We. TV

We.TV is my favorite channel mostly because it has two paranormal shows that I love.

It has Ghost Whisperer, a show about a woman who can talk to ghosts, so she tries to help them finish whatever they stayed behind to do, so that they can go into the light.

It also has Charmed, my most favorite show ever, about three sisters who find out that they are witches , and they use their special powers to protect the innocent… and themselves.

Tnt

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Tnt is on this list for one reason only- it has Charmed.

It also has Angel, Supernatural, and a bunch of other supernatural shows that I haven’t seen yet, but I do plan on watching.

SyFy

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Syfy is a great show for lovers of ghosts and superpowers, etc. The shows on this that I like are Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International.

They both are the same ghost hunting company, just two different teams. They go to haunted locations all over the globe to search for ghosts. They are very professional, and even with all the hard work, they still have  time to get in a few laughs.

                                                   -Audifan

Croatia has a serious landmine problem, inherited from wars in the 1990’s. More than 1,000 square kilometres of Croatian countryside is thought to be contaminated by mines. More than 100 people have been killed by mines in the past 12 years, and about 250,000 mines are still buried.

Professor Kezic says that the training of bees only takes 3-4 days, they spend the first day in a large net tent with the scent of TNT and food in it, and they associate them. Afterwards, some of the bees are taken out and tested to see if they can locate explosives.

Other animals have been trained to do things like this as well, such as the Gambian giant pouched rats. Similar to the bees, they’re trained to associate the smell of food and TNT with each other. Dogs can also be used to help find mines, seeing as they have a good sense of smell, but aren’t common due to their weight, and it being possible for them to set off the mines.

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Although Benjamin Franklin may have had the first political cartoon published in the “Pennsylvania Gazette” on May 9, 1794, it was Walt Disney’s “Steamboat Willie” that began the era of talking cartoons on November 18, 1928. Saturday mornings were filled with a wide array of humor and slapstick and it kept all of us kids glued to the television like suction cups sticking to a glass window pane.

I loved Tom and Jerry. Hanna and Barbera/MGM ran this series of literally cat and mouse hilarity, from 1940 to 1958. In 1953 “Johann Mouse” was a story about a waltzing mouse who loved music by “Strauss” and whenever he heard the music he would dance. Naturally, each time Jerry would waltz, Tom who was the house cat, would endlessly try to snare his prey. This cartoon earned “Tom and Jerry” their seventh Oscar at the 25th Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film.

Is there a person or character that can ask, “Eh, what’s up doc” better than Bugs Bunny? Bugs Bunny is the Looney Tunes mascot for Warner Brothers and was endeared to the American viewing audience for decades. The sarcastic hare made many phrases both famous and popular and they include, “What a maroon” (his way of saying moron), “Of course you realize, this means war,” “Ain’t I a stinker,” “What a rube,” and “I knew I should have taken that left turn in Albuquerque.” Bugs was usually the winner in the conflicts he had with the likes of “Yosemite Sam,” “Elmer Fudd,” “Daffy Duck,” and even “Wile E. Coyote.”

“Heckle and Jeckle” were the vinyl black magpies that first appeared in 1946. These two characters represented what it was like to constantly be on the lookout for a free ride. Terry Toones owned “Heckle and Jeckle” and provided us with the humor of two birds who were really nothing more than con artists seeking a free meal, free lodging and basically just a free ride in life.

If you think chipmunks are cute, and I certainly do, then the cartoon to watch was “Chip and Dale.” These adorable critters were born in 1943 and gave us a look at a dim witted Dale and the ever scheming Chip. There were two subtle differences between Chip and Dale. Chip had only one tooth and a small black nose, while Dale had two teeth and a large red nose.

Who can not remember having their sides split open to the antics of the “Road Runner” and “Wile E. Coyote?” The theme song still runs through my head. “Road Runner the coyote is after you. Road Runner, if he catches you you’re through.” Beep, beep, these two arch rivals burst onto the scene on September 17, 1949 and together they were featured in 48 cartoons. Poor Wile E. Coyote, always purchasing destructive apparatuses from the Acme Company, only to have all of them fail him miserably. We laughed as Mr. Coyote was blown up by TNT and flattened like a pancake by boulders as the Road Runner would streak by leaving him in a cloud of dust.

“I’m Popeye the Sailor Man, I’m Popey the Sailor Man, I’m strong to the finich, cause I eats my spinach, I’m Popey the Sailor Man, toot, toot.” Popeye first sailed into the comic strips on January 17, 1929, as a middle aged, one eyed, pipe smoking sailor with thinning hair. He was a mild mannered character who spoke with a speech impediment and his nemesis was none other than Bluto/Brutus, the disgustingly over bearing, bearded man, forever chasing Olive Oyl.  Popeye operated under a code of moral ethics, unlike his father Poopdeck Pappy. If Popeye was pushed too far, then look out because once he ate his can of spinach he was transformed into our first super hero. I ate tons of spinach as a kid, as I am sure most of my peers did as well. We wanted the kind of strength and power Popeye could deliver.

The above classics are all but forgotten now and replaced by politically correct cartoons like SpongeBob SquarePants. Apparently, the generation I grew up in was exposed to an excess of violence in cartoons. People were blown up, incinerated, squashed and beaten up with a visual of stars floating above their blackened eyes. They limped on crutches and wore casts and were covered in band-aids, but as children, we knew it wasn’t real. 

What our parents felt was harmless entertainment in the 1950’s and 1960’s is no longer an accepted norm. On the contrary, children of today are protected from all types of violent acts, even if they are portrayed in a cartoon format. Has this change helped in making society less aggressive? I certainly don’t think so, but hey, you be the judge. BAM! SQUISH! KABOOM! CUCKOO, CUCKOO!

Written By: Dennis L. Page

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