I Suspect This Is Really President Obama’s Latest Plan To Defeat ISIS And Bring Peace To The Region
[guest post by Dana]
I wouldn’t be surprised. It seems like something of which he would approve. And why not? Just maybe the ‘Peace Troubadour’ will have better luck bringing singing peace to the region than any strategy to come out of the White House thus far. After all, the president must realize by now that the JV team wasn’t pushed to surrender by his latest warning to them, so why not try singing them to peace, eh?
James Twyman, ‘Peace Troubadour,’ is embarking on ‘the most important and dangerous peace mission’ of his life—to the Israel-Syria border and beyond, wielding his classical guitar.
ISIS generally doesn’t respond well to music.
But that isn’t stopping James Twyman, an author and musician based in Portland, Oregon, from planning a trip to ISIS-held territory in Syria later this month to help bring peace to the region through the power of a musical-prayer concert.
“Performing the peace prayers in ISIS Controlled Syria will be the most important and dangerous peace mission of my life,” the self-described “Peace Troubadour” blogged last month.
“Every peace mission I’ve been on has been dangerous, but this journey is without question the most perilous, and in my opinion—the most important,” Twyman wrote. “People everywhere are concerned about the escalating violence in the Middle East, especially with the rise of ISIS, but they don’t feel empowered to be part of the solution. That is what we are about to change.”
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“When people say I shouldn’t do this because it will make ISIS mad, I say, ‘If we’re thinking that way, then ISIS has already won,’” he concluded. “There is no way to know what will or will not work, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with having a positive attitude or bringing people together, particularly those who do believe in the power of prayer.”
Riiight. One can only imagine what ISIS would be like if they, you know, really got mad or something…
Anyway, keep thinking those happy thoughts, people, and stay positive! That ‘Peace Troubadour’ is ready to ride the ‘Peace Train’ right on down the line to, well, peace.
–Dana
Wow. Have we fallen down the rabbit hole or what??!!
Dana (86e864) — 1/9/2016 @ 10:16 pmI hope his parents are ok and on board with his being beheaded. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have a wife. Darwin’s Law works in overdrive with these ISIS folk leading the charge.
Lynne (105e42) — 1/9/2016 @ 10:36 pmLynne,
I was thinking more on the lines of just how many soldiers will have to risk their lives to try and save this idiot when he’s taken captive. Before they cut off his head.
Dana (86e864) — 1/9/2016 @ 10:40 pmI hope he does “I Gave My Love a Cherry.” Imam Bluto will respond appropriately.
Minister Jack X Klompus Muhammad (8fdef9) — 1/10/2016 @ 1:01 amIdiot.
mg (31009b) — 1/10/2016 @ 3:30 amI certainly hope this provides some proof of the law of natural selection.
xsssx (3bbec8) — 1/10/2016 @ 5:23 amThis brings to mind the ‘artist’ who decided to hitch hike her way across the Middle East in a wedding dress. Unfortunately, I never heard of her quest until after she was raped, murdered and dumped in the middle of nowhere (Turkey, maybe?) but this fellow’s end might bring me some closure.
oldirishpig (847652) — 1/10/2016 @ 5:37 ami got a death wish baby baby don’t want you to save me save me
happyfeet (831175) — 1/10/2016 @ 6:23 amMake him sign a waiver, so we’re not on the hook when they whack the lunatic.
mojo (a3d457) — 1/10/2016 @ 6:50 amHippies, smh
Angelo (573955) — 1/10/2016 @ 7:08 amAt first I thought the guy was just one of those unicorn fart loving peace-at-any-price Christian missionary types then I read; “but they don’t feel empowered to be part of the solution”. Once the word empowered enters the conversation I know the guy is a leftist clown. Perhaps he can have a dialogue with ISIS and promote inclusion and diversity and understanding in the Middle East. Or maybe they’ll just cut his friggin’ head off. Let’s wait and see. One of those outcomes would surprise me, the other won’t. You guess which.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 7:24 amI am rooting for Darwin to teach people another painful lesson.
Rodney King's Spirit (3adc86) — 1/10/2016 @ 7:37 amDon’t mock him! This is at least as good as any idea obama had to make the middle east safe.
Jim (a9b7c7) — 1/10/2016 @ 7:45 amAccording to the link, he is going to first perform in Israeli controlled land.
MD in Philly (not in Philly) (deca84) — 1/10/2016 @ 7:58 amdibs on his star wars figures
happyfeet (831175) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:00 amCouldn’t we just send the Dixie Chicks instead?
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:10 amNow it’s been crappy lately
Thinking about the bad things to come
And I believe it could be
Caliphate has begun
I’ve been stewing lately
Dreaming about this world ain’t fun
And I believe it could be
World War Three’s bound to come
For out on the edge of darkness
There runs the piece train
Piece train take this country
Burn it to the ground and then
Piece train sounding louder
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:25 amRide on the piece train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
Come on the piece train
Piece train’s a holy roller
Everyone jump upon the piece train
Hoo-ah-eeh-ah-hoo-ah
This is the piece train
Somethins wrong cause my mind is fading,
And everywhere I look there’s a dead end waiting,
Temperature’s dropping at the rotten oasis
Stealing kisses from the burkha’d faces
Heads are hanging from the imam’s trees
Mouthwash, jukebox, gasoline,
Kalishnakovs pointing at a poor man’s pockets
Smiling eyes with ’em out of the sockets
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Love machines on the sympathy crutches
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:34 amDiscount beheadings on the dropout buses
Hitchin’ a ride with the bleedin’ noses
Comin’ to town with jihadi blues
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
Got a devil’s haircut in my mind
In high school, they usually only send the JV Cheerleading Squad to the JV games. They normally don’t send the mascot, the spirit team, or the marching band, or the sophomore Grateful Deadhead who sang a James Taylor song at the school talent show last spring.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:49 amMark, there’s a way we can still honor the dignity of the White House while keeping in mind the lack of dignity which the Occupier in Chief has wrought.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:52 amAt the least, we should refer to him as Resident Obama, since he does technically live in the White House.
Blood, blood, blood… blood, blood blood
There’s nothing you can do but kneel and pray
Nothing you can do, you won’t be saved
Nothing you can say, you just been played
They’ll play their game
Yer easy.
Nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save they can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do, but you can learn
Sucks to be you this time
Yer easy.
All you need is blood, all you need is blood
All you need is blood, blood… blood is all you need.
Blood, blood, blood… blood, blood, blood… blood blood, blood
All you need is blood, all you need is blood ,
All you need is blood, blood. blood is all you need.
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:53 amNothing you can see that isn’t shown.
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where
You’re meant to be
Yer easy.
Yep! Good ole Yusuf Islam (aka Steven Demetre Georgiou, Cat Stevens) the born again moslem loves him some Peace Train. Perhaps he’d have been better off considering Buddhism.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:53 amYou got it Colonel, I love “Blood, Blood, Blood”. Brought to us by the same simple minded fools who gave us “Imagine”.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:56 amOddly, me and ISIS share the same vomitorium.
Steve57 (17e737) — 1/10/2016 @ 9:08 amIf you see something that looks like a star
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 9:10 amAnd it’s shooting up off of the ground
And your head is rolling down a sandy beach
And you just can’t escape from the blade
Don’t worry too much, it’ll happen to you
We were children once, playing with toys
And the thing that you’re hearing is only the sound of
The low spark of headless boys
I assume the arrangements have already all been worked out, and the ISIS-controlled territory near the Golan Heights isn’t really controlled by the real ISIS, but by people who, for some reason or another, are saying they ISIS supporters.
Sammy Finkelman (dbec95) — 1/10/2016 @ 9:27 amOtherwise, the FBI would arrest him.
Sammy Finkelman (dbec95) — 1/10/2016 @ 9:28 amDear Abby…
My husband and I just celebrated 40 years of marriage, but he hasn’t worked for the last 15 years. All he does is get dressed in the morning and hop in his fancy car to visit his cronies.
He`s cheated on me many times with young girls who could be his grand daughters. I know because he brags about it to me. He smokes fancy cigars and drinks the most expensive champagne day and night.
We sleep in separate bedrooms because he`s always telling me he knows I`m a lesbian…and that my varicose veins and hairy back turn him off! Should I clobber him with the frying pan, or should I leave him, Abby? Your advice would be appreciated…
Mad as Hell
Dear Mad as Hell… You don`t have to take that kind of treatment from any man. I suggest you pack your bags and move out A.S.A.P.! Don`t resort to clobbering him with the frying pan. Try to act like a lady!
Remember…you`re running for President of the United States, so try to act like one!
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 10:32 amshe’s so disgusting i can’t belieber she left the stage in the middle of a debate and pulled her pants down
nasty cow
happyfeet (831175) — 1/10/2016 @ 10:38 amIf this doesn’t work, we should send some meditation counselors.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 1/10/2016 @ 10:45 am28 & 29,
Hilarious!
Dana (df569f) — 1/10/2016 @ 11:24 am“Rocket in My Socket”
The preezie called me up
He said, “Why don’t you take it on the road?”
“I’ll take you there on my Air Force One…”
“I’ll make a promise… you’ll have loads of fun.”
I put on my singin’ shoes
Packed my guitar, my harmonica too
The country was hot
The jihadis were not
(Chorus) I got a rocket in my pocket
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 11:48 amAnd one right up my socket
No way for me to stop it
Got a rocket
Why don’t he just get off it
Got to rock it
Rocket… Rocket… I said rocket!
Nuttin’ from nuttin’… I wouldn’t wanna be Sean Penn anyway, but REALLY wouldn’t wanna be him after el Chapo finds out he’s the guy who put authorties on the trail.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 12:35 pmRumor has it when the authorities heard Penn was to visit el Chapo they put a watch on his GPS in his cell phone and he led them directly to him. Penn’s a dead man walking.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 12:54 pmHave all these ISIS characters really passed a background check for guns?
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 1/10/2016 @ 1:29 pmHe’s just angling for an invite to the last SOTU address. Michelle will have a Syrian refugee and the gay boyfriend of a San Berdoo terrorist victim as her guests. Not sure if the Syrian will approve of that…but I would say that now the SOTU has officially jumped the shark once and for all. If Trump will say he won’t give one, not only will I vote for him, I will work for him.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sotu-sb-survivor-20160109-story.html
Patricia (5fc097) — 1/10/2016 @ 1:33 pmWhoops, my finger slipped, twice, and deleted comments by Mark saying for the 54,695th time that he doesn’t like the way we refer to Obama here.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/10/2016 @ 1:52 pmBoring obsession is boring.
Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/10/2016 @ 1:53 pm“ISIS On My Back”
Well I’m running ISIS on my back
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 1:57 pmI’ve been hiding ISIS on my back
They was beheading ISIS on my back
And their victims well they won’t be back
I been running monday tuesday wednesday
Thursday friday saturday sunday runnin
monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
Saturday sunday
What have I done?
Yes, I’m running down the camel track
Could you help me? ISIS on my back
They will catch me if I dare drop back
Wont you give me all the speed I lack
I been running monday tuesday wednesday
Thursday friday saturday sunday runnin
monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday
Saturday sunday
What have I done?
Rumor has it when the authorities heard Penn was to visit el Chapo they put a watch on his GPS in his cell phone and he led them directly to him. Penn’s a dead man walking.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 12:54 pm
Dang it! If we could somehow tie Susan Sarandon to it, we’d have a “two-fer”!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 1/10/2016 @ 2:00 pmMark,
I would really appreciate it if you could at least comment on the posts themselves, given the time and effort put into writing them, rather than nagging me about choosing to address President Obama as President Obama. If you don’t like that he is the president, I sure hope you’re working very hard to help make sure I won’t soon be referring to President Clinton in a year. Things could be worse!
Dana (86e864) — 1/10/2016 @ 2:06 pmPatricia,
Interesting that out of all the surviving family members that could have been chosen, the gay boyfriend was. I’m pretty sure the widow of the completed Jew wasn’t even in the running. I don’t care if he’s gay or the boyfriend, but the politicking of such a tragedy is painfully obvious, and I wish they had some resolve and class to resist scoring cheap political points in that way.
Dana (86e864) — 1/10/2016 @ 2:10 pmI guess it’s moderation again until he can figure it out. Meanwhile another comment just got trashed.
Mark: it’s boring. The topic is done. End of discussion. Get it?
Patterico (86c8ed) — 1/10/2016 @ 2:32 pmYou’ve really got to wonder whether this guy, the self-anointed ‘Peace Troubadour’, is delusional or simply severely myopic. Living in Portland, he just had the opportunity to witness a father and grandfather submit to imprisonment in the Federal Gulag for the crime of not selling their ranch to the BLM/FWS. But he obviously wasn’t touched by the damage done to the family of these men, nor to the men themselves, one of whom is has a reasonably high actuarial chance (about 16%) of dying while in the tender embrace of his Federal jailers. Both men were considered exemplars of their community by the sentencing judge. But this was of no concern compared to their obstinate refusal to buckle under to the massive force of the Federal government. Further, their lawyers may have been somewhat short of the mark when it comes to clarifying the difference between a backfire and arson, which suggests that these exemplars were also a bit naïve with regard to the complexities of dealing with federal bureaucrats, especially when choosing council to do battle with the dark side.
Had our peace maker taken notice of this, he might have had some chance of using his troubadour training to publicize the injustice, and at worst he’d end up in the same Guglag, but with a better chance of surviving.
Instead, he might achieve his 15 minutes of fame, but without the opportunity to personally witness his notoriety. But on the plus side, every time we exhale, we release a liter or two of 4% CO2 (40,000 ppm,) so he will no doubt be celebrated for his contribution to reducing green house gases as the western world’s demographic collapse marches into the future.
BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 1/10/2016 @ 3:16 pmSee what I mean? In the LAslimes article about the gay at the SOTU they wrote:
He didn’t die from gun violence, he was murdered by terrorists you lying pigs! The liars will do anything to get our guns even make it appear that if guns didn’t exist terrorists would magically disappear.
Rev. Barack Hussein Hoagie™ (f4eb27) — 1/10/2016 @ 3:17 pmUpon the occasion of the murder of one of his citizens. And the Rev.’s comments leads me to think it is even more mawkish and exploitative.
smh
Patricia (5fc097) — 1/10/2016 @ 3:25 pmRev. Hoagie, is it possible that they are having problems filling the balcony? If they assigned an empty seat to each of the incumbent’s failures, the press would have a great visual for dramatizing the Republican’s lack of bipartisan
surrendercompromise.If only the Republican side of the House would decide to attend a Bingo Night on the Eastern Shore instead of submitting to the incumbent’s insults, lies, and obfuscations. That would be a visual that a substantial portion of the American electorate would celebrate.
BobStewartatHome (a52abe) — 1/10/2016 @ 3:30 pmI don’t know if it still exists,
MD in Philly (not in Philly at the moment) (deca84) — 1/10/2016 @ 3:46 pmyears ago there was a web site that was a live feed of a rifle leaning against a wall,
with a running total of how long the gun had been observed to hurt no one.
Obama wishes he could have a man-bun like Hillary’s
steveg (fed1c9) — 1/10/2016 @ 4:20 pmMark,
I want to read your comments, and hear your criticisms and insights. But please first take into consideration the time and energy it takes for me to write a post before choosing to zone in on something that does not really make or break the post. Criticize the point I’m making in/with the post, criticize and critique my point of view, etc., and challenge me, but with that, please stop criticizing me for using the proper title for President Obama. Thanks~
Dana (86e864) — 1/10/2016 @ 4:33 pmMark: it’s boring. The topic is done. End of discussion. Get it?
Patterico, this actually minor flap should be remembered well into the future when you’re mulling over how someone like the, well, wonderful Brett Kimberlin, et, al, can easily take their desire to muzzle something or someone that’s truly — far more, greatly more — contentious to its logical (or illogical) extreme.
Motto of the day: Know thyself.
[I’m approving this, not because you are following the rules, but for a different reasons: just so others can see you acting like a complete ass. — P]
Mark (f713e4) — 1/10/2016 @ 5:48 pmThis can only end badly.
arik (02de93) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:04 pmit’s Portlandia, like a whole other country, reminds me of the welcome party on the Library Tower in Independence Day,
narciso (732bc0) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:08 pmack, it’s even more agonizing, then I thought possible, and it delays agent carter by another week,
narciso (732bc0) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:13 pmthey never did follow up on the victim who tracked terrorist organizations for a living, before he moved to the community center,
narciso (732bc0) — 1/10/2016 @ 8:19 pmIf you believe their story. I’m not aware of any reason to prefer their story over the government’s (and not a whole lot of reason to prefer the government’s story either).
Milhouse (87c499) — 1/11/2016 @ 9:22 pm