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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump wants the GOP to “work harder” against his removal, just as key Republicans are increasingly open to impeaching him.

On the rest of the menu, the GOP is strangely silent after the State Department exonerated Hillary Clinton on page A16 of the New York Times over the derpity derp email 'scandal;’ the Colorado GOP needed thirteen thousand five hundred and six signatures to recall enough state lawmakers to regain a majority in the senate, they got four; and, the FBI won't alert anyone, anywhere, anyhow, if voting systems are hacked by hostile foreign powers until after an election

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Benjamin Netanyahu gave up his effort to form a new government, creating an opportunity for centrist rival Benny Gantz to replace Israel’s longest serving prime minister; and, a Russian group hijacked an Iranian spying operation to attack governments and industries in dozens of countries while masquerading as attackers from ISIS.

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/2019/10/22/1894180/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mike Pompeo said he can’t talk about "internal deliberations inside the administration," but that he has defended every career State Department staffer and diplomat “when it’s appropriate.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Border agents are patrolling hospitals to find sick immigrants to deport; the GOP advanced another ultra-conservative Trump judicial pick who has almost no legal experience; and, the EPA kept its west coast team out of the loop as Trump’s feud with California escalated.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where at least four were killed and scores injured in Bangladesh over a Facebook post that offended Muslims; and, in a rare show of unity by the usually tribal media, Australian newspapers have united in protest against the government’s recent extreme media restrictions.

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/2019/10/21/1893934/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Iraq war veteran and US Senator Tammy Duckworth objected to Trump’s “deal” with Erdogan by exclaiming, “we have abandoned our allies.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, Moscow Mitch led the Senate vote against overriding Trump’s veto for his border wall emergency declaration; Martin Luther King’s daughter testified the disinformation that Facebook allows now, helped assassinate her father; and, the US Border Patrol is considering facial recognition software for border agent body cams.


After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Vladimir Putin pulled Russia out of the 1949 Geneva Conventions’ Protocol 1 on civilian war crimes investigations; and, representative Carolyn Maloney of New York will be the acting chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee after the death of chairman, Elijah Cummings.

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/2019/10/18/1893301/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, lawmakers heard testimony from Mike Pompeo's former senior adviser, but many top-level Trump officials are refusing to comply with the impeachment inquiry.

Then, on the rest of the menu, hate groups are abusing the tax code to fund their dangerous activities; taking a cue from the Trump White House, Uber and Lyft refused to appear before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee inquiry; and, the United Auto Workers win 'major gains' for workers in a tentative deal with GM to end the month long strike.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Australian intelligence agency wants more resources to counter foreign interference in their elections; and, Amnesty International urged Hong Kong to immediately investigate a bloody attack on the leader of one of the biggest pro-democracy groups there.

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/2019/10/17/1893016/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, commenting on former Republican congressman Pete Sessions being subpoenaed in the Guiliani criminal probe, a NY Fed insider exclaimed, “what I’ve seen horrifies me.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, one hundred and seventy-five thousand voters were restored to the voting rolls ahead of Kentucky's November election; a family of British vacationers who accidentally drove across the US/Canada border near Vancouver, have been detained for over two weeks with their three month-old infant in an ice box baby gulag in Pennsylvania; and, the Department of Defense refuses to comply with the House committees’ subpoena of documents, citing the White House claim of an “illegitimate Impeachment.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Doctors Without Borders are forced to flee northern Syria after Trump withdrew US troops there; and, rescuers continue to search for the missing, as the death toll climbs to seventy-four from one of the worst typhoons to ever hit Japan.

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/2019/10/16/1892768/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Trump continues to ‘try and run out the clock’ on the impeachment probe, he will ‘go down in flames’ like Nixon.

On the rest of the menu, Mark Zuckerberg has been been hosting secret confabs with Right Wing journos, commentators and politicos for strategy on stopping a Democratic 2020 slam dunk; McConnell vowed to block a House prescription drug plan that would save $345 billion by negotiating for lower insulin prices; and, a classified document written in the 1970s by Henry Kissinger, explains Trump’s abandonment of the Kurds today.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where racist neo nazi white nationalists disrupted the Euro2020 qualifier between England and Bulgaria in Sofia; and, the jailed Catalan separatist leader hit recently with the heaviest sentence by Spain’s Supreme Court, says a new referendum is unavoidable.

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/2019/10/15/1892506/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Ukrainian ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was removed from her post because she was an obstacle to the corrupt shadow foreign policy Trump and his bag man Giuliani cooked up.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from denying green cards to poor immigrants; a Trump-appointed judge claimed Congress can't investigate a president installed by a hostile foreign power before impeachment, but a majority of the Court disagreed with her; and, Trump officials want to gut the White House foreign policy staff by fifty percent so Trump’s phone calls are no longer impeded by stupid things like the Constitution and the Rule of Law.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Bill Barr is running the Department of Justice like it’s the legal arm of the Trump Organization, and maybe even an enforcement arm of Opus Die; and, what do Trump’s sister, retired appeals court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, and Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh have common? The both escaped the consequences of their misconduct.

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/2019/10/14/1892245/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with the arrests at Dulles International Airport, prominent conservatives exclaim, “there comes a tipping point where you look at this and say my country first, the party comes second.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, invited to a White House event, an anti immigrant Texas sheriff stated that ICE stands 'between good and evil;’ a North Carolina sheriff banned unmarried staff from living with their partners, then later refused to answer why he changed his mind; and, described as international flight risks, a federal magistrate judge ordered Giuliani henchmen, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, held in custody until a lengthy list of conditions are met on a bail package.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where India's Modi and China's Xi eye new border security steps during summit talks in New Delhi today; and, the United States has partnered with Greenland to assess the arctic island’s vast mineral resources.

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/2019/10/11/1891690/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a bipartisan Senate intel report underscored that Russia hacked the 2016 election, and they are still at it.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after choosing profits over maintenance, California private utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric is forcing blackouts to punish its customers; as the national debt creeps closer to $1 trillion, Treasury officials are trying to make it easier for Wall Street to move money offshore; and, the US arrested a counterterrorism analyst over leaks to NBC journalists about Russia and China weapons systems.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mike Pompeo said the US did not give Turkey a green light to attack the Kurds after Trump gave them a green light to attack the Kurds; and, China is set to restrict visas for US visitors with 'anti-China' links.

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/2019/10/10/1891422/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is ‘turning out to be a ‘domestic enemy of the constitution’ and everyone who is a direct witness to it ‘should be a whistleblower right now, it’s not too late.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge threatened to toss Betsy DeVos in jail for contempt; Mitch McConnell’s campaign bragged to supporters about how his wife Elaine Chao corruptly favored Kentucky developers; and, Trump’s withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty would be a big gift to Putin and undermine confidence in the US commitment to Ukraine, let alone our own freaking allies.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where China calls the Prague city council's move to cancel a partnership pact a 'breach of faith;’ and, the United Nations could run out of money if member states don’t pay what they owe.

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/2019/10/9/1891158/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays