Sunday Morning Bacon and Eggs

Monty the cat sniffed the cool morning air, somewhere in the dark blue morning world on our driveway, before the thousands of birds in the valley began their dawn chorus, while inside, upstairs - I flicked on the kitchen light and picked up his bowl.

It was something like five thirty am and the day had begun at G News.

The sound of racing paws, galloping up the carpeted stairs, made me smile as Mr Monty arrived with his tail in the air and I opened a pink sachet, squeezed out the gravy and put that bowl back down on the floor.

Loading the dishwasher and making the coffee were the first orders of the day, before I finally sat down to scan the news in Aotearoa New Zealand and make any observations.

It was time for a new red Qantas pen from the plastic bag full of pens a G news reader had sent me - and I noticed I was nearly down to the last few now, and I wrote down the words, "Nothing on RNZ" on a blank page of A4.

Nothing about Bob Carr and nothing about JAG, but over on NewsHub the second tell tale story about someone claiming to be grabbed was still up - as some determined invisible actors tried to keep the dirt flowing to connect with tomorrow, when Gerry would inevitably decide to send JAG before the Privileges Committee.

This was about cycleways and retailers and invisible hands muckraking the Greens, I thought, as I smiled remembering that funny Steve West remark - about how he learned where to never shop for flowers.

Stuff was swimming in the JAG scandal and opinion raged about how this will drag on for weeks - but then they do have Tova and that means kitchen gossip and bold takes.

Over on NewsRoom there was no tabloid gossip, just solid journalism - and a piece by David Fisher that talked about new flashmob protests of about thirty people - making noise outside Winston's house - for a short while before disbanding before the police arrived.

They also had articles about Luxon being photographed with owners and donors - Nat donors who were at the centre of an exploitation investigation and how Sylvia ( Nat President ) returned the 200 Grand the day after she read what was really going on.

Yes that $10.4 Million helped get National over the line and my eyes scanned Shane Te Pou's opinion in the NZ Herald - where he questioned if Hutt South, Banks Peninsula, Mt Roskill, West Coast-Tasman will all bounce back to Labour, and how Luxon's gang had done nothing to fix the cost of living crisis.

Shane reckoned front line services had not been protected, EVs were now made too expensive , and the Government were seen as favouring landlords - not productive businesses.

I sipped my coffee which was dangerously low and sang out for a refill, as I noted that Shane raised the matter of Labour leadership - strong vision and strong leadership - closer to the 2026 election.

That's the second commentator in a few days banging on about Chippy I thought, as I poured myself another cup. Seems to me, nobody is in campaign mode right now, but Chippy was doing a bang up job - and since those polls - he's had a bit more air time.

I rolled my eyes at the usual drivel from Duplicity who comes across like a binary black and white, Dunning Kruger bossy britches - with no nuance in between - kind of gal.

Maybe this was about the Libertarian resentment of Big Government - where small brained Act Voters - usually men with cars and motorbikes on their social media profiles - and a fair few Karens ( sorry to the wonderful Karens ) who wanted to see the manager - computed everything through a "FreeDumb" and "Fear of Authority" lens?

Yeah the money was obscene but moaning about it five days late was not helping.

Duplicity was feeding the resentment and outrage blithering about pay rises for MPs in some kind of old news way, and my eyes got the signal from my brain that this was not worth reading ...as I thought about what is going on at the Court of Appeal, when is that decision due?

Did Karen Chhour's determination to nuke 7AA based on a handful of anecdotes and an election slogan about safety vs race - breach the treaty principles of active protection and equality?

It was too early to think about it without some kind of biscuit, but I would have liked to have at least told G News something more about the timing and process. Note to self to google more.

Seymour had waffled about how we need a "mature conversation" about Te Tiriti and I wondered why Te Tiriti scholars were never in the limelight - nor were there - any debates with Seymour being asked the same questions as the scholars - ha ha ha?

Davey boy would run a mile from a real debate, cos he's all just a "vibe and anecdote show pony".

I longed for the return of Mihingarangi - but with some Scholars at her side this time.

The return of the focus on Seymour's game - and of course the Atlas Network...

Then I remembered how Luxon had appeared on Sky News in Australia in highly scripted interviews which came across like bad Hollywood with cheap green screen - and I could feel the manipulation drowning me with leading questions - loaded with Fox news styled assertions.

Had we evolved past that yet? I wondered while Luxon said our economy had gone backwards for six years - which was a lie - when you look at accumulated GDP growth between 2017 and 2024.

The lie repeated becomes the truth for those who do not possess the facts, and I wished again the our journalists would publish headlines about these persistent lies.

Luxon had run up and down the country repeating that he is restoring law and order - while Mark Mitchell waved the flag of surrender, washed out, defeated, an old bag of wind, sagging, useless, full of rhetoric but no follow through.

I laughed at that David Evans Bailey meme ha ha as Mr Plod said what?

The sun was up and the birds were singing, sharing news about - there's a cat coming, as Monty the cat stalked a fly through the long green grass...and the fronds of a native fern bathed in the pale warmth.

It was time I found something to write about, something that just tells it like it is, not that other crap.

Maybe something about how couples often have to juggle the fear of the long term future and not have financial security versus the desire to live life with more memories and experiences?

Surely underneath all of these politics and feelings of global disillusionment - is a bunch of humans - living in the narrow temporary light between two infinite dark abyss' - trying to live and live well ...before the setting of the sun?

Whatever it was, I hoped it would be something worth reading.

Something people wanted to talk about cos they have something to say about that too.

Sunday Morning Bacon and Eggs

Morena

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