Well said this man:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1700304221768454153

Not a good look, whatever the reasons.


https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/09/09/act-l...-election/



[b]"The party's candidate for Taranaki King Country, Brent Miles, withdrew last week for personal reasons, a spokesperson for the party said.[/b]
1News had asked why Miles had been removed from ACT's website.
The spokesperson said ACT would not comment further.
Miles previously stood for ACT at the 2020 election.
It means five ACT candidates have now withdrawn in recent weeks ÔÇö Elaine Naidu-Franz, Darren Gilchrist, Scott Boness, Anto Coates and now Miles.
Naidu-Franz, the party's Rangitata candidate, immediately resigned after online comments where she likened vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps came to light."

I'd like to believe that most Kiwi's have more common sense & understanding than to vote for such things, but the ACT lot have high ratings.




https://www.thepress.co.nz/a/nz-news/350...us-man-yes


"Even a left-wing partisan would admit public services providing ÔÇ£equal opportunity according to robust statistical evidence instead of racial targetingÔÇØ is enticing. Who would disagree with public services according to need as the data identifies it? The trouble for Seymour, and what a left-wing partisan might already know, is that need and race are often a function of each other.┬á



That implies high rates of heart disease are, in fact, ÔÇ£race-basedÔÇØ. The consequence of SeymourÔÇÖs needs-based standard, then, is that public health services directed at preventing and treating heart disease would arrive at the very destination Seymour wishes to avoid ÔÇô ÔÇ£raceÔÇØ.
Serious politicians understand this is why the Māori Health Authority and iwi health providers exist. 



The racist explanation for that heart disease finding is that ethnicity is the controlling factor because ÔÇô to phrase it as bluntly and stupidly as a racist would ÔÇô M─üori eat like s.... But decades worth of accumulated research finds the issue is structural.┬á[b]Across disease categories[/b][b]┬á[/b]M─üori adults and children are less likely to be referred to a specialist than non-M─üori.

[b]In the actual lives of individuals that means M─üori are more likely to die younger than P─ükeh─ü and from easily preventable disease.[/b]
ThatÔÇÖs a moral and political outrage. Is a P─ükeh─ü baby born at the same time and in the same place as a M─üori baby entitled to a statistically longer, healthier life simply because of their ethnicity and the privileges that confers in the level of diagnosis, referral and treatment?
Of course not, and the vast majority of New Zealanders would agree. But SeymourÔÇÖs ACT is committed to abolishing one of the most significant reforms to help prevent that moral and political outrage in the form of the M─üori Health Authority.

Cynical commentators might allege that ACT is pursuing abolition for electoral reasons only. They might secure the votes of the countryÔÇÖs proudest (and usually loudest) know-nothings.┬á



The trouble is Seymour often cites Article III to support the notion that ÔÇ£co-governanceÔÇØ, often in the form of institutions such as the M─üori Health Authority, confers greater rights or advantages upon M─üori.


That view collapses under the weight of even the lightest interrogation. In health, itÔÇÖs M─üori who suffer disadvantage on a population level for the simple fact of being M─üori. That disadvantage holds across other government categories too including crime. JustSpeakÔÇÖs research finds that a M─üori person apprehended for committing the same crime as a P─ükeh─ü person is┬á[b]seven times more likely to be charged[/b][b]┬á[/b]than the P─ükeh─ü person who was apprehended.

[b]Again, this is only explainable with reference to ethnicity and not criminal severity implying the issue is structural and thus only amenable to structural solutions.[/b]
Whether for reasons of political opportunism, cynicism or (charitably) genuine belief ACTÔÇÖs policies reject this evidence for fairy tales of policy independent of ethnicity. That belief in the magical might make David Seymour the most dangerous man in New Zealand politics."

Morgan Godfrey.

Yay, almost kickoff time!

Sign artist seeks new position . . .

   

Likely to be appealed but interesting that there was a conviction.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66744592

 
[b]"Former Trump aide Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to co-operate with an inquiry into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election result.[/b]
Prosecutors said Navarro acted "above the law" by ignoring a subpoena from a congressional investigation.
He faces up to a year in prison for each of the two contempt counts.
Another key Trump ally, former strategist Steve Bannon, was convicted last year of contempt of Congress.
Outside the court in Washington DC on Thursday, Navarro said it was a "sad day for America", vowing to appeal all the way to the Supreme Court.
"This is the first time in the history of our republic," he said, "that a senior White House adviser, an alter ego of the president, has ever been charged with this alleged crime."



He argued that the Department of Justice has had a policy for more than 50 years that senior White House advisers could not be compelled to testify before Congress.
"Yet they brought the case," Navarro said.
He was found guilty by the 12-member jury after four hours of deliberations, following a trial that lasted two days."

I have the 3 DVD set of the Bourne Collector's Edition. Long ago I had copied the 3 movies to my computer without problems.

Recently I purchased 2nd hand a perfectly good Logitech Z506 5.1 sound system to replace a Logitech 2 speaker system. I have gone back to the 2 speaker system and my following fault still occurs so I have ruled out speakers. I have checked the Default APPS which is set at Films and TV for .mp4.

Simply, there is no voice. All other sounds are there but no voice. This applies to the files on the PC, Backup on an external drive and even the DVDs themselves. I am using Realtek HD Audio. All other movies (and I have many) do carry voice. It would therefore seem that a codex for these 3 movies is missing. I am thinking of adding the K lite codex pack but would like some input from someone who might be aware of such a problem.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-09-...y-vote-act



[b]"After David Seymour claimed that Kate Sheppard would vote Act if she was alive today, we surveyed the afterlife and found others keen to show their support.[/b]
Stand down┬áSue Nicholson, thereÔÇÖs a new clairvoyant in town. David Seymour may be best known as leader of the Act Party, but this week the MP for Epsom revealed he also has a direct line to the afterlife. Not only does he know the names of lots of dead people, but he also knows how they would have voted. Breaking news: all the dead people in the world would have voted for Act.┬á
Yesterday, Seymour appeared in a multi-party election finance debate where he boldly announced that suffragette and $10 note icon┬áKate Sheppard would vote Act┬áif she were alive today. It was a statement so unexpected that Green MP Julie Anne GenterÔÇÖs eyes nearly popped out of her head, much like the reaction of many men when women won the vote in 1893.┬á

 Last month, the Act leader claimed the inspirational anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela would have campaigned for Act, and earlier in the year, declared the Māori chiefs who signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 would sign up to Act today. 
It seems Act has a wide support base, particularly among the dead. Sadly, itÔÇÖs rare for the deceased to talk (let alone vote), which makes it tricky to refute SeymourÔÇÖs assertions about those on a higher spiritual plane (though┬áMandelaÔÇÖs grandson┬áand┬áTe P─üti M─üori┬áhave rubbished the claims). With Seymour repeatedly calling upon the ghosts of celebrities past, we wondered: which famous dead person will be next to show their spectral support?┬á



Diana, Princess of Wales
All Diana wanted was the freedom to do as she pleased, including sunbathing on a superyacht without being bothered by the press. Remember when David Seymour turned up to election night in a speedboat? Same thing. 

Maui
Hated red tape and regulations, was big on innovation (even if it did lead to his death). He also lifted up the heavens, which seems like a handy skill if you want the heavens to give you its party vote. 

William Shakespeare
A man so rich and famous that if Dancing with the Stars existed in the 1500s, he probably┬áwould have twerked on it. He also penned the phrase ÔÇ£be great in Act, as you have been in thought.ÔÇØ Makes you think.┬á

The Toyota Hilux ÔÇÿBuggerÔÇÖ Dog
A true champion of free speech. 

[b]Sir Edmund Hillary[/b]
In a spooky coincidence, 14 year old Seymour played Young Ed Hillary in the television series┬áHillary: A View from the Top. Surely Sir Ed told a teenage Seymour that should he ever find himself the leader of a right wing classical liberal political party, then Hillary would be happy to help Seymour to ÔÇ£knock the bastard offÔÇØ, as they say in the next world.┬á┬á

Michael Joseph Savage
Because itÔÇÖs never too late to want a smaller, smarter government.┬á

Jack from Titanic
Pretty sure he muttered ÔÇ£two ticks for personal freedomÔÇØ when Rose wouldnÔÇÖt share the floating door."


To be fair to Rose though - there was just NO room for Jack on that floating door. Not with all those books she'd saved...






[b]Laurence Olivier [/b]
The latest press release from the afterlife confirms that all dead actors would have voted for Act. Laurence Olivier is reported to be at the front of the queue, having once uttered the immortal quote ÔÇ£without Act-ing, I cannot breatheÔÇØ. The evidence speaks for itself.┬á
Phar Lap
Timaru horses are renowned libertarians, and Phar Lap was always banging on about being tough on crime, wasteful government spending and personal responsibility. 
This 3000-year-old mummy
If you listen closely, the reconstructed voicebox of┬áNesyamun, the 3000-year-old mummy┬áis definitely saying ÔÇ£ActÔÇØ. Messages on his coffin revealed the mummy dreamed of one day speaking again. On October 14, it will.┬á

Maybe an answer to expensive housing:

https://www.yankodesign.com/2023/09/03/a...-as-a-car/