Just what I expect from the Huffington Post.

I’m sure the folks at Mensa are sitting by the phone pining, and waiting for Hendra’s call.

Pablo on November 24, 2006 at 6:55 AM

Si mi amor señor!

I find it amazing that he so willingly and effortlessly mocks God. Does he truly believe that God can be mocked and he would receive no retribution for his statements? God listens to such mindless statements and he will receive the just reward for his senselessness. The whole article is akin to blasphemy for it mocks God and he invokes God’s name in a foolish way.

Beward, God cannot be mocked.

armyvet on November 23, 2006 at 7:46 PM

Well said armyvet. If there was ever the classic example of taking God’s Name in vain, Hendra’s hatefest is it. I’d like to see the look on his face when God asks him to ‘splain himself.

Absolutely Shameless!!!!

This only proves they are Godless!!

I find it amazing that he so willingly and effortlessly mocks God.

“Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galations 6:7 NKJV

I think the characterization is right on, however. These people are mean, insensitive and despise our great republic.

Does he call himself a progressive intellectual?

I’m sure the folks at Mensa are sitting by the phone pining, and waiting for Hendra’s call.

Remember when we were all told that the powerful and famous people would be blogging there? And now, all they can muster is the likes of Tony Hendra?

what’s the use? Some of the comments cheered him on, and at least two called for Cheney to be killed. I know the Left is mentally ill, and this clown is only another example, but how crazy with sick anger does one need to be to go on and on writing such….

Hendra received acclaim for his 2004 memoir Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul. His novel The Messiah Of Morris Avenue, published in April 2006, depicts the second coming of Christ in a future United States ruled by the religious right.

Heavens…and how, I wonder, would the Savior, in Mr. Hendra’s opinion, get on with the “religious right”?

I remember a radio interview with Mr. Hendra, where he described his conversion and the priest with whom he prayed. Good for him. It would appear, however, that his education was incomplete.

It is very clear that his piece was a mock Thanksgiving Day prayer, and it is clear that this thinly-veiled screed is an attempt at satire. I remember his work with National Lampoon Radio Hour especially. It was clever and edgy in its time. It would seem that the years have ground deeply into the wit, and have left little but the edge.

It’s a foul, fetid piece. I will not question his faith. I do question his taste. You don’t couch words of hate in words of prayer.

This kind of fool will be the last to know. —
bofh

…and will be among the first to die, ironically enough.

There is some justice in totalitarianism, after all, if of a twisted sort.

Europe’s gone, and the UK will go down with it. This kind of fool will be the last to know.

bofh on November 23, 2006 at 9:44 PM

And this kind of fool will be the first to go.

How much self-hatred does this dude possess? Does he call himself a progressive intellectual?

Another self-absorbed rat dwelling in the far left latrine. He doens’t even realize that this makes his side look worse than those he hates so much.

Despicable creature. And it’s Thanksgiving.

I’m thankful we’re not like that. I couldn’t live.

Bush 43 made his fortune drilling for oil in Texas …

Sorry: Should be “Bush 41 made his fortune ….”

And I’ll also point out that Mr. Hendra’s descriptions seem to be nothing but recycled epithets hurled at Bush by the Left. He describes Bush the Elder, for example, as “craven, racist, traitorous” — but 41 was a war-hero Navy pilot, and has never been associated with racism.

Mr. Hendra then goes on to speak of the Bush family as “a dynasty built on graft, treason, war crimes and good old-fashioned brown-nosing.” No, the current president’s grandfather was a U.S. Senator, and Bush 43 made his fortune drilling for oil in Texas. Public service and entrepreneurial success are not “graft, treason” etc.

Hendra’s clumsy choice of language is what makes this sentence so remarkable: “suppurating drivel from his catamites”? A catamite, according to my rather Victorian old dictionary, is “a boy kept for unnatural purposes” — a pederast’s plaything.
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I give thanks O Lord for Dick Cheney’s Heart, that brave organ which has done its darn-tootin’ best on four separate occasions to do what we can only dream about. – Tony Hendra

…now evil is that?

I know that the Left doesn’t believe in any objective facts, let alone the existence of evil as a tangible entity. I understand that it cramps their “lifestyle choices” and limits their options. I can also understand that evil is seen as “repressed personal pain”, which needs to be “processed”.

They seem to see the world like Bugs Bunny. Wile E. Coyote chases Ol’ Bugs half-way across a king-hell canyon, and they stop. Wile E. looks down, makes “miserable bastard” eye-contact, and plummets to yet another acordion-like heap on the ground. Bugs smacks his lips, says “good thing I don’t believe in gravity”, and walks off camera.

Too bad beliefs, no matter how negotiable, don’t really effect us like that. Saddam wasn’t evil because we agreed that what he did was bad. He was evil because stuffing people feet-first into plastic shredders is an objective evil. It’s objective because it’s not what we think about it that makes it evil. Stalin was evil because, statistically, his body count makes Hitler the *SECOND* most effective mustachioed mass-murderer of the 20th Century. You don’t have to believe that what they did was wrong. What they did was wrong…full stop.

…and, wishing for a man’s death like this is evil. It isn’t cute, it isn’t glib or smart. It’s evil.

That’s a difference between all of the “racists, bigots and anonymous “misinformed” people here in the starbord side of the blogosphere and the Left. We may want Bin Laden whacked, but he earned it. We may want Tookie Williams whacked, but he had his day in court, he had benefit of counsel, and he earned his sentence beyond a reasonable doubt. They want people dead because they dare to disagree with them.

Donna Brazile hopes out loud that Mrs. Thomas cooks with a lot of grease, so’s Justice Thomas will die of heart failure as she says that black men tend to do with that sort of diet. She even titled a book “Cooking With Grease”. Whackos, never called into account, perform plays and even make movies revelling in the assasination of the President. This waste of perfectly good genetic material muses humorously about Mr. Cheney’s heart health. Evil, all of it.

For my part, I wouldn’t mind if Cindy Sheehan were to shut up. I wouldn’t want it to be because she contracted lockjaw, however. She’s entitled to her opinion, as extreme as it may be, whether or not she feels that I’m entitled to mine. Let her spew, so long as I have the right to reply, regardless of her “absolute moral authority”…except that the Left doesn’t think that I or you *DO* have a right to reply. That’s the problem with people who feel as if they’ve staked out the moral high ground.

I just happen to think that my views are more traditional, tried, true and practical. They seem to think, it being the only time they admit to the existence of objective facts, that their views are objectively right, and that anyone who disagrees is some sort of a heretic.

…so don’t tell me that the Left has no religion. They simply have a competing religion.

This utterance is dispicable. Mr. Hendra’s written about his conversion to Catholicism, I seem to remember. I hope he can square this with his priest. I don’t see how he can, but more power to him.

I hope that, to spite Mr. Hendra, Ms. Brazile, and any of the minions snarking-up Huff-n-Puff’s blogs that we all of us here, Right and Left, go on blogging and sending sharp ripple into their chi for a hundred years. I hope that Mr. Cheney lives to be 103…and lives to forgive them.

Then again, I doubt that he even cares. I doesn’t do to sweat the small stuff.