[Sca-cooks] Unnecessary Apology... was Essence of Turkish Delight...

[Elaine Koogler]

Will the duplicates actually serve as office buildings...or will they just be a
memorial?

Kiri

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> Susan Laing wrote:
> > Lord I'm an idiot!
> >
> > I'm sorry that I've been very Forrest Gumpish in sending out my last
> > cooking/recipe question
> >
> > I was thinking just "Food" not it's point of origin.
> >
> > I realise that any number of you are now going to be insulted that I thought
> > you'd be insulted but I'd rather appear an idiot than insensitive to the few
> > that will take it that way by mentioning anything about "middle eastern" at
> > this point of time ....
>
> Well, it's like this. They had grief counsellors in my kid's school
> yesterday, and what a lot of kids needed to have stressed was the fact
> that just because it appears that the people responsible for this may
> have been followers of Islam, or Afghans, or fill-in-the-blank, we would
> be as guilty as they if we thought of those groups as being worthy of
> retaliation. This is good advice for adults, too. And if we let the very
> mention of the name of a group which happens to share some religious
> beliefs with the group who appear responsible insult and frighten us,
> then the terrorists have truly won, haven't they?
>
> BTW, on an only marginally related note, I understand that New York
> City's labor unions have specifically asked that the Federal government
> take _no_ role in the creation of a monument, plaque, statue, anything
> of the sort on the site. They've asked, (or so I heard last night) to be
> allowed to raise the money to build what amounts to an exact duplicate
> of the Twin Towers on the same site, just... well... let's say...
> somewhat taller ;  ) .
>
> Adamantius
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
>
> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
>
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