http://www.opendiary.com/entrylist.asp?authorcode=D846067 This is how I feel http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10017 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10017 <p> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">I overheard a conversation the other day in line at the store. Two ladies asking each other who they admired the most in Congress. While standing there I recalled having a conversation like that, but the Person we were talking about wasn't in Congress. She was a Mother of two, whose husband left them and didn't contribute to the care of the two children. She worked two jobs, she saved and still managed to make ends meet and provide for her kids. She didn't accept any help from the Government. The kids are my responsibility she would always say. I worked with this Women 18 yrs ago and still today I think about her, especially in these times when it is just so easy for Mothers to take it easy and let the Government step in and provide</span></p> Thu, 7 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10016 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10016 <p> <span style="font-family: 'Bradley Hand ITC'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Last Tuesday, my daughter and I stood in line for nearly 3 hours to vote. I watched in disbelief as the votes came in, Obama had won. What… No that can’t be true. Oh but it was. I had a melt down and then I turn to God to find the answers, asking him to help me understand what just had happened. I finally got my answer 3 days later. My answer came in the most unexpected way. Through the radio. I am addicted to Fox radio and that is all I listen to in my car. I had just left a client’s house and we had just discussed what was going on with the Northeastern States and how sad for the People up there. She has a sister in New York City, they were fine, still didn’t have electric, but were fine, they had food, water and  blankets to keep them warm and their Apartment building was still standing with little damage.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC""> I said my goodbyes and I got in my car and drove quite a ways before I decided to turn my radio on. When I turned it on a voice said that this is Something Christian radio station and I am like what?? I looked and it said fox, so why was this Christian network on instead. The light turned green and I had to pay attention to the road, so I let it be and started listening to this broadcast. A scripture was read, but for the life of me I cannot remember what it was, but the message that stood out, was that so many were in fear of what is ahead for us in this Country. This calming women’s voice continued on to say we need to let go of the fear and continue to love and continue to love the Lord and to know that he is in complete control and the radio went dead for about 1 minute and then all of sudden Shaun Hannity’s show was on in a middle of a conversation as if it wasn’t interrupted. Some may say I am crazy, but it has been said that The Lord communicates with us in many ways. He has let me know he’s around many of times. He has brought me a couple of Miracles, which one day I may write about in my diary. I have to say this is the first time he has communicated through a radio. It took me a little time to process this, because at first I thought I just went crazy, but this calm peace ran through me and it was as if the weight of the World was lifted off of me. I felt so good and alive and excited all at once. I thanked him for my answer.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Bradley Hand ITC"">Kimberly<o:p></o:p></span></p> Mon, 12 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10015 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10015 <p> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="1000"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#f9f6ef" height="30" valign="top" width="840" images_sub=""> <div align="left"> </div> </td> <td bgcolor="#f9f6ef" height="30" valign="top" width="40" images_sub=""> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td bgcolor="#333366" height="30" valign="top" width="40" images_sub=""> <div align="center"> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#333366" valign="top" width="40" images_sub=""> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td bgcolor="#f9f6ef" valign="top" width="40" images_sub=""> <div align="center"> </div> </td> <td bgcolor="#f9f6ef" valign="top" width="840" images_sub=""> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="300" align="left"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="300"> <div align="left"><img alt="Image: RONALD REAGAN | 1981-1989" width="275" height="343" src="http://www.whitehousehistory.org/whha_timelines/images/presidents_reagan.jpg" /><br /> <br />  </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class="nomargin"><strong>RONALD REAGAN | 1981-1989</strong><br /> <br /> Through Ronald Reagan's eight years in office, the cold war came to an end, the country seemed to regain its morale, and Americans enjoyed an extended economic boom.<br /> <br /> Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to John Reagan, a shoe salesman, and his wife Nelle in Tampico, Illinois, on February 6, 1911. He worked his way through Eureka College. There, he played on the football team and acted in school plays. Upon graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. <br /> <br /> A screen test in 1937 won him a contract with Warner Brothers in Hollywood. During the next two decades he appeared in 53 films, including "Kings Row" and "Knute Rockne, All American." During a first marriage to actress Jane Wyman, he had two children, Maureen and Michael.<br /> <br /> After World War II, his marriage failed, and in 1952, he married actress Nancy Davis, who brought him children Patti and Ronald. Elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan fought communism in the film industry and grew more conservative. As host of "GE Theater," he toured the country and became a spokesman for conservatism. In 1966, he defeated incumbent Pat Brown to become governor of California, and was reelected in 1970.<br /> <br /> In 1976, he narrowly missed taking the Republican nomination away from President Ford, but prevailed in the 1980 primaries. For most of the fall campaign, Reagan ran close to President Carter. Voters were troubled by high inflation and unemployment, America's failure to prevent the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the year-long confinement of American hostages in Iran, but they were nervous about Reagan's lack of foreign policy experience and what some found his excessive truculence against the Soviet Union. But 10 days before the election, debating with Carter, Reagan resolved those doubts in a bravura performance, asking Americans, "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" The result was a landslide of 489 electoral votes to 49 for Carter.<br /> <br /> During his first months in office, Reagan persuaded Congress to expand the defense budget, cut taxes, and take other measures to fight the recession. He challenged the Soviet Union all over the world, hoping to show the Soviets that the United States had regained its will and compel them to enter serious negotiations.<br /> <br /> Seventy days after taking office, Reagan was shot by an emotionally disturbed young man. His grace and wit during a near-death experience (writing his wife, "Honey, I forgot to duck") caused his popularity to soar. Later, when his poll ratings dropped, he privately joked, "I'll just get shot again!" Renewed national self-confidence and restored prosperity helped Reagan and Vice President George Bush win a second term (under the slogan "Bringing America Back—Stronger, Prouder, Better") by a landslide over Carter's vice president, Walter Mondale, and New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro.<br /> <br /> In 1986, Reagan pushed an income tax reform bill through Congress but found that his dream of reducing the national deficit (in fact, deficits under Reagan ballooned) and the size of government was beyond his grasp. That November, Congress and the courts investigated what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. High officials of his administration had secretly approved the sale of weaponry to Iran and illegally diverted the proceeds to anti-government "freedom-fighters" in Nicaragua. But a consensus decided that Reagan had not known of the transactions, and he remained in office.<br /> <br /> Reagan's second term also saw partnership with the the new Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to wind down the cold war. Through five dramatic summit meetings, the two men agreed on a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear missiles and other joint steps to end American-Soviet hostility.<br /> <br /> In 1989, Reagan and Nancy returned to Los Angeles, where he wrote his memoirs. Ten years before his death in 2004, he wrote a letter to Americans saying that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and thanking them "for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. . . . I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."</p> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </p> Sat, 6 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10014 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10014 <p> <span style="font-family: 'Brush Script Std'; ">It is getting very close to Voting day and I am going to be honest with you… I am very scared that Obama may win. I have been praying a lot these days as I am sure many others have too.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std"">  Before I was 18 Reagan became President and I remember watching him on Television addressing the Nation and the American People and I remember how soft spoken he was, he was very kind and even as a kid I could tell he love this Country. I grew up in a Republican household, but that wasn’t the reason on my 18<sup>th</sup> Birthday I went down to the Voters Registration office and Registered as a Republican. President Reagan was Why I did, he was going to be running for 2<sup>nd</sup> term and I wanted to make sure I helped him along. I am sure my little vote didn’t much matter, the man was going to win anyway, but it felt so good to vote that day and as I was walking out of the voting place I had the biggest smile on my face. I couldn’t help it. I felt so proud! <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std"">     I have always told people that if we don’t stand up and take notice of what is going on and make our voices heard, there would be a time when our Freedom and the Country we love would be in jeopardy, so many laughed at me, especially my friends, the friends that were too busy to care about what our Government was doing. Those same friends that are scared to death, praying that Obama doesn’t win. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std"">       I don’t have a lot of time these days, but I did take the time out to go See 2016 Obama’s America. I came out of there shaking out of control, I knew he had an Agenda, but how extent is was I didn’t know until this Weekend. If you haven’t seen it, please go. All his plans are there in the movie. Very scary!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std""> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Brush Script Std"">           God Bless you and God Bless America<o:p></o:p></span></p> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10013 http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D846067&entry=10013 <p> I have been so busy, I haven't had a chance to sit and write and I owe my Aunt a letter, she must think I have forgotten about her. There just isn't enough hours in the day or energy in my case. I did catch up with all my friends diaries, so that is an accomplishment in its self.</p> <p>  I will write when I get a chance.</p> <p>God Bless </p> <p>Kimberly</p> Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMT