Hello once again from the Raging Idiot. I come to you today, disgusted by recent events in the city of Phoenix, my home town. If you haven't already heard, there are some issues going around with Bishop O'Brien, of Phoenix. Apparently, he wants to go to jail, badly. About 2 weeks ago, he recently admitted, I repeat, HE ADMITTED, that he transferred priests to other churches when he found they molested children. He knew these priests were getting jiggy with kids and he transferred them to different churches with new unsuspecting crops of kids. That alone, should be jail time and some special molesting of his own. No. Apparently, our attorney general decided that he would let O'Brien off, if he relinquished some of his authority. Which, being the smart man that he is, O'Brien agreed to, and spared his hind quarters some prison loving. However, just two weeks after this, he is in trouble again.

Apparently, O'Brien was driving down a road, when he nailed a pedestrian who was jaywalking, with his Buick. Instead of stopping to check on the poor guy, he drove off, Hit 'n Run style. Another car hit the guy also, and drove off. O'Brien made it home with a windshield that was caved in to the tune of 6 feet, 235 lbs worth of person. The cops traced it back to him, luckily and quickly. You see, O'Brien, being the good bishop that he is, decided he needed to get his windshield fixed, like any responsible motorist with a cracked windshield would. This would cover up the evidence of the large guy that hit his windshield. When contacted by the cops, O'Briend said he thought he hit a rock or maybe a dog. Excuse me? A rock or maybe a dog? That's the worst lie I've heard since, well, I don't think I've heard a lie that bad. So now, Bishop O'Brien is sitting in the pokey waiting for his trial.

Now, why would someone, especially a bishop, flee the scene of an accident that killed a man. Was he drunk? On some drugs? Maybe he was also drunk when he let his priests fondle kids. This guy is a real piece of work.

However, the real honorary idiots, are the citizens of Phoenix. Numerous average citizens went on the local news and pledged their support for the embattled bishop. Yes, they pledged their support for this disgusting human being. Basically, what this tells me is that there are residents of Phoenix that support killing pedestrians and fleeing the scene, molesting kids, withholding information from police and trying to cover up evidence of a crime. Oh yeah, considering there is a strong possibility that the priest was drunk when he hit the pedestrian, they also apparently support drunk driving. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THESE THINGS? Are the residents of Phoenix that dumb? I guess so.

The Catholic church has had a black eye since it came out that priests were getting frisky with kids, but this is much worse. The antics of Bishop O'Brien are not going to require a little time and an ice pack to heal. This is going to require complete and total facial reconstructive surgery to fix. The Pope better get out his scalpel and morphine, because this one is not going away easy.

And I'll raise a beer to the hopes that our brilliant attorney general throws the book at O'Brien. This is one man that deserves it.



The Raging Idiot

- posted by Andy @ 1:11 PM

 
Hello from the Raging Idiot. I'd like to ramble on today about some other idiots that have been irritating the hell out of me lately. Idiot drivers/road ragers. First of all, if you are uncomfortable driving the speed limit and insist on going 40 mph, please get off roads with a 65 mph speed limit. Stick to the 45 mph speed limit roads where your vehicle won't have a big red bullseye painted on the back of it. All you are doing is turning yourself and your car into a moving roadblock and are going to get yourself and others hurt. Stop it.

Over the weekend I went on a small road-trip with The Idiot's Girlfriend to visit her dad for Father's Day. Upon returning, I also read an article on azcentral.com about a girl that died as a result of road rage and realized that there are a bunch of jackasses on the roads these days. I tried to figure out this relatively new phenomenon, road rage, and came up with nothing. There is no reason. A car is a very expensive piece of machinery that many people, mostly males, have turned into an extension of themselves. Some men even compensate for other things by driving huge trucks or super-fast cars. It makes them feel more manly. However, if someone almost hits on the on the road or cuts them off they feel like they have been disrespected. It's not just men though. Women do this too. How it escalates into yelling out the window, calling names, flipping people off and ultimately shooting/beating the hell out of someone is beyond me. It's not a problem to yell with the windows rolled up to get it out of your system. Generally speaking it doesn't hurt anybody. Although, most people aren't satisfied with that and have to let the person know that they disrespected them.

I'm not sure how this "disrespect" thing started, but it has to stop. Nowadays everyone feels like they should be respected, sometimes without them even respecting anybody but themselves. It's ridiculous. "Yo dawg, you disrespecting me?" I can't tell you how many times I've heard this at parties, bars, on the road, etc. Quit trying to act tough people. All it does is get people hurt or killed and make you look like a meathead. Enough is enough. Nobody is disrespecting you by cutting you off, they just think they're in more of a hurry than you think you are.

Thanks for reading, all none of you.

E-mail me at xerotone@hotmail.com for any feedback.

THE RAGING IDIOT
- posted by Andy @ 2:47 PM

 
I would like to start out my first posting with a note to a band that used to be one of my favorites, the Deftones. What the hell happened to you? Minerva? You would have kicked your own butts 5 years ago if you wrote that song. Horrible. I wanted to shove toothpicks through my eardrums when I found out that was you. Please get back to the style you had on Adrenaline (your best album) and your fans will appreciate you so much. I love music and used to love the Deftones, but after this one, not anymore. Another thing I love is NASCAR and I'm sick of hearing all of these so-called 'fans' talking crap about how NASCAR is playing favorites and changing the rules to fit that person. If that were true, do you think NASCAR would have let Tony Stewart win the championship last year? The answer is no. Quit whining when your favorite driver gets passed or loses a race because of a rule call or non-call. NASCAR doesn't play favorites and try to fix races. It doesn't happen, get over it. I'd also like to vent a little bit about our local high school football team, the Arizona Cardinals. Why do they insist of running the franchise like a bunch of idiots? Yeah, Emmitt Smith is going to help the team out a lot when you have NO PASSING GAME. A journeyman quarterback and no wide receivers on the team that have caught more than 30 passes IN THEIR CAREER do not make a passing game. The Cardinals are going to enter the pantheon of horrible teams this year. I don't care that much, because I've never cared much about the Cards, but it would be nice to have a decent home team. I'm not asking much much, just mediocrity. Well, either way, I'm done for now. Hopefully this posting hasn't been too difficult to read or obnoxious. Well, actually, I hope it has been obnoxious. That's my style. Speaking of which hopefully I'll find my style for these postings soon and if you have any advice or feedback or anything, feel free to e-mail me at xerotone@hotmail.com.

Thanks for coming...
- posted by Andy @ 3:53 PM