We first reported a prototype of the FXI Cotton Candy in November 2011, and a new updated version is now available for pre-order for $199 with limited availability in March 2012. As a quick reminder, the Cotton Candy is a self contained USB memory stick sized computer device that allows users to connect to personal [...]
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Motorola created a bit of a stir yesterday when it released a video compared Android’s Voice Actions on the Atrix 2 with iOS’s Siri on an iPhone 4S. Fanboys screamed foul in the comments, so we decided to test it out for ourselves. And yes, there’s a very clear winner. More »
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Okay, I know what you’re thinking: chocolate on Download Squad? That’s right! That’s because Chocomize is one of the nerdiest ways to get chocolate online: it’s a website where you customize your own bar using a multi-step process.
We’ve covered Chocomize before in our holiday gift guide, so when they reached out to us offering to do a giveaway, we really couldn’t resist.
Chocomize is giving away ten gift certificates, each worth $50, for you to create your own customized chocolate. They sent us some pictures of their recent creations, which you can find in the gallery below.
Regardless of the giveaway, you can use the discount code switched to get 10% off any Chocomize order. The code is valid through April 20th – just in time for Easter!
To participate, simply leave a comment. Fine print is after the jump.
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When Jim Cooper was first elected to Congress in the 1982, he represented the 4th Congressional District of Tennessee. That district ran along Tennessee’s southern rural border with Alabama and Georgia, and then northeast until it got to Kentucky! This conservative rural district gave Barack Obama only 34% of the vote in 2008 – which explains why Democrats would need a Blue Dog conservative candidate there in order to win.
Unfortunately, Cooper didn’t stay there.
After helping to kill President Clinton’s health care proposals, and then losing a campaign in 1994, he moved to the 5th Congressional District — where 100% of voters either live in Nashville or its suburbs. When then-Representative Bob Clement left the 5th Congressional District to run for U.S. Senate in 2002, Cooper ran here, and won a split Democratic primary with less than 50% of the vote.
Jim Cooper represents voters in a district that gave Barack Obama 56% of the vote in 2008 – a 22 point swing from his old district. But he kept on representing his old constituents. And as a leader of the Blue Dogs, he works with Republicans against much of President Obama’s agenda, even voting against President Obama’s economic recovery plan.
For eight long years, Jim Cooper has violated the trust that the voters in the 5th Congressional District have placed in him. His Blue Dog voting record is unchanged from the record he built in the conservative, rural district he represented so many years ago.
Nashville voters deserve a real Democrat in Congress.
Throughout his time representing Nashville in Congress, Jim Cooper has been a strong supporter of George W. Bush’s War in Iraq. Yet even while he voted for blank check after blank check to fund the Iraq war, he also worked diligently to oppose a New GI Bill that would have made sure bill provided funds to make sure every American veteran would be able to afford a college education.
Since 2003, Jim Cooper has repeatedly supported unpaid-for war supplemental bills in Congress that spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the War in Iraq. But when a bipartisan group of Representatives wanted to include several million dollars in funding to help veterans afford a college education, Jim Cooper actually threatened to oppose the bill. Blank checks for a trillion-dollar war? Fine with Jim Cooper.
Making sure our brave troops returning from war were given the opportunity to get a college education? Not so much, it seems. (But he was willing to support a $108 Billion European bank bailout!) Just one more way in which Jim Cooper has been out-of-step with his constituents.
Hint: it’s not the voters of Nashville and Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District, who strongly support a public option. Here are the industries who have donated to Jim Cooper’s campaigns, according to OpenSecrets.org:
That totals up to almost $1 million for Jim Cooper from health care special interests!
No wonder he is fighting for them — and and not for his constituents — when it comes to health care.
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