Slog - Comments on Re: Ken Hutcherson Specifies His Threat to Microsoft http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t Life on the campaign trial has left me a bit behind on my Prayer Warrior chronicling, so I'm grateful that Dave was able to bring you the news of Pastor Ken Hutcherson's plan to use the U.S. stock market to Christian-fundamentalist advantage. I just want to add that this idea is not new—in fact, it's been a dream of Hutcherson's for nearly two years to bring Microsoft to its knees via some sort of well-financed hostile takeover of a large number of the company's shares. Back in 2006, Hutcherson was pushing a kind of Evangelical pump-and-dump scheme, in which Christians... Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:30:10 -0800 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:27:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by stan Jebus, what IS it with religion and assholes?

]]> stan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892620 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892620 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:46:14 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Since we're heading into a recession, I don't see even Microsoft stock going up over the short term.

So, these people will be the second dumbest class of investors in history.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892677 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892677 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:01:23 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity (formerly SDA in SEA) What? Eli, are you suggesting that the good Rev., Dr., Special Envoy of the White House Hutcherson is in this for financial gain?

I'm shocked!

Shocked I tell you!

]]> Reverse Polarity (formerly SDA in SEA) http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892755 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892755 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:31:12 -0800 Comment by COMTE Um yeah, right Hutch, nice scam. MS has something on the order of 10 billion (with a "B") shares of common stock issued, or about $342 B in share assets at current market rate. Bill Gates personally owns approximately 10% of all the outstanding shares currently issued.

So, by even the most generous of estimates Hutch is going to need something on the order of $3.2 B in share assets (say 1% of the total) to get a seat at the folding card table in the kitchen with the other minor-league Microsoft shareholders, and probably even more than that to negatively affecting the stock price.

That's one Hell of a lot of stock-tithing, even for a congregation as big as his.

So yeah, lotsa luck with that, loser.

On the other hand, who WOULDN'T want to have a few hundred thou of MSFT sitting in their back pocket? Yeah, maybe Hutch isn't such a dummy after all. Any members of his credulous congregation who actually follow through on this scam, however, are a different matter entirely.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892771 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892771 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:37:48 -0800 Comment by Geni Dear Jesus: The moneylenders seem to be using the temple again. Could you throw them out like you did last time?

kthxbai!

]]> Geni http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892776 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892776 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:39:13 -0800 Comment by monkey Asshatery on the grandest scale of asshaterists everywhere.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892778 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:40:10 -0800 Comment by Gitai For fuck's sake. He can't even have the good grace to lie about it?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c892981 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 12:45:31 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Why can't he protest by wiping Vista and XP off his Church's computers and installing a good, Christian operating system?

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c893158 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c893158 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 13:44:17 -0800 Comment by gilnaldo Dear Reverand H.

I am a poor Latino and I have some really angry people after me... behind my cause. Please send me 20 thousands shares of MSFT stock so I can upgrade my lifestyle, ahh, my behavior.

I agree with you, there is nothing like loving the lord when you're a rich asshole... doh, dumbship(sic) with an audiance... congregation.

Question: If the Lord is so smart, how in the world do we explain YOU??

]]> gilnaldo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c893821 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c893821 Life Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:08:47 -0800 Comment by The Gay Curmudgeon Hutcherson promised a press release and a web site would be released yesterday.


Finally it has turned up on their website: http://www.agnfinancial.org

Seems that the Business Wire wouldn't publish it because of the content.

Get ready for terrible grammar and delusions of grandeur...

~GC

]]> The Gay Curmudgeon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c894643 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/01/re_ken_hutcherson_specifies_his_threat_t#c894643 Life Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:27:09 -0800