No, I think you were looking at the fascionable new photos of the time, Daguerreotypes.
Posted on 06/26/2005 4:48:20 AM PDT by Dundee
Ex-hostage hires bounty hunters
A HOSTAGE held alongside Australian Douglas Wood in Iraq has hired bounty hunters to track down his former captors, promising to eliminate them one by one.
Swede Ulf Hjertstrom, who was held for several weeks with Mr Wood in Baghdad, was released by his kidnappers on May 30.
Mr Hjertstrom has since claimed he shared information with US and Iraqi troops about Mr Wood which led to the release of the 63-year-old Australian engineers two weeks ago, after 47 days in captivity.
Now, he wants to find those responsible.
"I have now put some people to work to find these bastards," he told the Ten Network today.
"I invested about $50,000 so far and we will get them one by one."
You mean to say that the greatest bounty hunter of all time, Dog, isn't up to the task?
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Excellent news.
we will get them one by one.
Sounds like a deserving non profit future organization. One that hunts down and kills murdering/kidnapping Islamonazi Jihadists and their leaders.
You GO, son!
That was just an awesome movie of redemption! Denzel was brilliant in that part, and Dakota Fanning was just eerie, she was so good.
Palladin was a Ronin
No, I think you were looking at the fascionable new photos of the time, Daguerreotypes.
Palladin was a Ronin
Nice connection!
http://www.hgwt.com/hgwt3old.htm
20th Century Hero in the 1870'sAs the series progressed, it became clear that Paladin came from a well-to-do family, served as a Union cavalry officer during the Civil War, then at some point thereafter left for Frisco to assume his double-life of civilized sophisticate/rough-and-tumble gunfighter. At the prestigious Hotel Carlton, he lived a life of leisure and luxury. He liked the arts, fine food, brandy, cigars, gambling, acquiring knowledge, and he absolutely loved women. He dressed in the most expensive clothes of the day, and always had an appropriate quote at the ready, whether it be Shelley or Montaigne for a beguiling lady, or perhaps Socrates or Shakespeare for those of his own gender. He was able to speak several languages, play piano and compose his own symphonies, ascertain a bourbon's distillery with merely a small sip, and play chess (vs. himself, no less) according to the military tactics of various historical figures.
http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?method=4&dsid=2040&dekey=bushido&gwp=11&curtab=2040_1
In John Allyn's book, "The 47 Ronin Story", the leader of the 47 Ronin Oishi Kuranosuke is quoted as saying:
"Some people live all their lives without knowing which path is right. They're buffeted by this wind or that and never really know where they're going. That's largely the fate of the commoners--those who have no choice over their destiny. For those of us born as samurai, life is something else. We know the path of duty and we follow it without question."
I agree. One of the most powerful films I have ever seen with a very profound message on forgiveness, redemption and sacrificial death. I am always deeply moved by it.
http://rapidshare.de/files/2612096/DouglasWoodHisStory.rm.html
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