Mark Siljander
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Yeah, no kidding.
Yeah, no kidding.
Yeah, no kidding.
He said, well, since you asked, and of course, the team I'm with, I didn't hear him say it, but I could feel everything. Oh, thank God he asked the question. And I had this plan. And see, God gave you very specific talents, and you're applying them and using them to influence people, when I respect very highly God. And he gives each of us certain talents and backgrounds for reasons.
He said, well, since you asked, and of course, the team I'm with, I didn't hear him say it, but I could feel everything. Oh, thank God he asked the question. And I had this plan. And see, God gave you very specific talents, and you're applying them and using them to influence people, when I respect very highly God. And he gives each of us certain talents and backgrounds for reasons.
He said, well, since you asked, and of course, the team I'm with, I didn't hear him say it, but I could feel everything. Oh, thank God he asked the question. And I had this plan. And see, God gave you very specific talents, and you're applying them and using them to influence people, when I respect very highly God. And he gives each of us certain talents and backgrounds for reasons.
And we have to discover what that reason or reasons might be. And right then and there, it occurred to me that this is why God had me in that useless politics. I've served in town council, state legislature, three terms. I'm not trying to... That was, at least, what a waste of time. Because you can't really get anything done. That's why. So I could get in the door.
And we have to discover what that reason or reasons might be. And right then and there, it occurred to me that this is why God had me in that useless politics. I've served in town council, state legislature, three terms. I'm not trying to... That was, at least, what a waste of time. Because you can't really get anything done. That's why. So I could get in the door.
And we have to discover what that reason or reasons might be. And right then and there, it occurred to me that this is why God had me in that useless politics. I've served in town council, state legislature, three terms. I'm not trying to... That was, at least, what a waste of time. Because you can't really get anything done. That's why. So I could get in the door.
Why would he talk to me otherwise? And ask a question such as that, knowing of the background. So people calling you for your expertise. And as a consequence, you can help and bless people and work with them. And I gave him the plan. I said, let's do a hybrid force of African unions, so it'll mostly be Africans and UN. Let's make most of them Muslim, and I'll talk to the Secretary General.
Why would he talk to me otherwise? And ask a question such as that, knowing of the background. So people calling you for your expertise. And as a consequence, you can help and bless people and work with them. And I gave him the plan. I said, let's do a hybrid force of African unions, so it'll mostly be Africans and UN. Let's make most of them Muslim, and I'll talk to the Secretary General.
Why would he talk to me otherwise? And ask a question such as that, knowing of the background. So people calling you for your expertise. And as a consequence, you can help and bless people and work with them. And I gave him the plan. I said, let's do a hybrid force of African unions, so it'll mostly be Africans and UN. Let's make most of them Muslim, and I'll talk to the Secretary General.
Ban Ki-moon, do you know him? I said, yes, he's a Buddhist, and he's a very good man, and we've become friends, because his number one goal is to stop the genocide in Darfur. And this is, just to remind viewers, this is in the mid-2000s, 2004, 5, 6. And he said, I'll do it if you write it. I said, I wasn't a bastard. I didn't write anything, including speeches.
Ban Ki-moon, do you know him? I said, yes, he's a Buddhist, and he's a very good man, and we've become friends, because his number one goal is to stop the genocide in Darfur. And this is, just to remind viewers, this is in the mid-2000s, 2004, 5, 6. And he said, I'll do it if you write it. I said, I wasn't a bastard. I didn't write anything, including speeches.
Ban Ki-moon, do you know him? I said, yes, he's a Buddhist, and he's a very good man, and we've become friends, because his number one goal is to stop the genocide in Darfur. And this is, just to remind viewers, this is in the mid-2000s, 2004, 5, 6. And he said, I'll do it if you write it. I said, I wasn't a bastard. I didn't write anything, including speeches.
He said, no, but I think you could do it. So we go to Dubai a few days later after touring with his plane tour. the displacement camps in Darfur with hundreds of thousands of people living in a blue ocean of UN tarps underneath these blue tarps. And the kids, hundreds would see a white face and they'd come and talk about food. And it was so heart-wrenching. I mean...
He said, no, but I think you could do it. So we go to Dubai a few days later after touring with his plane tour. the displacement camps in Darfur with hundreds of thousands of people living in a blue ocean of UN tarps underneath these blue tarps. And the kids, hundreds would see a white face and they'd come and talk about food. And it was so heart-wrenching. I mean...
He said, no, but I think you could do it. So we go to Dubai a few days later after touring with his plane tour. the displacement camps in Darfur with hundreds of thousands of people living in a blue ocean of UN tarps underneath these blue tarps. And the kids, hundreds would see a white face and they'd come and talk about food. And it was so heart-wrenching. I mean...
You have to say, well, this is what God made me to do. Why am I here in the middle of nowhere in Darfur in this horrible crisis? Then I go to a tent of hundreds of women who have been brutally raped and they're being tended to and they wanted, they said, can you give them a word of encouragement? It was one of the hardest talks I've ever given.
You have to say, well, this is what God made me to do. Why am I here in the middle of nowhere in Darfur in this horrible crisis? Then I go to a tent of hundreds of women who have been brutally raped and they're being tended to and they wanted, they said, can you give them a word of encouragement? It was one of the hardest talks I've ever given.