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Following months of intensive research, Margo Kingston’s expert Webdiary staff have finally devised the perfect means by which an online news service (or even Webdiary) may generate income:

How to donate: By cheque or money order to: Webdiary Pty Ltd  PO Box 1031  Spit Junction NSW 2088

Who’d ever have thought? It seems people can support websites by sending money through the mail!  The online revolution continues. (Webdiary’s other payment option: internet banking transfers. So quick and easy!) As delighted reader Jalal says:

Wayne, Margo et al, the Webdiary is getting better and better. I used to buy a newspaper on daily basis, I have stopped and I do not see any urge in doing so.

Even better is an endorsement from Brigadier Adrian d’Hage. “After his book was published he wrote me the following letter,” reports Margo, who appears to have transcribed the letter while wearing boxing gloves:

Dear Margo,

It seems like an age since we had that “off the record” lunch in Manuka (the restaurant seems to change its name every time I go back!), or iddndeed another age since I reported from Istambul. The fruits of my labour are enclosed - and I see we have great taste in publishers!. I enjoyed Not Happy John immensely.

The Omega Scroll is a thriller designed to reach a broad audience, but you will not be surprised to find that there is a deeper message within its pages. The chase for the scroll aside, there is a message about the futility of going to war, and the influence of religion.

It might sound strrange, coming from a military man, but I continue to hold to my view that the invasion of Iraq will go down in history as one of the most ill-planned military operations of modern times and the nuclear suitcase threat is real.

Unfortunately, the only senior US officer th stand up to Bush and Rumsfeld was the US Army Chief of Staff General Eric Shinseki, and not surprisingly, he was sacked.

More importantly, our poltcis in the Midsdle east are a real threat oto the stability of the wider world. nThe invasion of Iraq with woefully insifficent troop numbers and without the sanction of the UN has provided a fertile breedkiding ground for Islamic fundamantalistas.

Regretably, the co0aliton pociesmin Iraq and the Middle East have also been aided and encoruages by the influential Chirstian Right in the uS. Relagion has got a lot to answer for, and I make that remark as someone who holds an honours degtree in Theology. I entered my studies asa a very committed Christian and graduated “of no fixed religion”.

The threat of nuclear suitaces first came to my attention when i was heading up the planning for the security of the Sydney during the Olympics, and I went so far as to organise a respinse in case one of them should surface. There is now considferable (albeit not well known) open source reporting of the existence of these - first raised by Boris Yewltsin’s Security Secretary, Alexander Lebed, in a meeting othe US House of Represenatives in 1998.

One can only hope that in the future the West will be blessed with somew leaders of vision who can address the “why” of all this before on eof those suitcases becaomes a relaity. More than happy to debate this in the pages of your diary!@ Keep up the good wrok.

Best regards,
Adrain d’Hage

Worth paying for.

(Via Psydoc)

Posted by Tim B. on 10/29/2005 at 12:00 AM
  1. Let me be the first to ask:

    How the hell did Adrian manage to mispell so many words?

    Posted by Leigh on 2005 10 29 at 01:27 AM • permalink

  2. And secondly, how did I manage to misspell “misspell”?

    I’ll go away now…

    Posted by Leigh on 2005 10 29 at 01:28 AM • permalink

  3. My guess is that the mogadon and whiskey kicked in in paragraphs 5 onwards.

    Posted by captain on 2005 10 29 at 01:33 AM • permalink

  4. Geez und i thot my spelung wus badd!!

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 10 29 at 01:57 AM • permalink

  5. Tim,

    Stop wasting bolds!  This website must cost you a fortune!

    Posted by JayC on 2005 10 29 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  6. If Margo can’t persuade strangers to give her money for doing absolutely jack and striking a pose about it, I’m going to lose all respect for her as a progressive…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 29 at 02:05 AM • permalink

  7. Doesn’t Margo have a spell checker?

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 10 29 at 02:18 AM • permalink

  8. All right….which one of you clowns is Adrian?

    Admit it…

    Posted by Quentin George on 2005 10 29 at 02:22 AM • permalink

  9. “Siks munts a go i culdnt spel reeportur now i R wun at Webdairy”

    Posted by Hellbilly on 2005 10 29 at 02:27 AM • permalink

  10. Isn’t it obvious, Margo thinks that if she continues to make spelling/grammatical errors, people will feel sorry for her and actually donate to her moonbat site webdiary out of pity.

    Or as previously mentioned on this site (and more accurately), she is a deranged member of the tin hat brigade (with various other mental illnesses).

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 10 29 at 02:33 AM • permalink

  11. Its a pisstake surely? On the other hand, how much piss did D’Hage take before he wrote that?

    Posted by Nic on 2005 10 29 at 02:34 AM • permalink

  12. “Pass no. 27671, Kingston, M.L, Webdiary Pty Ltd.”

    A Press pass for Margo!!
    Guess that bit about the million monkeys typing must be true..
    And the “Omega scroll” ha ,ha, ha, I gotta get some of what she smokes.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 10 29 at 02:35 AM • permalink

  13. LOL! If I was Adrian D’Hag I’d be visiting my solicitor A.S.A.P.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2005 10 29 at 02:40 AM • permalink

  14. #12

    I think that because Margo has to cut costs, she has reverted to smoking peanut shells. Apparently they create crazy hallucinations.

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 10 29 at 02:41 AM • permalink

  15. Is there a comment at that site, by magro, that isn’t self congratulatory in some way? what a conga line of suckholes

    Posted by Nic on 2005 10 29 at 02:42 AM • permalink

  16. Magro also had this to say:

    It’s been a bloody awful, life changing year for me which somehow, some way, is ending on a positive and hopeful note

    What? she’s mutating into human form?

    Posted by Nic on 2005 10 29 at 02:45 AM • permalink

  17. ... has provided a fertile breedkiding ground for Islamic fundamantalistas.

    I don’t know about you guys, but I think that’s brilliant.

    Islamic fundamantalistas!!

    I think those are the guys carrying the Palestinian flag while wearing Che Guevara t-shirts.

    A breedkiding ground has something to do with goats.  I’m not totally clear on this one.

    Posted by zeppenwolf on 2005 10 29 at 02:51 AM • permalink

  18. Well she fixed the mistakes, i wonder who told her?....

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 10 29 at 02:54 AM • permalink

  19. What are you? A cabal of grammer facisits? Spellcheck is fo Nazis! NAAZIS! Don;t you kwon all techn logy companies are owned by Jews!

    Posted by lil varmint on 2005 10 29 at 03:06 AM • permalink

  20. that spelling! reminds me of the regrettable times when I have tried to write after a night on the booze. Does she have a drinking problem as well?

    Posted by rissole on 2005 10 29 at 03:26 AM • permalink

  21. as well as her other ones that is, not as well as my drinking problem..

    Posted by rissole on 2005 10 29 at 03:27 AM • permalink

  22. #20

    yes and a smoking problem too…

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 10 29 at 03:28 AM • permalink

  23. Former Brigadier Adrian d’Hage was the public face of Defence PR for a number of years in the late 90’s. His talking to members of the Canberra Press Gallery was routine and important part of his role.

    What I don’t understand is his laughable endorsement of ‘Hot Nappy John’. If Adrain’s politics swing to Magrok support, then I fear that the aberration that was Wilkie is not such a misnomer. How many other senior ADF commanders feel that the government was wrong to support the displacement of Saddam Hussein? How many other defence messages are being muted by the politics of hippies in uniform?

    Isn’t it surprising to read Adrian’s comments from September 24, 2001, two weeks after the Trade Center towers were demolished through terrorist act and 18 MONTHS before the US went into Iraq.

    “The entire New York casualty list of 5,000, 6,000 dies in Iraq every month, and they’re mainly women and children, because of US-sponsored sanctions against that country that are clearly not working.”

    As a Vietnam veteran, I wonder if his opinion has been swayed by his experiences in that theatre of combat. I often wondered why a decorated infantry commander ended up in PR.

    Posted by CB on 2005 10 29 at 03:31 AM • permalink

  24. I was breedkiding her when I said “sure, I want a family too.

    I love some of those words.

    Posted by jlc on 2005 10 29 at 03:33 AM • permalink

  25. He’s the Vietnam vet. Not me. My contextual grammar has been Magroked.

    Posted by CB on 2005 10 29 at 03:33 AM • permalink

  26. So let me get this straight.  Decorated military guy ends up as a mouth-frothing Howard hater and writes pathetic Da Vinci Code knock-off?  Agent orange has a lot to answer for.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 10 29 at 03:52 AM • permalink

  27. Please take back your “wearing boxing gloves” excuse for Margo, Tim. After all Strongbad manages very well despite having the same affliction.

    Posted by rbresca on 2005 10 29 at 03:53 AM • permalink

  28. Ahh strongbad, he would tell margo she was full of crap. And then steal her TV

    Posted by Mospact on 2005 10 29 at 04:01 AM • permalink

  29. A drain rage!

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 10 29 at 05:24 AM • permalink

  30. Adrian D’Hage was awarded a Military Cross for bravery in Vietnam.
    He retired from the Army as a Brigadier.

    How does a decorated Vietnam veteran end up reduced to writing drivel like this, and using spelling that would shame a 5 year old, much less a tertiary trained senior military officer?

    It’s either a pisstake or the port decanter went around the dinner table too many times at Chez D’Hage.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 10 29 at 05:47 AM • permalink

  31. Hmmm. Too quick off the mark. I note Webthing has fixed the spelling.

    Did Adrian ring up and shout at the Margoyle?

    Snide remark about Adrian’s spelling withdrawn. Snide remark about drivel remains.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 10 29 at 05:54 AM • permalink

  32. Did Mango confabulate this piece from fragments of a yet another overly long lunch?  It has Miss Spell’s fingerprints all over it….

    Posted by rog2 on 2005 10 29 at 06:16 AM • permalink

  33. I was in the same company as Adrian in SVN.He was 2PLT commander, I was a Gunner in 3PLT he was a goose then and it appears he only got older.He insisted his name was pronounced DAAR ZHAY

    Posted by bernie on 2005 10 29 at 06:48 AM • permalink

  34. She’s used to a quarter-tone typewriter.  They’re used to express French vowels.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 10 29 at 06:50 AM • permalink

  35. o/t ABC news repeats story from two weeks ago in print media,for the first time a farm owned by a white person in South Africa has been taken away a la Zimbabwe…

    Posted by crash on 2005 10 29 at 06:58 AM • permalink

  36. Did anyeno grab a copy of the orgnial post befroe Magrok corektd it?

    —Nick

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2005 10 29 at 07:04 AM • permalink

  37. By the way, Psydoc’s blog is a must-read for anyone who is occasionally amused, outraged or otherwise by some of the pseudoscience distributed in the name of psychology.

    Posted by slammer on 2005 10 29 at 07:44 AM • permalink

  38. I can remember when the Nuclear Family was a figure of fun and derision. Lefties liked to run it down as a symbol of conservative straightjacketing of the left’s limitless potential for self-realisation and government funded arts wanks.
    Focus has now narrowed to the Nuclear Suitcase. Like the pandemic, it is out there.
    Whatever we do, we cannot outrun the suitcases. It’s virtual Checkmate. Quelle Luggage D’Hage! Give up now. Convert to Islam like that girl in Bali - by the way, does she realise that she cannot convert back after she’s paroled?
    I’m backing the silos and the silent service in the ultimate grudge match with the suitcases.
    As long as the USA has a President with balls.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 10 29 at 07:57 AM • permalink

  39. P.S. The ABC will have to ask Aldo Boreyou to explain to them about the suitcases. They ask him about pretty much everything.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 10 29 at 08:02 AM • permalink

  40. I think he meant nuclear nutcases.

    It becomes easier to read this crap if you drink heavily while attempting it. BUt oks agAIn jujf nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

    Posted by Abu Qa'Qa on 2005 10 29 at 08:41 AM • permalink

  41. Has anyone else noticed the contrast between the eloquence of Brigadier d’Hage and that of Cpl. Jeffrey Starr, USMC?

    Posted by ErnieG on 2005 10 29 at 11:32 AM • permalink

  42. Meh, that whole nuclear bomb suitcases thing is a complete beatup. I was so incensed by the d’Hage’s ignorant fretting that I dashed out a blog post refuting his scaremongering.

    Apologies for shameless self-promotion, but I reckon it’s quite interesting info.

    Posted by James Waterton on 2005 10 29 at 11:52 AM • permalink

  43. oops, the d’Hage is not a city.

    Posted by James Waterton on 2005 10 29 at 11:53 AM • permalink

  44. Margo may have corrected the spelling, but the grammar is still appalling.

    Look at that third paragraph. What does the ‘reality’ of a nuclear suitcase threat have to do with the invasion of Iraq being ill-planned? What kind of inability to focus, lack of coherent thought and mental short-circuitry does this indicate? The whole letter is just a mess of weird random unsupported nonsensical babble. This is a PR guy? Whatever happened to ‘staying on message’? Or even having one?

    (‘Buy my book’ followed by paragraph after paragraph of disjointed lunacy is not a message.)

    Posted by Crispytoast on 2005 10 29 at 12:16 PM • permalink

  45. What? she’s mutating into human form?

    I quit.

    —C. Darwin, Esq.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 29 at 12:48 PM • permalink

  46. I love this blog.  I learn new words here all the time.  Fisk.  Margrok.  It’s like visiting another country.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 10 29 at 01:18 PM • permalink

  47. Mebbe we can hood up d’Hage with Wesley Clark and produce a race of super-stupid officers to sell to our enemies as advisors.

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 10 29 at 01:51 PM • permalink

  48. Hmmm. Too quick off the mark. I note Webthing has fixed the spelling.

    Tim, they’re using you as an unpaid editor, you fool!

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 10 29 at 04:29 PM • permalink

  49. #42, James, your link is busted.  Try this one instead.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 10 29 at 08:10 PM • permalink

  50. Is wrok what wronwright does?

    Amazing that a guy with the rank of Broigadier can’t get his mind around the idea that there may be more than one threat in the world at the same time.  Curious too that he doesn’t even notice that the US and Britain were allowing what was supposed to be food and medicine through to Iraq, but that it was Saddam who was misusing the funds and denying the Iraqis the benefits of the oil sales (with the connivance of the oh-so-sacred UN).  In other words, he could not comprehend what was actually going on, with the evidence in front of him.  Thank heavens he did not go any higher in rank with such intellectual inadequacies.

    Posted by Michael Lonie on 2005 10 29 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  51. #38——You mean a President with Niagaras….

    Posted by crash on 2005 10 30 at 07:16 AM • permalink

  52. Signs of appreciation should be sent to ‘Spit Junction?’

    Heh

    Posted by Achillea on 2005 10 30 at 01:52 PM • permalink

  53. Just out of interest how many of Margoks magical kingdom members are suckling on the flacid teat of government??
    I know of at least one who supposed to be an Invalid pensioner, but still has the energy to run refugee campains non stop.
    Anyone care to speculate??

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2005 10 30 at 08:21 PM • permalink

  54. D’Hage was always off-centre - that’s why he was in PR - couldn’t do too much damage there to real soldiers.

    Apparently he is now into wine making, so that may explained why his letter seemed to be written by a drunk.

    I question his claims to being the lead planner for Sydney Olympics security.  I trained guys and girls to do security in Sydney in 99/00 and his name doesn’t ring a bell.  Maybe I was too far down the food chain.

    Posted by Razor on 2005 10 30 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  55. Yep. You turn up to Sydney in uniform after a long stint in intelligence and PR and then they let you run the security for the biggest public event on the planet.

    Bull.Shit.

    Posted by CB on 2005 10 31 at 06:39 AM • permalink

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