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VIDEOWe had a recent health alert for our friend, Pastor Charles Henrickson. However, as you can see in this video of Charles at the LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) convention in Milwaukee on Monday, he is alive and well and verrrrry informal. It was mentioned in the Free Republic that Charles was scheduled for a PET scan and I am happy to tell you that he has reported on Facebook that scan showed his cancer is limited to his lung and has not spread to the rest of his body. Perhaps we shall have more videos of informal Charles at...

For many years, Pastor Charles Henrickson has posted a good Scriptural sermon here on FR. Please pray for him. He has a health challenge; that's all I can say. Some laudable things about Pastor Henrickson: - he has posted a very good Confessional Lutheran sermon here every week for a long time - he uses his real name - he's openly being a member of Free Republic when so many, even in a conservative church body, would look down upon him for that. I don't know any other MO Synod pastor who does this, and I know quite a few....

Donald Trump was in Iowa tonight and gave a speech to thousands of supporters in Fort Dodge. He blasted all of his opponents, especially Ben Carson, who he repeatedly mocked and spoke about for 9 minutes. He even does a little stabbing scene before asking what the hell is wrong with Iowa that Ben Carson is so close to him in the polls.

Happy Birthday, Charles Henrickson!!!Yes, today Charles hits the big Six-Oh! So I thought what better tribute to my DUmmie FUnnies "co-conspirator" than to present a medley of his best parody song hits. I will present my favorite, "Self-Recanted Evening," and you can do the same by doing an online search of the DUmmie FUnnies or other sites. I mention the latter because another great Henrickson hit was "E.L.C.A" based on "Y.M.C.A" which caused a bit of a controversy among his fellow Lutherans for being perhaps too irreverent. However, as I say, a person with no sense of humor confuses the...

So who was the first to coin Barack Obama's "non-campaign" campaign bus tour as "Magical Misery Tour?" Was it Mitt Romney or Rush Limbaugh? Answer: Neither. The first person documented to have so coined the bus tour was my DUmmie FUnnies co-author  Charles Henrickson as you can see documented in his August 9 Free Republic post:#57 (same number as the number of states in the Obama States of America).  Charles also posted a DUmmie FUnnies edition on August 14 by that same name which included a parody song about the "Magical Misery Tour" sung to the tune of Magical Mystery...

It has been some time since I was really involved in synodical leadership. The last time I attended a convention was six years ago, and while I am blessed to serve on the South Wisconsin District Board of Directors, my involvement in our church body at large has been minimal since my illness several years ago. Because of this, it struck me today, upon my arrival in Houston, how different my perspective is now than it was six years ago when I was a delegate. Six years ago I was all about fixing what is wrong, making the synod safe...

It is the joke told by Sarah Palin on Saturday at the Gridiron Club that has spread far and wide. It was featured by many websites and news outlets including Politico and U.S. News & World Report. Here is how the Associated Press reported the joke: Palin targeted her hosts, Democrats and Sen. John McCain's campaign staff, as well as herself.If the election had turned out differently, she said, "I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book, 'Going Rogaine.'" Biden has sparse hair. For your...

The mass weeping that the Barack Obama speech caused in the Leftwing blogosphere which was chronicled in all its comedic depth in the previous two editions of the DUmmie FUnnies has now inspired another song parody by Charles Henrickson. The parody song is called "The Lib'ral White Crowd That Cried" based on the Johnny Ray song, The Little White Cloud That Cried I was thinking, "Down goes Obama" Feeling Barry's sure to slide When all at once I saw, filled with drama The lib'ral white crowd that cried They told me they believe what he preaches And no one...

Before we begin today's DUFU edition, an update from the Charles Henrickson vs Paul Shanklin battlefront. As pointed out in the previous DUmmie FUnnies EDITION, Charles posted a parody based on Ebony and Ivory about Obama and Hillary called Ebony and Ovary last Wednesday. Almost simultaneously on the air, Rush Limbaugh asked his parodist, Paul Shanklin, to come up with a parody song about Obama and Hillary based on Ebony and Ivory. The world now awaits the Paul Shanklin version to see how it compares to the Henrickson parody. Already Henrickson has scored some important points in the opening...

This week we might see a major duel between two figures known in the political world. No, not the feud between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I am referring to a much more intense rivalry between song parodists Charles Henrickson and Paul Shanklin. The reason why we might see these two writers of parody go head to head is that this past Wednesday, Charles Henrickson posted his Ebony and Ovary song parody on the Free Republic at exactly 2:03 PM at Reply #60 on this DUFU THREAD. Six minutes later, on Reply #62, Freeper mikrofon, posted the following message:...

A special surprise for our own Charles Henrickson who frequently guest hosts the DUmmie FUnnies in addition to pastoring wayward Lutherans in the St. Louis area. His song parody, How Do You Free Obama From Maria? has now been produced into a VIDEO by Henry Gomez of the BABALU BLOG. In addition to being one of the top biblical scholars around including being fluent in several dead languages (Aramaic, ancient Greek, etc.) and some live ones (Swedish, German, etc.), Charles is easily the BEST song parodyist out there. In fact, his Palm Beach Pokey PARODY became the theme song...

I guess Adrian "Wrong Way" Flanagan is less than pleased with the blog posted here yesterday by your humble NewsBusters correspondent. Whilst trapped by arctic ice, Wrong Way has taken time out from his travails to attack Yours Truly on his Alpha Global Expedition Blog entry tenderly titled, Spot the Moron: After a badly written piece for a French news wire service, a false story has started circulating through the Internet.Amazing how rapidly inaccurate information can spread.The first corrections are starting to appear and we liked the postings by Dan Xavier. One is reproduced in full on BSD - The Detector...

(A little change of format in this edition of the DUmmie FUnnies... In yesterday's EDITION of the DUmmie FUnnies I noted that John Edwards' 6 year-old son had to be carefully taught to make fun of poorer kids for wearing shoes sold at Wal-Mart. I suggested that a certain Lutheran songmeister write a song parody on this theme based on the tune of You've Got To Be Carefully Taught from the musical play, "South Pacific." I was referring, of course, to Charles Henrickson, a Lutheran minister from St. Louis who has a penchant for writing song parodies, the number...