`: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. :   `