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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Susan Collins sure learned her lesson about Roger Stone, Trump’s corruption and the Bill from the American Barr Association.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump lashed out after Obama reminded people he created a lot of jobs; Trump keeps trying to gut the program honoring Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was killed in the Benghazi consulate attack; and, John Bolton said he’s hoping Trump doesn’t “suppress” his much vaunted book.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where authorities have arrested a prominent rights activist and legal scholar who called on President Xi Jinping to step down; and, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his meeting with Pompeo last week, that Pompeo didn’t want you or any of the rest of us to know about, went swimmingly well, and he knows exactly what they are going to do with all those Russian nukes when the START treaty expires.

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/2020/2/18/1919979/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tucker Carlson set up the Roger Stone jurors for a little Lone Wolf action.

Then, on the rest of the menu, immigrants are at risk for deportation because of a motor voter registration error; California’s Legislature is expected to approve a resolution offering an apology to Japanese internment victims for the state’s role in aiding the US government’s anti-Japanese policy; and, Alaska’s Supreme Court lifted a stay blocking election officials from printing and distributing recall petitions to oust Republican governor and rabid Trump-ally, Mike Dunleavy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Filipina “disrupter” patrols help to keep Duterte’s death squads at bay; and, the Russian-backed Syrian army has seized most of the rebel-held Aleppo province.

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/2020/2/17/1919740/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after a confusing and conflicting account of the Roger Stone case, Bill Barr will have a hard time explaining himself to Congress on 31 March, if he shows up.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Native Americans defeated the GOP's racist voter ID law in North Dakota; while bragging about a booming economy, Trump cut federal pay raises because of a "national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare"; and, the Senate defied Mitch McConnell and voted to curb Trump's war powers.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over 800,000 Syrian women and children have fled their homes during a Russian-backed military campaign to clear the opposition; and, commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Dresden, German President Steinmeier warned of the “poison” of racism and antisemitism.

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/2020/2/14/1919086/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump and Barr continue to be excoriated over Roger Stone.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a West Linn, Oregon man reported workplace racism, so his boss had the town’s racist cops arrest him; Republicans on the House Intel Committee skipped a national security hearing because they are still mad about being caught in the Russia probe; and, the Bureau of Land Management’s new policy to defer to 'constitutionalist' sheriffs in the rural West, is contributing to chaos and fear around federal lands.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the former head of Mexico's state oil firm Pemex is arrested by police in Malaga, Spain, where he fled to avoid corruption charges; and, Italian senators voted to lift immunity for far-right leader Matteo Salvini, opening the way for a career-ending trial that he illegally detained migrants at sea last year.

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/2020/2/13/1918848/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Bill Barr taking over the Roger Stone sentencing and the whole prosecution team resigning in protest “was a real break-down in the rule of law at the Justice Department.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Apple engineer who died when his Tesla Model X auto pilot malfunctioned, complained previously about the SUV malfunctioning on the same stretch of Silicon Valley freeway; Republicans think tampons need to be taxed to limit women from buying too many; and, incidents of white supremacist propaganda distributed across the nation jumped by more than 120% between 2018 and last year.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a European money laundering watchdog has cautioned that a secretive investment-for-passports program run by Cyprus is fraught with risk; and, the Coronavirus could reduce Chinese purchases of US farm goods.

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/2020/2/12/1918580/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Joe Manchin is not phased in the slightest by Trump, and even punches back at the toddler in the White House over impeachment.

Then, on the rest of the menu, amid significant legal challenges, the Trump Interior Department dropped it’s trophy hunting advisory council; GOP budget chair Mike Enzi dismissed Trump's $4.8 trillion budget proposal as 'just a list of suggestions'; and, Trump finally agreed to speed up immigration cases for military interpreters.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US charged four Chinese military hackers in the 2017 Equifax breach that affected over 150 million Americans; and, Japan says defense data has possibly been breached after cyberattacks on Mitsubishi Electric.

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

Bon Appétit!

“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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham told Margaret Brennan that he talked to the Attorney General, and they have set up a "process" so Rudy will now send his Biden "dirt" directly to Barr to help Trump cheat on the election.

Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE is sued over the medical treatment of a 5-year-old boy with a head injury; Trump finalizes his plans to allow drilling at two Utah national monuments; and; Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company won the feature-length documentary Oscar for, “American Factory.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Philippine government asked its Supreme Court to cancel the franchise of the nation’s top broadcaster for “highly abusive practices” against President Rodrigo Duterte; and, for the first time in years, a commercial passenger plane has flown across the Atlantic in less than five 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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when the Mitt fits, he had to convict on abuse, but the obstruction charge didn’t fit Mitt, so you could say Mitt split Mitt, and God made him do it.

Then, on the rest of the menu, governors of both parties warn that the Trump Medicaid cuts are putting people in danger; the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into the Mississippi prison system after a string of inmate deaths in the past few months; and, a federal judge reversed the convictions of four members of a humanitarian aid group for leaving water and food in the desert, ruling that Trump violated their religious liberty.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Angela Merkel’s conservatives broke a post-war taboo of shunning the far right when they negotiated the election of a state premier with the white nationalist Alternative for Germany party; and, a record number of anti-Semitic incidents have been logged in Britain, again.

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/2020/2/6/1917036/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Iowa caucus votes slowly trickled in as Nancy Pelosi ripped up the State of the Union hoax.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after a few unsuccessful tries already, Kevin McCarthy wants to investigate Adam Schiff for trying to save America; Trump’s exaggerated ‘Great American Comeback’ feels a lot like get back for electing a black President, twice; and, Kansas will drop it’s fight against a compensation claim from a man who spent twenty-three years in prison for a double homicide he did not commit.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Nigeria’s foreign minister was blindsided by Trump’s decision, but he is working hard to have the travel ban lifted; and, a second butterfly activist has been found murdered a week after the director of the sanctuary was also slain at the UNESCO Heritage site.

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/2020/2/5/1916721/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “History will not be kind to Donald Trump,” and the GOP will be tied to him “with a cord of steel” from this day forward.

Then, on the rest of the menu, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy forgets Republicans controlled Congress for Trump's first two years; YouTube says it will ban 'deepfakes' and 'birther' videos ahead of 2020 election; and, Trump’s five million dollar “I Freed a Negro” Super Bowl ad comes in dead last in the ratings.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK plans a ban on new petrol and diesel cars earlier than reported; and, two Iranian university students challenge their removal from the United States.

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/2020/2/4/1916386/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays