On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 05:58:13 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
wrote:

OK, let me take another guess. You have no sense of humor either. If you
can't take a little ribbing on USENET, you are rather thin skinned.

Hell Ed. You've got to admit that accusing any number of Americans as
being socialist in nature is tantamount to committing a declaration of
war, even if you were ribbing them. To some people, the word is a
volatile, disgusting tool of the damned. There's no room for humour
there. Diggerop may not be American, but he might harbor some of those
same feelings about socialism.