AP) Pastor Urges Microsoft Stock Buy-And-Dump

[Judi Lynn]

AP) Pastor Urges Microsoft Stock Buy-And-Dump
Jan 25 2006

By RACHEL LA CORTE
Associated Press Writer

OLYMPIA, Wash.

A pastor who threatened a national boycott against Microsoft and other major corporations for supporting a gay rights bill urged people Tuesday to buy up the companies' stock and dump it to drive prices down.

Rev. Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, said the stock-dumping plan had been his strategy all along.

"You got to find out how you affect a company," Hutcherson said, conceding that it would be hard to get people to shun products from companies that dominate the marketplace as Microsoft and Boeing do.

He wants supporters to buy one or two shares over the next few months, then sell them May 1.
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http://www.townhall.com/news/ap/online/headlines/D8F65OAG0.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. A simple boycott of personal computers might be enough, hey?

[mitchum]

14. But what would all the warriors of the chickenhawk typing brigade...

wield then?

[Zenlitened]

2. Economic terrorism. Gitmo the holy man.

[0rganism]

27. If EFF or EPIC were advocating a stock dump, it'd be Gitmo for sure

However, these are bush-supporting mullahs delivering an economic fatwah against tolerance of homosexuals, so it's okay.

[Zenlitened]

30. Yup. Exactly. Christian, Muslim, whatever. These religionist freaks...

... are all the same.

Filth, every last one of them. :grr:

[AnnieBW]

3. Hmmm...

As much as I hate to support Micro$oft, I might just set my Sharebuilder account to buy M$ stock on May 1. Just to piss off the Fundies.

[flamingyouth]

4. ROFL

Good luck with that. :eyes:

[elehhhhna]

5. Duh. So they rich short the stock and make a killing.

You can't pull this off if it's known that you're doing it...

[GodlessBiker]

32. Forget the rich, I might buy a thousand shares short.

[Fenris]

6. Well, let's see...

Can't use Apple OS because Steve Jobs is a dirty Satan-loving Democrat.

Can't use Linux because Linus Torvalds is a furrener (from one of those buttsex loving Commie Scandinavian countries).

Hmmm...I wonder what fundies will use. :D

[AlCzervik]

7. and you know they need to access their porn, i know they like to keep

that part of their lives secret but i can't imagine these people actually doing this asshats bidding.

[pokercat999]

19. the latest in fundie computing devices...pencil and paper

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

8. Funniest thing I've read all day.

Thanks for the laugh.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[sarcasmo]

9. I think Corporate Terrorism is the right term. These Religious zealots

drive me up the wall. I have told my wife that I will not go to church with her because of all the stupidity. FYI, she is a Christian that doesn't understand why all of her right wing nuts get all of the attention.

[salin]

10. Buy high, and sell low

that'll teach em. :crazy:

[Justitia]

11. Buy ONE or TWO shares???? hahahaha - moron

Obviously knows nothing about actually buying stocks.

Pray tell Good Reverend, how does one of your non-brokered flock go about buying a single share of stock?? (I know how to do it, but only an idiot would bother).

I'm sure that a share here and there will REALLY TEACH MS A LESSON!

"As of September 9, 2005, there were 10,659,471,791 shares of Microsoft common stock outstanding."

What a dipshit.

[Zynx]

23. Even if 5 million people did that it would have no impact.

Microsoft trades tens of millions of shares a day.

[knight_of_the_star]

12. Perfect

I'll send a thank-you note informing him he just helped a bunch of pagans make money ;).

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

13. HA!!!HA!!!

:rofl:

[Trillo]

15. Good title: Pastor's doing a little pumping. nt

[VegasWolf]

16. Exactly how stupid are these religious nutcases anyway!?

[Geo55]

18. How stupid is a rock ?......next level down

[madeline_con]

26. If you've ever read the Bible...

the "vastness of the deep" in Genesis doesn't begin to illustrate how stupid they are.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

17. This is a black pastor I once saw interviewed

I saw him interviewed on BET I think it was. The interviewer kept saying, "Hmmmmm...", as he was not very convinced. I think this guy is getting his palms greased big time by the GOP, not to mention he's getting that nice cushy nest egg called, "faith-based $."

[anotherdrew]

20. WHY IS THIS NEWS? who cares what this prick has to say?

why must these right-wing religious fanatics be given so much attention? They would be accomplishing precisely jack and shit if they got the minimal news media attention they deserve.

[EndElectoral]

21. One or Two shares...what an idiot...at least brokers will be happy....

[applegrove]

22. I think neocons are trying to destroy microsoft. Cause it is too soft.

They don't like the corporations that are transparent and real and try and make the world a better place. Kinda like going into Iraq and taking out all the oil. Or banning beef & softwood from Canada and then going in and buying up cattle or lumber mills at rockbottom prices. Perhaps Halliburton or some such entity already has it in mind to be the microsoft for the religious of the world. And all they have to do it attack Bill Gates enough - and 1/2 those profits are theirs.

[yorkiemommie1]

24. okaaaay.... i'm going to call my brother the stockbroker

and tell him i want to buy one share of microsoft and listen while his head explodes.

[rpannier]

25. Since Microsft has over 10 BILLION shares it would take a lot of people to

make a dent.
Plus, since we all now know about it, they will be bought up immediately. I guess he forgot that Capitalists only care about the bottom line.

[JI7]

28. idiot

[f-bush]

29. Hutch has his head up his ass...

not to mention that he is an economic terrorist and should be in prison!

[stepnw1f]

33. Please Explain What you Mean By Terrorist

Because by your logic and from what I have read, the whole GOP could be easily called the same thing.

[f-bush]

34. The Bush Administration uses this term quite loosely

people now a days who are disruptive of the political process, or use civil law suits, or boycotts to piss off the "powers to be" can be charged with stuff like "domestic" terrorism or
"civil" terrorism or "economic" terrorism so the powers to be can shut them, put them away and send a chill to the rest of the dissenter.

Bout time we turned that around on them.

[Ilsa]

Unless this chruch has about ten thousand members,

then I suspect they don't have enough economic muscle to make a differencecompared to the institutional investors. I hope they do it and pay outrageous brokerage fees in the process. If the members are poorer from losing money on stock deals, maybe this hateful man will go out of business.

[sendero]

31. Let me get this straight..

.... you BUY a share or two, then you SELL it. Exactly how is this supposed to affect the market?

[depakid]

35. I'm sure Gates is quaking in his boots.... n/t