  urlLink Remember when you were a child and you would wake up early on Saturday mornings just to run to the living room in your footed pajamas,  and jump on the couch just to watch those urlLink caring bears save the world from sadness,  anger,
 and hate?  Rainbow bright teach her friends the value of sharing,  He- Man battle Skeletor,  Thundercats to the rescue,  Punky have another missmatched outfit,  and my most favorite the little blue guys in the mushroom houses.  What happened?  Cartoons sure have changed since the days when I was a kid,  we had cute and cuddly and fun and things that taught lessons,  now we have fighting and angry and realistic,  reality shows taking Saturday Morning Cartoons away.
if it weren't for the Cartoon Network and Disney Channel,  cartoons we know would be dead.  What stirred all this up in me you ask?  I was reading an article this morning about a four year old,  who stabbed a ten year old because he wouldn't let him play with his whiffle ball. a fourteen year old killed three people on a ranch. and then I remembered the other day I was watching television because we were off work early for the fourth weekend and there was this cartoon,
 it was so violent and angry. I actually got saddened and longed for DUCKTALES to come on,  I longed for TAILSPIN,  if you look at the people my age and the kids that are growing up there is a big difference in us.  My nephew will be leaving in August to join an air force academy for teens,  is this what our country is coming to,  preparing us all for the inevitable cruel world that is out there,  should we really kill that illusion for the kids so that they can grow up hating life and knowing the cruelties it presents?
 September 11th was a huge wake up call and caused a lot of parents to have to explain a lot of reasons for things happening in the world. every day I open a paper and there is something about beheading,  hell the first time I heard of beheading was when I got a game called MORTAL KOMBAT and I thought it was just stuff that happened in games and movies.
sadly its gone on for centuries and began in the asian countries.  Kids are thrown into reality due to this,  which in reality is making them harder to the facts.  I was thrown into reality as a kid too,  but I still had the comfort of Papa Smurf,  even though I had no Papa,  or Baloo and Kit from TAILSPIN or Chip and Dale from Rescue Rangers,  and of course the ducks from DUCKTALES. these guys kept me safe and comforted when I knew first hand that the world was full of killers and people out to hurt others and pain.  Even today I like to escape into that world,  because living in reality sometimes is a little to harsh for even me.  SO the moral of my ramblings is. kick back and watch The Jetsons or Punky Brewster or even The Flinstones. and take a break from the disaster that is our world.
