The Pacific Ocean has given birth to a new volcanic island near Tonga, according to ocean-going eyewitnesses.
Crew on board a yacht called the “Maiken” believed they were the first to see a volcanic island forming a day out from Neiafu, Tonga, while sailing towards Fiji in August, the Matangi Tonga news website reported Wednesday.
“One mile in diameter and with four peaks and a central crater smoking with steam and once in a while an outburst high in the sky with lava and ashes. I think we’re the first ones out here,” a crew member who identified himself as Haken wrote on the yacht’s web log.
After ealier leaving the northern Tongan islands group of Vava’u, crew on board the “Maiken” glimpsed “pumice rafts” floating on the water before they “sailed into a vast, many-miles-wide belt of densely packed pumice”.
The crew had earlier encountered huge streaks of pumice after passing Tonga’s Late island, according to their web log.
“You might have heard about the sailor’s superstition that you should ‘never leave on a Friday’. Well, we did and the sea turned to stone, it is hard to get a stronger sign than that,” skipper Frederik Fransson said.
Neither Tonga’s Ministry of Lands nor the Tonga Defense Service would confirm the creation of a new island.
Separately, fishing boat captain Siaosi Fenukitau reported seeing the volcanic island, the Matangi Tonga website reported.
I prefer Islamists on the Moon, but your mileage may differ.
ABC Stores has begun construction of two retail outlets on the island.
I am always looking for good island real estate. . . did someone say Jooos?
Good to hear about the ABC stores, always need some booze and smokes.
And the headline in Reuters:
Jews Occupy Innocent Pacific Island: Demolish Native Lavaflows With Fruit Trees And Olive Groves: Iranians said to be funnelling arms to tidepool resistance.
They didn’t happen to find a group of survivors from an airplane crash living there, along with a smokey monster and some polar bears, did they?
Well, it’s either that or move them all to Connecticut.
Apparently, the new timetable for withdrawal is the end of next year. Then the fun begins. Syria comes after Israel and Iraq ia a terrorist state. Maybe, if the terrorists act real nice immediately in this new Age of Aquarius, the Dems will pull the trrops out even sooner.
That’s what I like about the Left: kill ‘em with kindness.
But kill ‘em.
I am hating more and more the assholes who cost us the election.
Look! Look at the steam! Do you have any idea how much CO2 is coming out of that smoking pusshole? Somebody call Al Gore and Leo DiCaprio and get a team of lawyers to that island. We need signatures on Kyoto and some checks cut to maintain carbon neutrality. Let’s get moving because it’s for the children!!!”
What? What? The Jews? We’ll get them a nice condo development in Boca…
Ahem, you must chill.
That article not only indicates that transfers of security are happening now but that even at the end of 2007 British and American soldiers will continue on support roles.
Deep breaths, cut back on the scotch…
BJ: The camel’s nose is in the tent; can the rest of it be far behind? Things are escalating. I don’t have any faith that Pelosi can control the Dems; there’s ‘way too much crazy boiling inside.
Let me put it this way: I’m coming to suspect this election was an even bigger disaster than I originally imagined. Even Melanie Phillips thinks we’re going to get hit soon. And then the threat to the White House.
Is it true Jack Murtha wants to redeploy our Iraq troops there?
ahem:
I just has a minor epiphany (or a major bleeding ulcer.) This plan for end of 2007: are we all supposed to believe that this was put together just this week? This has been on the works for a while. So then Bush had a plan? We have already been transferin authority in a few districts.
My doomsday scenario is becoming clearer: a major attack upon our soil that makes 9/11 look like a traffic accident. I do feel at least some of your pain (the pain, that is, that ain’t the ulcer.)
12,000 AQ troops in Iraq is a laughable boasting number. However many there are, better they die there than in the smoking ruin of a US downtown area. It still amazes me that none of our trolls and trollettes can grasp the obvious; that al qaeda and other jihadist groups have to expend their scarse resources and personnel in Iraq. Now they have a morale boost with the “we can’t win” defeatists dominating the air waves.
OK, I guess I’ve managed to make myself as miserable as you appear to be. Where’s that bottle of Glenlivet?
cause they don’t have enough of those already!? (my parents live there, in a house.)
oh and BJTexs I think your epiphany is right on. I get the feeling we’re going to see a lot of Dems saying “Do x!” and the Pres saying, “um, okay we’re kinda doing x already” course all the Dems will hear is “okay”
cause I yell that at the TV a lot. WE’RE ALREADY DOING THAT!!!!