codyg1985’s Think Tank

According to this Daily Mountain Eagle article, the Jasper City Council has pledged $1 million in incentives to attract an undisclosed company to build a manufacturing plant in northwest Alabama. The plant could employ at least 1000 people. The site being considered is not very far outside Walker County. The following quote […]

Two students from Daytona Beach Community College have filed a class-action lawsuit against Follett Higher Education Group and the college itself for $5 million for overcharging students on used textbooks and under compensating students when buying books back.
Needless to say, if this lawsuit goes through it will affect many colleges and the students therein nationwide […]

Firstly, sorry for not updating this blog in fifteen days.  I have been dealing with some personal issues lately, and I have not been in a mood to write about anything other than those personal issues, which I would like to keep this particular blog free of.
However, I do feel about writing about the recent […]

eBay is set to unveil AdContext, a keyword-based advertising engine that will compete with Google and Yahoo. The ads will contain links to auctions that are related by keyword to whatever page that ad appears on.
Examples cited of how the new system would work included a sports website that would carry links to eBay […]

You wonder why I am not surprised by this? The National Security Agency (NSA), who was revealed to have been purchasing phone records of innocent Americans, is now funding research for a new front on the ever-increasing reach of the U.S. government. That new front is the many social networking websites such as […]

As the 2006 hurricane season begins, there is sobering news about Katrina-stricken New Orleans: parts of the city are sinking faster than previously thought:
The research, being published Thursday in the journal Nature, is based on new satellite radar data for the three years before Katrina struck in 2005. The data show that some areas are […]

My friend Sunny Yeung has passed this along to me about the guilty verdict handed down by a Houston jury to Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling of Enron. Ken Lay was found guilty of one count of conspiracy, two counts of wire fraud, and three counts of securities fraud. Jeff Skilling was […]

A student found a roll of quarters inside a laundry room coin box laced with a white powder in a University of Texas dormatory. Initial tests concluded that the powder was ricin, but subsequent tests did not detect the poision. No one has been exposed to the poison.
Thank goodness everyone is okay.

After Google failed to meet its profit projections, its stock traded down on Wednesday by as much as 19 percent at one point. The loss has stabilized to 10 percent, or at $395 per share.
The lower profits are attributed to a 11 percent higher tax rate for the Q4 2005.

Almost four months after General Motors announced that it was slashing 50,000 jobs, Ford Motor Company announces that it will be cutting 30,000 jobs and closing 14 maunfacturing plants over the next six years.
We are witnessing the end of the era of quality American-made cars as I type this.