Demand Westat and the Pentagon repay the American Taxpayer for outrageous waste of $4.4 million!

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http://surveyrefund.org/

For That Biased & Derogatory DADT Survey

The Department of Defense just paid the research firm Westat the outrageous sum of $4.4 million to design and administer an email-based survey about the repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law. While its development was shrouded in secrecy for weeks, leaked copies of the final version recently began circulating. To everyone’s surprise, the survey, which went out to 400,000 service members, turned out to be laced with bias, inaccuracies, and derogatory assumptions and insinuations about gay and lesbian Americans. Demand that Westat and the Pentagon repay the American Taxpayer for this outrageous waste of $4.4 million!

Sign the petition here: http://surveyrefund.org/

[Newest Reality]

1. Does signing online

petitions ever accomplish anything other than provide a catharsis and substitute for action, like bumper stickers and lapel pins these days?

Some suggest we try wishing in one hand and ... never mind.

I know, torches and pitchforks are so out-of-date.

[FreeState]

2. Last week the Today Show reversed course do to online activism

See: http://www.glaad.org/2010/calltoaction/todayshow

You Spoke and NBC Listened: Today Show’s "Modern Day Wedding Contest" Opened to Same-Sex Couples
GLAAD thanks you for speaking out about NBC Today Show’s "Modern Wedding Contest." This afternoon after GLAAD met with NBC executives and shared our community's concerns, the network agreed to open the contest to same-sex couples.

The announcement comes a week after GLAAD learned that the contest had excluded gay and lesbian people. Good As You blog first alerted us to the problem after discovering the contest’s application included only "bride" and "groom" as options for applicants to choose.

After we called the network with concerns, NBC argued that it was excluding same-sex couples because "the couple must be able to be legally married in New York, which is where the wedding will take place."

GLAAD questioned the validity of that argument since New York State legally recognizes same-sex marriages licensed in other states. Same-sex couples can now legally obtain marriage licenses in Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Washington D.C. NBC mistakenly equated the marriage license with the wedding celebration. Same-sex weddings are entirely legal in New York State.

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3. I'm still waiting for the 9 billion they "lost" in Iraq. nt