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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even as the impeachment inquiry begins, “we’re being inundated on a daily basis by new high crimes and misdemeanors.”

On the rest of the menu, ninety percent of Florida school districts rejected the Republican legislature’s plan to arm teachers; the GOP continues to push a debunked conspiracy theory that has led to death threats against a Democratic congresswoman from Texas; and, US Intelligence scrambled to pull their spy from Putin’s circle after Trump confiscated the translator notes from his private meeting with Vlad at the G-20 in Hamburg.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where hundreds of Australians have fled their homes in the eastern states, as police investigated scores of suspicious fires; and, the Israeli parliament barred Netanyahu’s plan for cameras at polling stations.

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/2019/9/10/1884528/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump isn’t just soliciting Ukraine’s help with his presidential campaign, he’s using desperately needed US military aid to extort it.

On the rest of the menu, San Francisco made a $2.5 billion bid for Pacific Gas & Electric's powerlines and electric infrastructure; beekeepers sued Trump’s EPA for the “illegal approval” of a bee-killing pesticide linked to the nation-wide honeybee die-off; and, swing state Ohio is purging 235,000 state voters by an election official who called Trump, a 'visionary.'

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British Airways pilots ground all the company’s planes in an unprecedented 48-hour strike; and, two unplundered Mycenaean tombs were discovered at the Aidonia cemetery in Nemea, Greece.

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/2019/9/9/1884297/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, SharpieGate is the very definition of Fake News.

Then, on the rest of the menu, weeks after Virginia Republicans abruptly ended a special legislative session on gun safety, the NRA cut their leader a huge check; a federal judge held a secret hearing after Mike Flynn lobbed wild-eyed claims against the government; and, Defense Secretary Mark Esper suggested European allies pick up the tab for projects on foreign US military bases after Trump diverted funds for his vanity wall.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Ukraine central bank sounded the alarm over threats to officials, after a car blaze and its former governor was intentionally hit by a car in London; and, Mexico’s president says El Chapo's drug wealth should go to Mexico, not to the United States.

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/2019/9/6/1883731/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is so thin-skinned and incapable of admitting a mistake, he is going to war against the National Weather Service, but altering a Weather Service map is not only dangerous, it is illegal.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Facebook told the feds that their plan to use fake accounts to track immigrants is 'not allowed;' a DOJ employees union filed a complaint with the IG that a Trump appointee is improperly influencing Justice Department crime victim grants; and, government officials conceded that the State Department failed to protect its career diplomats from political reprisals by Trump henchmen.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil’s Bolsonaro irked regional ally Chile with personal attacks on former Chilean president and current UN head, Michelle Bachelet; and, the former first lady of Honduras is sentenced to fifty-eight years in jail on charges of fraud and undue appropriation of funds.

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/2019/9/5/1883501/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the searing glare of public outrage has caused the Trump administration to punt on deporting legal immigrant kids with rare and life-threatening diseases to their deaths, for now.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Native votes went missing in North Carolina in the last election, but tribal leaders vow that won’t happen again in the do-over next week; the NRA is angry that in a free market, sometimes people choose not to arm mass shooters; and, Mitch McConnell sells 'Cocaine Mitch' T-shirts and calls himself the 'Grim Reaper,' but he thinks the nickname 'Moscow Mitch' goes too far.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a disgusting truth is hiding behind Texas Republicans’ particularly dumb response to mass shootings; and, Churchill's grandson is being expelled from the Conservative Party after defying Boris Johnson, and he’s not the only one.

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/2019/9/4/1883291/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Conan O'Brien detailed his visit to Greenland after Donald Trump said he wanted to buy it.

On the rest of the menu, Trump spent Labor Day attacking workers, Social Security, and government itself; the Harvard freshman from Lebanon who was previously denied entry into the United States because of his friends’ social media posts, arrived on campus in time for his first classes; and, a mysterious kidney disease may be the first pandemic caused by climate change.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the new US ambassador to Mexico stirred up a hornet’s nest as she attacked Mexican icon Frida Kahlo; and, Russian police detained Putin opposition activist Lyubov Sobol, after a weekend protest in Moscow.

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/2019/9/3/1883040/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Russia-backed troops amass near a key border in a contested region of Georgia, there are new questions about Vladimir Putin's plans for the region

On the rest of the menu, the corrupt DEA agent who tried to set up rapper Scarface finally faces justice; Homeland Security is set to block Congress from detention center visits after elected officials reported mass abuses; and, the Trump administration wants to take DNA at the border to try to prove families are fake.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea insisting the $2 billion it raised through sophisticated cyber attacks on banks and financial institutions is fake news, proves they did it; and, Trump blocking aid to Ukraine is 'absolutely' a gift to Putin.

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/2019/9/2/1882898/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mad Dog Mattis isn’t really mad enough in his veiled criticisms of Dumas Donnie, but he got to write a book!

Then, on the rest of the menu, the White House backed off from holding the G-7 at the Trump Doral Resort in Miami, after the House said it would investigate; Trump raised taxes on Americans by $30 billion with his trade war, and it will only get worse; and, Trump’s border wall construction in Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, is a travesty.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong is among three arrested before another weekend of planned protests; and, corporate fallout for Brazil heats up, despite signs the Amazon fires may be slowing.

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/2019/8/30/1882365/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Katie Porter visited three different facilities near the California-Mexico border to see how migrants were being treated at different points in their journeys.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration argued the states have no right to sue the federal government to protect children; another Lone Wolf Pup is arrested for plotting a mass killing to “protect himself from illegal aliens;” and, Trump said FEMA is "ready" for Tropical Storm Dorian, but the agency has been without a permanent leader for more than five months.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where following one of the driest winters on record, Australia’s drought will last well into its spring; and, the world’s largest salmon producer warned it will stop buying Brazilian soy for its fish farms, unless Bolsonaro curbs Amazon deforestation.

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/2019/8/29/1882143/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Deutsche Bank confirming they have Trump’s tax returns is proof the bank is ‘sitting on a vast trove’ of records, telling the ‘full scale of the bank's 20-year relationship’ with the scofflaw.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the William Barr DOJ is allowing Trump political appointees to overrule immigration law judges; Steve King claims his 'math' proves immigrants can take over his district in 6 months, but he just won’t promise; and, with the stench of Stephen Miller lingering in the fetid heat, the Trump administration is cutting off life-saving medical aid to some immigrants, just because it can.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Spanish warship sailed halfway across the Mediterranean to pick up 15 migrants in a high-profile maneuver that sharply contrasted with Italy’s refusal to accept them; and, Japan issued emergency warnings after life-threatening, record level rains inundated the southern island of Kyushu.

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/2019/8/28/1881894/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays