Hope its cheese-flavored.

I guess that 2012 will be the year of something significant and earth-shattering, like the Boxing Day Tsunami or 9/11.

Why?

Because, at least sometime between now and then, somebody – be it John Hagee or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – is going to bring back the Messiah/Mahdi.

Hagee preaches it. Ahmadinejad prepared Tehran’s infrastructure for the arrival while he was mayor of the city. The former is throwing no mere chump change to the Israeli state, and has organizaed the Christians United For Israel (CUFI). The latter saw an aura of light around him when he spoke at the U.N. General Assembly, and has a nuclear lab in his basement.

Meanwhile….
Hamas picks a fight. Again.
Hezbollah joins in. Again.
Israel is in Lebanon. Again.
Fighting Hezbollah. Again.
Carpet-bombing Beirut. Again.

And now a convert from Islam to Baha’i has mentioned some text written over a century ago by one of Baha’i’s granddaddies about how Jesus died on the cross…..then went to India.

And a fringe group makes an annual pilgrimage to the Dome of the Rock with 6-ton stone blocks to rebuild the Temple on the Mount, rebuffed each year by the (Israeli) police; while preacher/farmer Clyde Lott from Canton, Mississippi, tries to send his homegrown unblemished red heifers to Israel (and is rebuffed by the relevant Food and Drug authorities in both the US and Israel).

The Middle East (and anyone, anywhere, who associates with it) is a madhouse. Yet the rest of us in Europe and North America is bitching about illegal immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico? Hah!

Oh, and for the nostalgic and interested, here’s the late Syd Barrett’s First Acid Trip.

Enjoy.