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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, national security experts warn that the arrest of Coast Guard Lieutenant Christopher Hasson on terrorism charges, is proof that Trump’s remarks are a siren to white supremacists.

On the rest of the menu, ICE says an infant who died when a detained immigrant went into early labor, doesn’t really count as a death; a North Carolina state court handed down a stunningly aggressive attack on illegal gerrymandering; and, a Russian media executive who mocked Putin as ‘an evil gnome,’ has ‘conveniently’™ committed suicide in Spain.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said Venezuela is deporting his team of journalists after his interview with Maduro went South; and, the Oracle of Omaha backtracks on Oracle the company.

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/2019/2/26/1837733/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the House Intel Committee will subpeona the Mueller report if it's not released to them, and bring Robert Mueller to testify in front of Congress if necessary.

On the rest of the menu, knowing that Southwest Airlines mechanics are worried their planes are falling apart explains the unasked upgrade I just got; several ‘Ole Miss’ basketball players took a knee to protest a pro-Confederate rally; and, the NRA is under fire for a ‘Target Practice’ magazine photo of Pelosi and Giffords.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the White House is forming a new dodgy panel of scientists to challenge the government’s climate change findings; and, the House Oversight Committee is set to vote on Tuesday to subpoena documents on the Trump administration’s migrant family separation policy.

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/2019/2/25/1837444/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays#comment_73070365

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, with “socialism” now taking over as the pejorative du jour, more Democrats are calling themselves “Liberals,” now.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Republican tax bill helped US banks rake in a record $28 billion in profits last year; the West Virginia teachers strike highlights widespread anger about charter schools; and, Congress demands Trump stop hiding his North Korea secrets.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mitch McConnell is using his considerable legislative muscle to help Kelly Craft rise as a candidate for UN ambassador; and, thousands of Slovaks marked the first anniversary of the killing of an investigative reporter and his fiancee, by protesting the lack of government action against the sleaze he wrote about.

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/2019/2/22/1836808/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump fired Comey, in part, because Comey hadn’t fired McCabe.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Indiana Republican lawmakers stripped the state’s hate crimes bill of any hate crime protections; the House GOP has issued new demands to take food away from families in need; and, House Democrats say the Trump administration has interfered with an investigation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the FEC has given Jeanine Pirro 24 hours to stop flouting the law and come clean on her 14-year-old campaign debt; and, the number of hate groups in the United States has reached a record high.

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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/2019/2/21/1836519/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump trying to get his pick to lead the SDNY overseeing the Cohen investigation and then trying to get Congressional allies "to interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation,” “breaks new ground."

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Catholic mom sues after a Trump-backed foster care agency calls her the wrong kind of Christian; Clarence Thomas declares war on the very idea of a free press; and, the horror is that Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz is just the kind of dapper Nazi that Trump likes, so of course they’ll be meeting in the White House today.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a top Nunes aide involved in the House intel investigation into Trump, takes a job in the White House counsel office; and, Haiti's serious crime unit is investigating five Americans and a Serb national arrested with semi-automatic weapons.

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/2019/2/20/1836190/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jim Bridenstine was a climate change denier before he became NASA administrator, but he still had some interesting things to say about NASA's research initiatives regarding Mars exploration.

On the rest of the menu, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton still faces felony criminal charges for securities violations, but his newly-elected state senator wife wants to give his office more power over the securities industry; as Trump finds ways to steal money from the military to pay for his vanity wall, the Air Force is pushing Congress for a military housing tenant bill of rights; and, a scathing British parliamentary report branded Facebook as “digital gangsters” for knowingly violating data privacy and competition laws.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US auto industry implored Trump against imposing steep tariffs on imported cars and auto parts; and, the Nicaraguan farmer who protested Daniel Ortega last year, gets a 216-year prison sentence.

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/2019/2/19/1835872/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen “Santa Monica Goebbels” Miller got angrier and angrier with each Chris Wallace question he wouldn’t answer.

On the rest of the menu, an eleven year old student was arrested by his school’s resource cop when a substitute teacher complained the student wouldn’t stand and recite the pledge of alliance; the Texas secretary of state apologized for the debunked claim of 95,000 ‘illegal voters;’ and, new documents have raised new questions that Trump lawyers provided false information and lied to ethics officials.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said the only reason he nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize is because Trump asked him to; and, fourteen Tunisian workers kidnapped by armed men in western Libya four days ago, have been released.

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 & Link: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/2/18/1835555/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Nancy Pelosi could pass a referendum in the House opposing Trump's border emergency declaration, that would then force a vote in the GOP-controlled Senate that they don’t want to take.

Then, on the rest of the menu, on the same day the European Commission slapped Saudi Arabia onto the ”dirty money” list, Pompeo sat next to the Saudi foreign minister at a summit in Poland; the Trump administration is slammed for a scheme to jail children in a baby gulag built on top of a toxic waste site; and, with humans on track to wipe out insects within decades, the global insect collapse will be ‘catastrophic for the survival of mankind.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where GOP intel chair Richard Burr was caught lying about the author of the Trump-Russia dossier; and, Capitol police attacked a pregnant reporter and other journalists to shield GOP senators from answering questions on the state of emergency 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/2019/2/15/1834895/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Representative Ilhan Omar told Elliot Abrams to his face that his participation in Iran-Contra was the basis not to believe a word he says.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a treasured sanctuary for butterflies in Texas is going to war with Trump over his border wall; the massive Equifax breach could be even scarier than first thought; and, House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy says he’s not an anti-Semite because he only uses anti-Semite tropes when he’s attacking Jews who are Democrats.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where climate scientist Warren Washington will be awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement; and, NASA announced that its Mars land rover Opportunity has died after 15 years of studying the red planet.

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/2019/2/14/1834622/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Green New Deal co-author Jared Huffman was given only a minute to dog walk devil-spawn Liz Cheney over her Green New Deal lies, but he did.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the FBI announced a massive white supremacist gang bust, but Trump doesn’t care; House Intel Chair Adam Schiff schooled Devin Nunes on why the committee’s Russia probe ‘never terminated,’ despite Nunes’ efforts to quash it; and, Chuck Schumer’s plan to finally take down Mitch McConnell will be done backwards, and in heels.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an upstate New York high school principal was fired from her position after making critical comments about the MAGA-infused culture at her school; and, Trump wants to gut housing for military families, while also stealing money from disaster relief funds intended for California and Puerto Rico, to pay for his wall.

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/2019/2/13/1834371/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays