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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, when Fox Outnumbered claimed Obama and the Democrats are unpatriotic, things got very personal for former military veteran and CIA agent, Marie Harf.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Arizona high school called the cops on a black student for wearing a white and blue bandana, when most of the white kids were wearing American flag bandanas, instead; federal guards demanded a New York couple change out of their ‘Abolish ICE’ shirts at the Statue of Liberty, then kicked them out when they said this is America; and, the Portland, Oregon police chief bragged to a right-wing radio host that cops ‘kicked the butts’ of anti-racist protesters.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Russian mob used cash from a multi-billion dollar gas scam to get their hooks into Trump going back to at least, 1984; and, Trump got into a bizarre fight with Vietnam vets over the movie, ‘Apocalypse Now.’

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/2018/8/17/1788837/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Fox News host wonders if maybe Russia paid Manafort to run Trump’s campaign.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Mexican businesswoman who has visited her aging parents in Maryland every year for the last 10 years, had her visa confiscated and is now barred from entering the US; not one Republican supports a bill to protect domestic violence victims; and, Georgia's shotgun-toting, Trump-style Republican candidate for governor, and current Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, is being sued for exposing the sensitive records of over six million voters in a massive data breach.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a New York state legislator proposes a law that makes calling 911 on innocent black people a hate crime, after a Trump fan called the cops on him; and, the FBI is investigating Russian cyberattacks against the Democratic rival of Representative Dana Rohrabacher.

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/2018/8/16/1788586/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, even Neil Cavuto’s Fox Business panel was unable to fathom Trump’s ‘dog’ tweet.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a drunken NYC cop on vacation, unleashed racist terror on a black family, after mistakenly barging into their Tennessee home; ICE agents set ‘deportation traps’ for immigrants seeking legal residency; and, Trump’s Treasury Department is trying to block the Senate from continuing the financial portion of the Russia investigation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Office of Refugee Resettlement removed email addresses, phone numbers and all other contact information from its website, when it was under scrutiny for blocking an undocumented teen's abortion; and, Trump signs a bill condemning Russia, then says Congress can’t force him to follow it.

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"

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Show Notes & Links: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/15/1788339/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller’s uncle says ‘dozens of family members’ encouraged him to write the article trashing his nephew.

On the rest of the menu, a Trump-inspired Arizona GOP candidate who killed his own mother, also threatened to kill the head of his condo association; the White House exempts Bill Shine from ethics rules so he can keep meeting with Fox News; and, Trump wants to let payday lenders rip off military service members, because they are not patriotic enough to give up their pay raises to pay for Trump’s economy.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Scott Walker won’t defend Wisconsin-based Harley-Davidson against Trump; and, two-hundred-and-forty cubic miles of magma has been discovered underneath what is considered, a dormant supervolcano, in California.

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/2018/8/14/1788020/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, April Ryan says Trump created ‘this evil monster’ that has ‘come back to bite him.’

On the rest of the menu, it was probably Stephen Miller who told Trump he could have a border war with Canada over a small, desolate Island off the Maine coast they could probably rename, The Granada Falklands; the DHS spins the border numbers, again; and, a Colorado couple’s four-year-old adopted daughter is facing deportation because, she’s brown.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a California jury ordered Monsanto to pay $289 million in the world’s first Roundup cancer case; and, fire crews reported progress in their battles against blazes across the coastal west, with some of the major wildfires slowing in growth.

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/2018/8/13/1787809/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Sessions hand-picked the mother and daughter to deport to send a message, so the judge sent a message back that he will hold Sessions in Contempt.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration issues a new tax scam rule that benefits Trump; Joni Ernst claims the $3.1 million the NRA spent to elect her doesn’t count; and, the Pentagon really doesn’t like Trump’s ridiculous ‘space force’ idea.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a judge in Arkansas makes $147,000 a year for turning poor people into indentured servants; and, move over, Pizzagate, Portland’s famous Voodoo Doughnut is the new home to a far-right child sex ring conspiracy theory.

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/2018/8/10/1787207/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there are a hundred and twenty-three million reasons why Wilbur Ross is the biggest grifter in the Trump Swamp.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a van filled with migrant mothers separated from their children crashed, then ICE lied about it; the White House plans to house immigrants at toxic waste sites; and, the Republican nominee for Senate in Virginia, neo-Confederate Corey Stewart, called Michigan gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed, an “ISIS commie.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the ridiculous anti-drug law protecting the “unborn” may finally be overturned; and, Russia stopped Pussy Riot member, Maria Alyokhina, from leaving the country.

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/2018/8/9/1786951/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump asked GOP Senators about Mueller over twenty times, and no matter what happens, it’s not his fault.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is trying to deny citizenship to 20 million LEGAL immigrants; a federal court tells a New Orleans judge to stop locking people up because they are poor; and, a homeless black teen hits back at Florida police after they admit to framing him for multiple burglaries.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Judge Andrew Hanen is so anti-immigrant even the Trump administration wants him to chill; and, what’s up with U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis, the Reagan-appointed jurist overseeing the Manafort trial?

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/2018/8/8/1786686/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, how can John Bolton know Trump was not a beneficiary of Russian cyber-warfare in 2016?

On the rest of the menu, construction companies buy Fox News ads to hit Trump on the infrastructure bill he promised; a for-profit prison company threatens an anti-ICE group with a lawsuit for statements made by an eight-year-old girl telling world what they do; and, Wells Fargo apologizes after hundreds of customers lose their homes to foreclosure due to a ‘computer glitch.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Michigan cop jailed an eighty-year-old great-grandmother because her medical cannabis card had been expired for almost two weeks; and, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Michelle Obama, Democrats aim to reach a new kind of swing voter.

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/2018/8/7/1786395/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, what Kellyanne Conway calls, more “everyman interviews” of Trump, others call, a shoe shine.

On the rest of the menu, Trump keeps bragging about seven new steel plants, there’s just one problem, nobody can find even one; Trump also claims California is diverting water to the ocean instead of fighting fires, and nobody can figure out where the hell that conspiracy theory came from; and, Trump thinks his meddling to help Flynn stop a legal FBI counter-intelligence investigation, was just like stopping the FBI from illegally spying on Martin Luther King.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in its ongoing effort to erase Obama from history, the Trump administration lifted the GMO crop ban, and the ban on insecticides responsible for declining bee populations on US wildlife refuges; and, did a drone attack really try to assassinate the Venezuelan president, or was it just a gas leak explosion from a lack of infrastructure spending?

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/2018/8/6/1786113/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays