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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Giuliani was back in the Ukraine plotting as the House held impeachment hearings on the Ukraine plot, almost like Moscow Mitch has predetermined to acquit Trump in the Senate.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Texas judge ordered a group of TrumpBros to stop trying to build Trump's border wall near the Butterfly Sanctuary; Marco Rubio blocked Trump’s Interior nominee over offshore drilling; and, Trump shock-trooper Matt Gaetz, yelled at professor Karlan that what does she know, he’s going to impeach Obama, instead.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow argued at the International Criminal Court they have no business involving themselves in an Afghan war crimes investigation; and, North Korea warned the UN Security Council they better not even think about discussing the hermit kingdom’s human rights violations.

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/2019/12/5/1903621/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's hatred gets outed every time he is in conflict with a professional woman, and Lisa Page has had enough.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a GOP candidate for Governor falsely claimed immigrants attacked 'tens of thousands' of kids in his state; a GOP congressman is facing voter fraud and perjury allegations for listing a UPS store as his residence; and the House voted to block Trump's attack on military families living abroad.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a surprise drop in coal use in the United States and Europe has helped to slow the growth of global carbon dioxide emissions this year; and, Russia has accused Washington of deliberately delaying the issuing of visas for Russian officials traveling to the US.

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/2019/12/4/1903379/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when it comes to impeachment, some members of Congress say they have no intention to ‘convince the President’s base’ to suddenly now leave Trump’s alternative reality and join the real world.

On the rest of the menu, anti-vaxxers targeted the island of Samoa, and now thirty-two kids are dead from the measles; in answer to a question about FaceApp, the FBI says it considers any mobile app developed in Russia to be a “potential counterintelligence threat;” and, DHS wants to face scan all US citizens entering, or leaving the United States.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Honduran court handed down fifty-year jail terms for seven men convicted of the 2016 murder of indigenous and climate activist Berta Caceres; and, in violation of European Law, Russia refused a Dutch request to hand over a suspect in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

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/2019/12/3/1903159/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, during the UK general election debate, Brexit leader Nigel Farage decided to defend Trump’s sexual assault remarks and racist immigration policies by attacking Obama, and giving Putin a pass.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's trade war has wreaked havoc on farm equipment sales; GOP-controlled states are not publicizing the census because Republicans are worried about losing seats during redistricting; and, former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley shamed acting-Deputy DHS Secretary Ken Cuccinelli out of a DC pub because silence is ‘irresponsible.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of Poles protested for the ‘rule of law,’ after a prominent judge was suspended by the white nationalist ruling party; and, gunmen opened fire on a car driven by a former Naftogas executive who is now a regional Ukrainian anti-corruption lawmaker, killing his three-year old son.

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/2019/12/2/1902863/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donnie Deutsch finds Warren ‘unlikeable,’ and he’ll let you know loud and clear it’s not because of gender, so it has to be from all of his pharma stocks.

Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE set up a fake university, collected millions of dollars in tuition from legal visa holders and deported them for visa violations when the scam was revealed; the Trump Organization has been caught using Trump Tower in a tax scam; and, William Ruckelshaus, who resigned his deputy attorney general post in Watergate's 'Saturday Night Massacre,’ has died at the age of eighty-seven.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia's second-largest bank, Westpac, will refund monies to people who bought new shares before a money laundering bombshell hit; and, Australia prepares for a tough summer of fires, droughts and heat waves.

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/2019/11/28/1902348/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, compromised Senator Marsha Blackburn doubled down on her Russian agitprop smear of Lt Col Vindman.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Ohio state GOP lawmakers introduced a bill that would impose the death penalty on women seeking an abortion; a New York lawsuit accused the Trump administration of starving the US Census Bureau of funding needed to avert an undercount of racial and ethnic minorities in the 2020 census; and, Trump and his allies have been bullying intelligence experts who probe Russian election interference since the inauguration.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where high level Maltese officials resigned amidst a probe into the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia; and, the Anti Doping Agency has called for a blanket ban of Russian athletes at 2020 Tokyo Games over Russia fabricating evidence to try to discredit a whistle-blower.

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/2019/11/27/1902157/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, only a Bedbug would compare Bloomberg to FDR, especially since FDR was a “traitor to his class,” and Bloomberg isn’t.

On the rest of the menu, hardcore Trump apologist, Mo “Babbling” Brooks claimed subpoenaed impeachment witnesses testifying against Trump are breaking the law; a US general defied Trump’s claims that ISIS is “one hundred percent defeated,” by confirming American troops are still fighting in Northern Syria, so he might have to resign; and, the Ukraine scandal is part of Trump's war on experts and his overall desire to “deconstruct the Administrative State.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese news outlets have conspicuously avoided any details of Hong Kong's democratic election landslide; and, thieves circumvented overnight security measures and made away with a trove of priceless jewels in a lightning raid on one of Europe’s greatest collections of treasures at Dresden’s Green Museum.

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/2019/11/26/1901960/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the GOP has become a “crime cult” masquerading as a political party, where they're all complicit with the criminality of this administration.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump attacked Nancy Pelosi for offering a bill to lower drug prices that he praised just about a month ago; the Trump administration says its anti-foreigner polices are not to blame for driving foreign students away; and, Trump took credit for saving the lives of thousands of Hong Kong protesters by refusing a commitment to sign bipartisan legislation supporting the pro-Democracy movement.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australia is investigating allegations that China tried to install a spy in parliament; and, Egyptian security forces raided the office of independent news site Mada Masr, detaining three reporters and its senior editor.

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/2019/11/25/1901704/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Schiff gave another brilliant summation.

Then, on the rest of the menu, The Trump administration is pushing Americans covered by the ACA into junk health care plans that don’t cover pre-existing conditions; Trump’s EPA is rolling back an Obama-era regulation put in place after a fatal Texas chemical plant explosion; and, Trump humiliated the Pentagon by again overruling his top Defense leadership by restoring the status of a sailor accused of war crimes.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Chinese national who worked for Monsanto/ Bayer AG was charged in St. Louis, Missouri with stealing trade secrets for China; and, Brazil's Bolsonaro unveiled a bill to protect police and soldiers who kill while on his so-called “Guarantee of Law and Order” missions.

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/2019/11/22/1899556/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Vanity Ambassador Sondland’s testimony showed all roads lead back to Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, despite multiple deaths, Border Patrol is preventing doctors from administrating free vaccines and medical care to detained refugees; the Supreme Court is set to criminalize immigrant advocacy, routine legal work and even sympathetic tweets for refugees; and, indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas arranged meetings in Europe in 2018 for Devin Nunes to obstruct the Mueller probe.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey arrested a lawyer hired by the German embassy, heightening tensions between the NATO partners; and, in a bid to prevent it from being a pilgrimage site for neo-Nazis, Austria will turn Hitler’s birthplace into a police station.

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/2019/11/21/1900919/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays