Calla, thank you for your shared reminiscences, for both their unique experiences and insights into their time and locales. As a child growing up during the same era in Bay Area California, it was easy to believe "back east" was where life was real life, since so much in entertainment at that time revolved around NYC, and our American history started in New England.
Only conclusion for me to reach in the second grade was we were living in second rate backwaters. The most vivid sense of this geographical dislocation came when learning to read in the second grade using the Dick and Jane See Spot Run series. Dick and Jane talked about white picket fences, buttercups in open flelds, salamanders in the creeks, and leaves changing colors in the fall. Obviously none of that related to our lives in the far flung West. So obviously, we were living in the wrong place which was the only conclusion I could reach at age seven.
Many decades later I saw an article in National Geographic about Martha's Vineyard, and the author declared she too had finally found where Dick and Jane actually lived and frolicked with their dog Spot. It had to be Martha's Vineyard at that time, where these real lives were lived by these real children in that early reader book. Which also sounds like it could easily be traded for where you spent your own real childhood New England summers too.
Dick and Jane would probably nonogenarians now, and Spot has long passed. Perhaps they would also be hard pressed to free range in creeks, pick buttercups and romp in the falling leaves today .....back East. Surprisingly California is now the place to be ....out West, if Gavin Newsom does not finally push the entire state off the cliff in short order.
I grew up going to Nantucket, great piece of American history.
Democrat Parry shows its values
1. Votes against every civil rights and women’s rights in history
2. Denigrate, demean women with biological males who still have penis’s in their sports, locker rooms & bathrooms
3. Value people who break immigration laws over homeless Citizens and support those who break our laws with billions of tax payer monies each year
4. Take advantage of that class of unskilled illegal labor by saying “we need illegal labor to perform the demeaning, laborious jobs that Americans do not want to do fir less money than a Citizen would require” Indentured servants
5. Democratic run schools have the lowest academics in the country for minority children Nelson Mandela said you can tell a lot of a society by the way they treat their children. Democrats choose to not educate minorities
6. Democratic Party has pushed and supported a violent war in Ukraine with no clear objective or resolution . Not 8n the best interest of the thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians who have died in battle
7. Democrats lose billions of tax payer money
8. They enter office broke and leave as multi millionaires
9. They vote for 48% increase in wages while Americans are homeless and suffer food insecurity
10. They say there’s no money to fight illegal street vendors, showing they do not support law abiding businesses
11. They verbally attack the voter if the voter does not agree with their position, instead of finding middle ground and explaining their position
12. Their campaigns are based upon calling the opposition names with no substance and no original ideas how to run a county, city or country
13. Bail out violent protestors from BLM riots and Pro Hamas riots while persecuting those from Jan 6 that dude not set one fire or kill one person. It’s 2025, Democrats time first you to actually read what happened and who was killed that day.
14. The list continues. But we also need to be aware of the RINOs on the take, the wolf in sheep’s clothing
I read this interesting and personal perspective titled "Massachusetts is the Nation’s Newest Basket Case by Calla Jones Corner and I quote from same>
"Owners of Nantucket's myriad of new monied-financed mansions who have sought – for decades – the island's cachet made famous by the “Jaws” and “The Russians are Coming” author and 'Sconset resident, Peter Benchley, have been buying huge mansions and flying into the Island's once tiny airport."
Related Title "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer" THINK SANTA BABARA, and
Monticeto and the So-Called-Leaders Embezzling the Communities Funds.
Nothing ever changes .............. including the RUSSIANS & UKRAINES IN SANTA BARBARA
DOGE is in the California State Capital investigating the High Speed rail system we paid for 3 times NCSDOGE.Com watched the BOS Meeting Tuesday Morning where the real ponzi schemes are. 5 locationa revealed in plans, of operationa and planning stages of lithium Battery plants with hazards happening now in Nipomo Cabellero plant.
Lompoc Strauss Wind Farm, the Celite Mine, goleta plant running at the Storke exit next to the 101 freeway, Carpinteria, New Cuyama none of these plants are bonded or insurred. Kevin Wang who spoke at the New California State Town Hall Feb 22, 2025 said these plants should have 1 trillion dollar liabilolty insirance on them and they dont Nipomo is on private land.
40 years ago attending an international sports conference it was obvious even the Boston twang could not cover up the destruction of what was once a strong economy and backbone in face of the Left.
The comments about Hanoi Jane are personal. Anyone willing to invite and back slap what was and will forever be a traitorous act and person are idiots. She should go hide but instead she is brought out and paraded as a trophy. As she and her fellow travelers were stabling our military in the back Gen. Giap was trying to figure out how the Communist North could surrender and not be executed. Hanoi Jane gave them a "maybe" if we wait the Left will crumble and they did.
“Parents are afraid to let their children walk from school to the boys' and girls' club,” UHHH DUH.
And who controls California for a minimum of 40 years?
Good article and pulls into long term perspective as to why we have so many problems.
I apologize for not reading your article yet, but I just had to make a small observation about our common sense president. Inflation is growing, masses of people have been let go from their federal jobs, our government is in chaos, but our smarter than anybody president, so he says, is helping a destitute billionaire, musk in case you’re not sure who I mean. This poor soul has lost billions, but yet it’s still the richest man in the world. So our intelligent president holds an infomercial at the White House, to push cars and yet he doesn’t know the name, he called them Tesler‘s, the peoples house, trumps disrespect for his office is unfathomable. What happened to helping the real American people?
He has also chosen to help, his buddy Putin, to win the war. He would like to hand Ukraine to the Russian dictator on a silver platter.
Julia, Inflation is down. Borders are secure. DOGE is trimming waste fraud abuse, redundancies and inefficiencies. America is back. Government is getting right-sized and we are finally facing the growing national debt exacerbated by the past 12 years of profligate Democrat policies and of TDS election year exploitations.
Trump supports American cars made by American workers, that suddenly self-entitled leftists no longer revere as their primary virtue-signaling icon. Huzzah, huzzah. The Russian heritage part of this post-Soviet thing called "Ukraine" most likely will be handed back to its original owners. Huzzah, huzzah for that too.
But hey, that was just the first 50 day working 24/7 for the voter mandate issued in the last election. Good times.
Joan, I thought about responding to your earlier comment about Reagan, but as usual I didn't. However, let me kindly tell you what I've seen recently. My financial opinion of as you say, the first 50 days.
Stock market dropping, as of today it's back at Sept. 11, 2024 levels.
Bratty Democrats need to call off their law fare insurrection. Otherwise, their intentional disruption will spook the market until SCOTUS settles this one out. Best to follow Warren Buffet advice, to get out any day trading hysteria and take a look only once or twice a year. Are markets really down, when they were also exuberantly high? Or do you like most prudent long investors measure over time? This is Las Vegas stuff you are talking about, not particle physics.
Unless you love wallowing in you ownr self-inflicted buyer's remorse. I have been up and down in the market so many times and also realize one never uses an over-heated market, as your basement benchmark. But you do what ever you need to do keeps your own adrenalin and/or TDS flowing.
There was no mandate, check the figures, and I see your blinders will never come off. If you truly feel America is where it should be, then you’re the half that trump is working for because he is not working for the entire country. trump and his minions keep saying let’s make America wealthy again, that’s who he works for, the wealthy. Before you start saying I envy the wealthy, let me tell you there’s nothing wrong with being wealthy, but when you’re wealthy and you’re arrogant and greedy and feel superior to people that don’t have wealth that’s despicable.
I thought you were a smart man, but if you think giving Ukraine back to Putin is the best thing to do, was I wrong. You don’t seem to realize if Russia wins the war with Ukraine he won’t stop there. He will keep going through all those European countries one by one. You probably wouldn’t care cause it doesn’t affect you.
Julia, you continue to make up stuff, so all you do is continue argue with yourself. We do however enjoy seeing Democrats keep exposing their endemic weaknesses, with zero self-introspection. So keep it up. Just make sure your own pack of straw dogs all have their shot records up to date.
TJ: markets are waiting for the bratty Democrats and their obstructionist law fare to simmer down. Plus Democrats just might be looking to pick up come bargains on the market at the same time. Good time to follow "Invest like a Politician™" to see when Paul Pelosi starts making his next moves.
Democrats own government pensions are directly dependent on good market performance, so someday they will finally realize it pays to get on board with the American economic engine, rather than keep poking TDS sticks in its eye.
This is a transition time (duh?), while the new, voter-mandated administration settles in. Markets like stability and obstructionist Democrats are making sure they keep everything stirred up right now with their petulant insurrection attempts to nullify the last election.
So you will just have to wait this one out. Meanwhile, consider buying low while you still have a chance. Stay strong and go long.
I’ve decided to take a break from you and your circle of comrades that live in ivory towers. A good portion of the SB current commentators all seem to live in this fantasyland. You ivory tower dwellers give off an air of superiority and arrogance. You all wear blinders and don’t notice what’s really going on in the world. You all have the same mentality, trump is king and all is well. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but I figure if you’re offended, you must be an ivory tower dweller.
RJ: Different times. Different perfidy. BTW: We are independent thinkers here. "Cult" references speak only to you; not us. Reagan was a polished communicator, but surprised he needed to read this message from a script. Current Big Government and the Deep State protectionism is what stultifies America today.
I suspect Reagan would have a very different message were he to observe the the past 12 years of Obama/Biden Democrat policies, maladministration, bloat and government over-reach. Taken together, that is what strangled US innovation and prosperity.
TJ, your own always sour lemonade always makes your face pucker up and your eyes squint. Not a good look. Bring some JOY™ into your life. Kamala Harris probably has a lot she can share with you, that she did not get to sell in 2024. Again, might be time to buy that JOY™ low, since her shelf life is rapidly receding.
My my. Do you take any time off the internet? I'm starting to think your a very well read teenager. I had to double check - but they still make Joy. Lucky me.
Your article sounds familiar. There have been quite a few people on this site wishing for the good all days. Like a lot of the Southerners talked after the Civil War, remembering the glory of the south it sounds like you were blessed with a wonderful childhood. Unfortunately, you need to face reality that people of color exist and they may like to live in Nantucket or Santa Barbara. Unfortunately, we all have to face the truth, all types of people have, the good, the bad, and the ugly, including white people.
Fun reading your article, Calla. I remember once waiting for the steamer to Nantucket while playing a pinball machine that was providing free games. I was about ten years old. I remember the boat's steam engine, but not much about Nantucket. Taxes were high back then which was one of the reasons the family moved to Florida from MA. I presume the state was full of political corruption. I know the person that now owns our house ... I should write. It would feel creepy to be in MA with all the wacko lefties. Imagine driving a Tesla and wearing a red MAGA cap ... I'm dead.
Calla, thank you for your shared reminiscences, for both their unique experiences and insights into their time and locales. As a child growing up during the same era in Bay Area California, it was easy to believe "back east" was where life was real life, since so much in entertainment at that time revolved around NYC, and our American history started in New England.
Only conclusion for me to reach in the second grade was we were living in second rate backwaters. The most vivid sense of this geographical dislocation came when learning to read in the second grade using the Dick and Jane See Spot Run series. Dick and Jane talked about white picket fences, buttercups in open flelds, salamanders in the creeks, and leaves changing colors in the fall. Obviously none of that related to our lives in the far flung West. So obviously, we were living in the wrong place which was the only conclusion I could reach at age seven.
Many decades later I saw an article in National Geographic about Martha's Vineyard, and the author declared she too had finally found where Dick and Jane actually lived and frolicked with their dog Spot. It had to be Martha's Vineyard at that time, where these real lives were lived by these real children in that early reader book. Which also sounds like it could easily be traded for where you spent your own real childhood New England summers too.
Dick and Jane would probably nonogenarians now, and Spot has long passed. Perhaps they would also be hard pressed to free range in creeks, pick buttercups and romp in the falling leaves today .....back East. Surprisingly California is now the place to be ....out West, if Gavin Newsom does not finally push the entire state off the cliff in short order.
I grew up going to Nantucket, great piece of American history.
Democrat Parry shows its values
1. Votes against every civil rights and women’s rights in history
2. Denigrate, demean women with biological males who still have penis’s in their sports, locker rooms & bathrooms
3. Value people who break immigration laws over homeless Citizens and support those who break our laws with billions of tax payer monies each year
4. Take advantage of that class of unskilled illegal labor by saying “we need illegal labor to perform the demeaning, laborious jobs that Americans do not want to do fir less money than a Citizen would require” Indentured servants
5. Democratic run schools have the lowest academics in the country for minority children Nelson Mandela said you can tell a lot of a society by the way they treat their children. Democrats choose to not educate minorities
6. Democratic Party has pushed and supported a violent war in Ukraine with no clear objective or resolution . Not 8n the best interest of the thousands upon thousands of Ukrainians who have died in battle
7. Democrats lose billions of tax payer money
8. They enter office broke and leave as multi millionaires
9. They vote for 48% increase in wages while Americans are homeless and suffer food insecurity
10. They say there’s no money to fight illegal street vendors, showing they do not support law abiding businesses
11. They verbally attack the voter if the voter does not agree with their position, instead of finding middle ground and explaining their position
12. Their campaigns are based upon calling the opposition names with no substance and no original ideas how to run a county, city or country
13. Bail out violent protestors from BLM riots and Pro Hamas riots while persecuting those from Jan 6 that dude not set one fire or kill one person. It’s 2025, Democrats time first you to actually read what happened and who was killed that day.
14. The list continues. But we also need to be aware of the RINOs on the take, the wolf in sheep’s clothing
Ignorance is not an excuse anymore.
I read this interesting and personal perspective titled "Massachusetts is the Nation’s Newest Basket Case by Calla Jones Corner and I quote from same>
"Owners of Nantucket's myriad of new monied-financed mansions who have sought – for decades – the island's cachet made famous by the “Jaws” and “The Russians are Coming” author and 'Sconset resident, Peter Benchley, have been buying huge mansions and flying into the Island's once tiny airport."
Related Title "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer" THINK SANTA BABARA, and
Monticeto and the So-Called-Leaders Embezzling the Communities Funds.
Nothing ever changes .............. including the RUSSIANS & UKRAINES IN SANTA BARBARA
Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family
DOGE is in the California State Capital investigating the High Speed rail system we paid for 3 times NCSDOGE.Com watched the BOS Meeting Tuesday Morning where the real ponzi schemes are. 5 locationa revealed in plans, of operationa and planning stages of lithium Battery plants with hazards happening now in Nipomo Cabellero plant.
I THINK WE ALL SHOULD INVITE DOG-E-Y DOWN TO GOOD OLE SB!
"....Investigating the High Speed rail system we paid for 3 times..."
Lompoc Strauss Wind Farm, the Celite Mine, goleta plant running at the Storke exit next to the 101 freeway, Carpinteria, New Cuyama none of these plants are bonded or insurred. Kevin Wang who spoke at the New California State Town Hall Feb 22, 2025 said these plants should have 1 trillion dollar liabilolty insirance on them and they dont Nipomo is on private land.
New basket case!???
I'll disagree ...
40 years ago attending an international sports conference it was obvious even the Boston twang could not cover up the destruction of what was once a strong economy and backbone in face of the Left.
The comments about Hanoi Jane are personal. Anyone willing to invite and back slap what was and will forever be a traitorous act and person are idiots. She should go hide but instead she is brought out and paraded as a trophy. As she and her fellow travelers were stabling our military in the back Gen. Giap was trying to figure out how the Communist North could surrender and not be executed. Hanoi Jane gave them a "maybe" if we wait the Left will crumble and they did.
“Parents are afraid to let their children walk from school to the boys' and girls' club,” UHHH DUH.
And who controls California for a minimum of 40 years?
Good article and pulls into long term perspective as to why we have so many problems.
Ms. Corner,
I apologize for not reading your article yet, but I just had to make a small observation about our common sense president. Inflation is growing, masses of people have been let go from their federal jobs, our government is in chaos, but our smarter than anybody president, so he says, is helping a destitute billionaire, musk in case you’re not sure who I mean. This poor soul has lost billions, but yet it’s still the richest man in the world. So our intelligent president holds an infomercial at the White House, to push cars and yet he doesn’t know the name, he called them Tesler‘s, the peoples house, trumps disrespect for his office is unfathomable. What happened to helping the real American people?
He has also chosen to help, his buddy Putin, to win the war. He would like to hand Ukraine to the Russian dictator on a silver platter.
Julia, Inflation is down. Borders are secure. DOGE is trimming waste fraud abuse, redundancies and inefficiencies. America is back. Government is getting right-sized and we are finally facing the growing national debt exacerbated by the past 12 years of profligate Democrat policies and of TDS election year exploitations.
Trump supports American cars made by American workers, that suddenly self-entitled leftists no longer revere as their primary virtue-signaling icon. Huzzah, huzzah. The Russian heritage part of this post-Soviet thing called "Ukraine" most likely will be handed back to its original owners. Huzzah, huzzah for that too.
But hey, that was just the first 50 day working 24/7 for the voter mandate issued in the last election. Good times.
Joan, I thought about responding to your earlier comment about Reagan, but as usual I didn't. However, let me kindly tell you what I've seen recently. My financial opinion of as you say, the first 50 days.
Stock market dropping, as of today it's back at Sept. 11, 2024 levels.
Bratty Democrats need to call off their law fare insurrection. Otherwise, their intentional disruption will spook the market until SCOTUS settles this one out. Best to follow Warren Buffet advice, to get out any day trading hysteria and take a look only once or twice a year. Are markets really down, when they were also exuberantly high? Or do you like most prudent long investors measure over time? This is Las Vegas stuff you are talking about, not particle physics.
Unless you love wallowing in you ownr self-inflicted buyer's remorse. I have been up and down in the market so many times and also realize one never uses an over-heated market, as your basement benchmark. But you do what ever you need to do keeps your own adrenalin and/or TDS flowing.
Oh Joan, in reply to your earlier comment today let me say, "those that are in a cult don't know they are in a cult."
Forget instant gratification. Wait four years and then evaluate Trump!
There was no mandate, check the figures, and I see your blinders will never come off. If you truly feel America is where it should be, then you’re the half that trump is working for because he is not working for the entire country. trump and his minions keep saying let’s make America wealthy again, that’s who he works for, the wealthy. Before you start saying I envy the wealthy, let me tell you there’s nothing wrong with being wealthy, but when you’re wealthy and you’re arrogant and greedy and feel superior to people that don’t have wealth that’s despicable.
I thought you were a smart man, but if you think giving Ukraine back to Putin is the best thing to do, was I wrong. You don’t seem to realize if Russia wins the war with Ukraine he won’t stop there. He will keep going through all those European countries one by one. You probably wouldn’t care cause it doesn’t affect you.
Julia, you continue to make up stuff, so all you do is continue argue with yourself. We do however enjoy seeing Democrats keep exposing their endemic weaknesses, with zero self-introspection. So keep it up. Just make sure your own pack of straw dogs all have their shot records up to date.
America is 'back' in two months? Great cheerleading.
I'm wondering why, if the trajectory is going to be so great, the markets aren't rallying?
TJ: markets are waiting for the bratty Democrats and their obstructionist law fare to simmer down. Plus Democrats just might be looking to pick up come bargains on the market at the same time. Good time to follow "Invest like a Politician™" to see when Paul Pelosi starts making his next moves.
Democrats own government pensions are directly dependent on good market performance, so someday they will finally realize it pays to get on board with the American economic engine, rather than keep poking TDS sticks in its eye.
This is a transition time (duh?), while the new, voter-mandated administration settles in. Markets like stability and obstructionist Democrats are making sure they keep everything stirred up right now with their petulant insurrection attempts to nullify the last election.
So you will just have to wait this one out. Meanwhile, consider buying low while you still have a chance. Stay strong and go long.
I 100% knew it was going to be the democrats' fault. Thanks for confirming.
You are correct. The dem mutual fund outperformed the red one last year. This year, they are both in the tank.
This begs a question. Are the red guys Republicans anymore or do we just call them MAGA?
I wonder who or why you get your market advice from only politicians (aka inside traders).
How do you jump to that conclusion that I get advice "only" from anyone from what I wrote? Maybe it's getting late in the day.
JL,
I’ve decided to take a break from you and your circle of comrades that live in ivory towers. A good portion of the SB current commentators all seem to live in this fantasyland. You ivory tower dwellers give off an air of superiority and arrogance. You all wear blinders and don’t notice what’s really going on in the world. You all have the same mentality, trump is king and all is well. I don’t mean to offend anyone, but I figure if you’re offended, you must be an ivory tower dweller.
Take time for reflection; and less vituperation.
Thank you for proving my point. ✌🏼
You must get all your information from Truth Social.
And now a word from Ronald Reagan (all kneel):
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGzZdtztjF9/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
RJ: Different times. Different perfidy. BTW: We are independent thinkers here. "Cult" references speak only to you; not us. Reagan was a polished communicator, but surprised he needed to read this message from a script. Current Big Government and the Deep State protectionism is what stultifies America today.
I suspect Reagan would have a very different message were he to observe the the past 12 years of Obama/Biden Democrat policies, maladministration, bloat and government over-reach. Taken together, that is what strangled US innovation and prosperity.
JL - making lemonade out of lemons.
TJ, your own always sour lemonade always makes your face pucker up and your eyes squint. Not a good look. Bring some JOY™ into your life. Kamala Harris probably has a lot she can share with you, that she did not get to sell in 2024. Again, might be time to buy that JOY™ low, since her shelf life is rapidly receding.
My my. Do you take any time off the internet? I'm starting to think your a very well read teenager. I had to double check - but they still make Joy. Lucky me.
Hello, Thomas John, may I act as the informal referee here with
you and Dr. Livingston I presume. Ok let's come together as
Americans and focus on what is really going down in our
Lil Ole Beach Town of Santa Barbara. I think it may surprise
Everyone. Putin just took President Trumps negotiated
Cease-Fire With Ukraine/Zelenski so maybe we can work
something out with the SB So-Called-Leaders? They just
have to understand that they lost the war, their troops
and their POWER. Key to these Negotiations is to understand>
https://www.unodc.org/e4j/en/anti-corruption/module-4/key-issues/causes-of-public-sector-corruption.html
Ms. Corner,
Your article sounds familiar. There have been quite a few people on this site wishing for the good all days. Like a lot of the Southerners talked after the Civil War, remembering the glory of the south it sounds like you were blessed with a wonderful childhood. Unfortunately, you need to face reality that people of color exist and they may like to live in Nantucket or Santa Barbara. Unfortunately, we all have to face the truth, all types of people have, the good, the bad, and the ugly, including white people.
Fun reading your article, Calla. I remember once waiting for the steamer to Nantucket while playing a pinball machine that was providing free games. I was about ten years old. I remember the boat's steam engine, but not much about Nantucket. Taxes were high back then which was one of the reasons the family moved to Florida from MA. I presume the state was full of political corruption. I know the person that now owns our house ... I should write. It would feel creepy to be in MA with all the wacko lefties. Imagine driving a Tesla and wearing a red MAGA cap ... I'm dead.