There are Brownstone supper clubs in over a dozen cities. Here is how they work. Each is managed by a volunteer, who finds interesting speakers and a restaurant for monthly events. One of the great advantages of attending is meeting like-minded people in your local area.

The cost is about $50-60 to attend, which includes a buffet meal, wine and speaker. In Boston it lasts from 5:30 pm to 9 pm. You have hors d’ouvres and wine for an hour, then you get supper, and the speaker talks for about 45 minutes. Then there is time for questions, comments, etc.

This Tuesday (Election Day) in Boston, November 3, (at Rocco’s in Wilmington, Massachusetts, NW of Boston) Mary Holland (CHD’s CEO) and Kim Mack Rosenberg (CHD’s General Counsel) will be the speakers.

I will be the dinner speaker on December 1st at Rocco’s. I will talk about food systems, how the current financial incentives baked into federal law cause the US to produce food that makes us hungry, overweight, tired and malnourished (which you already knew), but how we may be able to turn this around by efforts at the state level. I am happy to answer questions about anything attendees care to ask.

I will do 2 shows for CHD-TV this coming week. On Tuesday at 10:30 am ET we will start a short series (running on alternate Tuesdays) to look at examples of what one person with determination and grit (and not a whole lot else) can accomplish. This Tuesday I will interview Alex Petroff, who went to Africa as a college student and returned after graduation, figuring out how to help bring thousands of Congolese people out of poverty.

BTW, wikipedia explains grit:

Grit was defined as “perseverance and passion for long-term goals” by psychologist Angela Duckworth and colleagues, who extensively studied grit as a personality trait.^[4] They observed that people high in grit were able to maintain their determination and motivation over long periods despite experiences with failure and adversity.^[4] They concluded that grit is a better predictor of success than intellectual talent (IQ), based on their evaluation of educational attainment by adults; GPA among Ivy League undergraduates; dropout rate of cadets at West Point US Military Academy; and ranking in the National Spelling Bee.^[4]

On Thursday I will do a longer interview with attorney Michael Connett, who has worked for the past ten years to end the mandates to fluoridate public water supplies, and to reduce toxic fluoride exposures from other sources. The video clips he has of federal officials being questioned about fluoride toxicity during his depositions are amazing.

The election this Tuesday will be interesting, as will be the results.

How many ways can you fix an election? Find a retiree with the same name (Dan Sullivan) as the Senate incumbent, and spend over a million dollars to get him on the ballot, with the sole goal of draining votes away from the incumbent? Who thought they would get away with that? Mary Peltola just might; can this trick be turned around at this late date?

Then there are the voting rolls, which blue states refused to provide to the red fed. How many illegal people, dead people, duplicates voting in more than one state are there? There were a lot of duplicates and dead people collecting social security checks and medicare benefits. Why not have them vote as well?

Then there are electronic voting machines, which can be hacked physically (with a pen) or from a distance.

Can the parties retire their fake ire and start to work together again? We need to tell our representatives that their pugilistic behavior is not okay. They have work to accomplish. We pay them to get their job done. Bills need to get passed. What will it take for them to realize they work for us, and not the lobbies?

At least let them work together, drop the food fights, preserve our basic rights and let us trade our food with each other in peace, without federal intervention.

 

IPAK-EDU is grateful to Meryl’s CHAOS letter (Critical Health Analysis and OpinionS) as this piece was originally published there and is included in this news feed with mutual agreement. Read More