":This is ridiculous.
Did David Levy, think that I was accusing him of being a fundamentalist Christian? Would it help him if I had put a ""wink"", ;), after my remark?
I am sick of the American fear of being numbered by the Beast, and I laugh when statisticians state, ""This is a method that is used only in the third-world countries, and the USA"", because of the lack of a population registry.
There have been enough complaints about the heavy-handed administrative steering of that discussion. In this case, administrators with a need to demonstrate power or intolerant of my restoring my numbered comment labeled my restoration of the number as disruptive.
Is this a joke?
I would not be surprised if JC37 supported such a block, given his urging a block after I had misremembered his user-name as JN37 (after an Indian statistician's initials). I am going to be curious to read the bizarre arguments supporting this block.
.Wolfowitz 

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