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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Lt. Gen. Honore blasted Trump for attacking Puerto Rico, denying the death toll numbers and blaming the victims of a natural disaster.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a group of racist, homophobic San Francisco cops will finally be fired, after a three year-long court saga; a former Afghan refugee ousted the four-term Democratic incumbent in the New Hampshire state legislature primary; and, the GOP Senate candidate trying to unseat Montana’s John Tester, may have just been busted admitting to illegal collusion with the NRA.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former NSA chief Mike Rogers revealed that Trump doesn’t believe the Russians hacked the US, and he never will; and, SpaceX announces a new plan to send a tourist around the moon, duty-free.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/14/1795643/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump doesn’t like facts, because facts disagree with his opinions.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Holocaust deniers are advertising on the Bay Area Rapid Tranist system, and San Francisco transit officials say they have no choice but to allow the ads; the GOP schemes to sabotage Obamacare one more time before the midterms; and, the Feds zero in on suspicious money transfers after the Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr and the Russians.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where ABC spiked an anti-Trump Black-ish episode, then made sure the script was ‘wiped from the planet;’ and, archaeologists say abstract markings on a small stone flake discovered in a South African cave, is the oldest known human drawing.

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/2018/9/13/1795389/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon revealed that just before the start of this hurricane season, Trump took money from FEMA so ICE can make more refugee gulags and supermax tender-age baby lock ups.

Then, on the rest of the menu, another GOP lawmaker is outed as a leader of a white supremacist hate group; House Republicans have a dark plan to pack the federal courts and entrench right wing control; and, at a recent town hall, Senate Judiciary chairman, Chuck Grassley, begged his constituents to stop asking him about Kavanaugh.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thanks to the Republican tax bill, the deficit is set to hit one trillion dollars two years earlier than expected; and, US regulators rejected Wells Fargo’s plan to repay customers who were pushed into unnecessary auto insurance policies.

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/2018/9/12/1795088/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, twenty GOP attorneys general are suing to again allow insurance companies to reject customers with pre-existing conditions.

On the rest of the menu, there’s a lot unsaid in the State Department statement about closing the Palestinian office in DC; an Orange County, California high school football game erupted in controversy as Trump-loving students lobbed racist taunts at their league rivals; and, immigrant children have been held for months to more than a year in Chicago detention facilities operated by Heartland Human Care Services.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a stunning new report has revealed how Russians are weaponizing health information; and, antibiotic-resistant superbugs are getting deadlier.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/11/1794836/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new documentary, Active Measures, recounts Trump's long relationship with the Russians, and the money laundering that's been going on since the ‘80's.

On the rest of the menu, Colin Kaepernick just schooled Donald Trump on how capitalism works; migrant and refugee families filed a lawsuit over the emotional trauma from Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy; and, it seems only a small thing, but a free postage stamp can help save American democracy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Florida GOP candidate Ron DeSantis is busted for speaking at ‘racially charged’ extremist meetings; and, the Benghazi pundit who threatened Obama’s life on Fox News, now whines that his Twitter account has been suspended.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/10/1794583/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, good thing that South Korean trade agreement was stolen off Trump’s desk, otherwise we might have had a Nuke attack we wouldn’t hear about until it was too late.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration says migrants are abusing "legal loopholes" that protect children, and that’s why they want to withdraw from the Flores Agreement so they can jail kids longer in the gulags they already paid for; emails released by Corey Booker and Maizie Hirono reveal Kavanaugh’s troubling outlook on race; and, thousands of Arkansas residents just lost their health coverage due to the state’s draconian Medicaid work requirements.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a new election is looming on the horizon, and Republicans have decided they are just fine with continuing to allow hackers manipulate the political system; and, why do all these Daily Caller reporters keep appearing on Russian propaganda channels?

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/7/1793955/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse hit Kavanaugh hard, for why the spate of 5-4 cases is a direct result of dark corporate money buying Supreme Court outcomes.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a pair of suspected Russian spies are charged in the Skripal poisoning case in Britain; a Virginia GOP congressman’s attempt to rig his election backfires in court; and, Trump’s newest hire to oversee emerging technologies at the National Security Council, thinks peer-reviewed science is just like Nazi propaganda.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where there is an alarming link between the increase in ‘despair deaths’ and counties that voted for Donald Trump; and, Nike’s new Kaepernick campaign reveals its target market doesn't find the mix of message and commerce to be controversial.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/6/1793620/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, "Fox and Friends" are dejected after hearing that Trump's tweets blaming Sessions for mucking up the midterm elections by prosecuting two Republicans, is actually more fuel for Mueller's special counsel.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the EPA watchdog tallied up Scott Pruitt’s security costs and found he spared no expense; US apple farmers are afraid they will be hurt by the US-China trade battle; and, with rising sea levels, Bangkok struggles to stay afloat.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump will chair a UN Security Council meeting on Iran this month, during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York; and, what are the wildest things Jon Kyl actually tried to argue for? Let us count the ways.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/5/1793313/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump Administration is ill-prepared for Democratic investigations, but a scorched earth is their go-to strategy.

On the rest of the menu, a Florida luxury hotel refused to let Black Entertainment Television co-founder and billionaire Bob Johnson into his room last week, because he was wearing sunglasses while black; American racism is seeping into Europe, despite a ban on US white nationalist leaders there; and, African-American preachers are fed up with far right, Prosperity Gospel white Evangelicals, and they have every reason to be.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Egypt unearths one of the oldest Nile Delta villages; and, scientists suspect an unconventional microwave weapon in the mystery attacks on US diplomats in Cuba and China.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/4/1793061/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you don’t have to look very far to see that Trump leaked himself.

On the rest of the menu, a Texas doctor claims female doctors get paid less because they ‘do not work as hard;’ Kris Kobach will now have to campaign while under investigation by a grand jury; and, California restores Obama-era net neutrality protections, and the telecoms are already threatening to sue.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump is suspected of targeting FBI agent Bruce Ohr, because he was part of a secret Justice Department program created to ‘flip’ Russian oligarchs; and, Brazil’s 200-year old National Museum was a hit by massive fire on Sunday, with 20 million artifacts lost.

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

Bon Appetit!

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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/2018/9/3/1792877/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays