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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (30140)	12/5/2008 7:45:00 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Firstly... I don't speak Swahili. (Do you?) Secondly... I see no particular reason to trust ANYONE, so what in the heck is wrong with non-partisan professional translators? (And, thirdly, who the heck knows if this old woman is even mentally competent? If you think that any of this should trump official certification by State authorities in the United States --- then by all means start working the phone lines this weekend to PREVENT the 'miscarriage of justice' that is going to come out from the U.S. Supreme Court on MONDAY! Dial away!) But, I repeat, NOTHING is EVER going to satisfy the Conspiracy Nuts.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (30140)	12/5/2008 7:56:41 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71588

NYT travel columnist comments on air crash, gets sued in Brazil » by Walter Olson Joe Sharkey, a well-known travel columnist for the New York Times, was aboard an Embraer business jet in Brazil that collided with another plane but managed to land safely although all 157 aboard the other plane died. Sharkey later discussed the episode on one of his blogs, and was quite critical of Brazilian air traffic control and some others involved in the affair. Now, according to an Oct. 16 press release, the widow of one of those who died on the other plane is suing Sharkey for having “launched personal attacks against Brazil’s President, air traffic controllers and other notorious individuals and, repeatedly and piercingly, started offending Brazilians indiscriminately”. “Only amends will restore the widow’s dignity,” states Rosane Gutjhar’s lawyer, Oscar Fleischfresser, who may have one of the best lawyer surnames ever (Fleischfresser = carnivore)(Aero-News.net, Oct. 21; JREF Forum; O Estado de Sao Paolo/ATC Brasil). In a presumably unrelated sidelight, a federal court this summer turned down an attempt by Brazilian survivors to file injury claims for the crash in the U.S., ruling that they should instead be heard in Brazil, where the awards are likely to be much lower. overlawyered.com