Charity, Gambling, and other meaninful nonsense

Ok so another day and another wonderful thought process. My daughter Katrina has recently got involved with a mathathon through her school. all the proceeds go to benefit St. Judes childrens hospital. I was actually very upset to see that so far she has only raised $10. With the internet and Facebook (theres a link to her page on my wall) recieving donations should be a much easier process then when i was a child. This has caused my brain to start going into overdrive once more.  Why is it that we can go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City and gamble our lives away, or even go to the local convenience store and spend our entire check on Lottery, but its so hard to give money to an organization that can really use it. If anybody had a child requiring any special treatment im positive that they would not have any issue asking others for assistance. I actually know several people whose lives have been changed and children given a second chance at a normal life because of such programs. The powerball jackpot is determined by the amount of actual sales and if anyone happened to notice it is an outrageous amount of money, therefore meaning they are selling an outrageous amount of tickets. Some people only spend $1 each time theres a drawing, constituting $2 per week. That is $104 per year per person. If only 1 million people would go without buying one ticket a week and donate that money to a charitable organization that is $52 million a year. Wow! its amazing what a measly dollar can do. So onto a lighter note.. I wonder why we as a society chose to have weathermen on the news. These people are so full of shit and yet they get paid fairly well, for what is at best an educated guess.. Take today for instance, as of last night they said 46 degrees and partly cloudy today. EPIC FAIL..not even close. at best it was 43, (for a breif period of time) and very cloudy with minor amounts of rain all day here. Wow..can someone please pay me to make mistakes..that would be fantastic. "Uhhh yeah i think it will be between 30 and 95 degrees with a 50% chance of some kind of precipitaion tomorrow:..That will be $49.99 please (: