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you too, I"ll enjoy the turkey despite the fact the PBLS goose was over-cooked (along with the books) for quite some time now.
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Is PA, CA, RB, etc in prison yet? Or maybe as a Christmas present I can wake up and find them all behind bars?
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X-Man,
Still at it? Looking through the list of recent posters is kind of like seeing Kansas perform again, almost a reunion tour. I'm still waiting to see when one of the rats gets behind bars. My only interest at this stage.
Keep up the good work
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Time for the fork I'm afraid. This company can get nothing going. I'm down to 3000 shares left on the table for sentimental reasons only. Years from now, maybe they'll be worth more than a lesson in trading.
Auf Wiedersehen. For those of you still believing in this stock, GLTA.
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Up or down? Wishing up, expecting down.
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1 cent with the reverse split maybe, but hey, I'd be happy if they could puff up this deflated clown punching bag of a company long enough to sell at a penny.
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Whirl,
Great news. Hopefully the net is tightening around the swamp boys. Can't wait to hear they're in the big house.
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Let's hope! eom.
One of the other problems of corporate personhood can be seen here with bankruptcy (But believe me, i hope PA and CA are haunted to the end of their days for what they did here. It's all the other honest folks that I feel sorry for.)
Corporations can go bankrupt, and a paper entity disappears. They don't have reputations, credit issues that haunt them for years, like people do. The owners just set up under new names, new brands, marketing allows the hiding of their past aggregious behavion since they can hide behind the new Corporate Person they create next (think AIG). Real people don't have an entity to hide behind when they go belly up. No marketing firm to restore their good name or pretend they have a good name.
In general, corporate "People" have it far better than people "people" in the US courts. I think people should demand equal rights like corporations have...
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good move in my opinion. you have to go back to 10/1/09 to see a pr that isn't financial statements or officer changes. And that was only a material agreement for consulting. If the company can't get traction now, let's face it, it's nearly hopeless. I'm keeping a few shares on the table from prior trading to ride free, but not expecting anything from them in the future. Bye all.
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i still have mine, I'll probably take my losses this year as so far it's a better year for me already.
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Happy new Year X Man.
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Gee, I even felt bad initially about including the dog in my letter to Santa, as I'm hoping that when PBLS went to the dogs, Maggie wasn't calling the shots. Though Maggie did have a spot in that video they produced...
To all a happy holiday, yes, even to our Uncle Paul A.
Dear Santa,
Please, all I want for Christmas is to see Paul A, Carolyn A, and Ron B given each a pair of handcuffs and a new big house to live in, forever and forever.
And if Maggie Mae was in any way culpable as well, please chain her to the back of a speeding semi.
Merry Christmas.
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Warm wishes for a holiday in he!!.
Well, it is the season to believe in miracles, but some things are even beyond the reach of miracles. Phoenix rising from the ashes is one of them. Nor does it deserve to come back in any form. Best to leave the ashes where they lie, rake the coals, be sure the fire is out, so that this sort of rape and pillage won't happen again.
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Which makes these swamp gas crooks even worse. Xylan, thanks for posting these revelations regarding their behavior, and as always, I'm waiting for the "taken away in handcuffs" picture. I hope the courts strip them of every last dollar as well as their freedom.
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USC,
Don't burn those shares. I'd suggest that if P & C get thrown in the slammer (my ardent hope), you mail a share to them each and every day as a little reminder of how much we appreciate what they did to us and to the "company" they "managed".
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I'm not exactly bullish on this stock these days, but I did notice this statement in a recent PR by Exide, who at least formerly had a relationship or planned relationship with LTHU. The PR is in regard to Exide expanding in the renewable energy / large storage arena, with a focus on Lithium Ion batteries. The items listed in the PR are in LTHU's sweetspot though they are not named in the PR:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Exide-Technologies-Launches-pz-1729774945.html?x=0&.v=2
"In addition to leading the new division, Reinert serves as Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development, with responsibility for evaluating product expansion and identifying potential merger and acquisition opportunities."
I think one of the only ways LTHU can actually become a player is to merge or be acquired by a company that has the ability to market their batteries, as LTHU has proven to be incapable of bringing their technology forward thus far. Maybe we'll get lucky and a player such as this will merge / acquire them, though I don't think my first choice would be Exide with their past history. The earlier PRs (sorry, long ago, no longer have any links) is what drew me to LTHU in the first place as I figured Exide's international presence would be a great boon to LTHU in terms of marketing, perhaps assistance in the production capabilities. That never came to pass. Does the PR signal the potential for renewed hope?
Pure wishful thinking on my part, though not out of line via past PRs related to LTHU and Exide. One would think LTHU is at least on the Exide radar for that reason.
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"They will get theirs"
True, it just stinks that they got ours first. I never thought at the start that I'd be more excited now by bankruptcy court documents than PRs.
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Yay! Not good for my account but it is good for my soul to read such findings. Thanks Xylan. May there be more news like this.
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The latest 8k
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/091001/lthu.pk8-k.html
"After the issuances of the foregoing shares, the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding will be 1,803,839,699."
The last line of course will be a big drag on this stock going forward. IMHO the rapid swings in price are gone - it's tough to move 1.8 billion in shares up or down, though down tends to be easier. Or the dreaded R/S. Either way, I think we hit our high for a while.
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Thanks X man. Things do squirm in the light, don't they?
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I'd be happy with break even on the commission cost at this point!
You and me both. I've got one penny still fighting for life (I learned my lesson from PBLS, cashed out when it had a run and I'm sitting on a modicum of free shares right now). If it runs, great, if not, c'est la vie, I've already made money on it. It's the only way to gamble down here in penny land - lock in any gain you can get, let some shares ride free or die. Don't look back.
Learned that too late to save my losses here. But this stock has provided more amusement (and grief) than any sitcom, movie, or theatrical drama I've ever seen.
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Since Paul A was so gullible regarding his business "partners", maybe he'll get sucked into this P&D, forget he's in Chapter 7, and start buying back shares again, causing a run-up past .01! PBLS to da moon! Cradfest 2010 here we come! Komma komma Komma Komexian!
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Doc,
As always, thanks for sharing. Informative.
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It is curious. And it makes little sense. But as the old folk singer Carl Martin used to say, ya better get it while you can.
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We need a little icon of a man behind bars on the PBLS signature bar ....
No good news to report. I'm working on getting rid of shares for tax purposes. I'm a little lower than your 5 cents offering though. I can throw in some other ill fated penny stock shares as well if that will sweeten the pot - each one of them with the legs of a 102 year-old former marathoner recently run over by a bus and knocked off a cliff to the rocks below where his lower extremities were chewed upon by sharks.
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If Michael Vick can make a comeback, maybe there's hope for PBLS after all? Ahhh, no.
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now that PBLS has doubled in price today (on 100 shares trading), I only need a few more days like this to break even. Come on, someone buy a 100 shares at .0004!
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ammended year-end 08 financials -
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/090826/lthu.pk10-k_a.html
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Doc,
I agree on the technology. But the 3 billion share count, their lack of marketing, and a suspect production capability pushed me over the edge. I sold all but a small portion when it ran up to ten cents the last time. I read the other board and a poster mentioned how LTHU won the designline contract by designing a battery to meet their needs. That's great for small deals, but for the company to be a major player, the cost of designing and supplying batteries for each customer is prohibitive. They need to mass produce a battery for a solid contract, otherwise they will stay a specialty niche supplier.
I hope this pans out for you, if it does, I should make a modest amount as well. So here's hoping Theo can get things moving for both of us.
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Thanks for the offer. I've been hoping to get out there again -still have some friends in town as well. I'll just hop in Roach's car as he heads West! Football - thank goodness I had the Steelers to fall back on, as when I was at NU they had the record for consecutive losses - the punter was averaging minus yards going into the fifth or sixth game of the season one year. I actually saw the QB hand off to a defensive lineman and then just stand and watch the guy run into the end zone. The only thing missing was Adam Sandler.
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goes to show you that a college education can't solve the world's ills, as much as we'd like to think. It helps, but wishful thinking, a host of emotions good and bad, can trump knowledge and wisdom at the drop of a hat (not that I claim to having either knowledge or wisdom - certainly my investing doesn't prove that). There's all kinds of education, college is just one, and oftentimes, not the best education a person gets in their life. Certainly PBLS taught me a great deal. I'm just glad my bill was less than NU.
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I used to love Lincoln Park when I went to college in Evanston. Shame to hear it went to seed. Sam's Ligquors (when it was in that old grungy hobo infested buidling, I think near Clark st) was a fun place as well. I love Chicago.
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Chicago is where the dead can vote, both early and often, so anything is possible. I just hope Roethlisberger's TV doesn't go on the fritz at the hotel.
On a pbls note, my only interest now is hoping to see someone post an arrest warrant...now that would be like Pittsburgh winning the Superbowl for the 7th time.
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SSC,
Yes, agreed, his results in HTRE prove to be nothing, and for investors, worse, as he helped fuel false hope. My term "somewhat competent" in relation to the other HTRE management was based more on the fact he's at least accomplished some things in his lifetime and seemed at least to possess a business sense in the early stages. Believe me, I'm no fan of him, as you pointed out, the communications made were misleading at best, all sound and no substance in the end. Little difficult to understand why a yahoo poster would get excited about something Edelson is up to, unless Edelson has turned into Victor Frankenstein and is now obsessed with reanimating coporate corpses. But we know how that all turned out.
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If Edelson was capable of pulling off a celebrity deal, a) it's a bit late, b) he'd be nuts to do it in the context of HTRE. Better to take his gaming expertise and move elsewhere. He was the one somewhat competent member of HTRE management - he'd have to have had a lobotomy to do anything under the HTRE umbrella at this point.
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not too big a surprise as govts tend to feed tax dollars to the big hitters with influence, coupled with LTHU's long inability to market themselves effectively or stand up meaningful production lines.
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