Happy (Belated) Birthday To Me

Happy Birthday To Me
I'm one hundred and three
I still go to preschool
And I miss my Mommy.

My Mommy's at work
She fired a jerk
She hired a monkey
To do my homework

The monkey couldn't do it
And he said "Boo hoo"
He went out of the door
And back to the zoo

*As taught to me by Jacob



* Cartoons by Ross Yamanaka. I wish by me.

How are these men similiar?

It would probably help to know who they are.

Well, most people will be able to ID Nelson Mandela.

You know, the 90 year old Nobel Peace Prize winner only recently removed from the US Government's terrorist watch list...one down, 999,999 "security risks' to go! That Ed Kennedy guy still probably has an axe to grind about that thing in Dallas, but I digress.

The other guy....no one? Bueller? Bueller?

Well, here's how I got started on this.

I was listening to the BBC's reporting on Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday and they mentioned that he was "South Africa's first democratically elected president". This got me to thinking.

If universal suffrage = democracy (and conversely less than universal suffrage <> democracy) then I wondered who was the US's first democratically elected president?

Washington? Yeah right...No it took another 133 years after him to actually elect a president democratically in the USA.

Any guesses? Well, I did pretty much give it away by showing his picture above.

Warren G. Harding btw.

Happy Birthday Jake!

And Kevin Bacon too. And that dude who invented the Zeppelin...um...what's his name again? Oh and the Wall Street Journal! And Marty Feldman!

Only Jake got coffee ice cream cake on the deck though. And dinosaurs, airplanes, cards, hugs, etc.