New Social Networking Platforms for 2020

Here's a quick post of some new Social Networking platforms that I am using to have my political views seen. I also have this Blog, although it's like a dinosaur, but believe it or not, gets attention from certain local "Political Groups" enough to complain to google. It's called the 1st Amendment. You know, the one that you want to take away from republicans or any conservatives people? 

Here are the un biased platforms.

https://parler.com

https://www.podomatic.com

https://orbys.net

Look for "Franny Ward" on them and friend request me. 

Social Media Timeline

Well I do. And it seems that because of the explosion of "Social Media" sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, the blogs like this one have pretty much gone by the wayside. I started this blog a few years after I hosted and ran a website called Totally Delco around 2003. The website, for all it was worth, was just a bunch of links to local businesses, and some local government links.

I soon started posting to and linking on my site on Live Journal with a Blog called "Living In Delco", to complement it. Bring alcohol and politics into the picture, and trouble soon began. I remember having whole threads deleted by someone who hacked into my admin account. And having my whole website shut down because of some asshole troll who went by the name of "Michael Crook" sending myself and my web host a DMCA notice that I was using his picture without his permission (He lost and got made an ass out of himself).

There was the interview with Alex Rose, of the Delaware County Daily Times, about my website, myself explaining to him that I started it because I couldn't find as furniture store locally to buy a mattress.Now in 2019, this blog and my website are hard to find on Google. I googled "I Live In Delaware County" and where I used to be number one out of hundreds of thousands, now non existent.

Facebook is the new norm for people my age and  thirty years older and younger, while the really young ones post on Twitter and Snapchat. 

So with all that I'm leaving some links to various blogs and web sites that I had a hand in starting, promoting, and running over the years. 

Totally Delco 

Living In Delco - Live Journal

I Live In Delaware County - Blogger <--- a="" site="" this=""> 

I Live In Delaware County - Word Press

I Live In Delaware County - Facebook 

Cheers.

Election Day In Delaware County 2018

Election Day this year is this Tuesday, November 6th. Here in Delaware County. Here is the list of candidates on the ballot as of November 5th, 2018. Republican - 

 SCOTT WAGNER - GOVERNOR 
 JEFF BARTOS - LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR 
 LOU BARLETTA - UNITED STATES SENATE
 PEARL KIM - CONGRESS 
 TOM MCGARRIGLE - PA SENATE 
 RUTH MOTON STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 159 
 STEPHEN BARRAR STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 160
 PATTI RODGERS MORRISETTE STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 161 
 INDER BAINES STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 164 
 ALEX CHARLTON STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 165
 BALTAZAR RUBIO STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 166 
 CHRIS QUINN STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 168 
JAMES SANTORA - STATE REPRESENTATIVE - DISTRICT 163

Stopping The Madness

After the most recent horrific school shooting in Florida, it seems that everyone has an answer as what to do to keep something like it from happening again. This columnist, a former resident of Springfield, has the same old answer. More restrictions.

But Her's are what I would consider to be a direct "assault" on our constitutional rights. In the article, Ms Shaffer wants all gun owners to have a "Gun License", to purchase guns, ammo, even accessories. Her reasoning is, if someone buys a large amount of ammunition in a short time, a "red flag" would come up, alerting the authorities. That alone is an invasion of privacy. Imagine getting into your car, and detectors go off, alerting the "authorities" that you have been drinking. Not enough to be legally intoxicated, but enough for a "red flag" to go up.

And all this information was fed into databases, then shared with others. Next thing your insurance company drops you, your health care provider demands you go to an alcohol rehabilitation, and your neighbors find out. I know, seriously far fetched, right?  Well, actually, Ms. Shaffer's ideas are quite in line, only with guns, not booze.

Madness indeed.

 Leisha Shaffer's piece. Click Here.

Blizzard of 2016

Just wanted to thank my Neighbor, Nick for helping me clear off the back driveway & our common front walkway. It was sad to hear that an 88 year old Man died from a heart attack after shoveling his own driveway yesterday. Was he offered help? Probably not. Younger people move in to a neighborhood, and automatically assume that their elderly neighbor is a mean person, unfeeling, uncaring. when in reality, the elderly have much to tell, and are lonely. So get out there and say hello to them.

I also want to thank Mayor Tom Micozzie, The Upper Darby Police Department, The Upper Darby Fire Department, Delco EMT Corps, as well as Ed Truitt and the County of Delaware for their no nonsense handling of this storm.



 Cheers.

Doing The Right Thing

A good read in the Daily Times, our County Council members are holding money earmarked to Harrisburg. Our Governor, Tom Wolf, refuses to negotiate with the Republican controlled Legislature. As a lifelong Delconian, I am pleased to see our County Council Members care about us. Make no bones about it. If the Democrats gain control? Watch Delco wind up like Philadelphia. Full of corruption and wasteful spending.


Come to think of it, locally here in Upper Darby, Democrat voter registration is on the rise. Why? It's called a change in the demographic base. To me people who are "Democrats" expect everything to be free. They, for the most part, feel that they are "entitled" to food stamps, free housing, healthcare, you name it. and don't even get me started about "Section 8". It was the downfall of this once great Township.

Cheers.

The Great Flood of Upper Darby

On Facebook, we have a group called "Growing up in Upper Darby", where members post entries about how it was to grow up there. In my case, I grew up in the Stonehurst section, on Walnut Park Drive. At the bottom of my street, there is Cobbs Creek Park, and where Naylor's Run Creek emptied into Cobbs Creek.

Naylor's Run was diverted underground in a drainage tunnel back before I was born, As a result, from time to time, Cobbs Creek would back up and the result was the below video.

There is no viable means to stop this from happening again in my book, unless they install flood gates at the tunnel entrance at Beverly Blvd.

The Upper Darby Project

Hopefully they will do another "Project" soon.

Social Media, Driving, and Irradiating Yourself

I've been away now from Blogging for quite sometime. I remember when I couldn't get away from the computer, my wife always complaining that it was "Interfering in our Marriage". Since then, we both opened up Facebook accounts, and that is where both of us spend our time.

Fact is, just about everybody is on their "Smart Phones" or tablets.Just take a look around like I did over the weekend. Driving to my favorite "Convenience Store", I spotted no less than seven drivers glued to their phones, five of them women, and four of them actually while driving.

And to think of the EMF that we all our being exposed to.What our CHILDREN and GRANDCHILDREN are.

At home, I still have my DELL Computer hardwired to our "Wireless" router, Spewing out EMF in the form of waves in the  2.4 GHz, 3.6 GHz, 4.9 GHz, 5 GHz, and 5.9 GHz 6 60 GHz  900 MHz Ranges.  Add to that, all of those "Cell Towers", many disguised as "Trees" or placed inside Church steeples, and you have a plethora of radiation that does who knows what to our bodies. I'm wondering if this Spring I'll see the Honey Bees out and about. 

Hopefully we will see.

Cheers.

Mike Has A Sense of Humor

Impressive Fact: almost half the population of Hong Kong lives in an apartment that is on the 15th floor or higher. Lot of high rises !!!!
— Michael J. Chitwood (@ChiefMChitwood) March 20, 2015

Doing It Up In Delaware County

I just had to post the picture below. It was taken tonight on Delmar Rd, where we used to live in the early 90's.  Accross the street was the Bazzar, a place where one could spend all day buying all kinds of things, from a shotgun to a guitar, windows, bluejeans, jewrly, get a haircut, buy a puppy, you name it. Sadly, it was torn down in December of 1993.

Cheers..

Media Mike vs Gambols

Enough said..

The Future of the Delaware County GOP

With the May Primary fast approaching, I am curious to see how our local Republican candidates fare. The Republican candidates are as follows:

For Governor:
Samuel E. Rohrer
Tom Corbett

For Lieutanant Governor:
Steve Johnson
Jean Craige Pepper
Russ Diamond
Chet Beiler
Stephen A. Urban
Daryl Metcalfe
John Kennedy
Billy McCue

United States Senator:
Pat Toomey
K. Peg Luksik

US Representative; (District 7)
Patrick Meehan

State Representative; (District 163)
Nicholas A. Micozzie

Corbett, Toomey, Meehan, and Micozzie I can relate to and am voting for. As far as the Democrats, who knows and who cares? If the Democrats gain control of Delaware County, specifically Upper Darby, you can bet that the township will be annexed into the City of Philadelphia. Don't believe me? Well look it up. The city has swallowed townships like Northern Liberties, Bristol Township, Roxbourough Township, Delaware Township and many more here.


Imagine losing their Police and Fire Departments, Departments of Sanitation, Public Works, and the School District. If you think the township has gone to the dogs now, just wait until November. My advice? Vote Straight Republican in November!

The Bazaar of All Nations in Clifton Heights Documentary

Glad to see this finally came online. I've been following it on Facebook now for a few months.

By Matt Hasson

Town Talk Correspondent

For three decades, the Bazaar of All Nations was a sprawling retail and entertainment mecca, a familiar place to shop, eat, attend a movie or play miniature golf. The landmark, prototypical shopping mall on Baltimore Pike in Clifton Heights closed in 1993 and was later replaced by a Home Depot and sporting goods store.

  But every Delaware Countian remembers The Bazaar. It opened on Nov. 8, 1960, and closed at the end of 1993.

  The Bazaar’s long tenure was not well documented until three young film-makers embarked on a documentary. Co-producers, Delco natives Patrick Manley and Brendan O’Riordan, joined forces with cinematographer/director Melissa Whiteley, of White Lyte Productions in Trenton, N.J.

  The idea was conceived when Manley reflected that there was no real documentation of the Bazaar. He and O’Riordan, members of Monsignor Bonner High School’s Class of 1995, embarked on the project and enlisted Whitley to direct, shoot and edit film footage.

  “The general theme is that if you can’t find it at the Bazaar, you’re not going to find it,” O’Riordan said.

   O’Riordan, a resident of Media, is doing much of the research to drive the documentary.

   “My expertise is being able to retain and recall information,” O’Riordan said. “We’d like this to be the definitive source of information about the Bazaar, all in one place.”

   Gathering facts, photos and first-hand recollections of the Bazaar is a daunting but rewarding task.

  “There are certain touchstone events that occurred in the Bazaar’s 33-year existence,” O’Riordan said. “It’s taking pieces of the interviews and dropping them into place.”

  Manley spoke of the challenge of including a wealth of material in the documentary.
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My wife and I lived at 5309 Delmar Rd directly across from the Bazaar for a few years and watched it being torn down. i videotaped some of the demolition, but have yet to find it. If your on Facebook, you can become a fan of the Bazaar of all Nations and view the video here. I remember the soft pretzels (Bernies), the haircuts as a kid, the sporting goods store (Herman's)? Hell the army/Navy store where I was bought my first parka, and the list goes on and on.

I miss the place, now occupied by The Home Depot and the "new" Acme.

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