Item Two: No wonder Bill O’Reilly fumes about the Canadians and is calling for a US boycott of all Canadian products…

Carolyn Parrish is at it again.

OTTAWA, Aug 25 (Reuters) - It was damned bastards last year, "idiots" this year.

Canadian Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish had said she hated "damned Americans" and called them bastards in the run-up to the Iraq war. She found a new moniker, idiots, on Wednesday in discussing the planned U.S. missile defense system.

"We are not joining the coalition of the idiots. We are joining the coalition of the wise," the Liberal legislator told a small group of demonstrators.

Parrish, who had to apologize for her "bastards" remarks last year, at first denied using the term idiots, and when reporters pointed out they had her remarks on tape, she said: "I don't mean Americans are idiots."

"The world respects Canada. If we were to join this then it will be giving credibility to what they're doing," she said.

Parrish then begged reporters not to use the remarks: "Please guys don't put that on tape," she said. "I already got into trouble once.... Really, please, I've had enough trouble." …

What?  Is she afraid of Bill O’Reilly’s once more calling for boycott of Canadian goods and services?  Well, he did single-handedly destroy the French economy, according to the Paris Business Review.

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Item Three: Life Imitating Art - Paddy Chayefsky LIVES!

MSNBC notes this -

NEW YORK - Al Franken wants you to get up out of your chairs, open your windows, stick your heads out and yell...fuggedaboutdit?

Well, yes.

In the spirit of Paddy Chayefsky’s classic movie monologue from “Network,” the liberal comedian Wednesday urged New Yorkers — and other Americans — to simultaneously scream the all-purpose local wisecrack at the moment that President Bush accepts the nomination.

“This is a form of protest that is very non-disruptive,” Franken said at a press conference in the Park Avenue office of Air America radio network, where he hosts a talk show.

Franken said the Sept. 2 protest, called the “Great American Shout-Out,” will not “tax our public safety system at all.”

“This is our way of venting,” Franken added. “It will be a catharsis.”

Franken said he expected the shouts to last less than five minutes. Out of “respect for the office of the presidency,” he asked that participants quiet down once Bush begins speaking so “people can hear him give a bad speech.”

Franken said he expects 100 million people nationwide to participate, adding: “Anything less would be a horrific failure.”

Unlike the movie version — “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” — this protest has been tailor-made for regional dialects, Franken said.

In his native Minnesota, people are to yell “Oh no ya don’t!” in an exaggerated accent.

In California, the suggested shout is: “No way, dude!”

Air America has created a Web site, www.thegreatamericanshoutout.org, where participants can plan “shout parties” or let their solo shout be counted.