Jim, I appreciate your posts, and your enthusiasm- but just for the record, I don't think that the fellow whose opinions you're challenging is a basher, paid or not. He has been posting on the Yahoo thread for many months, under the same alias, and expressing the very same ideas. So his thoughts, whether you or I agree with them or not, preceded the uptick in price per share.
So I don't think a conspiracy is afoot, at least not yet.