Das Boot - What a movie! I've never seen anything like it before. It takes place on a submarine during WWII, at a time it looked like the Brits were moving ahead, as the u-boat captain said - making no mistakes - and the Germans were getting behind, about to lose the war. The movie was made in Germany, but the original actors dubbed the voices into English for the version we saw. The movie is actually very interesting. Plus, it is supposed to be an anti-war statement, which it is for sure. The captain is openly anti-Nazi which http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot notes could happen, according to some sources, as the appointment to captain was based on skill and experience, not politics.
Scooter Libby was pardoned by W.
Popular movies right now are A Mightly Heart, the Daniel Perl story starring A.Jolie and Sicko. It was interesting how in Sicko there was a man in US who could not afford to reattach both fingers he lost in an accident. In France due to an accident a man lost all his fingers which were promptly reattached without cost. It was sad to see that a child brought by ambulance to hospital not in her network and denied service as she had to go to an in-network hospital where, by the time she got there, she passed away.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross - on health care - Jonathan Oberlander, a political scientist with an expertise in health-care politics and policy, discusses problems with the U.S. health-care system and considers how other countries handle health care. He'll also give us a critique of Michael Moore's documentary Sicko. He says that Moore "gets a lot right...[but] didn't get all of it." He says there is not a wait normally in Canada for surgery but there is a wait for something like hip replacement. He says that we ration in this country already. He says it is more rationing in US than is customary in Canada.
From each according to their means and to each according to their needs is the Canadian system.
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