All the security measures couldn’t prevent Standard Chartered from losing at least $1 million in an armed robbery in January. Thieves attacked a bulletproof SUV that was carrying the money to the main branch 3 miles away. It was the bank’s first robbery, but the sixth for Kabul’s banking industry since early last year. All six went the same way–men in official police garb in official police vehicles with official-looking guns ambushing SUVs in broad daylight. The banks suspect an insider. “How else can anyone know when the money is being transported?” asks Silvanus.

In rigidly conservative Afghanistan, Standard Chartered is making its mark in other ways. It named a woman–Neelam Sharma, a Nepal native–as the manager of its main office. Apprehensive about how the Afghan men she would supervise would react, she broke the ice by mingling with their families at weddings and helping out at the teller windows, where during busy periods customers often haul away $500,000 in cash in gunnysacks.

http://ohomen171.blogspot.com/search/label/Afghanistan%20Banking

I have a drinking buddy in North Vegas just off 95 that uses raised beds…….

But he can’t do a thing about the withering wind.

Our lad screwed up Arbusto, (He couldn’t find oil in Texas?).
Our lad screwed up Afghanistan.
Our lad screwed up Iraq.
Our lad screwed up the New Orleans.
Our lad screwed up the Republicans.

We need to harness our lad’s curious consistency and get him to screw up the recession.

for a laugh re: adiabatic oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5HAVHQ0GWE&feature=related

Been there, done that, got the bad back from chopping wood, wrestling the generator off the trailer and moving batteries around in the Solar shed.

Everyone who dreams of this SHOULD do this, particularly for two winters in the Central Arizona mountains.

Did I mention pneumonia and the Hanta virus?

I seized the opportunity to pull off the roadway on the western side of the river which separates FL from AL, walked down to the bank and relieved myself of a couple of Big Gulps while facing the state which houses so many million ancient, loud, wheezing former New Yorkers and Midwesterners, each and every one, according to them, my social and intellectual superior.

Florida may be crowded, but I left a space there in 1989. Feel free to use it. Enjoy the sun before Tallahassee puts a User Fee thereupon.

For me, it was a grand sensation, Pissing in the Perdido…

Mr. Bush …how about NOT sending all our money over seas in aid packages aimed at helping countries buy OUR munitions. the Military industrial complex is running like a well oiled machineOdeath..
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Imagine if our tax money actually went to help us??? the tax payers.
I know!!! what a concept.

the problem with our economy is…
1. we are bred to be consumers ( that’s it anymore), but eventually everything you need is bought.
2.Then you buy what you don’t need.
3. then you borrow to buy what you can’t afford ( huge mortgage) but want.
4. then you go chapter 11

other factors helping our decline…
invading oil producing countries and doubling the price of gas has resulted causing everything to rise in price thus forcing our economy into the shitter.

Mr. Bush , you are a uniter. you have united us down the toilet…