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Mikeward v8.0 is the personal website for Mike Ward, the former east coast, now midwest, computer geek/naval officer. It is a place for me to document my random thoughts, ideas, travel tips, sea stories etc... a place for pics of the places I've been and the things I have seen... pretty much what makes me happy. Feel free to read and share...


Archive for the 'headlines' Category

Well that will bring in business…

Friday, December 19th, 2008

From the local newspaper:
Dayton stimulus request includes prostitution plan
Couldn’t they just put in a few McDonalds, or maybe a Starbucks?
Actually the story is about ridding the city of prostitution but its hard to tell based solely on the headline.

Released to where?

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Headline in the Dayton Daily News RSS Feed today:
“Man fatally shot by Dayton officer was released from Twin Valley”
Which begs the question, where does a fatally shot man go?

Seven words, not the dirty ones….

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

‘George Carlin died Sunday of heart failure’
Not everyone’s favorite comic, but he made me remember, he made me think, and he made me laugh. From his Catholic school stories, to Al Sleet (the Hippy Dippy Weatherman), to the meaning of words and how people use them, he always had a passion for what he said [...]

Only the French…

Friday, March 7th, 2008

I don’t write this stuff. I found this one on Reuters.
Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die
“BORDEAUX, France (Reuters) – The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.
It added: “Offenders will be [...]

Maybe not the best way…

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

My wife and I were home for lunch and caught a news story about a candlelight vigil that was held for five people who lost there life in a duplex fire. In and of itself, not a remarkable event, but my wife pointed out something I had missed. She turned to me and said:
“Don’t you [...]

How’s that gonna help!?

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

Another headline, this time from Kansas City, Mo:
“Books burned to protest reading decline”
Maybe if there are less books the decline in reading won’t look so bad. Things that make you go hmmm.

Who thinks up these headlines?

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

 
“No ruling yet on cause of death in Friday police shooting”
That is an actual Dayton Daily News headline today for a story about the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office and a recent local incident.
Now, I am no coroner, but I am guessing the cause of death in the shooting was bullets.

Danger in the skies…

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I didn’t make this up
Flatulence Forces Plane to Land

Oh yeah, well take that….

Friday, September 15th, 2006

In the headlines:
Police Shoot Student in St. Louis Suburb
ST. LOUIS — Police shot and wounded a student at a suburban school Wednesday after he pointed a gun at himself…

Headlines – Darwin 3, Dumbass 1

Monday, August 21st, 2006

Or maybe it should be Dumbasses 4.