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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, AG Barr is utterly unfit to play any role in overhauling any aspect of health care in this country.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Michigan conservatives lose the fight to remove the word 'democracy' from the statewide school curriculum; Americans are getting $6 billion less in tax refunds thanks to the GOP; and, consumer group Public Citizen sued Betsy DeVos for censoring its website.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mnuchin said Treasury lawyers consulted with the White House on Trump’s tax returns; and, volunteer firefighters barricaded themselves in their rural southern California fire station, and refuse to leave after being disbanded.

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/2019/4/10/1849113/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump just doesn’t understand he has to operate within the Law, because he does not know how to be President.

On the rest of the menu, Devin Nunes wants career FBI officials charged for the 'crime' of investigating Trump; the historic Obama-era agreement between Major League Baseball and the Cuban Baseball Federation that allowed Cuban players to sign with US teams without needing to defect, has been cancelled by the Trump Administration; and, Wendy Davis is not running for the US Senate, but is considering a run for the US House, instead.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Hong Kong court found leaders of the 2014 “Occupy” civil disobedience movement guilty of public nuisance charges; and, the Feds revoked the Global Entry and PreCheck privileges of an Apple technology officer who has been critical of Trump and his Customs and Border Protection enforcement practices.

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/2019/4/9/1848878/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Schiff has no regrets calling out Trump’s ‘deeply unethical and improper conduct.’

On the rest of the menu, with thousands more affected than previously reported, the Trump administration says it could take two years to reunite separated migrant families; three historically black Baptist churches have burned within ten days in one Louisiana parish; and, Trump pretends to be a savior of the working class, but the numbers don’t add up.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mick Mulvaney hissed that Congress will never get Trump’s tax returns; and, oil prices hit their highest level since November 2018 amid OPEC’s ongoing supply cuts, and US sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Schiff has no regrets calling out Trump’s ‘deeply unethical and improper conduct.’

On the rest of the menu, with thousands more affected than previously reported, the Trump administration says it could take two years to reunite separated migrant families; three historically black Baptist churches have burned within ten days in one Louisiana parish; and, Trump pretends to be a savior of the working class, but the numbers don’t add up.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mick Mulvaney hissed that Congress will never get Trump’s tax returns; and, oil prices hit their highest level since November 2018 amid OPEC’s ongoing supply cuts, and US sanctions against Iran and Venezuela.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/8/1848574/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mueller’s team prepared ready-to-release summaries that William Barr suppressed and then lied about.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Florida congressman Matt Gaetz thinks he can serve Trump better by running for the US senate in Alabama; Congress is suing Trump for stealing money to build his wall; and, the head of the Marines authorized damaging internal memos to be leaked to the media to protect military families from Trump.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Brazilian president told the UN that the 1964 overthrow of the elected leftist government was not a coup d’etat, but a legitimate political movement so the military dictatorship could rule for the next two decades; and, the US revoked the International Criminal Court prosecutor's entry visa over her Afghanistan investigation.

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/2019/4/5/1847924/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump still has fifty-two unfilled Ambassadorial positions, and half of those are low IQ, right-wing lunatics.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the House Appropriations Committee mocked the secretary of commerce’s reason for refusing to testify; the House Intelligence Committee is looking into a friend of Melania Trump who made $1.6 million off the inauguration; and, the indicted North Carolina GOP chair refuses to resign after bribery charges.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where nearly a dozen prominent Saudi women activists returned to court to face charges related to contacts with foreign journalists, diplomats and human rights groups; and, in an address to Congress, the head of NATO warned of the military, counter-intel and cyber threats posed by “a more assertive Russia.”

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/2019/4/4/1847635/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Kushner conducting foreign relations on WhatsApp puts US security at risk, what would sharing the nuke codes on Instagram DM do?

Then, on the rest of the menu, two University of Arizona students will face criminal charges for protesting a campus Customs and Border Patrol event; Trump's latest border tantrum could shut down the entire US auto industry within a week; and, a White House spokesman called the US territory of Puerto Rico, 'that country.'

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Ecuador's president says Julian Assange has repeatedly breached the terms of his London embassy asylum; and, the virulent right wing Australian lawmaker who had an egg cracked on his head, remained defiant as the Australian senate censured him over his New Zealand massacre Muslim comments.

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/2019/4/3/1847376/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, whistleblower Tricia Newbold told Congress that twenty-five individuals were granted security clearances despite recommendations from professional staff to deny their applications.

On the rest of the menu, the Homeland Security’s domestic terror unit is eliminated by the Trump administration because ‘it’s not a priority’; Gorsuch handed down the most bloodthirsty and cruel death penalty opinion of the modern era; and, environmental lawyers fight fire with fire as they adopt ALEC’s “legislation in a box” methods to tackle climate change.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US women's soccer team say their lawsuit is about more than money; and, two Republican state attorneys general urged a federal appeals court to uphold Obamacare.

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/2019/4/2/1847050/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, as Trump’s point man on health care, Rick Scott is repeatedly given a complete pass for his time as CEO of the hospital company fined for the largest case of Medicare fraud in history.

On the rest of the menu, a federal judge struck down a girls-only school dress code as unconstitutional; Trump officials are now jailing parents who just want to get their kids back; and, Mussolini’s granddaughter defended Trump in a fight with actor Jim Carrey over a Twitter post about ‘fascism.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the demise of the only US-Russia arms control pact limiting nuclear weapons, would give both countries the impetus to make more nukes; and, China is set to build six to eight reactors a year to meet its 2030 goals, no one knows what those goals are though, since they are a secret.

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/2019/4/1/1846777/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, not everybody at Fox is joining the GOP celebration of the Barr Memo.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin appeals court revived the controversial GOP lame-duck laws that stripped power from every newly elected Democratic office holder; Matt Gaetz admits he's just in Congress to protect Trump; and, Trump-linked Christian fundamentalists are pouring dark money into Europe to boost the far right.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former NSA contractor, portrayed as an eccentric hoarder by his lawyers, pleaded guilty in one of biggest breaches of US secrets; and, Facebook toughened its rules on political ads ahead of the EU vote.

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/2019/3/29/1846127/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Eric Holder wants to know exactly when Trump thought America was great?

Then, on the rest of the menu, as women continue to leave the GOP, 187 House Republicans voted against the bill to close the gender wage gap; Republicans asked the NRA to help them block protections for abused women; and, a Texas county commissioner apologized for saying that the first Latina elected to head the state's most populous county should “speak English” after she held a bilingual news conference about the massive chemical fire there.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Rick Perry approved six secret authorizations to sell nuclear power technology and assistance to Saudi Arabia; and, Fukushima nuclear contaminants are found as far north as Alaska's Bering Strait.

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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/2019/3/28/1845849/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays?