Remember awhile back I wrote about the City of Vernon. It is a industrial city with about 100 residents most of whom work for the City and live in City provided housing. It's corruption is legendary. Well, the Speaker of the Assembly of California, John Perez, has been attempting to de-certify it as a city. It is claimed that the intent was to make it part of unincorporated Los Angeles county. Apparently that cannot be done because of the utility company that the City of Vernon owns. Hmmmm.
Now the L.A. Weekly raises the question of whether or not the City of Los Angeles might take it over. This is an amazing idea, wait a second, didn't I mention that about two years ago? I think I did. Left out of the L.A. Weekly article was any discussion of the fact that Vernon has other ties to the City of Los Angeles. The City of LA wanted to buy some land in Kern for a wind or solar farm, a friend of the Mayor's worked with CIM Group to buy the land and then sell it to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, CIM was being partly funded by the City's retirement fund and I believe CalPers also. Anyways, that deal made the papers so the property was hastily sold to, you guessed it, the City of Vernon (except for the water rights).
Let us also not forget that Mr. Perez is the cousin of the mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa. CIM Group, pensions, Redevelopment Agencies, politicians and unions are always a bad mix. CIM Group made it into the news again, you may want to read about it if you like Venice. That is it for the night. Be well.
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An off topic question for thought :D
Who was melchizedek? priest of the god most high,king of salem,jesus being of the order of melchizedek.
:) i look forward to your response :)
hope you are well :)
Dear Anonymous,
The priest Melchizedek, he was a priest. He was unlike any other, he knew God personally. A priest sits between God and people. We have need of priests if we choose to deal with God directly.
So how could Jesus be a priest and God at the same time? What is it to be a priest, one talks to God and to people who do not talk to God. He is a translator.
So Jesus was able to be a personal representation of God for those who needed to understand in that manner. It is all good. He knows how to talk to all of us and does when we are ready.
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