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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump sure seems to know a lot for someone who says he’s not colluding.

On the rest of the menu, a tiny Canadian village just beat a multimillion dollar oil company in court, and successfully protected the town’s water supply; the California steel industry rips into Trump’s damaging tariffs; and, the West Virginia teachers strike stretches into a new week with no end in sight.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to examine a sweeping new study that reveals taxpayers, not Big Pharma, have funded the research behind every new drug since 2010; and, by condoning corruption and denouncing the press, Slovakia's government has created an atmosphere in which journalists have become targets for death.

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/2018/3/5/1746548/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is strangely silent after Putin’s nuke threat on Mar a Lago.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Kushner family business failed to get financing from Qatar, and then the country got blockaded a month later; Russia sought to ‘deceive and influence’ the fight over fracking by targeting both environmentalist and pro-drilling backers; and, the Equifax data breach affected millions of more consumers than previously announced.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to examine Trump’s failed voter fraud ‘czar’ Kris Kobach and his plans on having a hate group member testify on his behalf in court; and, after the resignation of a top scientist at the US Geological Survey, lawmakers want to know why the Trump Administration demanded early access to sensitive oil and gas data on Alaska’s North Slope.

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/2018/3/2/1745927/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, California Democratic Representative Ted Lieu, compares Trump’s “brazen” and “suspicious” obsession with WikiLeaks, to Nixon’s White House scandals.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the US Olympics chief resigns in the wake of the USA gymnastics abuse scandal; a series of leaks exposes the New York Times newsroom is openly revolting against its editorial page editor; and, a long-lost portrait of a Nigerian princess dubbed, the “African Mona Lisa,” sold at auction in London for $1.7 million, exceeding estimates and setting a record for the artist.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to investigate the armed white nationalist militias preparing to muster this Saturday near Charlottesville to intimidate a pro-immigrant law firm; and, the Cincinnati lawyer representing the dozen neo-Nazi white supremacists from the deadly march in Charlottesville last year, says he took the case because he believes, “white people must save and preserve their civilization from Jews, immigrants and minorities.”

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/2018/3/1/1745677/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Georgia State Senator Michael Williams thought he'd drop a right-wing lie about Planned Parenthood getting member discounts from Delta, but CNN’s Brianna Keilar didn't let him get away with it.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Tech Bros are facing Tax Hell, after the IRS wins access to cryptocurrency data showing unreported capital gains; the NRA refuses to answer US Senator Ron Wyden’s questions about funding from Russia; and, the professor who told Papadopoulos that Russia had dirt on Hillary has vanished without a trace, leaving his fiancee and child behind.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider the Right Wing Supreme Court Majority overturning the British Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and centuries of subsequent American Supreme Court rulings, in declaring that asylum seekers or any non-citizen, can be jailed indefinitely without a bail hearing; and, Big Corn tells Trump, ‘no deal,’ after a White House oil and biofuels meeting.

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/2018/2/28/1745398/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mick Mulvaney stopped oversight on Predatory Lenders because of his firm belief in the “Sucker Beware Rule.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, it’s not every day that a sitting congressman is accused of perpetrating a fraud, not only against the public, but even against his own company’s customers; the historic West Virginia teacher strike continues into its fourth day; and, Students for Trump won’t reveal who’s bankrolling their group, despite FEC warnings.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider the dismissal by a federal judge in Manhattan, of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the United States’ longstanding prohibition of cannabis; and, only local lawyers in the Philippines can stop Duterte’s murderous war on drugs, but to win, they need international human rights groups to give them more help.

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/2018/2/27/1745080/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is living in a Fantasyland right wing bubble where all the news for him is wonderful.

On the rest of the menu, Texas Republican Mike Conaway, currently leading the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, says there is no need to probe Trump’s finances because Deutsche Bank is German, not Russian; Paul Manafort’s Los Angeles bankruptcy fight may open new avenues for the Mueller probe; and, the Democratic Memo made the GOP look even more stupid.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the federal government has done nothing to fix gun background checks, so governors are taking action; and, the technology being used by tech companies to control their workers is freakishly dystopian.

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/2018/2/26/1744858/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the new charges against Manafort could mean he dies in prison.

Then, on the rest of the menu, when the world’s largest asset fund manager takes the gun manufacturers to the woodshed, people listen; more than twenty state attorneys general, along with internet groups and companies, have refiled lawsuits to block the net neutrality reversal; and, the popular head of the federal agency tasked with helping U.S. states protect election systems from cyber attacks by Russia and other foreign actors, is being shoved aside by Paul Ryan and the White House, just in time for the midterms.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider the human cost of Trump’s weakness towards Russia; and, the world’s oldest known cave art was crafted by Neanderthals more than 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe.

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/2018/2/23/1744088/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, CNN host, Brooke Baldwin, asks a Florida lawmaker why pornography is a bigger health risk than semi automatic weapons.

Then, on the rest of the menu, two ‘rabid’ men’s rights activist sites are now officially listed as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center; it costs U.S. taxpayers just one cent a year to protect America’s marine mammals, but Trump’s budget scraps it; and, there are some deplorable details being omitted from Billy Graham’s fawning obituaries.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where we laugh at Steven Seagal’s attempts to find relevance through a pyramid cryptocurrency scam, as its worldwide ambassador; and, the complex history behind, “In God We Trust,” reveals the motto doesn't reflect universally shared historical values.

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/2018/2/22/1743673/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the latest indictment from Mueller indicates the investigation is "scrubbing all of the money" Manafort has received from the Russians and Ukranians, even before his "relationship" with Donald Trump.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the World Health Organization issues a report that anti-vaxxers are responsible for an explosion of measles in Europe; Alaska will no longer allow workers with disabilities to be paid less than the minimum wage; and, Trump hopes a federal court will restore the congressional map that was ruled unconstitutional by Pennsylvania's top court.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider how the Baltimore police corruption scandal proves robbery is still illegal, even when the cops are pocketing the spoils; and, there is an overlooked detail in Mueller’s indictment of Russian operatives.

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/2018/2/21/1743333/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, CNN panelist Tara Setmayer, tells Trump surrogate Jason Miller that the President should just shut up.

Then, on the rest of the menu, an Idaho State Senator threatened over a dozen University of Idaho students at a scheduled meeting, that he would call the state police if they ever showed up again to lobby for birth control; GOP swing state voters are unimpressed with the Ryan/ Trump Tax Scam; and, the Chicago Blackhawks banned four fans for life, after they were caught on tape racially taunting Washington Capitals forward, Devante Smith-Pelly.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Polish foreign minister escalated international tensions by insisting ‘Poles of Jewish ethnicity’ share a greater blame for the Holocaust than ‘regular’ Poles; and, french Holocaust survivor and human rights icon Simone Veil, will receive the rare honor of a burial at the Pantheon in Paris.

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/2018/2/20/1743003/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays