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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, moderators and interviewers who don’t want to be bulldozed by Trump’s incessant, ignorant bombast, just cut off his mic. Voters, vote.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a GOP congressman has no problem spewing racism and religious bigotry, just don’t question Trump’s Supreme Court nomination’s wacky Catholic cult; some people might wonder if it’s legal for Mike Flynn’s lawyer to brief Trump on discovery from the case, while others might think it’s a national security issue; and, a federal judge is considering holding Commerce Secretary and the federal government in contempt if they violate her order and stop the census count early.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Azerbaijan and Armenia brushed off any suggestion of peace talks; and, Ukraine marked the seventy-ninth anniversary of the Babi Yar Massacre, one of the worst mass slaughters of World War Two.

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/2020/9/30/1981928/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, looks more and more that Trump’s previous attacks on Obama for being compromised by foreign governments, and on Democratic voters for not paying enough in taxes, was pure projection.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Democratic House members are set to introduce a bill that would stop the Senate from blocking a Supreme Court pick like it did to Obama; the GOP’s craven response to Ginsburg's death could turn the tide Blue in the Texas Senate race; and, in the wake of the fatal shooting of a federal judge’s son and the wounding of her husband, bi-partisan legislation seeks to restrict online access to judges’ personal information.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Germany’s hard right Alternative for Germany party fired an official who had been caught on a hidden camera discussing gassing refugees; and, Mexican women charged police lines and tossed Molotov cocktails at officers during demonstrations demanding the legalization of abortion in the predominantly Catholic nation.

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/2020/9/29/1981597/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, last night was a good night for the New York Times to release Trump’s taxes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, in a momentary victory for the Trump campaign, a federal appeals court temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential election; in a setback for Trump, a Montana judge extended the deadline for returning mailed ballots; and, a Minnesota mayor disputed that armed vigilantes in his town harassed the state COVID-19 survey team they chased away.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is recovering from the assassination attempt last month faster than expected; and, the Alps were surprised by an unseasonably early snowfall, with one Swiss town seeing over ten inches of snow in less that twenty-four hours.

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/2020/9/28/1981280/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump voters prove we should not dismiss his election threats as folly, or a joke.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the first citation Iowa regulators issued to a meat packing plant for a huge and deadly cornavirus outbreak was a whopping nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars; conservation groups slammed the Forest Service’s proposal to exempt Alaska’s Tongass National Forest from the “Roadless Rule;” and, Florida prosecutors dropped charges against Trump confidante and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft after courts ruled video showing him paying for massage parlor sex would be prejudicial.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Nations urged member states to help the more than three hundred thousand merchant marines stranded at sea because of the pandemic; and, Germany will replace its intelligence boss in an effort to do more to root out right wing extremists from the military.

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/2020/9/25/1980548/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’ vast and ongoing project to steal the election “sounds like dystopian science fiction,” but “it is frankly a plan for an authoritarian power grab.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a major provider of software services to state, county and local governments, including the online publishing of election results, informed the FBI it has been hacked; instead of satanic BLM/Antifa arsonists, the huge wildfire near Los Angeles was started by Southern California Edison utility equipment; and, California is ready to pull the plug on gas vehicles.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s defense minister admitted to misleading the nation about troop virus safety from last winter, that is linked to France’s first confirmed COVID-19 cluster; and, German prosecutors filed charges against eight more Volkswagen employees accused in the company’s diesel emissions test scandal.

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, Trump’ vast and ongoing project to steal the election “sounds like dystopian science fiction,” but “it is frankly a plan for an authoritarian power grab.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a major provider of software services to state, county and local governments, including the online publishing of election results, informed the FBI it has been hacked; instead of satanic BLM/Antifa arsonists, the huge wildfire near Los Angeles was started by Southern California Edison utility equipment; and, California is ready to pull the plug on gas vehicles.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s defense minister admitted to misleading the nation about troop virus safety from last winter, that is linked to France’s first confirmed COVID-19 cluster; and, German prosecutors filed charges against eight more Volkswagen employees accused in the company’s diesel emissions test scandal.

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/2020/9/24/1980206/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP falls in line with McConnell’s gambit to stack the Court before the election.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration siphoned hundreds of millions intended for pandemic medical supplies to pay for jet parts, military formal wear and give millions to the company of Chad Wolf’s wife; a US asphalt company plead guilty to bribing officials in Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela for almost a decade; and, assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy’s grandson is the whistleblower who revealed the Kushner-led pandemic response "was like a family office meets organized crime, melded with 'Lord of the Flies.'”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where all wine industry workers in the Basque country of Spain must undergo a Covid-19 test to prevent putting the grape harvest at risk; and, Mexican authorities are preparing arrest warrants against Mexican soldiers in the infamous 2014 missing student-teacher case.

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/2020/9/23/1979801/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mueller’s group failed to fully investigate Trump’s illicit financial ties, mostly because Mueller was manipulated by his deputy while he suffered from mental decline.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Manhattan DA’s office cited “a mountainous record” of public allegations of misconduct to support its quest for Trump’s taxes; a British man was sentenced to five years in prison for helping the hacking collective, Dark Overlord, steal info from several US companies; and, a NYC police officer is charged with spying on Tibetan immigrants for the Chinese government.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Italy’s right wing opposition leader Salvini failed to make the breakthroughs he had hoped for in regional elections that showed a massive turnout of voters; and, Navalny demanded that Russia return his clothes for the Novichok investigation.

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/2020/9/22/1979482/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

and, a plaque symbolizing Thailand’s transition to democracy has been removed less than twenty-four hours after it was installed by anti-government demonstrators.

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/2020/9/21/1979194/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bill Barr gave “a very strange speech” that might be an audition for “large speaking fees in Russia in 2021, or a fellowship at one of the Hungarian Universities propping up Orban.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, almost every single House Republican voted against a bill to condemn racism; Russian Disinformation Senator Ron Johnson entered quarantine after being exposed to Covid-19; and, New York state filed civil charges accusing Johnson & Johnson of insurance fraud for downplaying the risks of opioid painkillers.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where EU lawmakers say Lukashenko should not be recognized as Belarus president after his term expires on 5 November; and, Joe Biden warned the UK there will be no trade deals after Brexit unless Britain honors the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement.

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/2020/9/18/1978325/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the CDC Director testified under oath that masks are the number one virus fighting tool we have in the kit, but Trump’s gut tells him he knows more than Redfield and every loser sucker pencil neck geek scientist in the world.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s latest gift to White Evangelicals is cutting Women’s health care even more; a federal judge ordered all federal prosecutors in Manhattan to read her opinion on withholding evidence; and, Bill Barr not only wanted to charge protesters with sedition, he wanted to indict Seattle’s mayor for keeping protesters and police apart.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Pakistani ruling party lawmaker seeks to criminalize criticism of the military; and, Great Britain says Russian spies are almost certainly behind the Navalny poisoning.

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/2020/9/17/1978028/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays