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PPHM......$1.76 WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED ???
GOT 7 INCHES TWO DAYS AGO AND DUE FOR A ICE STORM TONIGHT
BUT SINCE I'M RETIRED I CAN SIT BY THE FIREPLACE AND RIDE IT OUT WITH A NICE GLASS OF CABERNET.........
NEVER SAW MY MONEY GO UP AND DOWN SO MUCH WITH ANY OF MY INVESTMENT LIKE PPHM ....... I'M WAITING FOR LEMMY TO SOUND OFF SOON AGAIN....LOL
GOD .I HOPE NOT ........
I'M SO SICK OF THIS .. AT THIS POINT IN MY LIFE LETS JUST GET ALL THE B.S. OVER WITH ............21 YEARS OF SHENANIGANS , HOPES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS HAVE LEFT ME SO TIRED AND FRUSTRATED ..........
PS ......I'M WALKING AGAIN BUT SLOWLY ......TREMENDOUS PAIN YET FROM NERVE DAMAGE DURING SURGERY STILL HEALING .
LOOKING FORWARD TO GOLF SEASON HOPEFULLY PLAYING AGAIN IN APRIL ...
HOPE YOU AND ART HAVE BEEN WELL ...ANY LUCK ON THAT PROPERTY YET ???
DOO-DAH..........
MOVED OUT OF NJ.......
6 YEARS AGO .WAS TOLD NO SNOW IN kENTUCKY ........LOL
NEIGHBORS KID IS SHOVELING ME OUT AS WE SPEAK .......YOUR COMMISION CHECK SHOULD BE CLEAR TODAY AND READY TO PURCHASE MORE SHARES WOOK...
I GRABBED SOME MORE ABOUT A WEEK AGO AT 1.66 .......
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REALLY.......
SEEN THIS SO MANY TIMES IN MY 21 PLUS YEARS HERE .....IT'S NEVER NICE BUT THAT S.O.P. FOR PPHM
STILL DOO-DAH THO ............LOL
$ 1.77 NOW WOOK..
SAME OLD PPHM ...IF IT'S A SHAKEOUT IT WILL BE A GOOD ONE.......
GOOD LUCK GOLFHO ......
I JUST HAD A COMPLETE ANKLE REPLACEMENT DONE 8 WEEKS AGO ALONG WITH SOME ACHILLES TENDON WORK ...I'M SHOOTING FOR APRIL 1ST TO BE BACK PLAYING 3 TIMES A WEEK ....PPHM WILL STILL BE HERE WHEN YOU GET BACK SO DO WHAT THE DOCTORS TELL YOU .................JAKE
NOTBOB17..
CONGRATS ON YOUR SUCCESS BEATING COLON CANCER ... LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AT TORREY PINES .........JAKE
PPHM WILL RULE THE WORLD.......
P.O.S. DOWN TO 1.58...........
WHERE DID ALL THE $140.00 PPS PEOPLE GO ?? AFTER 21 PLUS YEARS IN PPHM I EXPECTED THIS ... ALSO HAS ANYBODY NOTICED THAT EVERYTIME CLAY TRADER SHOWS UP WE DROP (FAST).......WITHOUT THE PARTNERSHIP WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT AIMLESSLY IN P.O.S. LAND
PPHM UP .30 ......
AND ALREADY SOME OF THE NUT SQUAD ON P.O.S. BOARD ARE PREDICTING $140.00 PER SHARE ..
REFU*****DICULOUS .........
HI GWEN, MARK LEMMY AND KEN ......JUST DROPPED IN TO MAKE A LITTLE NOISE .. I WISH YOU ALL A GREAT NEW YEAR............JAKE
I'M GETTING BETTER SLOWLY BUT SURELY
Subject: Christmas Trees vs Holiday Trees : Ben Stein Commentary
Apparently the White House referred to ChristmasTrees as Holiday Trees for the first time this year, which prompted CBS presenter, Ben Stein, to present this piece which I would like to share with you. The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees. It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year.
It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a nativity scene, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat. Or maybe I can put itanother way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let somethinglike this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet? Funny how when youforward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us. Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what a bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards, Honestly
Ben Stein
The Fiscal Times
Obamacare has delivered another sucker punch to the middle class. This time it’s sticker shock.
Now that a few people can get past the tech problems of HealthCare.gov and actually see the real cost of insurance plans available, they are finding that Affordable Care is big hit to the family budget. And when the family budget gets hit in the solar plexus, guess what happens to consumer spending and the economy.
In California, policies for about 900,000 Californians are being canceled because of Obamacare’s mandates and about 2/3rd of these do not qualify for subsidies, according to The Chicago Tribune. The result—these folks will be paying higher premiums.
RELATED: THE MANY DISRUPTED LIVES UNDER OBAMACARE
In Alabama, premiums have doubled for some middle class families like Courtney Long, a stay-at-home mother of four. She told WHNT News. “It’s devastating. I started crying,” said Long. “I mean, we have worked so hard to get out of credit card debt, get ahead on the car loan, transfer our mortgage to a 15 from a 30 year mortgage… and for what?”
In Tennessee, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) issued an analysis of a White House report and found the following:
— Today, a 27-year-old man in Memphis can buy a plan for as low as $41 a month. On the exchange, the lowest state average is $119 a month — a 190 percent increase.
— Today, a 27-year-old woman in Nashville can also buy a plan for as low as $58 a month. On the exchange, the lowest-priced plan in Nashville is $114 a month — a 97 percent increase. Even with a tax subsidy, that plan is $104 a month, almost twice what she could pay today.
— Today, women in Nashville can choose from 30 insurance plans that cost less than the administration says insurance plans on the exchange will cost, even with the new tax subsidy.
— In Nashville, 105 insurance plans offered today will not be available in the exchange.
RELATED: THE OBAMACARE ‘SHOTGUN WEDDING’—MARRY OR LOSE YOUR HOME
In Washington State, Obamacare will increase the underlying cost of individually purchased health insurance by 34-80 percent on average, according to Forbes. The list goes on and on and includes Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Georgia and North Carolina. But premiums are just the beginning. The deductibles are outrageous, too.
A piece in Saturday’s The New York Times tells the story of Doug and Ginger Chapman, ages 55 and 54, a middle class couple “sitting on the health care cliff.” Their annual income of around $100,000 a year makes them ineligible for a subsidy in New Hampshire (if they earned under $94,000, it would cut their costs by half). They have to replace their family insurance which includes the two of them and their two sons. The premium cost alone, not including any deductible is $1,000 a month, or 12 percent of their income.
The Times’ analysis found the following:
“The cost of premiums for people who just miss qualifying for subsidies rises rapidly for people in their 50s and 60s. In some places, prices can quickly approach 20 percent of a person’s income. Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent of annual income. By that measure, a 50-year-old making $50,000 a year, or just above the qualifying limit for assistance, would find the cheapest available plan to be unaffordable in more than 170 counties around the country, ranging from Anchorage to Jackson, Miss.”
RELATED: MILLENNIALS JUMP SHIP OVER OBAMACARE BAIT AND SWITCH
The other group that gets disproportionately hit is the young, according to Forbes. For a 40 year old, the 2013 average deductible was $4,045, and the cost increased 29 percent to $309. For a 64-year-old man, the cost of a plan with a $3,494 deductible increased 64 percent to $806.
The Real Impact of Obamacare is Yet to Come
If even a fraction of the middle class and upper middle income earners divert some of their discretionary dollars to pay for health care, it will have a significant impact on consumer spending. What will that mean for the economy? Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of the nation’s GDP, although experts say that number is likely to decline.
The top 20 percent of income earners account for about 40 percent of all spending in the U.S. When you increase the costs of health care and the new taxes associated with Obamacare, you can hear the wallets closing.
ANOTHER VACATION FOR DOING NOTHING ...
For most of the country, a holiday vacation includes a trip to grandma's house, questionable eggnog and keeping warm under a dusty, old Christmas sweater. But the Obamas are not "most of the country," and their holiday vacation is from a whole other world -- a warm, tropical and breezy world.
On Friday, the presidential family will take off on their sixth annual winter vacation to the Hawaiian island of Oahu and their accommodations are laid-back luxury.
While we can't cough up thousands of dollars a day as the Obamas do, we can surely admire (or obsess) over their tropical palace from afar. Below, feast your eyes on Obama's "winter White House" and other, similarly extravagant vacation rentals in Kailua -- the First Family's beach town of choice.
is now convicted of murder. This woman and her lies affected so many good people. Where is Al and Jessie now?
DURHAM, NC (WNCN) - Crystal Mangum, who falsely accused the Duke lacrosse team of rape, was found guilty Friday of murdering her former boyfriend.
She was accused of stabbing and killing Reginald Daye after an argument. Her defense attorney said she only "nicked" his colon.
Judge Paul Ridgeway instructed the courtroom that there would be no outbursts when the decision was announced.
Tears swelled in Mangum's eyes after the verdict, and she was handcuffed immediately.
The Durham Herald-Sun is reporting that Mangum will face up to 18 years in prison.
GREAT JOB JOHN........
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ..........JAKE
PAUL ......
IT WAS REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY ..EVERYTIME WE GET GOOD NEWS IT REVERSES ITSELF AFTER EVERYONE SAYS ITS GOING TO GO BALLISTIC SO I FIGURED I WOULD TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND THATS ALL I GOT TO EXPLAIN IT ...LETS WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS ON MONDAY OR TUESDAY BEFORE PASSING JUDGEMENT THO..........AFTER 21 YEARS HERE IM HOPING FOR THE BEST AS YOU ARE TOO ............GLTY JAKE
VOLUME SLOWING DOWN.
MY GUESS $1.15 CLOSE TODAY.....
The Hidden Flaw in the Obamacare Marketing Plan
The Fiscal Times
By Brianna Ehley, Eric Pianin 2 hours ago
If you had a new product to sell, and needed almost 70 percent of the universe of potential consumers to buy your product in order to be successful, would your investors want to know what you were smoking? Turns out, that’s the marketing plan of the President’s Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
Related: Obamacare’s $95 Bet on Millennials Buying Insurance
Emily Wright, a 28-year-old from Johnson City, Tenn., signed up for Obamacare one day after the faulty on-line exchange went live last month and is delighted with her decision. While she would like to think of herself as a “young invincible,” in fact she has asthma and may require pelvic surgery.
In contrast, a far more robust Shea Syverson, 26, of Fargo, N.D., decided he can’t afford insurance coverage on his cook’s salary and that it would be a lot cheaper to pay a penalty than to sign on.
Jonathan Smarjesse, 29, of Springfield, Ill. who spends his spare time hiking, surfing and cycling, is undecided about whether to sign up.
Asked if the uproar over the slew of technical problems besetting the HealthCare.gov website would be a factor in his decision, Smarjesse is dismissive: “That stuff doesn’t influence any of my decisions. It’s all math.”
The Obama administration must convince 2.7 million millennials like Wright, Syverson and Smarjesse to buy health insurance, or the new government exchanges could be a financial bust.
Since the Obamacare website had its technically nightmarish launch Oct. 1, insurers report that insurance buyers have been much older than expected, according to the Wall Street Journal. Without the right mix of young, healthy Americans and older, more infirmed people in the risk pool, insurers could suffer steep losses during the first full year of operation in 2014.
If that trend continues, the older, more expensive set of customers who are flocking to the website or contacting regional call centers in pursuit of subsidized coverage could drive up premiums for everyone.
“This was always a dicey situation and now it’s even dicier” for the Obama administration, said Bill Hoagland, a former vice president of giant Cigna Health Insurance, who suspects the administration will fall far short of its goals this year.
“I think the jury is still out,” he added, but the long term picture could be bleak unless signups by younger, healthier Americans picks up substantially.
Related: Will Millennials Opt Out Of Obamacare At Work?
Because these younger Americans are usually healthy and rarely rack up huge medical bills, their monthly premiums would make it cheaper for the exchanges to affordably insure 4.3 million other Americans. If you exclude millennials with children—who would likely face stiff medical bills—and those who can stay on their parents’ coverage, the number of “eligible” young adults for the exchanges drops to 4 million, according to research by McIntyre and Josh Fangmeier, a consultant for the Center for Healthcare Research & Transformation in Ann Arbor, MI.
A target group as low as 4 million means the Obama administration must convince 67.5 percent of them to buy insurance from an exchange.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius warned that the numbers to be released next week on the number of Americans who logged on to the website and enrolled for insurance will be “low” because of the technical problems. And insurance companies throughout the country are having far more difficulty recruiting millenials than older Americans, according to the Wall Street Journal.
One reason is that older Americans are more patient and willing to spend hours on the website or contacting call centers than younger Americans.
Related: Why Millennials Are Obamacare’s Last Hope
“Obviously, the exchange problems are the first gigantic barrier,” said Joseph Antos, a health care expert with the American Enterprise Institute. “And even though young people are far more adept at computer based applications, if the application doesn’t work, that doesn’t matter.”
Moreover, many in their late 20s and early 30s are struggling to find work and have concluded that paying their rent or eating out is more important now than buying insurance.
Finally, many are unfazed by having to pay a tax penalty to the government if they don’t sign up. The first-year penalty would be only $95 or 1 percent of household income. It’s also unclear whether the Internal Revenue Service would ever get around to assessing the penalties. The earliest the IRS could begin identifying scofflaws is the summer of 2015, after all the 2014 tax returns are processed.
“You have to be able to check who didn’t get insurance, which of course is a non-event, so there’s no documentation,” Antos said. “In other words, it is practically impossible [for the IRS] to identify those who didn’t buy insurance unless people want to volunteer. But only an idiot would volunteer that he owes you some money – and young people aren’t that stupid
Never thought we'd be dealing with delisting ever again for this stock...but we appear to be .....
REALLY ????? THEN YOU DON'T KNOW PPHM VERY WELL ..........
NOT REALLY STONEROAD ....
THEY HAVE DONE IT MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS ....WOULDN'T BE SUPRISED TO SEE IT BACK IN THE .80 TO .90 RANGE .......
WE HAVE BEEN HERE A LONG TIME MARK ...
IN IT TO THE END ......SAY A PRAYER FOR ME ...UNDERGOING SURGERY NEXT TUESDAY MORNING ........HOPE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE BEEN WELL .......JAKE
LEMMY.
A$$HOLE MODS DELETED MY POST ON P.O.S BOARD FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH .....AMAZING ...SEEMS IT'S NOT WHAT OR WHO YOU KNOW OVER THERE BUT WHO YOU BLOW ..........PEOPLE CAN POST ALL KINDS OF BULLSHIT BUT WHEN SOMEONE SPEAKS THE TRUTH THEY GET ALL OUT OF SORTS .........
LEMMY..........
ALL THE NEWBIES HAD THE POM-POMS WAVING AND PREDICTING ALL KINDS OF CRAZINESS ALL LAST WEEK THRU SUNDAY ....... THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW PPHM DOES THINGS BUT THEY WILL LEARN (IN TIME)..
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to totally build the failed Obamacare website.Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.Toni Townes ’85 is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998.George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal’s parent company, became an Obama 2012 campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.
A senior vice-president for the software company (CGI) that built the faultering government healthcare website, was a college classmate of The First Lady.
Apparently 4 bids were submitted and HHS only considered the CGI bid. No one apparently knows why only the CGI bid was considered.
(Sources: DailyCaller & Washington Examiner)
With hundreds of millions paid for the website, was it ever tested before rollout?
GET READY FOR IT ....
Four teens have been charged with capital murder after an 87-year-old WWII veteran died from injuries sustained during a brutal mugging.
The Delta Democrat Times reports that Lawrence E. Shine Thornton of Greenville, Miss., died two days after the October 18th mugging, allegedly at the hands of Terrance Morgan, 19; Edward Johnson,19; Leslie Litt, 18; and Geblonski Murray, 18.
Thornton was attacked in his own driveway, according to CNS News. The teens allegedly pushed him down on the ground and stole his wallet.
CNS News' Eric Scheiner described Thornton's life as "a story of hard work, overcoming adversity, belief in God and finding some success in doing something you love."
The Associated Press reports that the four individuals accused in Thornton's death are being held without bond. Each of the four suspects is also charged with robbery and conspiracy to commit robbery.
http://www.ddtonline.com/politics/article_d6e61565-d5ae-5a33-9fc7-c8ebd2849e23.html
THEY COULD HAVE BEEN OBONGOS SONS ......WILL AL AND JESSE SHOW UP TO PROTEST THEIR ARREST ???
DJOHN......
IT WAS TCLN.............
IFU....
I DIDN'T MISS THAT PREDICTION BY MUCH ...IT TOOK 3 WEEKS INSTEAD OF ONE ............
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http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=PPHM&a=04&b=29&c=2013&d=05&e=30&f=2013&g=d
SO WAS I GWEN .........
I'M IN MY 21ST YEAR AND WILL GO TO THE GRAVE WITH IT ...
MY HEIRS WILL REAPS ANY REWARDS FROM IT ..........
THANKS MARK .
I CAN TELL YOU THAT IT FELT A LOT BETTER ON MY 16TH BIRTHDAY THO ....LOL
THANK YOU SWEETHEART........
PPHM DOES KNOW HOW TO RUIN A BIRTHDAY .......LOL