Rant, Rant, Rant

Well, it is finally raining here. We had a few light scattered showers yesterday, and that was the first rain in about 15 days. We have had a miserable, hot, dry summer. Hay is impossible to find, and people just don't feel good. Maybe that is part of the problem, but things are irrating me more than normal. Take My Space for instance. I don't know why I put a profile on there, I should have known better, but I think I was bored. Now I have just enough use for the site, to not take it down, but not enough to keep everything up-to-date on it. I have about 3 friends and several local bands I keep track of on there. There are also a few family members who live far away that won't email, but will message me on there. Go figure.

Anyway I have recently became aware of the chain bulletin. Much like chain mail, people just keep forwarding the damn things. Now some of these things can be fun and are supposed to be fun. You answer stupid questions and repost them for your friends to read your answers, then answer and repost. It get tiresome when you get the same or similiar bulletin 3 or 4 times though. Recently, however, I got this stupid one on child abuse, twice. It is really a stupid post. It says Stop Child Abuse or Stop All Child Abuse, then it goes on to give statements that kids are supposed to say, like I didn't mean to spill my milk. It gives about 10 of those, says "remember when kindergarten was perfect, because some don't get that chance." Then at the end it says
"1,504,000 CHILDREN GET ABUSED BY THEIR GAURDIANS. IT'S NOT RIGHT. THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO SUFFER. IF YOU THINKCHILD "ABUSE IS WRONG YOU CAN HELP BY RE-POSTING. If you don't repost, you have no heart."

How is this supposed to help anything? If you want to stop child abuse, report suspect abuses to the authorities. Learn to identify the signs of abused children, so you can spot abused children. Donate time, money, old clothes and stuff to shelters for battered women and children. Find programs to help abused children or runaways and donate time or money or food or old clothes.
Go to work for human services, children services, or a private counselling service, but don't pass around stupid bulletins about child abuse that have NO USEFUL INFORMATION.

Rant off.