate-but-equal idea for counting votes; and, Major League Baseball finally recognizes the Negro Leagues' proper place in history.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where at least eight Katyusha rockets exploded in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone in an attack targeting the US Embassy; and, Putin told the spy agency responsible for the massive cyber attacks against the United States to ‘keep up the good work.’

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/2020/12/21/2003225/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, maybe the reason shipments of the Pfizer vaccine is being drastically cutback is because the Trump administration has stock in the yet to be authorized Moderna vaccine.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge blocked a GOP effort to get rid of ballot drop boxes ahead of the US Senate runoff races in Georgia; the Trump administration will hand Florida the authority to develop the wetlands just weeks before Joe Biden takes office; and, in a rare win for science, the Supreme Court rejected a religious school’s challenge to Kentucky’s coronavirus shutdown order.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Iran said it is not necessary to strike a new deal when the US rejoins the six nation agreement after Joe Biden takes office; and, after Macron tested positive for Covid, scores of European leaders he met in France in the last few days rushed to get tested.

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/2020/12/18/2002724/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reason Rand Paul claimed, without any evidence, that “in many ways the election was stolen,” is because when they lose, it was always stolen from them.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the family behind Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma, is scheduled to face congressional scrutiny today; Tyson Foods fired seven top managers for laying wagers on how many workers would test positive for the coronavirus; and, several groups asked a federal judge to block the Trump administration from issuing oil and gas leases in the Arctic Refuge.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where prosecutors in Warsaw opened a national security investigation after a women's rights symbol was put on the Polish flag; and, a Dutch Court refused to return a Wassily Kandinsky painting to the Jewish heirs of the family the Nazis stole it from.

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/2020/12/17/2002511/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the White House security chief didn’t get the free platinum virus treatment that Trump and Rudy got, and has lost a leg to severe covid while being saddled with “staggering medical bills.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump picked a new acting attorney general with an ugly record of defending racism; the Supreme Court said keeping people safe from COVID threatens religious liberty; and, a federal judge approved a settlement between Brown University and student-athletes who had challenged the school’s decision to drop several women’s varsity sports.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an independent commission found Sweden’s hands-off approach to the virus failed to protect the elderly and the government is responsible for the pandemic’s debilitating effects on the country; and, Bermuda swore in its first Black woman as governor.

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/2020/12/16/2002290/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a CNN investigation has pieced together how the Russian Security Service followed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny prior to poisoning him.

Then, on the rest of the menu, federal and state authorities are cracking down on a wave of scams bilking desperate Americans during the pandemic; presidential pardon-seeking scofflaw Ken Paxton is leading one last effort to completely gut DACA just before Joe Biden takes office; and, the longtime aide to “Putin’s Congressman” Dana Rohrabacher has conveniently™ died from severe head trauma suffered from one of those convenient™ falls.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a record number of journalists were imprisoned worldwide in 2020; and, the World Health Organization is investigating a new COVID-19 variant that has emerged in England.

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/2020/12/15/2002077/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Dr Jill Biden never gave up on her career and dreams.

Then, on the rest of the menu, El Paso elected its liberal former mayor, defeating the conservative incumbent in a runoff; California wants to join the federal antitrust case against Google; and, the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website founder is accused of ignoring a $14 million dollar judgment levied against him by a Montana district judge.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is ready to open an investigation into war crimes by Russia in the Ukraine; and, it was just revealed that Russia has been hacking into the US Treasury, Commerce and other departments since March, which makes Trump’s firings in cybersecurity so suspicious.

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/2020/12/14/2001814/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump faces a slew of civil and criminal legal probes when he leaves office.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the fourth-ranking member among the Georgia House Republicans, was indicted on a charge of reckless conduct for ignoring a fatal hit and run; the Supreme Court will let three Muslim men sue several FBI agents for placing them on the no-fly list when they refused to become informants; and, a Yuma hospital fired a well-known emergency-medicine physician for reporting on the severity of COVID-19 in Arizona.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland said that radiation levels had risen following an incident at a nuclear reactor in the western part of the country; and, the shooting death of a women’s rights journalist brings the total number of journalists and media workers killed this year in Afghanistan, to ten.

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/2020/12/11/2001233/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Michigan AG told Texas AG Ken Paxton to “stay in your lane, and stick to trying to disenfranchise voters in your own state. Don’t come to mine.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a member of the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division, who threatened journalists on both coasts, was sentenced to federal prison; a jury convicted the leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group in the Minnesota mosque bombing; and, US District Judge Emmet Sullivan said he was leaning against dismissing the Flynn case before Trump’s pardon blew it all up.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia conducted sweeping drills of its strategic nuclear forces that featured several practice missile launches; and, a Russian citizen was charged with espionage in Denmark.

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/2020/12/10/2001012/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Biden’s nominee for Defense Secretary will serve to “help end the chaos.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Idaho Health Board meeting was halted when Ammon Bundy’s armed anti-mask goons terrorized board members and their families at their homes; a North Carolina newspaper publisher was handcuffed and ordered out of a courtroom for objecting to a lack of court access; and, cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by an unnamed nation state that just happens to write in Cyrillic.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Iranian official said some of the usual suspects have been arrested in the killing of the top nuclear scientist last month; and, Putin signed a law allowing Russian legislation to claim precedence over international treaties.

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/2020/12/9/2000794/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays