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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, contrary to popular right wing opinion, the Russia indictments do not clear Trump.

On the rest of the menu, a medium intensity earthquake struck southwestern Mexico this morning, startling residents already shaken by a powerful temblor on Friday; the NRA says any criticism of its $10,000 grant to the Parkland shooter’s varsity rifle team, is disrespecting the dead; and, white nationalists and Twitter bots fueled the war against Al Franken, and the Democrats fell for it.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to scrutinize Facebook’s plans to use US snail mail to verify the identification of election ad buyers; and, there is a charging mystery in the Russia indictments, and it is an indication of what comes next in the Mueller investigation.

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/2018/2/19/1742688/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-River-City-Hash-Mondays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there’s about 10 million NRA monetary reasons why the GOP wants to make it easy for mass killers to kill massively.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Facebook complies with Russia's order to take down an Instagram video linked to Putin's rival Alexey Navalny, that exposes inappropriate links between Russia’s deputy prime minister Prihodko and Russian oligarch Deripaska on a yacht in Norway; U.S. Representative Dan Lipinski wants the IRS to investigate improper financial deals by the leaders of the conservative Illinois Policy Institute; and, the FCC Inspector General has opened an investigation into whether Ajit Pai improperly pushed for rule changes that benefitted Sinclair Broadcasting.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a former Homeland Security official calls out the agency for publishing propaganda, inaccuracies and half-truths in its so-called, “press releases;” and, the GOP took another ruthless step in a massive right-wing court-packing scheme that will last for decades.

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/2018/2/16/1741848/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, California Representative Barbara Lee slams Budget Director Mick Mulvaney over Trump’s $30 million military parade, that would fund SNAP for 24,000 people for a year.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Russian citizen gets 12 years in a US prison for his role in a wide-ranging hacking scheme; Alabama law enforcement wants to profit from people who are not convicted of a crime; and, serious questions arise in determining who is behind the forged letter targeting Maxine Waters.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider the statement by the son of renowned Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, Kavous Seyed Emami, that his family has been threatened by authorities after his father turned up dead in an Iranian prison cell; and, white Alabamans tried to secede from their school district, because it had too many black kids.

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, California Representative Barbara Lee slams Budget Director Mick Mulvaney over Trump’s $30 million military parade, that would fund SNAP for 24,000 people for a year.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Russian citizen gets 12 years in a US prison for his role in a wide-ranging hacking scheme; Alabama law enforcement wants to profit from people who are not convicted of a crime; and, serious questions arise in determining who is behind the forged letter targeting Maxine Waters.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider the statement by the son of renowned Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, Kavous Seyed Emami, that his family has been threatened by authorities after his father turned up dead in an Iranian prison cell; and, white Alabamans tried to secede from their school district, because it had too many black kids.

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/2018/2/15/1741494/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Kamala Harris asked FBI Director Wray if Trump should be recused from Trump-Russia intel.

Then, on the rest of the menu, prosecutors join the fight against Trump by running for Congress; a Florida Democrat flips a Trump district blue in a stunning win; and, a Minnesota mayoral candidate gets anti-Muslim death threats from the ‘Militia Movement.’

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an ICE lawyer in Seattle is charged with stealing immigrant’s identities to defraud credit card companies; the Federal Reserve is now using the Big Stick on Wells Fargo in the latest chapter of the bank’s self-destruction; and, senators on the Intel Committee voice concerns over China trying to gain access to sensitive U.S. technologies and intellectual properties.

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/2018/2/14/1741206/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, stalker Jeanine Pirro and Euro Nazi-fugitive Sebastian Gorka, blame Obama for all those Trump White House security clearance denials.

Then, on the rest of the menu, three staffers are finally charged in the 2016 dehydration death of a prisoner at Trump-loving Sheriff David Clarke’s jail; Trump’s embarrassing pick to run the Census Bureau is forced to withdraw; and, Sinclair Broadcasting is raising money for the GOP in a blatantly unethical new scheme.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to examine a report of five executives at Oracle who started bankrolling Devin Nunes’ 2018 campaign, after employing the former White House aide who fed the “unmasking” information to the House Intelligence Committee Chairman; and, Trump’s latest judicial nominee has a disturbing history of aiding killer cops.

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/2018/2/13/1740908/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Mike Pence’s brainless non-diplomacy in Korea was on full Olympic display.

On the rest of the menu, eleven government employees quit after the election of the first woman mayor in the fundamentalist Mormon city of Hildale, Utah; Oregon senator Ron Wyden has officially requested that the Treasury Department hand over records of Trump’s $100 million deal with Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovev; and, the Trump Inaugural committee still cannot account for $107 million in donations.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to analyze how thousands of websites, including US and UK government websites, were infected for several hours on Sunday with crypto-mining malware; and, a federal court in California has ruled that holding inmates longer on immigration detainers is unconstitutional.

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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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there were so many Russians at this year’s Prayer Breakfast, the hymnals must have been in Cyrillic.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Montana state worker refused a demand from ICE to help round up undocumented immigrants, by quitting his job instead; newly released documents reveal the California Highway Patrol assured Neo Nazis they were the victims as they busted black identity, anti racist demonstrators the Neo Nazis attacked and stabbed; and, Tim Kaine has demanded the release of a secret memo that reveals the war powers Donald Trump believes he legally possesses.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to consider how Republicans are using long-forbidden tactics to chip away at judicial independence.

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/2018/2/9/1739962/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Blue-Moon-Spirits-Fridays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jake Tapper rants about the moral degradation and eroding lines of decency emanating from the White House.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the Department of Justice shut down a Ukrainian-launched cyber crime ring that caused more than $530 million in losses; New York architect, Vijay Duggal, is threatening to sue Trump for stealing his solar border wall idea; and, after losing in court over illegal gerrymanders, Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania and North Carolina are now resorting to desperate, judicial branch coups.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to reveal that Russian trolls used Tumblr to undermine Clinton as far back as 2015, but the company is staying mum; and, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lashes out as police investigators are set to charge him with bribery, fraud and breach of public trust.

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/2018/2/8/1739674/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Metro-Shrimp-Grits-Thursdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Maxine Waters smacks Steve Mnuchin for ignoring the Russia Sanctions.

Then, on the rest of the menu, ex-cop and Bundy occupation militia leader, Brandon Richard Curtiss, faces 266 years in prison after stealing $87,000 from his business clients; Mike Pence was in charge of the Trump presidential transition, but his name is suspiciously absent from records of it; and, Justices Ginsburg and Sotomayor just sent a big signal that partisan gerrymandering is going down.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table to scrutinize West Virginia’s billionaire governor and his war on anti-poverty programs; and, just days before the opening ceremony, serious health concerns hit the Winter Olympics.

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/2018/2/7/1739393/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Smothered-Benedict-Wednesdays

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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell, ruined Fox host Tucker Carlson’s efforts to smear the left as “hysterical,” over the release of the Nunes Memo.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Senators urge the Trump administration to resume the Equifax data breach probe; the Pentagon can’t account for several hundreds of millions of dollars it spent; and, a CNN employee found the DHS Super Bowl security reports tucked inside the back pocket of an airplane seat before the game.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Seattle says Facebook is violating its city campaign finance law; and, because the demise of coal in Appalachia is leaving lower and upper education in the lurch, Clean Energy and other industries are unlikely to move into those former coal-mining areas.

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/2018/2/6/1739072/-West-Coast-Cookbook-Speakeasy-Daily-Special-Tarrytown-Chowder-Tuesdays