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hot dollars; watch out!
Topic Started: Jan 25 2006, 07:48 PM (100 Views)
musicasacra
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The hunt for "radioactive dollars"

Jan 25, 9:49 AM (ET)

ALMATY (Reuters) - Kazakhstan is on a nationwide hunt for dozens of "radioactive dollars" circulating in the country's financial system.

The Kazakh central bank said in a letter to financial institutions the radiation level of the U.S. dollar notes was 100 times above normal. A Kazakh citizen brought them into the country in November, it said.

"(The dollars) pose a direct threat to people's health," said the letter, obtained by Reuters Wednesday.

Officials urged banks and exchange bureaux to redouble efforts to find the notes by checking the serial numbers.

It was not clear how the money, nearly $4,000 in 100-dollar and 50-dollar bills, got contaminated.

The Soviet Union used Kazakhstan, a vast Central Asian state, the for many decades as a testing ground for nuclear weapons after it detonated its first plutonium bomb in 1949.
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JBryan
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I might also be concerned with what the money purchased.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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musicasacra
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reminds me of "Syriana"
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I didn't see it.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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musicasacra
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JBryan
Jan 25 2006, 08:57 PM
I didn't see it.

george clooney in a beard
cia
weapons
fingernails
oil
assassinations


IT and i actually saw it on a date night because there was nothing else playing. :lol:
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JBryan
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I have seen a number of movies with my wife for the same reason.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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JBryan
Jan 25 2006, 09:07 PM
I have seen a number of movies with my wife for the same reason.

i think it was our six month wedding anniversary date.

for that anniversary, i've heard, you give a large popcorn. :popcorn:
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JBryan
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My wife would jump right up to the diamonds if she could get me to go along with it.

To the Chinese nothing is ever settled or negotiated and all things are constantly on the table. :)
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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