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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s lender of choice, Deutsche Bank, faces intense new scrutiny.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Health Department granted a South Carolina Protestant foster care agency a religious exemption license to discriminate against Jews, Catholics, and pretty much anyone; Republicans on the US nuclear power regulator approved stripped down safety rules; and, California’s Pacific Gas & Electric hasn’t run out of money, but is still planning to file for bankruptcy as it faces costly wildfire liabilities.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait, as tensions with China increase; and, as the US prepares to withdraw from the landmark arms control treaty, NATO and Russia failed to resolve a dispute over a new Russian missile that Western allies say is a threat to Europe.

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/2019/1/25/1829329/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, whether he’s a card-carrying member or not, Trump is sure acting like an Acting Grand Wizard of the KKK.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the 10th Circuit will revisit a lawsuit against Kansas police officers who ransacked a family’s home after mistaking a hydroponic tomato garden for an illegal pot grow; the Trump administration’s “grave breaches of national security at the highest levels” are now under official Congressional investigation; and, IRS employees are skipping work in droves as Trump’s shutdown threatens to derail this year’s tax refunds.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where police took Peru’s former authoritarian president Alberto Fujimori back to prison to finish the remaining 13 years of his 25-year sentence for human rights crimes and graft; and, an exhaustive report by the Anti-Defamation League revealed that the far-right was responsible for every single extremist killing in the US in 2018.

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/2019/1/24/1829030/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there’s a reason the Trump’s are lying about everything and it’s spelled, Vlad and the Russians literally won the election for Donnie Two Scoops, oh, and lordy, there are tapes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Justice Alito penned a bizarre love letter to the Christian Right; Lindsey Graham is mocked for his plans to settle old scores and abuse his power by investigating Hillary Clinton; and, Wess Mitchell, the top US diplomat for European affairs has resigned, citing “personal and professional” reasons.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mitch McConnell wants to change the Senate’s rules yet again to ram through even more of Trump’s radical nominees; and, Walgreens has agreed to pay $269.2 million to settle two US civil fraud lawsuits.

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/2019/1/23/1828638/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a former federal prosecutor worries that Gym Dandy Lyin’ Jordan will turn the Cohen House Oversight hearing into a circus to protect Trump.

On the rest of the menu, a Nigerian politician banned from the US for corruption, spent last Thursday night at Trump’s DC hotel after paying over $1 million dollars to a GOP White House lobbying firm; the Russian pop star at the heart of Trump’s Moscow Tower scandal, canceled his US tour for fear he’ll be detained in the Russia probe; and, the US will seek to formally extradite Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from Canada.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where it doesn’t matter if Buzzfeed got it wrong, encouraging perjury is also a crime; and, the CIA technical operations officer who helped rescue six US diplomats from Iran, and was portrayed in the film “Argo” by Ben Affleck, has died at the age of seventy-eight.

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/2019/1/22/1828266/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, McConnell is at the mercy of Trump, and Trump is at the mercy of Ann Coulter.

On the rest of the menu, a federal judge smacked down the GOP’s latest scheme to stop people from voting in Wisconsin; Republicans gave Russia exactly what it wanted, and Russia literally had a good chuckle about it on its state television; and, after pressure from an advocacy group and four Democratic lawmakers from Texas, the US military translator and his family who were detained by the Border Patrol, is reluctantly released from custody.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a prominent Russian senator warned that the US warship in the Black Sea should keep its distance; and, Bauhaus design turns 100, as disputes over its legacy roil.

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/2019/1/21/1828023/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Fox Business is terrified of Maxine Waters’ power over the banking industry.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the rising tide of teacher strikes is finally exposing the corrupt privatizing impulse behind the charter school agenda; a US grand jury indicted four Audi managers in the VW emissions data cheating scandal; and, four term GOP Representative Tom Marino of Pennsylvania announced he will retire, just two weeks after Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the gavel back for Democrats.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Facebook blocked accounts linked to Russian state-owned Sputnik; and, an Austrian data privacy activist filed complaints against Apple, Amazon and six other tech firms.

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/2019/1/18/1827255/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lindsey Graham developed the vapors when he could not get NAACP president Derrick Johnson to say Republican policies aren't racist.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Chef Jose Andres serves free meals to federal workers affected by the government shutdown; small businesses near national parks say the shutdown has left them struggling to survive; and, Jilmar Ramos-Gomez was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and served for over three years in Afghanistan, but the local sheriff still turned him over to ICE for deportation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a new report reveals the Pentagon secretly trained fighters for combat in Yemen, then lied about it; and, T-Mobile booked 38 nights at Trump’s DC hotel while seeking favors from him.

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/2019/1/17/1826939/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Cory Booker pushed back hard on Attorney General nominee Barr’s claims about "inner city violence" and racial stereotypes about crime.

Then, on the rest of the menu, acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler has been using agency staff to prep for his rushed confirmation hearing during the shutdown; a federal judge smacked down the Trump administration for its ‘egregious’ plot to rig the census; and, a Trump appointee leaves the State Dept after falling under multiple investigations for her blacklists of government employees she deemed ‘disloyal’ to Trump.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the US economy is taking a larger-than-expected hit from the government shutdown; and, a close examination of Barr’s legal career indicates a high tolerance for presidentially sanctioned law-breaking.

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/2019/1/16/1826639/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump already has lots of taxpayer money for his vanity wall, but he won’t spend it.

On the rest of the menu, a US military translator and his family were detained at George Bush International Airport in Houston, Texas, after their visas were cancelled “midair”; Trump’s border wall creates deep divisions among Texas landowners in its path; and, the Supreme Court stayed out of the fight over whether Trump’s appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general is unlawful.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump mocks immigrants for showing up to their court dates; and, Mike Pence, along with Mike Pompeo, belong to a doomsday cult, and may be trying to bring on the apocalypse.

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/2019/1/15/1826321/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays?_=2019-01-15T07:51:22.758-08:00

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, by hiding his conversations with Vlad from senior officials in his own administration, Trump helped Putin destabilize the United States.

On the rest of the menu, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s roll back of the Obamacare mandate that protected contraceptive coverage in 13 states and Washington, DC; a German antitrust watchdog is set to act against Facebook; and, a tent city in Texas for migrant teens will close and the children held will be transferred to sponsors or other shelters.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Camp Pendleton in Orange County, California was such a ‘hotbed of KKK activity’ that black Marines were arrested and Klansman ‘quietly transferred’ to other bases; and, that far-right grifter’s campaign to crowdfund Donald Trump’s border project is forced to return its donations after falling a few billion dollars short of its goal, and funds began being transferred to Erik Prince.

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/2019/1/14/1825944/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays