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Sunday, August 6, 2017

"Nobody kill anybody": Baltimore hopes for homicide-free weekend

(CNN)
NO SHOOT ZONE

Baltimore's "Nobody kill anybody" weekend = Irk mob? Don't need bloke's body in alleyway!
Anagram: Rosie Perera
Image: Tyler Merbler

Mexican Lawyer Markets Trump-Branded Toilet Paper For A Very Good Cause

(Huffington Post)

A Mexican lawyer markets white Trump-branded toilet paper = Dare Mr T to expel crap, wipe arse with marketable mundanity = Mad retort: expel crap, wipe arse with marketable mundanity
Anagram: Julian Lofts

Friday, August 4, 2017

Is there really a market for pickle flavoured condoms in India?

(BBC)
Pickles

India has some really strange pickle flavoured condoms ~ or are nicknamed foulest old smelly vegan aphrodisiacs
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Nannette Turner

Thursday, August 3, 2017

Under Trump's new immigration rule, his own grandfather likely wouldn't have gotten in

(Washington Post)
My Mommy Is an Immigrant

The President prohibits immigrants to US = Trump's ban - I pestered him, "It is so not right!"
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Geoff Livingston

Fen Tiger SPOTTED? Fears mysterious beast has returned to Cambridgeshire

(The Daily Express)
Cougar Closeup Profile

Often get striped ~ Fen Tiger SPOTTED
Anagram: Robert Jordan
Image: Eric Kilby

Mike Pence Ignores NASA's "Do Not Touch" Sign, Sends Internet Into Orbit

(Huffington Post)
Mike Pence Ignores NASA’s ‘Do Not Touch’ Sign, And The Internet’s Response Is Merciless

Critical Space Flight Hardware "Do Not Touch" = Pic's to warn that 'chocolate fireguard' child!
Anagram: Chris Sturdy
Image: Trending News

What's behind the Dow's stunning rise to 22,000?

(The New Zealand Herald)
Charging Bull - New York City

The Dow Jones industrial average rises = Just delivered share gains too, I answer.
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Sam valadi

Tuesday, August 1, 2017

The Great Peanut Butter Escape Of 2017

(National Public Radio)
Escape

The Great Peanut Butter Escape = Better put a Great Escapee Hunt
Anagram: Pinchas Aronas
Image: Fox Wu

'Hire more staff' UK union berates "failing" EU airports for making Brits queue for HOURS

(The Daily Express)

Hire more staff ~ Safer for it, meh!
Anagram: Robert Jordan

Monday, July 31, 2017

Mooch lasts ten days

(Huffington Post)
Kattan

Mooch lasts ten days = A sly smooth cat's end
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: FolsomNatural

Jeanne Moreau, Femme Fatale of French New Wave, Is Dead at 89

(The New York Times)
Untitled

The iconic French actress Jeanne Moreau has died = Such an enchantress. "Je t'adore, ma chèrie," I confide.
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: bswise

Trump's lies are the Republican playbook

(Daily Kos)
Republican Party Bends Knee to Trump

"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." - that writer and a political satirist, P.J. O'Rourke
=
Just look at the old, elite institution of the US Republican Party, starring foul Edgar Hoover, psychotic roue President Donald Trump, doleful Gerald Ford, Spiro Agnew, Dwight Eisenhower, Rick Santorum, etc. O leer at voters too. What woeful, useless fools. (No offence!)
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Mike Licht

A Dysfunctional White House

(NBC Los Angeles)
trump, you're fired

Dysfunctional White House = I fault NYC's White House Don
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Image: doubichlou14

General John F. Kelly

(Washington Post)
John F. Kelly - Caricature

General John F. Kelly = JFK? Hell, nearly gone!
Anagram: Russ Atkinson
Caricature: DonkeyHotey

'You're all over the place' Channel 4 host roasts Labour peer over party's Brexit disunity

(The Daily Express)

Vocally, let Europe hear ~ you're all over the place
Anagram: Robert Jordan

Passchendaele, 100 years on: a final great act of remembrance

(The Guardian)
Passendale: Passchendaele New British Cemetery (West-Vlaanderen)

"A more sacred place for the British does not exist in the world," said politician Winston Churchill = I adopt ironic criticism of Passchendaele (this horrendous, hellish World War I battle) in context.
Anagram: Julian Lofts
Image: Michael Day

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