Apple enables 'Superstorm Sandy' donations in iTunes Store Apple has added a button to the home page of its iTunes Store that clicks through to a page where you can use your iTunes account to donate money to "Help Superstorm Sandy survivors." The page lists six different donation amounts ranging from $5 to $200 – all you need to do is click the Donate button under each amount, and " …
Perhaps Deepak Chopra is right after all. Maybe people's disgust with and anger at the retarded Jersey Shore TV show through quantum mechanics entanglement manifested as an enormous hurricane that smitten the whole area. Come on, you can't tell me people didn't fantasize about that. I know I did.
Not these days.
Believe me, for those of us in what used to be the manufacturing zones, wealthy is something you have to be 40+ to remember.
Despite how our television shows try to portray us, most people are 1-2 paychecks away from homeless if they are not already.
It's worth remembering that the Red Cross reserves the right to decide where donated money goes. ie. It doesn't have to go to the people affected by the storm. This was roundly demonstrated by Katrina and the Twin Towers.
So the moral is. If you want to donate to the Red Cross then do it, but if you want to donate to victims of a specific disaster then you may wish to look elsewhere.
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