We'll pick up again tomorrow.
Until then ...
... good night ...
... and good luck...
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Domestic Violence Headlines Anderson Cooper 360
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Anderson, what are you doing about 'preventing' spousal abuse, murder and child death within the households in America? This is scandal ridden sensationalism.
The rest of the world has other issues on their minds. Like National Security realizing the islands of the Caribbean as they become unstable with lack of policy under this administration pose a very real threat for breeding grounds of terrorists.
Confusion mars early hours of voting in Haitian elections
By JOE MOZINGO
jmozingo@miamiherald.com
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Confusion and frustration mounted during the first hours of Haiti's national election today as masses of voters set out before dawn to cast their ballots but found many polling places disorganized and unable to open on time.
Haitian electoral officials and U.N. advisors said they were scrambling to fix the problems but described them as isolated. ''We are in control of the situation,'' electoral council spokesman Stephen Lecroix told a news conference.
But at one of three polling centers that serves the volatile slum of Cité Soleil -- a place where electoral officials and U.N advisors have repeatedly assured wary voters and observers that they were prepared -- supervisors were woefully unprepared.
By 6 A.M. when the center was supposed to open, an estimated 3,000 people had lined up. They continued to arrive by the hundreds, marching excitedly and jogging. An hour later there were at least 5,000 lined up a half-mile back.
THIS is so hideous. The motive for going to Britian is because they DO NOT extradite to countries with the death sentence. But. Why should Anderson state the obvious. It would cause the case to be plainly closed and there would be no show, now would there?
Do I have to say how hideous this program has become? Do I?
Police look into family’s past in murder case
In what appeared to be a picture-perfect family at first glance, the Entwisle’s activities before the murders are raising many questions as to who the couple truly were, and how they came to live in Hopkinton less than three weeks ago.
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Anderson, what are you doing about 'preventing' spousal abuse, murder and child death within the households in America? This is scandal ridden sensationalism.
The rest of the world has other issues on their minds. Like National Security realizing the islands of the Caribbean as they become unstable with lack of policy under this administration pose a very real threat for breeding grounds of terrorists.
Confusion mars early hours of voting in Haitian elections
By JOE MOZINGO
jmozingo@miamiherald.com
PORT-AU-PRINCE - Confusion and frustration mounted during the first hours of Haiti's national election today as masses of voters set out before dawn to cast their ballots but found many polling places disorganized and unable to open on time.
Haitian electoral officials and U.N. advisors said they were scrambling to fix the problems but described them as isolated. ''We are in control of the situation,'' electoral council spokesman Stephen Lecroix told a news conference.
But at one of three polling centers that serves the volatile slum of Cité Soleil -- a place where electoral officials and U.N advisors have repeatedly assured wary voters and observers that they were prepared -- supervisors were woefully unprepared.
By 6 A.M. when the center was supposed to open, an estimated 3,000 people had lined up. They continued to arrive by the hundreds, marching excitedly and jogging. An hour later there were at least 5,000 lined up a half-mile back.
THIS is so hideous. The motive for going to Britian is because they DO NOT extradite to countries with the death sentence. But. Why should Anderson state the obvious. It would cause the case to be plainly closed and there would be no show, now would there?
Do I have to say how hideous this program has become? Do I?
Police look into family’s past in murder case
In what appeared to be a picture-perfect family at first glance, the Entwisle’s activities before the murders are raising many questions as to who the couple truly were, and how they came to live in Hopkinton less than three weeks ago.
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Tanker wreck starts leaking oil
The Ece is lying about 70m downA tanker which sank in the English Channel with its 10,000-tonne load of phosphoric acid is leaking fuel oil.
The Ece had about 80 tonnes of fuel on board when it sank on Wednesday while being towed to Le Havre.
The vessel had been badly damaged following a collision with a cargo ship off the north west coast of Guernsey early on Tuesday.
A plane crew spotted what they described as a "reasonable quantity" of fuel oil bubbling from the wreck.
Greenpeace said it feared the fuel oil could have a "long-term" and serious effect on marine life.
David Santillo, a scientist at the Greenpeace research laboratory in Exeter, said that with a slow dilution, the phosphoric acid should not pose a long-term problem.
But the fuel oil posed a serious danger to marine life on the sea floor.
He told BBC News: "It's potentially significant. The scale of the problem will depend on sea currents and how much time it takes to leak out."
Officials from France, Channel Islands and the UK are being consulted.
The Ece sank near the site of the collision, in 70m (230ft) of water, 90km (56 miles) west of Cap de La Hague.
French divers had found a 5m (16ft 4in) hole below its waterline, although there was no leak of the phosphoric acid.
French authorities have now imposed a one-mile exclusion zone with warning signs pointing out the wreckage to other vessels.
Crew rescued
The alarm had been raised at about 0220 GMT on Tuesday when the Ece collided with the freighter General Grot-Rowecki about 50km (30 miles) north-west of Guernsey.
Twenty-two crew members of the Ece were rescued unharmed.
The Maltese-registered carrier, carrying 26,000 tonnes of phosphorus, was only slightly damaged.
About 500 vessels every day pass through the Channel, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
French fishing trawler Kleine Familie sank early this month, with the loss of five crew members, after colliding with a cargo ship in the same sector of the English Channel.
The Ece had about 80 tonnes of fuel on board when it sank on Wednesday while being towed to Le Havre.
The vessel had been badly damaged following a collision with a cargo ship off the north west coast of Guernsey early on Tuesday.
A plane crew spotted what they described as a "reasonable quantity" of fuel oil bubbling from the wreck.
Greenpeace said it feared the fuel oil could have a "long-term" and serious effect on marine life.
David Santillo, a scientist at the Greenpeace research laboratory in Exeter, said that with a slow dilution, the phosphoric acid should not pose a long-term problem.
But the fuel oil posed a serious danger to marine life on the sea floor.
He told BBC News: "It's potentially significant. The scale of the problem will depend on sea currents and how much time it takes to leak out."
Officials from France, Channel Islands and the UK are being consulted.
The Ece sank near the site of the collision, in 70m (230ft) of water, 90km (56 miles) west of Cap de La Hague.
French divers had found a 5m (16ft 4in) hole below its waterline, although there was no leak of the phosphoric acid.
French authorities have now imposed a one-mile exclusion zone with warning signs pointing out the wreckage to other vessels.
Crew rescued
The alarm had been raised at about 0220 GMT on Tuesday when the Ece collided with the freighter General Grot-Rowecki about 50km (30 miles) north-west of Guernsey.
Twenty-two crew members of the Ece were rescued unharmed.
The Maltese-registered carrier, carrying 26,000 tonnes of phosphorus, was only slightly damaged.
About 500 vessels every day pass through the Channel, one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
French fishing trawler Kleine Familie sank early this month, with the loss of five crew members, after colliding with a cargo ship in the same sector of the English Channel.
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The California Wildfires AGAIN.
Fierce Winds Fan Southern California Fires
Written by The Associated Press
Created:1/24/2006 9:29:20 AM
Last Updated:1/24/2006 6:02:17 PM
Fierce Santa Ana winds whipping through Southern California on Monday fanned brush and house fires, knocked out power to 77,000 utility customers and littered roads with palm fronds and trash cans.The dry wind, gusting near 70 mph in some places, roared out of the desert and down mountain passes and canyons to the coast, sending firefighters chasing outbreaks and toppling big rigs on highways.One fire destroyed a home and damaged five others in the Tujunga section, and a blaze in suburban La Canada Flintridge forced evacuation of 15 homes before it was contained.By Monday night, a wildfire pushed by 30 mph wind spread over about 100 acres of brush near Highland, in the foothills of the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles, a Forest Services spokeswoman said. The blaze did not immediately threaten any structures.Most of the power outages were in San Gabriel Valley foothills and communities farther east.The La Canada Flintridge blaze was ignited by a fallen power line. Authorities were investigating whether the Tujunga fire had the same cause.In Santa Ana, a freeway billboard blew over, broke a power pole in half and smashed a pair of RVs. A huge oak tree fell on a house in Pasadena, and winds hampered firefighters battling a blaze that burned eight cars in Garden Grove.Six tractor-trailers and one box truck were blown over on Interstate 15 and its transition roads with I-210 and I-10, the California Highway Patrol said. Another toppled rig blocked the truck lane on I-5 north of Los Angeles. No injuries were reported in the wrecks.
"Santa Ana Winds" occur every year. La Nina has nothing to do with these winds. They are annual. La Nina is not. Everytime I post the Global Warming REALITY of the planet Rob Marchiano tries to explain it away. He's an asshole.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the News Secretary gets serious. For one night. Big deal. She is actually Anderson's cheerleader. Just can't help herself I am sure.
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The Anti - Violence Denmark Cartoons. Here is something you don't have on your Blog. There is a history regarding activism. Dah. Theo van Gogh was murdered because of his film promoting RIGHTS for Islamic Women. Activism is not new to that society. The violence against the brave who dare to confront the oppression of Arabian cultures is not new either. However. It needs to stop along with the chronic violence within that culture. This literally can go on forever. It's just that there is a maniac president in Islam that wants to ignite the Middle EAst on fire. They hate intensely and they want to destroy Israel. Hamas was simply taking 'the brotherhood' to the next level. It has to stop. If it doesn't I am confident the 'cresendo' this has reached this time will find an end put to it !
Van Gogh killer jailed for life
A Dutch court has sentenced a 27-year-old radical Islamist to life in prison for the November murder of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh.
Mohammed Bouyeri, who has joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, had made a courtroom confession and had vowed to do the same again if given the chance.
The murder in Amsterdam stunned the Netherlands. The court ruled that it was a terrorist act.
The judge said the murder had triggered "great fear and insecurity" in society.
"The murder of Theo van Gogh provoked a wave of revulsion and disdain in the Netherlands. Theo van Gogh was mercilessly slaughtered," said Judge Udo Willem Bentinck.
Where are the reports of Islamic Gay Rights, Anderson?
Dutch MP to make gay Islam film
A Somali-born Dutch MP who collaborated on the film that led to the murder of director Theo van Gogh has written a sequel, about Islam's attitude to gays.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali received death threats after her work on Submission, a film about Islam's treatment of women.
Van Gogh was shot and stabbed by a Muslim radical, Mohammed Bouyeri, as he cycled through Amsterdam in 2004.
The film will use anonymous actors and carry no credits in an effort to protect those involved in the project.
Ms Ali told Dutch media that she had co-written the script with Van Gogh in the summer of 2004, months before he was killed last November.
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A segment about a treated childhood genetic illness of which there is still no cure.
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The news secretary. Let's hear it Erica. Ah, no flirting tonight? Erica, what a disappointment. Aaron was never off limits.
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The King Funeral - well at least it got three minutes. There was so much to say. You could have done an entire hour on her.
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But then so do the commercials.
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Frankenstein is back ! Figures. Andy couldn't live without his boy toy.
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California Wildfires.
The Posey Murders.
The California Wildfires AGAIN.
Fierce Winds Fan Southern California Fires
Written by The Associated Press
Created:1/24/2006 9:29:20 AM
Last Updated:1/24/2006 6:02:17 PM
Fierce Santa Ana winds whipping through Southern California on Monday fanned brush and house fires, knocked out power to 77,000 utility customers and littered roads with palm fronds and trash cans.The dry wind, gusting near 70 mph in some places, roared out of the desert and down mountain passes and canyons to the coast, sending firefighters chasing outbreaks and toppling big rigs on highways.One fire destroyed a home and damaged five others in the Tujunga section, and a blaze in suburban La Canada Flintridge forced evacuation of 15 homes before it was contained.By Monday night, a wildfire pushed by 30 mph wind spread over about 100 acres of brush near Highland, in the foothills of the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles, a Forest Services spokeswoman said. The blaze did not immediately threaten any structures.Most of the power outages were in San Gabriel Valley foothills and communities farther east.The La Canada Flintridge blaze was ignited by a fallen power line. Authorities were investigating whether the Tujunga fire had the same cause.In Santa Ana, a freeway billboard blew over, broke a power pole in half and smashed a pair of RVs. A huge oak tree fell on a house in Pasadena, and winds hampered firefighters battling a blaze that burned eight cars in Garden Grove.Six tractor-trailers and one box truck were blown over on Interstate 15 and its transition roads with I-210 and I-10, the California Highway Patrol said. Another toppled rig blocked the truck lane on I-5 north of Los Angeles. No injuries were reported in the wrecks.
"Santa Ana Winds" occur every year. La Nina has nothing to do with these winds. They are annual. La Nina is not. Everytime I post the Global Warming REALITY of the planet Rob Marchiano tries to explain it away. He's an asshole.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, the News Secretary gets serious. For one night. Big deal. She is actually Anderson's cheerleader. Just can't help herself I am sure.
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The Anti - Violence Denmark Cartoons. Here is something you don't have on your Blog. There is a history regarding activism. Dah. Theo van Gogh was murdered because of his film promoting RIGHTS for Islamic Women. Activism is not new to that society. The violence against the brave who dare to confront the oppression of Arabian cultures is not new either. However. It needs to stop along with the chronic violence within that culture. This literally can go on forever. It's just that there is a maniac president in Islam that wants to ignite the Middle EAst on fire. They hate intensely and they want to destroy Israel. Hamas was simply taking 'the brotherhood' to the next level. It has to stop. If it doesn't I am confident the 'cresendo' this has reached this time will find an end put to it !
Van Gogh killer jailed for life
A Dutch court has sentenced a 27-year-old radical Islamist to life in prison for the November murder of controversial film-maker Theo van Gogh.
Mohammed Bouyeri, who has joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, had made a courtroom confession and had vowed to do the same again if given the chance.
The murder in Amsterdam stunned the Netherlands. The court ruled that it was a terrorist act.
The judge said the murder had triggered "great fear and insecurity" in society.
"The murder of Theo van Gogh provoked a wave of revulsion and disdain in the Netherlands. Theo van Gogh was mercilessly slaughtered," said Judge Udo Willem Bentinck.
Where are the reports of Islamic Gay Rights, Anderson?
Dutch MP to make gay Islam film
A Somali-born Dutch MP who collaborated on the film that led to the murder of director Theo van Gogh has written a sequel, about Islam's attitude to gays.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali received death threats after her work on Submission, a film about Islam's treatment of women.
Van Gogh was shot and stabbed by a Muslim radical, Mohammed Bouyeri, as he cycled through Amsterdam in 2004.
The film will use anonymous actors and carry no credits in an effort to protect those involved in the project.
Ms Ali told Dutch media that she had co-written the script with Van Gogh in the summer of 2004, months before he was killed last November.
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A segment about a treated childhood genetic illness of which there is still no cure.
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The news secretary. Let's hear it Erica. Ah, no flirting tonight? Erica, what a disappointment. Aaron was never off limits.
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commercials
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The King Funeral - well at least it got three minutes. There was so much to say. You could have done an entire hour on her.
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But then so do the commercials.
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Frankenstein is back ! Figures. Andy couldn't live without his boy toy.
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California Wildfires.
The Posey Murders.
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La Nina doesn't exist during Human Induced Global Warming. You have been explained this before. You could pretend you didn't but the 'crew' at CNN can't stand any of my blogs. They are jerks.
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King eulogists jab Bush at funeral
By Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters
LITHONIA, Georgia - Speakers took a rare opportunity to criticize U.S. President George W. Bush's policies to his face at the funeral on Tuesday of Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil-rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery and former President Jimmy Carter cited Mrs. King's legacy as a leader in her own right and advocate of nonviolence as they launched barbs over the Iraq war, government social policies and Bush's domestic eavesdropping program.
Bush sat watching the long service before an audience of 10,000 including politicians, civil rights leaders and entertainers at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, and a national cable television audience.
Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King helped found in 1957, gave a playful reading of a poem in eulogy of Mrs. King.
"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war/She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," he said.
"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there/But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here/Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor."
The mourners gave a standing ovation. Bush's reaction could not be seen on the television coverage, but after Lowery finished speaking, the president shook his hand and laughed.
Mrs. King, seen by many as the "first lady" of the American civil rights movement, died last week in a Mexican alternative health clinic at the age of 78, after complications from ovarian cancer and a recent stroke and heart attack.
Bush, speaking before his critics, said, "By going forward with a strong and forgiving heart, Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own."
With Washington debating the legality of Bush's domestic eavesdropping on Americans suspected of al Qaeda ties, Carter also drew applause with pointed comments on federal efforts to spy on the Kings.
"It was difficult for them personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated, and they became the targets of secret government wiretapping and other surveillance," he said.
Speaking later, Bush's father, former President George Bush, broke any tension by recalling his own meetings as president with Lowery and gave a score: "Lowery 21, Bush 3, it wasn't a fair fight."
Former President Bill Clinton, a favorite among mainstream civil rights leaders, was able to offer a teasing hint of the possible presidential candidacy of his wife, New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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I shouldn't have to point this out to trained/educated climatologists. I suppose the Global Droughts are all from El Nina. Right, Rob? Simpletons !
Global Drought Monitor and European Wind Damage Forecasts Launched
Links:
Global Drought Monitor
Euro Tempest
Tropical Storm Risk
Professor Mark Saunders (UCL Benfield Hazard Research Centre) has launched two new on-line weather services. The first monitors drought intensity worldwide, and the second provides real-time damage forecasts for winter storms over seven European countries.
Try and keep up Rob.
La Nina doesn't exist during Human Induced Global Warming. You have been explained this before. You could pretend you didn't but the 'crew' at CNN can't stand any of my blogs. They are jerks.
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King eulogists jab Bush at funeral
By Karen Jacobs and Tabassum Zakaria / Reuters
LITHONIA, Georgia - Speakers took a rare opportunity to criticize U.S. President George W. Bush's policies to his face at the funeral on Tuesday of Coretta Scott King, widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil-rights leader the Rev. Joseph Lowery and former President Jimmy Carter cited Mrs. King's legacy as a leader in her own right and advocate of nonviolence as they launched barbs over the Iraq war, government social policies and Bush's domestic eavesdropping program.
Bush sat watching the long service before an audience of 10,000 including politicians, civil rights leaders and entertainers at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, and a national cable television audience.
Lowery, former head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which King helped found in 1957, gave a playful reading of a poem in eulogy of Mrs. King.
"She extended Martin's message against poverty, racism and war/She deplored the terror inflicted by our smart bombs on missions way afar," he said.
"We know now there were no weapons of mass destruction over there/But Coretta knew and we knew that there are weapons of misdirection right down here/Millions without health insurance. Poverty abounds. For war billions more but no more for the poor."
The mourners gave a standing ovation. Bush's reaction could not be seen on the television coverage, but after Lowery finished speaking, the president shook his hand and laughed.
Mrs. King, seen by many as the "first lady" of the American civil rights movement, died last week in a Mexican alternative health clinic at the age of 78, after complications from ovarian cancer and a recent stroke and heart attack.
Bush, speaking before his critics, said, "By going forward with a strong and forgiving heart, Coretta Scott King not only secured her husband's legacy, she built her own."
With Washington debating the legality of Bush's domestic eavesdropping on Americans suspected of al Qaeda ties, Carter also drew applause with pointed comments on federal efforts to spy on the Kings.
"It was difficult for them personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated, and they became the targets of secret government wiretapping and other surveillance," he said.
Speaking later, Bush's father, former President George Bush, broke any tension by recalling his own meetings as president with Lowery and gave a score: "Lowery 21, Bush 3, it wasn't a fair fight."
Former President Bill Clinton, a favorite among mainstream civil rights leaders, was able to offer a teasing hint of the possible presidential candidacy of his wife, New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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I shouldn't have to point this out to trained/educated climatologists. I suppose the Global Droughts are all from El Nina. Right, Rob? Simpletons !
Global Drought Monitor and European Wind Damage Forecasts Launched
Links:
Global Drought Monitor
Euro Tempest
Tropical Storm Risk
Professor Mark Saunders (UCL Benfield Hazard Research Centre) has launched two new on-line weather services. The first monitors drought intensity worldwide, and the second provides real-time damage forecasts for winter storms over seven European countries.
Try and keep up Rob.
This was at Coretta's funeral service.
Look at the Puss on Laura. Who does she think she is?
Her spouse is one of the worst bigots of modern times. He has raped the Division of Civil Rights sending a 25 year employee packing. He has tried to stop Affirmative Action at the Univeristy of Michigan and that doesn't even begin to address Katrina and it's continued lack of attention.
Then, they have the 'nerve' to take seat front and center. Did they actually think they were going to come away unscaved?
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Medicating to sleep. "More than ever before." I doubt that.
The second time we heard from Sanya. This time insomnia. "Cognitive Behavior Therapy" CBT.
Yeah, has to be a 'specialized CBT' because
Lunesta is horribly expensive. Many who are looking for an alternative to Ambien can't afford to change. The best sleep medication out there is neither. The most benign medications is 'Restoril.' Restoril, the generic name is Temazepam, has dosages as small as 7.5 mg. It isn't expensive. It does need a perscription. It's been out on the market long enough to have reduced costs.
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Night Terrors
I've had enough.
Medicating to sleep. "More than ever before." I doubt that.
The second time we heard from Sanya. This time insomnia. "Cognitive Behavior Therapy" CBT.
Yeah, has to be a 'specialized CBT' because
Lunesta is horribly expensive. Many who are looking for an alternative to Ambien can't afford to change. The best sleep medication out there is neither. The most benign medications is 'Restoril.' Restoril, the generic name is Temazepam, has dosages as small as 7.5 mg. It isn't expensive. It does need a perscription. It's been out on the market long enough to have reduced costs.
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Night Terrors
I've had enough.
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