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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

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, revelations in John Bolton's manuscript align with what Lev Parnas has already said about Trump's Ukraine scheme, and the involvement of Bill Barr.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Midwestern states consider banning discrimination based on hairstyle; there is some confusion over what data colleges and universities can provide for the 2020 Census; and, Iowa's anger over Trump's ethanol policy could just be the opening the Democrats need.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where AirAsia shares plunged after Britain’s Serious Fraud Office alleged AirBus paid a $50 million dollar bribe to win plane orders; and, Twitter banned financial market website Zero Hedge after Buzzfeed complained about an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus.

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/2020/2/3/1915993/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Warren asked the House Managers a question that painted Roberts and the Supreme Court in a pretty damning light, but Adam Schiff painted the Senate and White House as something much worse.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Justice Gorsuch wants to strip power from lower courts to help Trump; Twitter and Pinterest are taking the babiest of baby steps in a crack down on voter misinformation; and, the Chair of the Harvard Chemistry Department charged with lying about his links to China is released on a $1 million dollar bond.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Norwegian police raided the office of an international shipping company for exporting hazardous waste; and, as forests burn around the world, drinking water is at risk.

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/2020/1/31/1915333/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Schiff fired back after Jay Sekulow threatened that the impeachment trial would be put on a pike.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the House Democrats called for $760 billion in infrastructure spending over five years to repair sagging roads and bridges; NASA is pulling the plug on the Spitzer Space Telescope after sixteen years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes; and, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell was unable to say the Rooney Rule is not working, but did admit the league needs change to its minority hiring policy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tokyo prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn for illegally leaving the country, along with warrants for a former US special forces soldier and another person suspected of smuggling the former Nissan Motor Company boss out of Japan; and, the Mexican activist who fought to protect monarch butterflies has been found dead, two weeks after he mysteriously disappeared.

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/2020/1/30/1915023/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it won’t be long for John Kelly’s time in the barrel after he sided with Bolton.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Government Services Agency has no idea how much money foreign governments spent at the Trump International Hotel, and had not bothered to find out; Trump-pardoned war criminal Eddie Gallagher “doxxed” the Navy SEALS who testified against him; and, a top San Francisco official, along with the owner of the shuttered Lefty O’ Doul’s Sports Bar, have been charged with corruption in an FBI probe.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French police fired tear gas and beat firefighters with batons during a protest in Paris; and, the hostel at the North Korean embassy in Berlin must close to stop the flow of hard currency to Pyongyang.

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/2020/1/29/1914778/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Tom Cotton called a fellow GOP senator’s criticism of Trump's lawyers spreading Russian conspiracy theories during the trial, a "Democratic talking point."

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked GOP efforts to suppress the vote in battleground states; a Virginia GOP lawmaker scolded a colleague for acknowledging racism still exists; and, GOP senator of Arizona Martha McSally said says she attacked a CNN reporter to 'represent the people of my state' by being a prickly pear hot-head.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia expelled a Japanese journalist in a military espionage dispute; and, Canada leveled three new charges against a top police intelligence official who is accused of leaking secret information.

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/2020/1/28/1914565/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

River City Hash Mondays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you have to be the Kingston of Fools to think you can gaslight in the World of Joy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is working hard to allow domestic abusers, felons and terrorists access to untraceable, undetectable 3D-printed guns; a California bill would force utilities to reimburse customers for blackouts; and, the American Library Association awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Valeria Luiselli’s novel “Lost Children Archive” and Adam Higginbotham’s nonfiction “Midnight in Chernobyl.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where; defying a top cleric, thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets of the Iraqi capitol and southern provinces, as five Katyusha rockets blasted a river bank near the US embassy in Baghdad; and, with anti-Semitism on the rise, Holocaust survivors commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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/2020/1/27/1914319/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, "You know you can't trust this president to do what's right for this country. You can trust he will do what's right for Donald Trump."

Then, on the rest of the menu, Pennsylvania Republicans push to weaken the court that caught them rigging elections; a Kentucky official pushes a voter suppression bill that could help Moscow Mitch McConnell's campaign; and, the Wisconsin GOP fights to keep their unfair gerrymandered election maps.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Nations says its officials have been barred from using WhatsApp since June of 2019 over severe security issues; and, the US denied Britain's extradition request for the diplomat's wife who killed that British teenager last year.

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/2020/1/24/1913684/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the only thing one can surmise from the cavalier attitude of the GOP senators is that impeachment rules, witnesses, documents and a soberly rational, comprehensive legal presentation are for suckers.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled the Trump administration cannot force bogus sex ed on teens; the ACLU demanded answers on the censored Women’s March photo and any other photos at the National Archives that had been similarly altered; and, a major judicial ethics committee warned sitting federal judges not to affiliate with the Federalist Society.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French senate passed a bill allowing in vitro fertilization for single women and lesbian couples; and, in an Olympic year, Japan faces a decision over radioactive contaminated Fukushima water.

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/2020/1/23/1913397/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, before Trump’s lawyers were caught lying in the well of the Senate, Midnight Moscow Mitch backed down on his own rules because he was caught bluffing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after trying to ban Muslims, Jeff Sessions is attempting a comeback Senate bid on religious freedom for Christians of his choosing; in a possible further erosion of the separation of Church and State, the Supreme Court will examine religious school funding in a major rights case; and, Mick Mulvaney released a treasure trove of OMB documents two minutes before the court-ordered midnight deadline.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia gets a new government in what Putin calls a "major renewal" and others call a naked grab to retain power; and, Saudi Arabia welcomes an investigation into who was behind the hacking of Jeff Bezos' phone, but the Washington Post reporter most qualified, was murdered and dismembered by the Kingdom.

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/2020/1/22/1913178/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays