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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Washington Post reported the White House has admitted to embracing the whack, flat earth fringe herd immunity gambit.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court allowed Trump to stop the Census early; the Department of Justice accused the author of the Melania tell-all book of breaking her non disclosure agreement with the Trump’s; and, Texas lost its bid before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals to reinstate a law that would have banned the most common abortion procedure.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia issued an unprecedented threat to freeze its contacts with the EU over sanctions because of the Navalny poisoning; and, the leader of Slovakia’s far right party was sentenced to over four years in prison for the illegal use of neo-Nazi symbols.

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/2020/10/14/1986353/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

and, Facebook is updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust.

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/2020/10/13/1986046/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, details about the Trump's Covid-19 diagnosis remains murky, but he did declare himself immune with no evidence.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a conservative political action committee in Missouri is facing accusations of racism for using racist images in its campaign material; Dr Anthony Fauci said his remarks were taken out of context in a misleading Trump campaign ad he didn’t agree to be in; and, Iowa’s Derecho crop loss estimates have been adjusted upwards by more than fifty percent.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where dozens of unidentified assailants attacked a Paris suburb police station with metal bars and incendiary fireworks as mortar rounds, the third such attack on this suburb police station in a two years; and, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called for a government inquiry into the Murdoch media dominance.

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/2020/10/12/1985730/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, while Trump was coughing harshly and exclaiming how well he feels on a telephone interview with Fox, he also insisted that everybody looking sideways be indicted. Everybody.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the former RNC Finance Chair, who was also a top Trump fundraiser, was charged by the Department of Justice in an illegal lobbying scheme; Homeland Security contradicted Trump and reported white supremacist violence poses the biggest threat to the United States; and, some people might blame Utah Senator Mike Lee contracting Covid for his bold stand against Democracy, and some others might not.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chile is keeping close tabs on a large fleet of three hundred Chinese fishing vessels that has stirred up controversy all along the Pacific coast of South America; and, Bolivia declared a state of disaster due to wildfires ravaging forested and agricultural areas in the eastern part of the country.

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/2020/10/9/1984972/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the reason there are undecided voters in the battleground state of Arizona is because they can’t even decide who won the vice presidential debate.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a panel of three appellate judges upheld a lower court order to let the 2020 census continue through October, but Trump filed an emergency order with the Supreme Court; an Atlanta housing concern was sued for illegally evicting residents during the pandemic; and, the risk to the Pentagon increased as the Marine Corps’ number two officer tested positive for Covid-19.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the trial of a Russian accused of murdering a Georgian Chechen last year in broad daylight in downtown Berlin, on Moscow’s orders, has begun; and, the European Union presented a ten-year plan to improve the plight of its large Roma minority.

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/2020/10/8/1984610/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, White House and GOP officials expressed private concern over Trump’s ‘roid rage while flip flopping on the Stimulus Bill.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Fauci says the White House COVID-19 infections could have been prevented; Homeland Security stepped up warnings about foreign threats to US election security, with Russian interference in particular; and, in a rebuke to Trump, FDA safety guidelines will push any COVID-19 vaccine authorization past the election.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Greek officials are set to deploy about two thousand police officers around Athens as the leadership of the extreme right group Golden Dawn face a landmark criminal trial verdict; and, the global chemical watchdog group OPCW has definitively confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a Soviet-era nerve agent.

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/2020/10/7/1984282/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the translation of Dr Fauci’s “no comment” turns out to be, if you listen to Donald Trump, you will not feel twenty years younger during a pandemic.

Then, on the rest of the menu, newly updated CDC guidance shows covid can travel more than six feet indoors; the Governor of Montana asked a federal court to block sweeping land use plans by Trump’s unlawful acting-public lands boss; and, a federal judge blocked Iowa’s GOP Secretary of State from enforcing an absentee ballot suppression directive.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain opened an investigation into its coronavirus test and trace glitch; and, the World Health Organization reported one in ten have caught COVID, as the world heads into a 'difficult period.'

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/2020/10/6/1983899/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, questions and confusion remain over Trump’s health.

Then, on the rest of the menu, top aides and multiple high-ranking attorneys in his office accuse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of bribery and abusing office; New Jersey health officials have contacted more than 200 people who attended Trump’s campaign fundraiser in Bedminster; and, two White House aides illegally investigated Voice of America White House bureau chief Steve Herman, for anti-Trump bias.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over one hundred thousand anti-Lukashenko demonstrators in Belarus were undeterred by water cannons and tear gas; and, tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in hundreds of locations across Israel against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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/2020/10/5/1983521/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “no amount of ventilation is good enough in an indoor setting to mitigate risk of transmission” like what happened during the debate and at Trump’s super spreader rallies.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump campaign followed through on a threat to suppress paper ballots in Pennsylvania; Trump operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman each face twenty-four years in prison for felonious voter intimidation; and, the CEO of Pfizer pushed back against Trump’s claim on the rushed timing of any vaccines in development.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Turkish health minister revealed the government has been hiding the true extent of the virus outbreak; and, Argentina mourned after the death of the beloved cartoonist “Quino.”

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/2020/10/2/1982680/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

and, the death of a US embassy employee in the Ukraine may be crime, or an accident, Ukrainian officials say.

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/2020/10/1/1982292/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays