Re Canada as the 51st State: last night Mrschjim & I watched Murdoch, one of her mystery shows I usually fall asleep during. Set in Canada, Murdoch is a Toronto detective. Last night’s show was situated in the time of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, and was about a Canadian plot to annex the United States as Canada’s 10th. Complete with a Project 1925, it featured a host of sight gags and sensational old movie clips: a wonderfully refreshing spoof of 2016 til now in this country. I stayed awake for the whole thing!
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Yes, absolutely different critters, but i might think they understand that, in a direct conflict with a superpower they’d lose and that ultimately the big behemoth militaries are beaten through 1000 small cuts as they obseved on either of their borders (Iraq/Afghanistan). I cant imagine they haven’t already had some IRGC fold into the populace.
Not very “Heritage-y” nor “American” …
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First for April 1st on this thread!
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i may be wrong; imo. the big difference being that the TALIBAN is arabic,and IRAN is PERSIAN..different cultures , different people.
The Taliban are Pashtun. Afghani / Pakistani. They’re on the other side of Iran from the Arabs. Between Iran and Pakistan/India.
EDIT: Also, just for the record, the Pashtun are considered part of the larger Iranian ethno-linguistic complex. So they’re closer to the Iranians than the Iranians are to the Arabs, despite mostly being Sunni Muslim, while Iran is Shi’a.
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Supreme Court opens the door to ‘faith healing’ being presented as science’ being offered by licensed therapists. If they want to offer this stuff as ‘Christian’ counselors that’s on their conscience but the state should not be forced to certify damaging nonsense.
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Nope, that’s been a thing.
The state isn’t being forced to certify anything. They’re being prevented from prohibiting it. Besides, the state licenses therapists, but they don’t certify them. It’s a technical point, but in healthcare, ‘certification’ has a specific meaning: Being certified by the medical board (a professional association not attached to any government) in your specialty.
And, as I’ve said, this decision doesn’t prevent the NBCC (the board that certifies counsellors) from saying you can’t be certified if you’re pushing Conversion Therapy, nor does it prevent a state from requiring board certification by a recognized medical board in order to be a Pediatric Therapist. No board cert, you stick to adults while you get your certification in order.
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Thanks for the info. Licensing to the lay mind implies some sort of governmental approval of the therapist’s competence. Offering disproven treatments would not be expected.
Right, ‘licensing’ in this case would mean the therapist has completed a Masters or Doctorate in counseling, passed the National Counselor Examination, and the Colorado Jurisprudence Exam, and completed 2,000 of supervised clinical experience over two years. Colorado, obviously, can’t dictate what’s on the NCE. So if you complete those things, even if you’re virulently anti-trans, you’ve met the requirements for the license. (And yeah, I had to look all that up. 
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Then you get into the other stuff… board certification, pediatric specialty, etc etc, and that’s all on top of it.
Like, you can be a medical doctor, with a medical license, without being a Board Certified Thoracic Surgeon. Two totally separate sets of credentialling. (and medical credentialling is a nightmare field all unto itself, as I found out at an HMO-spin-off right before the dot-com crash).
Honestly, it’s all a nightmare of overlapping bureaucracies that make sane people run for the hills.
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LOL canadian humour is not like american humour, american hunour is the 'in your face’kind, canadian is more subtle..like the brits, it usually hits you some tme after you watched it..thats why some comedians leave canada and come to the usa to perform..their hunour is crass and sometimes sort of dumb.
lol, i once went to a doctor,in tennessee, for a minor issue, talked about my issue for a while then he went off into my ‘sex life’ and god..i really wanted to stay and argue with him. but my good sense kicked in and i left.
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thanks for the lesson!