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A bionic eye implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available to patients within two years. US researchers have been given the go-ahead to implant the prototype device in 50 to 75 patients. The Argus II system uses a spectacle-mounted camera to feed visual information to electrodes in the eye. Patients who tested less-advanced versions of the retinal implant were able to see light, shapes and movement. "What we are trying to do is take real-time images from a camera and convert them into tiny electrical pulses that would jump-start the otherwise blind...

UT football players accused in robberies, assaults 12/16/2005 4:30 PM By: News 8 Austin Staff Several football players from The University of Texas are being investigated by the Austin Police Department for robbery by assault, according to sources close to the investigation. The investigation stems from two incidents on Sept. 4 and December 10. The two incidents involve robbery by assault. Sources tell us that the victims are telling police they were downtown when they were beaten up and robbed of their money. There have been no arrests and no indictments in the investigations, but the cases have been turned...

That Sinking Feeling: When Houston's gone, will anyone miss it? 12:02 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 8, 2005 Houston, you have a problem. The Gulf of Mexico is coming back to reclaim you. At least, that's what a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report says, more or less. Southern Louisiana? Good as gone. What the Big Hurricane left of Galveston? Soon to go. You're next. We'll miss Cajun Country and historic Galveston. You? Not so much. Like a guy losing his hair, you can look at it as your land mass receding or your gulf growing. Either way, someone else...

Fred Gion: A French cowboy? Oui! I dream of life in Red State America Since the re-election of President Bush, I've been reading on American blogs and newspaper Web sites that lots of you, particularly in the Blue States, are talking about leaving your country for more culturally hospitable nations, like Canada, or even my native France. Well, I can be of assistance. I can even help one of you would-be expatriates relocate here to Paris. My apartment is on the market, because I don't like it here anymore! I want to immigrate to Red State America. I mean it....

Iraqi police have discovered about 10 bodies of executed civilians and police in the basement of a religious court run by rebel cleric Moqtadr al Sadr. Some of the bodies had been mutilated or burned, according to reports.The discovery came after al Sadr officially handed over control of Najaf's Imam Ali shrine. A representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani confirmed the handover as militia loyal to al Sadr handed in their weapons. Thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites have been marching to the shrine to show their support for Ayatollah al Sistani. The ayatollah had returned to the southern holy city...

Last weekend, I left in my computer system in a disassembled state and went out of town for the week. Upon returning and putting my computor system back together, I found three(3) Emails that had been returned to me as undeliverable. Ok, until I looked at the content of the returned messages. First, they were sent to people I don't know, and more importantly, the dates they were sent (from my address) were during the period I was out of town, and my system was down. The unknown names issue sounds like a virus, but how could this have happened...

Help Me Start A Boycott of the Texas Senate Chicken D's Home District's Commerce!! They are: District 6 – Mario Gallegos, Houston (Parts of N to SE Harris County). District 13 – Rodney G. Ellis, Houston (Parts of SW to Harris County, Parts of Fort Bend County). District 14 - Gonzalo Barrientos, Austin (Most of Travis County). District 15 - John Whitmire, Houston (Most of North Harris County). District 18 - Ken Armbrister, Victoria (Aransas, Austin, Bastrop, Caldwell, Calhoun, Colorado, De Witt, Fayette, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, Waller, Washington, Wharton, and parts of Fort Bend Counties). District...

'SADDAM'S LAST CHANCE' British military chiefs in the Gulf have warned Saddam Hussein he is drinking "in the last chance saloon". With just hours to go before the deadline for Saddam to leave Iraq, RAF planes and British troops across the region were awaiting the signal to attack. A military source at Central Command in the Qatar desert said: "It's gone past last orders, it's chucking out time in the last chance saloon." Military planners in the British headquarters remain undaunted by predictions of sandstorms and believe their vast array of hardware will cope with the weather. They were also...

HATE PREACHER JAILED A race-hate Muslim cleric convicted of calling for his followers to murder non-believers has been jailed for nine years. An Old Bailey judge also recommended that Abdullah el-Faisal, 39, be deported when his sentence was served. El-Faisal was found guilty last month of three charges of soliciting murder and three charges involving stirring up racial hatred. The Jamaican told young British Muslims it was their duty to kill non-believers, Americans, Hindus and Jews. Shock He promised schoolboys they would be rewarded with 72 virgins in paradise if they died in a holy war. In his defence, Faisal...

From an American Airlines Flight Attendant, February 20, 2003 Dear Friends: I have just returned from doing a small part in our efforts against world conflict. Just got home early from Frankfurt after having picked up a planeload of troops in Alexandria LA and taking them one leg of their trip....onward. They had just gotten word 24 hours earlier that full alert was "on" and they were getting ready to be transported. We arrived in Alexandria on the military airfield in our 777, and the busses were waiting. The troops started to appear from the busses and they were all...

Tell the SciFi Channel you're not going to watch Children of Dune because of Susan Sarandon's outrageous anti-American leftist drivel! Email them at both program@www.scifi.com and feedback@www.scifi.com

Support Tony Blair - FREEP this Sky News Poll Iraq: Has Blair got your support?Click here for link to vote Vote Box is about half way down the page on the right side.

The Government is blaming Benny Hill, the comedian famous for his sketches involving scantily-clad girls, for its failure to cut teenage pregnancies. People's "giggly" attitude to sex - the "Benny Hill culture" - was sending out mixed messages to young people, Cathy Hamlyn, head of the Government's Teenage Pregnancy Unit, said. "On the one hand they are bombarded by messages through films and the media which give the impression that everyone is having sex and they should," she said. "On the other, parents have great difficulty talking about it." Her comments came as MPs and peers demanded an urgent review...

"Listen to Al's Song Using Real Audio"

Let me be the first to welcome a new Baby FReeper, Anthony Albert "The Writer" Jr., born 5/9/00 at 2:30 PM CST. Baby Anthony weighed 7lbs. 5 ounces, and measured 21in. Although labor was 14hrs., Baby Anthony, The Writer, and Tony are doing fine!!! Welcome Baby Anthony Albert Jr.!!!!

Dr Alan Keyes will Speak in Manhattan at 6:00PM, and in Queens at 8:30PM on February 29, 2000!!

On Monday, February 28 2000, Dr. Alan Keyes will speak at Canisious College at 10:30 AM, St. John Fisher College at 2:30 PM and Syracuse University at 8:00 PM.

Leon Harris, a black commentator from CNN who was covering the Iowa caucuses, closed his report with a lighthearted bite: On the eve of the vote, he had been approached by two people who asked if he was a bodyguard. Bodyguard? He was a professional journalist reporting on the Iowa caucuses. But that is what it is like to be black in America. People think the welldressed "black guy" is the bodyguard, the carhop or the waiter but certainly not VIP. Another black guy getting the same kind of treatment in the press is Alan Keyes. Yep, he is that ...

Did anyone catch the "NH Independents Focus Group" piece done by George Steponagoose??? Here's what I think I saw/heard, as I was doing three things at once, as usual. With the camera showing a fairly small group (15-20?), George stated, except for "a few" people for Alan Keyes, everyone was either for blah blah McCain Bush blah blah Gore Bradely blah blah blah. He later changed this into everyone in the group was in favor of either for blah blah McCain Bush blah blah Gore Bradely blah blah blah. When Kookie got her turn, she agreed with George that Independents ...