To the Newton Independent:
A friend once affectionately called me a cantankerous old cuss. My wife said, "doesn't that make you mad?" I said, "Heck no, I kind of like that moniker. He didn't say I was a dumb old cuss." And dumb is what I write about today.
Right there on the front page of that big Des Moines Sunday paper the glaring headline states that 33 percent of Iowans are T-baggers. Well, la, de, da.
Where is it written that Iowans can't be just as dumb as other Americans? Go look in your fridge at the yellow margarine and understand this. Iowa once had a law that said yellow margarine could not be sold in stores in Iowa.
Americans are so puffed up they seem to think they are the smartest people in the world. They're not. Americans are so dumb that they will spend half a million dollars or more educating and training a person to serve in the military then kick that person out of the service if they are found to be gay.
The first civil war in America was fought over whiskey (The Whiskey Rebellion). America from the beginning has been a nation of alcohol drinkers and yet managed to pass a national law outlawing it.
I think that if we were really smart, we would not be involved in two wars today.
Some people might ask what makes a cantankerous old cuss so smart. Well, I was smart enough to marry a woman 51 years ago who is smarter than me.
Olen W. Lambert
Newton
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