GOP wants new law to redefine Pi as exactly 3

[Okra]

Conservative Pie; Republicans Introduce Legislation Redefining Pi as Exactly 3
Ian Squires.Freelance writer
Posted: March 21, 2011 12:21 PM

Congresswoman Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is sponsoring HR 205, The Geometric Simplification Act, declaring the Euclidean mathematical constant of pi to be precisely 3.
 
The bill comes in response to data and rankings from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, rating the United States' 15 year-olds 25th in the world in mathematics.
 
 
OECD is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2011, and the Paris-based NGO released its international educational rankings, placing the US in a three-way tie for math, equaling Portugal and Ireland, just beneath No. 24 Luxembourg.
 
 
"That long-held empirical value of pi, I am not saying it should be necessarily viewed as wrong, but 3 is a lot better," said Roby, the 34-year old legislator representing Alabama's second congressional district, ushered into office in the historic 2010 Republican mid-term bonanza.
 
 
Pi has long been defined as the ratio of a circle's area to the square of its radius, a mathematical constant represented by the Greek letter "π," with a value of approximately 3.14159. HR 205 does not change the root definition, per se. The bill simply, and legally, declares pi to be exactly 3.
 
 
Roby, raised in Montgomery, Ala., is on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education.
"It's no panacea, but this legislation will point us in the right direction. Looking at hard data, we know our children are struggling with a heck of a lot of the math, including the geometry incorporating pi," Roby said. "I guarantee you American scores will go up once pi is 3. It will be so much easier."
 
 
Democrats first responded to the measure with a mixture of incredulity and amusement.
"Really?" asked George Miller (D-Calif.), the ranking member on the Education and Labor Committee. "Isn't that an awful lot like assuming only even numbers can be negative? You can't legislate math; that's like making it illegal to rain on the Fourth of July," the San Francisco Bay area representative chuckled.
 
 
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) ridiculed objections from the left as further examples of classic elitist liberalism.
 
 
"Democrats don't want our children to succeed, they would actually feel better if France one day bests our kids on that test," Boehner said, unaware that, by tying Slovakia for 16th, France already does outrank the US in math. "Time after time, Democrats refuse to acknowledge American exceptionalism, and they're doing it again by trying to deny our children another tool for success."
 
 
Rep. Roby took a slightly more pragmatic stance.
"For decades, we've all been learning that pi is this crazy 'irrational' number. And any number with no end is, not, well, it makes it really hard," Roby said. "We talked about making pi 3-and-a-third, but that wouldn't really help, because you're still then stuck with endless threes."
HR 205 is expected to pass the House of Representatives but even if it also passes in the Senate -- unlikely with Democrats maintaining a slim majority -- President Obama has pledged to veto.
 
"I badly want to refuse to dignify HR 205 with acknowledgment, but... my Republican friends are serious," Obama said. "And I don't care how strongly Geometric Simplification has been polling, I just can't be responsible for that." The president added, "Unless there's something on the table. Barack Obama does love a good compromise. Maybe if Republicans will agree to let Planned Parenthood perform AIDS testing. Or just convince the Tea Party Caucus to at least publicly agree it is the Earth that revolves around the sun, and not the other way around."
 
New York City Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) responded to Roby's legislation with a massive brain aneurysm. Democrats are hopeful to retain his New York City seat in an April special election.
 
--- huffingtonpost
 
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[Jim]

 
You wasted an entire post trying to con people?  Seriously?

Maybe you should talk to your own Congressman Hank Johnson about Guam tipping over or capsizing. tee hee


 
H.R. 205  2011
To amend the Act titled "An Act to authorize the leasing of restricted Indian lands for public, religious, educational, recreational, residential, business, and other purposes requiring the grant of long-term leases", approved August 9, 1955, to provide for Indian tribes to enter into certain leases without prior express approval from the Secretary of the Interior.

 
These are the Bills she is Co-Sponsoring. There are None, 0, zip listed as Bills she is personally Sponsoring.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d112:FLD004:@1(Rep.+Roby+Martha)

[Okra]

this entire message board is haunted by people trying to con them selves and the other posters into believing the right wing lies you guys thrive on - because you believe ALL OF THE LIES
the bigger the lie  the more you want to belive it
 
so when you see an obviously satirical post about a tea party politician you get pissed off instead of understanding that it was
 
SATIRE
 
 

[Jim]

 
Satire comes from "The Onion", not from Huffington Post.  The author should have picked a H.R. Bill that was nonexistent rather than one that could easily be searched.
 
Beside, we all know how the Left will take rumor and satire and begin to believe it as truth once they've repeated it more than 5 times.  That's why your jokes and satire are no longer funny, and are outed as soon as possible.
 
We do it for your own mental health.  :- )
 
 
 

[okra]

the article is on the Huffington Post Comedy page

[okra]

"Beside, we all know how the Left will take rumor and satire and begin to believe it as truth once they've repeated it more than 5 times.  "

what's funnier is that you righties will believe any rumor or jerkoff fantasy that Rush or Beck tells you THE FIRST TIME you hear it and forever after even without the dozens of repititions

[Jim]

the article is on the Huffington Post Comedy page
 
You provided no link...
 
 

[Jim]

what's funnier is that you righties will believe any rumor or jerkoff fantasy that Rush or Beck tells you THE FIRST TIME you hear it and forever after even without the dozens of repititions
 
Actually - we dont.  Just another mantra...
 
 

[okra]

the article is on the Huffington Post Comedy page

You provided no link...


huh?

the stuff at the bottom of the post was the link:
--- huffingtonpost

.com/ian-squires/republicans-introduce-leg_b_837828.html

this site wont allow links to post intact

[Jim]

this site wont allow links to post intact
 
 
Really?  Have you looked at the other areas?
 
http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/index.php?board=5.0
 
http://www.aesopsretreat.com/forum/index.php?board=1.0
 
 
Oh look, there's some intact links...
 
 

[Okra]

DUDE

if you're a GUEST here you can't post intact links here

you get an Error if you try

[Jim]

 
Wow, that sounds like an incentive.
 
Plus you don't have to keep typing your name or email address..

Plus you get to come to the other boards with the big boys and girls.