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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democrats are building a case for impeachment by releasing testimony in order.

On the rest of the menu, Trump endorsed the far-right candidate in Virginia’s 13th district where 60% of the voters don't like him; the Trump administration overturned Obama-era regulations that limited the amount of toxic waste coal plants can spew into the nation’s waterways; and, Trump’s other lawyer now hopes the Supreme Court will keep his taxes hidden.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where rights groups argued in a Canadian court that the US is unsafe for asylum seekers and refugees; and, the leader of Canada's small Green Party quit to spend more time with her family, after winning just three seats in the national election.

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/2019/11/5/1897225/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kevin McCarthy refused to accept the whistle-blower’s offer of written questions and testimony under oath from the Republicans, after he spent over five minutes whining on national television that Adam Schiff won’t let the GOP question the whistle-blower.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the head of the violent, neo-fascist Proud Boys has filed papers for the GOP nomination to challenge incumbent Democratic Representative Donna Shalala, for the Florida US House seat; North Carolina Republicans keep canceling votes when all the Democrats are present; and, jobs keep disappearing, despite Trump's promise of a Rust Belt revival.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands of Romanians protested the attacks and killings of forest workers by gangs of illegal loggers the government has turned a blind eye to; and, if Boris and Nigel form a unity coalition, Trump promised some huge trade deals when the UK leaves the EU, but they’ll have to do him some favors, though.

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/2019/11/4/1896994/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Fox News viewers are convinced the Democrats, Media and the Deep State are a cult, and no one knows why, or how they ever could have come to that conclusion.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration ramps up its Obamacare sabotage as sign-up season begins; the Keystone XL pipeline has sprung a massive leak in North Dakota, just as expected; and, a leading Republican lawmaker wants to stop China from buying sophisticated US technology, but the Trump Administration wants to dip its beak some more.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Trump administration is withholding $105 million in security aid for Lebanon as a gift to Russia; and, British Columbia is moving closer to permanent daylight savings time.

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/2019/11/1/1896502/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller is the force behind the record number of migrant refugee children separated from their parents and held in for-profit detention centers at the border.

Then, on the rest of the menu, economic growth has stalled and Trump’s trade war is to blame; big corn and big oil both blasted the Trump biofuel plan at a public hearing hosted by the EPA; and, outrage over the deaths of thirty-six horses at Santa Anita Park since December is not enough to keep Kentucky’s Churchill Downs and Mitch McConnell from blocking a bipartisan “race day anti-doping bill.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Australian police have frozen over a half dozen multi-million dollar properties in a money laundering scheme by Chinese mobsters; and, fire has destroyed the five hundred year old Shuri Castle, a World Heritage site on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa, with its main hall reduced to a skeleton.

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/2019/10/31/1896195/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donald Trump is so unused to normal people, he had to leave the World Series early.

Then, on the rest of the menu, GOP Senator Richard Burr’s proposal to tax college athletic scholarships just shows you can take the plantation owner out of the plantation, but you can’t take the plantation owner out of the plantation owner; citing procedural issues they chose not to use, Republicans stormed out of a vote on a bill to help women veterans; and, the US Office of Special Counsel has been requested to review Mike Pompeo’s compliance with a law barring federal workers from engaging in political activities while on the job.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States is pitted against Britain, France, South Africa, others at the UN over references to sexual and reproductive health; and, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to recognize the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a genocide that was instantly denounced by Turkey.

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/2019/10/30/1895978/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Looks like Trump’s Yes Men failed to tell him that details from counter terrorism operations “don’t need to be revealed.”

On the rest of the menu, the Trump administration overturned a Civil War-era law the Obama administration used to build bad-lending cases against the big banks; a Virginia GOP lawmaker says stay-at-home moms caring for a child born with major medical conditions, like his Democratic opponent, aren't really 'working day to day;' and, Oregon’s Greg Walden becomes the seventeenth House Republican who won't run for reelection in 2020.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French police arrested a man for firing shots at a mosque in Bayonne in the southwest of France; and, Bulgaria demanded Russia to recall its diplomat over spying allegations.

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/2019/10/29/1895692/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Trump and the corporate media fawn over the ISIS raid, there still is the "shadow of impeachment" in the background of it all.

Then, on the rest of the menu, public land workers are confronting an increase in violent threats and assaults as US agencies fail to come up with any security plans; it took a stunt by a left leaning PAC, but Facebook did take down an ad that claimed Lindsey Graham supported the Green New Deal; and, with almost one hundred thousand evacuated from Sonoma County alone, and another quarter million in the region under evacuation orders, one hundred and two mile per hour gusts have exploded fires throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of young Iraqis protesting the extreme income inequality of the Abdul Madhi government, have taken over Tahir Square in defiance of the bloody crackdown that killed scores over the weekend; and, it takes a special kind of Special Ops unit to dig through the rubble of a collapsed tunnel, retrieve tissues samples and get the results of a DNA test in fifteen minutes, but Trump said they did, so it must be true.

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/2019/10/28/1895524/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Matt Gaetz is very, very mad that Jackie Speier referred to him as an entitled white man, but he’ll shout you down if you don’t treat him like one.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Secret Service interviewed Eminem about his anti-Trump lyrics after a TrumpBro at TMZ called them up; criminal arrests of Border Agents have surged amid the aggressive hiring practices ordered by Trump; and, the right-wing dark money group Club for Growth, accused House Democrats of planning to cancel the 2020 election.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian state atomic company Rosatom signed a deal with Rwanda to build a center of nuclear science and technologies; and, Russian Spy Maria Butina has been released from prison after serving an 18 month sentence, and will arrive in Moscow on Saturday.

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/2019/10/25/1895001/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the indicted Giuliani aide, who is on the payroll of a high level Russian mobster wanted in the United States, claimed executive privilege in court for being a member of Trump’s legal team.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an appellate court ruled that Trump officials can't just invent religious anti-birth control exemptions out of thin air; former acting attorney general and leg breaking bill collector waterbed salesman, Matt Whitaker, says 'abuse of power is not a crime;’ and, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for her pioneering legal work for gender equality.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a chastened Justin Trudeau reached out to his political opponents after this week’s election scare, but ruled out any kind of coalition government; and, Spanish authorities will remove fascist dictator Francisco Franco’s remains from a state mausoleum, that was purposely placed among thousands of his victims when he died in 1975.

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/2019/10/24/1894668/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Trump were a citizen implicated by diplomat Bill Taylor’s testimony, he would take ‘a plea,’ because of the ‘pretty damning evidence’ against him.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a major Trump inaugural committee donor will plead guilty to hiding his work as a foreign agent to gain access to high-level government officials; the dark money-funded anti-abortion group Susan B Anthony List is advising Trump on his 2020 campaign; and, Trump tried to sabotage Obamacare, but instead, it's thriving.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia’s Putin explained the results of his talks with Turkey’s Erdogan to Syria's Assad; and, Egypt accepted an invitation to meet Ethiopia in the United States over their escalating dispute about damming the Blue Nile.

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/2019/10/23/1894412/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays