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Monday, July 31, 2017

Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci

(The New Yorker)


Anthony "Mooch" Scaramucci ~ oh, caustic crony, macho man
Anagram: Russ Atkinson

End of the EU? Wave of populism takes over bloc

(The Daily Express)
Gone with the wind...

End of the EU = The one feud
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: Theophilos Papadopoulos

Trump tells police: 'please don't be too nice' when arresting gang members

(The Daily Express)
DRIVE OUT TRUMP/PENCE FASCIST REGIME -- trans protest rally/march in the castro, scott richard

"Please don't be too nice!" says President Trump = Needs testy police to beat up damn prisoners
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: torbakhopper

Saturday, July 29, 2017

'Sturgeon's the only winner!' SNP politician who LOST HER SEAT hails snap election result

(The Daily Express)

'Sturgeon's the only winner' ~ yet the running losers won
Anagram: Robert Jordan

President Trump replaces White House chief of staff Reince Priebus with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly

(USA Today)
Reince Priebus - Caricature

Reince Priebus has gone = Curbs espionage in here
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Caricature: DonkeyHotey

Hammond's Brexit plan REVEALED: Chancellor wants to keep UK 'tangled in EU free movement'

(The Daily Express)


Hammond's Brexit plan REVEALED = Leave? Next PM's bold hard Remain
Anagram: Robert Jordan

Charlie Gard's parents say their 'beautiful boy' has died

(The Guardian)


The infant Charlie Gard dies = Life is hard, then a tragic end.
Anagram: Julian Lofts

Friday, July 28, 2017

Scaramucci blames Reince Priebus for White House leaks as Trump chaos escalates

(Vox)
The Mooch, after Matt Groening

Reince leaks ~ like a screen
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Illustration: Mike Licht

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

'Do you REGRET it?' Nick Robinson SLAPS DOWN Jeremy Corbyn

(The Daily Express)
Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, UK

"Do you REGRET it?" Robinson = Young sorrier; in debt too
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: Chatham House

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

'Test-tube rhino' a last-ditch bid to save species from extinction

(The New Zealand Herald)
Angalifu the Northern White Rhinoceros male (Ceratotherium simum cottoni)

Can farm a white 'test-tube rhino', uh? = I manufacture the beast with horn
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Heather Paul

Monday, July 24, 2017

Our Earth is Becoming a Plastic Planet

(Frack Check WV)
Waste Collects on the Shores of Timor-Leste

Our earth is becoming a plastic planet = A brochure image? Canal is not spelt t-i-p*
*tip = dump (British English)
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: United Nations Photo

Ex-CIA Director Hayden: Russia election meddling was "most successful covert operation in history"

(Yahoo!)

'Most successful covert operation in history' = V. Putin's most secret choice for solitary US, no?
Anagram: Pinchas Aronas

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Hillary Clinton is America's Biggest -- And Most Important -- Loser

(Newsweek)
Pantsuit Rainbow!

Hillary Clinton is America's Biggest -- And Most Important -- Loser = It means - carnal girl Monica or silly DT get hers ambitions stop
Anagram: Pinchas Aronas
Image: Andy Baumgartner

Salvador Dali's moustache remains intact, embalmer reveals after exhumation

(The New Zealand Herald)
Salvador Dalí

Read that the moustache of Senor Salvador Dali has remained intact = Oh dear, oh dear! A caveat as callous men disinter him for that DNA test.
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: La Tête Krançien

Trump tweets mention his 'complete power' to pardon and bemoan 'leaks'

(CNN)
Donald Trump - Caricature

"The US President has the complete power to pardon" = Donald Trump, the pro creep, tweets this as one hope.
Anagram: Rosie Perera
Caricature: DonkeyHotey

'UK will never have own sovereignty!' Cable in Brexit rant

(The Daily Express)
Banksy does Brexit (detail) #banksy #brexit

'UK will never have own sovereignty!' = Verily ruling the waves even now, OK?
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: Duncan Hull

Donald Trump insists he has 'complete power' to pardon

(BBC)
Trump Running for President

Pardon me POTUS = Trump's a dope, no?
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Frank L. Ludwig

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Anthony Scaramucci: Who is the new White House communications director?

(BBC)

The new Communications Director is aka ~ Scaramucci. The dominator is keen to win.

Scaramucci - "No, not editor! I'm ~ a communications director!"

Anthony Scaramucci is ~ a masochist, a cynic. Run!
Anagrams: Julian Lofts

Seven Natural Wonders

(Wikipedia)
Iguazu falls Halong Bay Jeju
Outside the Puerto Princesa Underground River
Table Mountain Komodo Island The Water Tree

A List of Seven Natural Wonders
1. The Iguacu Falls
2. Halong Bay
3. Jeju Island
4. The Puerto Princesa Underground River National Park
5. Table Mountain
6. Komodo Island
7. The Amazon Rainforest
= Portend a hefty thrill
1. Brazil-Argentina border
2. Vietnam, offshore
3. aka Jejudo, S. Korea
4. Saint Paul Mountain Range tunnels
5. Cape Town
6. Unusual old dragons live on island
7. South America
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Images: Linda De Volder, Anthony, Christie Yunhwa,
Jam A, Neville Nel, CristinaPessini, Jake Gordon

Friday, July 21, 2017

Trump claims he's passed more bills "than any president, ever"

(CBS News)
tRump's "eventual" plan!

"We've signed more bills -- and I'm talking about through the legislature -- than any president, ever. For a while, Harry Truman had us. And now, I think, we have everybody."
=
Here, Trump lied about a highlight: a big, unheard rush by making twenty-nine laws in a hundred days. However, Franklin Roosevelt, at a lower time, had over seventy.
Anagram: Josiah Winslow
Image: Thomas Cizauskas