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The Peter Pinguid
The Peter Pinguid Society was ugg boots clearance named for the commanding officer of the Confederate man-of-war Disgruntled, who early in 1863 had set sail with the daring plan of bringing a task force around Cape Horn to attack San Francisco and thus open a second front in the War For Southern Independence.ugg boots clearance Storms and scurvy managed to destroy or discourage every vessel in this armada except the game little Disgruntled, which showed up off the coast of California about a year later. Unknown, however, to Commodore Pinguid, ugg boots clearance Czar Nicholas II of Russia had dispatched his Far East Fleet, four corvettes and two clippers,moncler men down jacket, all under the command of one Rear Admiral Popov, to San Francisco Bay, as part of a ploy to keep Britain and France from (among other things) intervening on the side of the Confeder-acy. Pinguid could not have chosen a worse time for an assault on San Francisco.ugg boots clearance Rumors were abroad that winter that the Reb cruisers Alabama and Sumter were indeed on the point of attacking the city, and the Russian admiral had, on his own responsibility, issued his Pacific squadron standing orders to put on steam and clear for action should any such attempt develop.ugg boots clearance The cruisers,cheap moncler jacket, however, seemed to prefer cruising and nothing more. This did not keep Popov from periodic reconnoitring. What happened on the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear. Popov did send out a ship, either the corvette Bogatir or the clipper Gaida-mak, to see what it could see. Off the coast of either what is now Carmel-by-the-Sea,cheap north face, or what is now Pismo Beach,ugg boots clearance around noon or possibly toward dusk, the two ships sighted each other. One of them may have fired,supra skytop shoe, if it did then the other responded; but both were out of range so neither showed a scar afterward to prove anything. Night fell. In the morning the Russian ship was gone.ugg boots clearance But motion is relative. If you believe an ex-cerpt from the Bogatir or Gaidamak 's log,supra skytop tuf green, for-warded in April to the General-Adjutant in St Peters-burg and now somewhere in the Krasnyi Arkhiv,ugg boots clearance it was the Disgruntled that had vanished during the night. Who cares? Fallopian shrugged.ugg boots clearance We don't try to make scripture out of it. Naturally that's cost us a lot of support in the Bible Belt, where we might've been expected to go over real good. The old Confederacy. But that was the very first military confrontation between Russia and America. Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on. But the ripples from those two ugg boots clearance splashes spread, and grew, and today engulf us all. Peter Pinguid was really our first casualty. Not the fanatic our more left-leaning friends over in the Birch Society chose to martyrize. Was the Commodore killed, then? asked Oedipa. Much worse, to Fallopian's mind. ugg boots clearance After the con-frontation, appalled at what had to be some military alliance between abolitionist Russia (Nicholas having freed the serfs in 1861) and a Union that paid lip-service to abolition while it kept its own industrial laborers in a kind of wage-slavery,ugg boots clearance Peter Pinguid stayed in his cabin for weeks, brooding. But that sounds, objected Metzger, ugg boots clearance like he was against industrial capitalism. Wouldn't that disqualify him as any kind of anti-Communist figure?