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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Right Wing Evangelical activist Frank Schaeffer, blasts white evangelical Christians for their support of Trump and how he's become part of their "absolutist theology," which is impossible to argue with.

On the rest of the menu, Trump supported the sham Honduras election that spurred the ‘caravan’ of refugees marching through Mexico; Trump wants out of Syria but the Pentagon has no freaking idea what he’s talking about; and, the Republican House Intel Committee is unaware its own released findings contradict Jared Kushner’s written testimony.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is either seriously misinformed on how the Census Bureau works, or doesn’t care; and, the Chief Justice of the United States has no clue how elections work.

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/2018/4/2/1753740/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former U.S. Acting Solicitor General, Neal Katyal, slams Trump's former lawyer, John Dowd offering pardons as, “mind-blowingly stupid.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, an 18-year-old in Bellevue, Washington has been arrested for setting fire to a local mosque, the second time it’s been burned since January of last year; far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer is kicked out of the Pulse nightclub shooting trial; and, the FBI started looking into Trump’s shady Russia-linked business deals as early as 2014.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump is gaslighting the public, and you can see it in the way he fires cabinet members; and, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo wasted no time calling NFL star Michael Bennet ‘morally corrupt,’ but is strangely quiet on police brutality.

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/2018/3/30/1753137/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is playing magic math when he should be sitting down with Schoolhouse Rock.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Tea Party ex-congressman Steve Stockman of Texas is busted for recruiting Egyptian officials to help him secure a $30 million payout; a Massachusetts judge rules civil disobedience is a ‘necessity’ to prevent climate change; and, hackers disrupt Baltimore’s emergency call system, while Atlanta is still affected by a ransomware cyber extortion attack.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where all twenty-two women of the Senate are mad as hell and they’re not going to take it anymore; and, the Senate staffer behind the the GOP’s attack on Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation is exposed.

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/2018/3/29/1752888/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Christian Broadcasting Network flack David Brody didn’t realize it, but he explained exactly why white evangelicals are hypocrites.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Neo-Nazi gang is busted after discussing a murder coverup while 911 was on the phone; California slams the White House in its lawsuit over the “illegal” citizenship census question; and, the captain and operations officer of an NGO rescue ship face 15 years in prison for saving drowning Libyan refugees in the Mediterranean.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the utterly nonsensical way NFL cheerleaders must live their lives comes out in a discrimination lawsuit; and, the ghost of Pete Petersen will haunt us for many years to come.

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

Bon Appetit!

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Christian Broadcasting Network flack David Brody didn’t realize it, but he explained exactly why white evangelicals are hypocrites.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Neo-Nazi gang is busted after discussing a murder coverup while 911 was on the phone; California slams the White House in its lawsuit over the “illegal” citizenship census question; and, the captain and operations officer of an NGO rescue ship face 15 years in prison for saving drowning Libyan refugees in the Mediterranean.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the utterly nonsensical way NFL cheerleaders must live their lives comes out in a discrimination lawsuit; and, the ghost of Pete Petersen will haunt us for many years to come.

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/2018/3/28/1752641/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Donald Trump has extensive exposure in the Russia investigation, and there is only one way he can save himself.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the UK parliament demands Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony after the Facebook boss offers to send a deputy instead; being Trump’s stooge could come back to haunt Devin Nunes in a big way; and, two-thirds of all Americans live in the “Constitution-Free Zone.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to investigate a new report that details just how rigged the midterms are in favor of the Republicans; and, ignored amidst all of his other scandals, Trump's mob ties are as deep as they are unprecedented.

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/2018/3/27/1752369/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Grifter Newt Gingrich figures those kids marching must be grifters, because how else could they fool all us rubes.

On the rest of the menu, a new study reveals the job market punishes women who had great grades in college; the California court system paid out over $500,000 to resolve sexual harassment suits against judges and employees; and, a nervous RNC is forced to fend off an inspiring emergency room doctor running in a district Trump won by 20 points.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an Alaska town threatened by climate change for decades finally gets federal funding to relocate; and, China just released a jailed Tibetan blogger after 3 years of hard labor and torture.

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/2018/3/26/1752111/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mark Zuckerberg is really sorry for having a Microsoft Moment.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the chair of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers doesn't seem to care about the 146,000 Americans who will lose their jobs because of Trump's trade war; Trump bizzarrely threatens to veto the Omnibus spending bill his Budget Director said he’d sign yesterday; and, the Russians are already meddling in Texas elections.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a major case alleging Trump is violating the Constitution moves forward, as Donnie Two Scoops receives a court summons at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; and, sixty years after her iconic performance in the Hitchcock masterpiece, Kim Novak reveals the highs and lows of “Vertigo.”

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/2018/3/23/1751319/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, five years ago, after Sandy Hook, Dr Greg Dworkin asked that we be allowed to study the gun issue and follow the data. Just simply follow the data. Five years ago. Maybe we can start now.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump and his businesses are rife with conflicts of interest, and the Republican Party is in on it; Trump staffers personally intervened to cover up how much the proposed tip sharing rule would cost; and, GOP staffers embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica scandal whine about being ‘unfairly targeted.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the West Virginia Teachers Strike awakened the ‘sleeping giant’ of labor activism for teachers across the country; and, France puts the United States to shame with its proposed new legislation defending women.

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/2018/3/22/1751079/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-amp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, my former congressperson, Barbara Lee, speaks for me as she rips into Betsy DeVos for her careless attitude toward racism in U.S. schools.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a private mercenary firm is making millions off the tragedies in Houston, Puerto Rico and Standing Rock; Mark Zuckerberg has sold more Facebook stock in the last three months than any insider at any other company in the same time period; and, in a bid to directly compete against Russia, Chinese surveillance and tech giant Alibaba, has joined the American Legislative Exchange Council, and will start co-authoring U.S. legislation.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Republican lawmaker in Pennsylvania is trying to impeach five Supreme Court justices who voted that the state’s gerrymandered congressional map was unconstitutional; and, the CIA argued that torture sessions at its black sites were actually business meetings, so it could destroy the videotapes.

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/2018/3/21/1750738/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Facebook bears tremendous responsibility for the Cambridge Analytica data mining, along with the other social media platforms.

Then, on the rest of the menu, after passing a disastrous, error-ridden tax bill with zero Democratic support or input, Sen. Chuck Grassley demands that Democrats fix the tax scam he voted for; stripping Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s legislation at the last minute, House and Senate leaders quietly preserve their ability to pay sexual harassment settlements with taxpayer money; and, Trump’s chaotic White House sets a 100-year record for Cabinet turnover.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Alt-Right is collapsing, but powerful media conservatives have taken up the banner of mainstreaming white nationalism in its stead; and, a christian news site editor says Stephen Hawking was kept alive by Satan for so long so as to oppose all the Good Works funded by Billy Graham’s tent revival scam.

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/2018/3/20/1750401/-West-Coast-Cookbook-amp-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays