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Ooh fun!Alabama: Cancellation of your voter registrationAlaska: Hypothermia and a bear ransacking your luggageArizona: A hug from Joe Arpaio. And a shower.Arkansas: A hug from Bill or Hillary (your choice)California: A check for 30 seconds’ rent in San FranciscoColorado: A baggie of the good stuffConnecticut: A DVD of Mystic PizzaDelaware: Your very own corporate statusDistrict of Columbia: Your very own bureaucratFlorida: A baseball bat to fend off the mosquitoesGeorgia: Directions to Peachtree StreetHawaii: An aerosol can of vogIdaho: A potatoIllinois: Free eternal registration as a Democrat. Good after deathIndiana: A racer ride to your hotelIowa: A tour of Madison CountyKansas: A chair so you can stand on it and see into ColoradoKentucky: A ticket to Ark EncounterLouisiana: Mardi gras beadsMaine: A trip to Wytopitlock (yes, it’s a place). On the scenic Mattawamkeag River.Maryland: A Spiro Agnew statuette.Massachusetts: Mitt Romney buys and sells off your employerMichigan: An EdselMinnesota: Hypothermia, but no bearsMissouri: A free trip to FergusonMontana: A hug from a grizzly bearNebraska: A sandhill craneNevada: 10:1 odds on whateverNew Hampshire: Voter registration in Dixville NotchNew Jersey: They tell you how The Sopranos really ended.New Mexico: A truckload of kitsch with Kokopelli on itNew York: Your very own pizza ratNorth Carolina: Your very own crooked election and gerrymandered district.North Dakota: See KansasOhio: A bucket of rustOklahoma: Free tornado tourOregon: An attendant gas fill-up, whether you want it or notPennsylvania: A half-hour rant on how shamefully Joe Paterno was treatedRhode Island: A hug, but stand still or you’ll leave the StateSouth Dakota: A ticket to the Crazy Horse VolksmarchTexas: A secret tour of the basement of the AlamoUtah: A family tree searchVermont: A do it yourself maple syrup kit: a bucket and a tree.Washington: An umbrellaWest Virginia: A lump of coalWisconsin: A cheesehead (of course). And a place on the Packer season ticket waiting list. Check in again in 2050.Wyoming: A roll of those wretched statehood quarters.Missing a few.

The experts say write what you know about, so to play it safe I will only talk about Thailand which is where my home has been for a little over two decades. I don’t really know how it happened, it just did. Originally, I had other plans but my life took me in a different direction.During my time here I have seen many expats from loads of different countries come and go. Some stay a long time in the Land of Smiles but eventually most head back to their home country. There are three main reasons that this occurs and they are ranked below from the easiest to the most difficult obstacle to over come.Paperwork requiredCultural differencesFinancial difficulties#3- Paperwork required. As shown below, I live at D&G in the boonies of Thailand and under the auspices of the Thai immigration department. I am still a guest in this country and as such I must jump through the hoops each year to stay. From the get go, I have to admit that the process is much easier as compared to someone trying to get a green card in America. However, it is still pain in the butt.There are various visas available but at the end of the day, they are all about the same. But here is the problem. As with any government bureaucracy the right hand often does not know what the left hand is doing. The majority of expats have to complete the annual visa rigmarole along with having to report to immigration every 90-days.Now most expats try to adhere to the rules but it can be difficult. One year the officials may request a specific document and then the following year they don’t want what had been previously asked for and now want something totally different. The goalposts can move and some rules of the game are hard to understand.Here is one example. Many expats will need to have money deposited in a bank account in Thailand (under their name only) in order to satisfy Thai immigration policies. The amount required ranges from B400,000 or $12,600 to B800,000 or $25,000. Now this money is to show that the expat has adequate means to live in the country. But, the sticking point is that the money basically needs to sit there in the bank drawing very little interest. And if the bank account falls below the minimum requirement, then someone is probably leaving Thailand.Reporting to immigration every 90-days is something an expat must always keep in the back of their minds. There is always a fine to pay if a person is late and there is always a possibility of having the visa cancelled period. Personally, I think it is a ridiculous requirement. Thai immigration is trying to establish an online 90-day report but currently there are still a few bugs in the system.Many expats get aggravated at the cumbersome inefficiencies and paperwork required in Thailand when it comes to banking procedures, property registration, all the immigration and visa bureaucracy, securing permits and the list goes on. I’ve met quite a few expats that have just thrown their hands up in disgust and headed back home.#2- Cultural differences. It will exist. Period. Or as I like to say “We're not in Kansas anymore.” It is rather ironic that this particular phrase comes from the Wizard of Oz.I’m an American and for the most part I like to do things the way that I was raised. Thais are the exact same way. I’m not saying that either way is right or wrong, but there will be some differences. Funny enough it is not the big stuff like the Spirit House shown below at our place that bothers me, it is the little nuances that exist in daily life. Here are a few aspects that still drive me crazy.Speaking of driving, most drivers here are idiots. They just are. So much so that Thailand is #2 in the world as far as traffic fatalities go. There is no such thing as a leisurely drive in the countryside.Yes, does not necessarily mean yes. It could also mean no or maybe.Being on time is merely an expression and not to be taken literally.Living in a goldfish bowl. It might be the big bowl in Bangkok or just a small jar in the boonies, but an expat is the goldfish and Thais like to look at the fish. Non-Thai faces tend to stand out in the crowd. Also many times a Thai will say’ farang’ when they see a Western face. This word basically means foreigner and for the life of me, I can’t figure why it is often said. It’s like being a celebrity only no one wants an autograph.#1- Financial difficulties. Losing everything. I often see or hear a tale of woe from some expatriate who is at the bottom of the barrel. The majority of the time losing money has been a male trait. But for the last few years, more and more female expats are doing the same thing. There is a myriad of reasons that this occurs. Often it is the case of getting married to quickly to a young lass from a local watering hole and then building her a palatial house emptying his entire piggy bank. More times than not these relations are tough and tend not to last. One can see these McMansions scattered throughout Thailand.A few expats decide to become entrepreneurs and buy a restaurant or a bar. They sink their life savings into the adventure only to have everything collapse usually sooner than later.Others decide to start a business with a Thai partner only to discover that neither one of them know what they are doing.Unfortunately to many expats fall into the party atmosphere of Thailand. Days and nights of hard drinking and kicking up one’s heels has drained many an expat’s bank account. Expats by the hundred have thought they had enough of a nest egg to last a lifetime only to find out it all went somewhere in a year or two.Thailand is not as cheap as it once was. The days of a B20 or a 50 cents rice dinner is long gone. Thailand’s electricity for the house or gas for the car costs just about as much as what America charges. Western style restaurants can be expensive. Wine ain’t cheap either.Show below is what was left of my prized fishing dock after the flood of 2011. I was not a happy camper and had thoughts about returning to the states. The fact of the matter is that living in Thailand and fighting with Mother Nature can be tough. But the rewards can also be high. Anyway, I continue to live here, but many expats eventually head back home…

Voter fraud is a largely Republican issue championed by Donald Trump, who used it to deny that he really lost the popular vote by 3 million in 2016.[1] They use it as justification for laws ostensibly to curb fraud, but whose real intent, in my opinion, is to suppress voting by minorities who are more likely to vote Democratic.While debate goes on over whether voter ID laws and other things like understaffed polling places, and reduced DMV hours actually make a difference, the intent is clear.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]To shore up his claim, Trump created the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity,[8] co-chaired by Vice President Mike Pence and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an outstanding proponent of voter fraud theories and the same fellow who demanded verification of Obama’s birth certificate from the State of Hawaii.[9] As best I can tell, the Commission’s intent was to apply Kobach’s record matching theories and compare voter registration records in multiple states, find people who were registered in multiple states, and then declare massive numbers of fraudulent registrations (people who move from state to state don’t typically cancel their former registration and so some overlap is to be expected). Some states gave the Commission data; some didn’t. One could tell that the Commission wasn’t on the up and up when they refused to pay just a few dollars to buy data, demanding it for free, which by law the state couldn’t give. Even Kobach’s home state of Kansas couldn’t fully cooperate. Rather than use what they had, they whined a little and President Trump dissolved his own commission without it issuing a report.The North Carolina fraud story is certainly a black eye for Republicans. A Republican congressional candidate paid a company to collect absentee ballots from voters, some blank and some filled in from voters (it’s against North Carolina law for any private citizen to handle an absentee ballot except for the voter or a close family member). The contractor then filled in the blank ballots and took steps to conceal that they were processing them in bulk. The total number of fraudulent ballots was larger than the margin of victory of the Republican candidate in the close election.[10] The election was subsequently invalidated and a new election has been ordered.With that said, I don’t think it’s right to smear the entire Republican party with what one candidate did in North Carolina. I do, however, think that it’s important to note that in the single real fraud story of the 2016 election, it wasn’t voters who committed fraud, but a candidate.I wrote a long answer to a short question, but I wanted to provide an opportunity to get a lot of important information out there in links that can be used to understand both sides of the issue, along with the facts on the current case.Footnotes[1] Trump again claims massive vote fraud. A massive search for evidence finds none.[2] Voter ID Study[3] http://www.p2016.org/chrnothp/Democracy_Lost_Update1_EJUSA.pdf[4] As it turns out ... Bentley's driver's license closures were racial, after all[5] Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump[6] https://www.nber.org/papers/w25522.pdf[7] Opinion | The Myths of Voter ID[8] Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity - Wikipedia[9] 2012-09-14 - KS - SoS Kobach Letter to Onaka and Response[10] North Carolina investigators find evidence of significant fraud in House election