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POPSWhy Americans Are Shunning Hollywood’s Wares
aside to make movies that embody traditional values, it often scores big with the public. Consider 2004’s Spider-Man 2, a sequel far better than the original. The movie is a fable about duty and heroism. The movie resonated powerfully with the public, grossing a whopping $374 million domestically, and it took in another $400 million or so overseas. Factor in DVD sales, and you’re getting close to a billion-dollar movie. The Incredibles affectionately embraces the bourgeois family, flaws and all. The Parrs have their difficulties: teenager Violet is sullen, the kids fight, Mom and Dad bicker, Bob hates his drab insurance job, but for the Parr kids, the family bond is all-important. Pixar’s 2003 runaway winner Finding Nemo, the movie shows children “what adults are supposed to do,” writes author Frederica Mathewes-Green on National Review Online—“to be brave and self-sacrificing, to defend children even at risk to themselves, to give, even in the face of ingratitude.”
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POPSPoseur Shareholders ExxonMobil Annual Shareholder Meeting "By bona fide shareholders, I mean those shareholders who have invested in ExxonMobil for the time-honored and socially responsible purpose of making money while providing society with the vital good and services that it needs. We see ExxonMobil as a company with a track record of true social responsibility that few institutions whether public or private can match. "Not only is ExxonMobil perhaps the most profitable business venture in the history of capitalism, but the company helps provide society with its lifeblood, petroleum products. ExxonMobil employs more than 80,000 people and earns and returns billions of dollars to millions of investors every year. "In the last five years ExxonMobil's share price has soared from below $40/share to above $90/share. In these uncertain economic times, what's not to like Yet some shareholders like many of those who will follow me today see this success as a scourge that they intend to exploit for their own dubious social and political ends.
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POPSNIU shooter A Green Bay, Wis.-based Internet gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter last year said he also sold handgun accessories to Kazmierczak. "I'm still blown away by the coincidences," Eric Thompson said. "I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this." Thompson's Web site, http://www.topglock.com, sold two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster to Kazmierczak on Feb. 4., though he had no idea whether they were used in Thursday's rampage. Thompson said his site did not sell Kazmierczak any bullets or guns.
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POPSGW sceptic: Kenneth Green at Fraser Institute and AEI Climate Controversy and AEI: Facts and Fictions You can follow the link to PDF named "PDF version of the Guardian story and AEI's February 2 responce" on the page. On the page 9 of the PDF, there's an article of the author, Kenneth Green. There are a couple of what is noteworthy; 1) Kenneth Green is said to be a global warming sceptic, and 2) He'd worked at Fraser Institute, whose latest work named "Independent Summary for Policymaker", written by Ross McKittrick, also a global warming sceptic, was criticised by scientists at realclimate, due to dismissing the scientific ground. Since he'd come from the same think tank, his research could be politicised more or less.
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POPSWhose Land For Peace? "Read the full report here. This means that the land that illegal Israeli settlements are built on were directly confiscated from private Palestinian landowners. Of course, all of the land across the "green line" that demarcated Israel's borders in 1967 is occupied territory and it is illegal, under international law, for Israeli citizens or the Israeli government to build anywhere on it."
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