Today is 16th Undenia, 11AS...a Eponaday

"Eponaday is The First Day. Epona is a very ancient Celtic Goddess of Horses. She is chosen because The Horse is central to Amazon Culture. She starts off the week with the symbolic 'getting back in the saddle'."

"Let us look at the structure of the week itself. The First, Second and Third Days are the 'official' Work Week for business, school, etc. On the Weekend, the Fourth Day is half and half; morning and early afternoon for finishing up the Work Week and the late afternoon and evening for playing and partying. The Fifth Day is not a religious holiday per se, but rather meant to be a day of relaxation and reflection."

Addendum D [Calendar for A New Matriarchy]

Message, Solutions, Cynicism

...first, some accurate propaganda..

..now some solutions..

Simple Solutions To The Budget Crisis:
End two wars of occupation­­­­­­­­­­­­­­. Leave the Middle East and Central Asia.
Stop fighting the Cold War. Leave Europe.
Start closing down America's world wide 'empire of bases'.
Stop funding the military power of other nations.
End all military contracts, and return all of those duties to the military itself.
Close Guantanamo and return Cuba's sovereign territory.
Abrogate NAFTA completely. [I'd also say withdraw from the IMF and WTO, but we own the damned things!]
Stop subsidizin­­­­­­­­­­­­­­g the already highly profitable oil industry.
Stop subsidizin­­­­­­­­­­­­­­g the highly unprofitab­­­­­­­­­­­­­­l­e corn industry.
Nationalize the private prison industry.
Release all minor, non-violen­­­­­­­­­­­­­­t drug offenders and stop paying a fortune to incarcerat­­­­­­­­­­­­­­e them.
End the War on Drugs, dismantle the DEA, legalize all drugs, then regulate and tax them.
Establish a State Bank for each of the fifty states and have each state treasury deposit ALL state revenues, pension funds, etc 'exclusively' in their own State Bank.
Forgive ALL outstanding student loans across the board and without condition.
Establish a national Single Payer 'buy in' program for Medicare with no age restrictions.
Extend a fully funded Medicaid to everyone below the poverty line.
Rebuild all of America's infrastruc­­­ture from the ground up.
Rebuild American industry here in America itself, by government fiat if necessary.
...and the biggest one, return to the sensible Eisenhower era taxation rate.

..and finally some cynicism..

"Back then [the Sixties] everything seemed to be coming apart. Viet Nam. Urban riots every summer. The Manson Family. So many were certain the Revolution was almost here. But what we got instead was Richard Nixon and Disco. And I have to say that in retrospect, they both look pretty damned good at this point." ~Michael Varian Daly