Points of recent US history:  O.J.; followed by San Felipe/Westheimer affair; 
followed by Clinton/Lewinsky debacle; followed by US election fiasco - not a 
good run for the old US of A.

Denial of the Westheimer/San Felipe thing is intriguing - in fact (in keeping 
with recent US history) a bit O.J. like.  Your DNA evidence was all over that 
place.  To paraphrase:  "If the GMC Jimmy fits, you must admit!"

In any event, it seems while the Brits were frying fish, they passed along 
the election and democratic traditions from those Asian and African colonies 
to the American colonies, but that is only now being figured out.  It seems 
the Brits had the last laugh indeed.

Interesting US constitutional issue.  If the matter is resolved in Congress, 
I understand that the House of Representatives decides the President and as 
the House is narrowly Republican, they would likely choose Bush.  But the 
Senate then decides the Vice President, and as the Senate seems deadlocked, 
the decision then goes to the sitting Vice President - Gore - who could 
choose himself or Lieberman.  God I hope that happens.

Peter.






Jon Chapman
11/15/2000 09:37 AM
To: Peter Keohane/CAL/ECT@ECT
cc: Tana Jones/HOU/ECT@ECT 
Subject: Yes but...........  

I'm afraid I'm still none the wiser . Anyway , points of history : (1) Yes , 
we did , technically , lose the American War of Independence but it was 
because we got sick of it and had other "fish to fry" in Asia and Africa , 
plus it was really a civil war because the people who "beat" us were , 
largely , first or second generation "Americans" and , therefore ,  Brits 
(for example , George Washington's family home is still there close to my 
home town of Sunderland in North-East England ) and (2) we never lost to the 
French , we agreed to give them the worst bit - Quebec - in return for some 
tastier possessions elsewhere .

Yours respectfully

Jon


   
	Enron Capital & Trade Resources 
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	From:  Peter Keohane                           15/11/2000 16:25
	

To: Jon Chapman/LON/ECT@ECT
cc: Tana Jones/HOU/ECT@ECT 

Subject: Re: Nice VP and possibly Pres.  

That fact that you asked "who?" begs the further question of what exactly you 
were up to in Houston.  Have the Brits ever really won a battle any way?  
(Their failure to beat a bunch of colonized farmers with pitch forks has 
resulted directly in this Florida mess, and their failure to put away the 
French (of all people) has resulted directly in me and the vast majority of 
my fellow Canadians being subjected to official and legally mandated 
bilingualism).

To the point, I believe San Felipe is the battle field adjacent to the 
Westheimer battle field, where the Brits (or at least one of them) were 
purportedly waging a more efficient war, until being caught red handed on the 
battle fields of San Felipe, where, all the while, the Canadian forces (or at 
least one of them) were so successfully conquering the enemy.

Peter. 



Jon Chapman
11/15/2000 06:43 AM
To: Peter Keohane/CAL/ECT@ECT
cc: Tana Jones/HOU/ECT@ECT 
Subject: Re: Nice VP and possibly Pres.  

Who or what the ****ing hell is San Felipe - I don't remember the Brits ever 
winning a battle there .

Jon


   
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	From:  Peter Keohane                           14/11/2000 18:35
	

To: Tana Jones/HOU/ECT@ECT, Jon Chapman/LON/ECT@ECT
cc:  

Subject: Nice VP and possibly Pres.

When I look at Al Gore I continue to be amazed that one, let alone 50 
million, Americans voted for him.  Both Clinton's and Gore's continued 
shamelessness, and disregard for doing the right and decent thing, is only 
slightly less amazing than the American people (or at least half of them) 
continuing to find reasons to support them.  My only, yet substantive, vested 
interest in the outcome is that we are inundated with US T.V. and I can't 
bear the thought of looking at Gore (and God forbid Hillary) for the next 
four years.  If they don't settle this Florida thing, I am going to have it 
have my cable disconnected.

We vote in our federal election on November 27th.  We will not have any such 
problems however - not because we are any better than anyone (in fact, I am 
not entirely confident that most of my fellow Canadians will understand, or 
have ever have understood, the ballot or voted for who they thought they were 
voting for) - but rather because of the political system which Jon's 
ancestors were so kind to bestow upon us, which I refer to as "parliamentary 
dictatorship''. 

(Sorry Tana if you are a Democrat, but that is the independent middle of the 
road - yeah right - view of a Canadian observer.  Jon, I cannot, however, 
apologize for the political ruin which your system of Government has brought 
upon us, other to acknowledge that the problem my not be the system but 
rather our screwed up regionalization of your unified parliamentary system 
into 11 separate parliamentary systems - and I suppose that could be 
construed as an apology of sorts, except, for the record, I will never 
apologize to you for anything until you make a public, i.e. to Tana and me by 
e-mail, confession of your sins on San Felipe.  For that matter, you are as 
bad as Clinton and Gore.)

Peter.