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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you can just imagine how the Mueller report playing in Moscow.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Betsy DeVos defended the Trump administration's “appalling” plan to cut all Special Olympics funding, and Congress let her have it; the Georgia GOP wants to throw women in jail for having miscarriages; and, hundreds of activists protested Florida lawmakers’ secret immigration deal that would fast track a new kind of family separation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese officials say those who criticize the government over human rights in Tibet, have been “bewitched” by the Dalai Lama; and, government officials from Australia and the Netherlands met their Russian counterparts to discuss the 2014 downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.

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/2019/3/27/1845561/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Barr’s concept of obstruction is “legally incorrect.”

On the rest of the menu, a plague of poisonous toads has infested a Florida town just miles from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago playpen; a study by the University of Florida revealed that young Parkland voters had their mail-in ballots tossed at 12 times the statewide average; and, the Trump campaign warned the networks against booking certain Democratic lawmakers who just happen to be investigating his crimes.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former coaches from the University of Southern California and Georgetown University were among a dozen people who pleaded not guilty in the largest college admissions fraud scheme uncovered in US history; and, Australia’s nationalist One Nation party sought millions of dollars from the NRA, and advice on weakening the country’s strict gun control laws.

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/2019/3/26/1845224/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays?

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Adam Schiff warned Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani not to be spiking the football on the Mueller report just yet.

On the rest of the menu, leaked audio has exposed oil and gas executives laughing diabolically over their cozy access to Trump and his administration; the German family that owns Krispy Kreme, Panera Bread and Peet’s Coffee will donate millions, after learning grandpa and great grandpa were murderous Nazis who ran forced-labor camps; and Trump isn’t smart enough to understand he is being used by conservative elites, and that the Supreme Court is about to disempower the presidency.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump’s Golan Heights bombshell reverses 40 years of US policy and throws the Middle East into such turmoil, that not even Jared can fix it; and, tremors on Mars are detected for the first time, but they’re not caused by geologic activity.

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/2019/3/25/1844845/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays?

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Preet Bharara reluctantly admitted that Trump can be indicted.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin GOP’s underhanded plan to nullify the newly-elected Democratic governor was dealt a jolting blow; rather than attack Trump, Lindsey Graham attacked Trump critics who defended McCain; and, an explosive new letter from the House Oversight chair revealed Steve Bannon, KT McFarland and other Trump aides’ used unsecured emails while working on a plan to ‘transfer sensitive U.S. nuclear technology’ to Saudi Arabia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mike Pompeo stoked a bizarre theological belief that Trump was chosen by God to ‘to help save the Jewish people;’ and, women all over New Zealand put on headscarves to show solidarity with Muslims, a week after 50 people were killed at two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

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"


Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/22/1844103/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays?

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, author Vicky Ward explains why Jared and Ivanka are ‘dangerous.’

Then, on the rest of the menu, Tuesday’s 5-4 ruling that strips immigrants of due process rights, has major repercussions; a federal judge smacked down Trump’s Wyoming drilling project until he stops denying science; and, picking up where Dana Rohrabacher left off, Thomas Massie has become the most Kremlin-friendly member of the House.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Guatemalan presidential candidate Aldana, known for tackling high-profile corruption as attorney general, is 'not scared' of a government arrest threat; and, ex-Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic, is sentenced to life in prison for genocide.

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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/2019/3/21/1843798/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, journalists must stop letting Trump and the GOP leadership get away with straightforward racism and anti-semitic tropes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, though the New Zealand terrorist invoked Donald Trump, he was also inspired by ideas that have circulated for decades on the French far-right; a multi-partisan coalition of the German legislatures is calling for the expulsion of the US ambassador from the country for being too much of a Nazi; and, the US is killing civilians with ‘impunity’ in a secret shadow war in Somalia.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Trump administration is holding children as young as nine years old in black site ice box baby gulags, without telling their lawyers; and, the Trump team has lost sixty-three court cases in two years because they're ‘being so nuts,’ while ‘not doing their homework' on the basics of governing.

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"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/3/20/1843545/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays?

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the White House plays clean up on Trump’s white nationalism comments.

On the rest of the menu, Congress will probe Trump's refusal to fight white supremacist terror; the Trump team wants to screw over college students who depend on work study; and, Deutsche Bank went into ‘damage-control mode’ after Trump won the 2016 election as it feared the coming scrutiny.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a group of Cuban migrants kidnapped at Mexico’s northern border have been released, as officials continued probing the disappearances of other migrants in the region; and, the Trump administration’s move to end five-year visitor visas for Cubans means it will be even harder for the island’s residents to see their relatives, shop, or undertake cultural and academic exchanges in the United States.

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/2019/3/19/1843222/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays?

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney is unable to adequately answer whether white supremacist Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

On the rest of the menu, Iowa Republicans push a bill to restrict public student voting rights; the University of Tennessee will be free for low-income students starting in the fall of 2020; and, the Supreme Court confronts a prosecutor who didn’t know how to quit being racist.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israel's top court disqualified a far-rightist candidate and approved a disputed Arab party for next month’s national election; and, the Australian prime minister said far right senator Fraser Anning should be charged for punching seventeen year old ‘egg boy,’ William Connolly.

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/2019/3/18/1842958/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the sixteen new state charges against Manafort in New York City holds some strong messages for Individual-1.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge smacked down Betsy DeVos' racist attempt to thwart special education; that Cult45 Trump-loving developer flipped out after a cyber expert flagged major security flaws in his MAGA ‘safe spaces’ app; and, Trump wants to close all the international immigration offices, and the ramifications are huge.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Matt Whitaker ‘blatantly lied to Congress’ and only testified again because he feared could go to prison; and, a Canadian family lost three generations in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 plane crash.

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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/2019/3/14/1842007/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays?

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic strategist Rochelle Ritchie told Fox and Friends that Alabama has ‘criminalized the poor’ for drug testing food stamp recipients.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Coast Guard officer described by prosecutors as a ‘domestic terrorist,’ will not be facing terrorism charges; a GOP congressman who votes with Trump 92.5% of the time, wants investigations into people who disagree with him; and, Trump’s budget ignores the real threat of the Russian election attack.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the top Republican on the US House Armed Services Committee opposes the Trump plan to fund the vanity border wall with US defense funds; and, France signed their first military cooperation accord with Ethiopia, that includes helping the landlocked nation build a navy.

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/2019/3/13/1841700/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays