{"id":119,"date":"2009-03-16T02:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T07:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-06-26T12:42:57","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T17:42:57","slug":"pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you may know, Saturday was March 14th or 3.14 or Pi Day. This is a day in which we should all celebrate math and science and make learning fun. Many in the greater atheistic community have wanted to create atheistic holidays to celebrate since we don\u2019t really celebrate religious holidays. I don\u2019t have a problem with that, but it should be emphasized that atheism is not a religion and so we don\u2019t need holidays.  Humanism can be considered a religion to some degree and so a humanistic holiday would make more sense. In any case, Pi Day should be such a holiday. I was a little surprised however to hear Congress discussing the holiday in open session. In fact, Tennessee Congressman Bart Gordon sponsored a House Resolution honoring Pi Day. Here Tennessee Congressman Lincoln Davis addresses the Congress:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bqgIVa8-RKU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bqgIVa8-RKU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"\u201dhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bqgIVa8-RKU\u201d\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The really surprising thing about this House Resolution is that 10 Republicans actually voted against it!!! It seems the love of math and science is something they felt they needed to vote against. No money was appropriated with this resolution. No laws were created or changed with this resolution. All this resolution did was honor Pi Day and encourage scientific education through a simple acknowledgement. Yet 10 Congressman made the conscious decision to vote against this acknowledgement. So I am going to \u201cout\u201d these anti-science Congressmen:<\/p>\n<p>Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz<br \/>\nArizona Congressman Jeff Flake<br \/>\nNevada Congressman Dean Heller<br \/>\nIllinois Congressman Tim Johnson<br \/>\nFlorida Congressman Jeff Miller<br \/>\nTexas Congressman Randy Neugebauer<br \/>\nTexas Congressman Ron Paul<br \/>\nIndiana Congressman Mike Pence<br \/>\nTexas Congressman Ted Poe<br \/>\nPennsylvania Congressman Bill Shuster<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=119\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you may know, Saturday was March 14th or 3.14 or Pi Day. This is a day in which we should all celebrate math and science and make learning fun. Many in the greater atheistic community have wanted to create atheistic holidays to celebrate since we don\u2019t really celebrate religious holidays. 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