#border drama

[tomorrowusa]

One thing Republicans enjoy doing even more than cancelling minorities and colluding with Russia is creating catastrophes and then later blaming the catastrophes on Democrats.

Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas introduced a number of regulations along the Texas border with Mexico which has slowed traffic to a snail’s pace. Of course Abbott is blaming his homemade supply chain mess on President Biden.

If your car parts, construction materials, or other items are being further delayed because of Abbott’s pointless border drama, consider making a small contribution to Democrat Beto O’Rourke who’s running against Abbott this year.

[starminesister]

Random screencaps of Oguri Shun from BORDER ep.01.

[starminesister]

I watched ep.01 of Oguri Shun's new drama BORDER this past week and it's pretty good. It's about a cop who gets shot in the head (by a still-unknown assailant-- I'm sure this revelation will be part of the series' climax) and miraculously survives, albeit with a bullet lodged in his brain. He eventually recovers and returns to the job only to realize he can see ghosts (pretty handy for a homicide detective, huh?). I really appreciate, in this first episode at least, how the story isn't really about Ishikawa finding out who the murderer is (because the victims know their killer) but rather how he can steer the investigation in the correct direction (after all it's not like he can just say, "The ghost told me so").

I like that instead of running from his ability (like so many characters in the recent spate of "I-see-dead-people" dramas we've had lately), he's actively using it to seek justice for the victims.

Also Haru as our unconventional coroner is at times giving me serious flashbacks of Yoon Eun Hye in Coffee Prince (looks-wise, at least).

[erinadesu-blog]

BORDER

Ango Ishikawa survives a near-death experience, a bullet to his head and returns back to work only to find out that he can now communicate with the dead.

[nuadmissions-cssh]

So last Tuesday morning we left Belgrade and headed for Kosovo. And of course I received a brand spanking new passport stamp from them! 

Kosovo was very cute, for a 3 year old independent kind of recognized state. And of course I consider it a country, since that adds to my tally of countries I’ve visited! While in Kosovo we visited with The Nansen Dialogue, which is an NGO who works on helping families relocate to Kosovo.

After that we were headed back across the border into Serbia. Where we ran into some issues. So because of all the drama between Kosovo and Serbia, and how Serbia won’t recognize Kosovo as an independent state, we got caught up in the middle of it. Turns out we tried crossing into Serbia at an “unofficial” border crossing point (whatever that means) and they couldn’t annul the stamps we received from Kosovo, therefore we couldn’t enter back into Serbia. LAME. So we had two options: Call the US Embassy and force the border control officers to let us through which may take a couple of days, or drive through Montenegro to Serbia to go through an official border crossing point which would take about 5 hours. Guess which we chose?  I have a brand new Montenegrin passport stamp! And we were able to spend the night there in a fabulous hotel, and we continued our trip into Serbia the following day drama free, after of course, they annulled our stamps from Kosovo.