EW blogger says Brie best this week

Entertainment Weekly blogger Mandi Bierly says she was "outraged" that hometown girl Lauren Brie Harding's photo wasn't chosen as the week's best on American's Next Top Model. Says Bierly, "Lauren Brie, however, who finished third, was perfection: you're drawn to her eyes first, and then you drift upward to appreciate her angled arms and intertwined hands."

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yeah until she opens her mouth to speak...she can pose but that is about it. She's boring and has a flat personality.

What_Evah, I see you're still extremely jealous of Lauren.

She's going for Top Model and she's very good at that, stunning! - why should she open her mouth! If you want a conversation or monolog go someplace else!!

do you people actually have time in your lives to watch $heet like that?

quote: "do you people actually have time in your lives to watch $heet like that?"

Since it involves a local celebrity...... YES.

SOTLR, I thought your fetish for men in uniform would have made you of all people completely uninterested. She's a bit skinny, but you did notice she's a girl didn't you?

bottomBaby, I will tell you just like I have told other people... you really should check the records in the Circuit Courthouse. You will find where I have successfully tracked down and sued 2 people for silly libelous remarks in internet forums and blogs. It's very easy to do. I have outstanding judgements against these two people, with interest until paid in full.

In the meantime, I will say this. Some of my best friends are men. And their wives or girlfriends are even better friends.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of libelous remarks causes you to pursue legal action?

The two I mentioned publicly accused me of a crime. Neither even attempted to defend themselves because they knew they were guilty as sin of libel and didnt have a leg of defense to stand on. They, like bottomBaby above, thought it was a God given right to say anything they darn well pleased on the Internet.

Default judgements, with interest until paid, were issued against both by a Circuit Court judge. Someday, when they least expect it, I will proceed to collect these judgements and all of the accumalated interest.

SOTHLR...big bully.

Big Bully? As strange as it may seem, that was my initial reaction when you came here badmouthing Lauren. But then I realized you were doing nothing more than expressing your personal opinion of Lauren. Certainly not a professional opinion, but a personal opinion.

My personal opinion remains the same -- I think you're simply jealous of Lauren.

Now let's pick out some random crime... stalking will work. If I publicly accuse you of stalking Lauren in real life, you wouldn't hunt me down and sue me? Why not? What if I publicly accuse you of breaking into Lauren's car and stealing her new cell phone, Ipod Touch and Dell laptop computer? Would you sue me for lible then? Why not? Would you be a big bully if you did sue me for the false accusations?

Sick, I'm surprised that you would even give the time of day to someone named bottomBaby. That's somewhere I wouldn't go. I have a question though since you did.

How could someone libel you when no one even knows who you are? Wouldn't that require defaming a specific you in writing? Since you are anonymous, it seems to me like it would be very difficult for your reputation to have been harmed. Wouldn't that be like defaming a cartoon character?

Have you made your real name public somewhere that it is associated with the screen name you use? Even if you have, how would any one know that it was really some one whose name might have at one point have been associated with that screen name and not some one else using it in the comments above? Couldn't anyone comment here with that name? If any one could use that name, how could a specific person be associated with it enough to be defamed by any sort of comment whether factual, opinion, written or spoken?

Maybe you have good answers, but I'm just wondering where you are coming from with that.

Jim

WOW, you're right!!!! I guess I wasn't thinking thing out very well. Sorry...

Jim, the cases I speak of took place in small online communities where everybody knew each other by their real names and by their assigned screen names. One of the defendants was a former police officer who had been fired in Pennsylvania a decade ago. Even though she had been fired for beating an already handcuffed suspect, she was still pretending to be a full time active police officer in good standing while trying to convince people that I was a bad person. I think one of her biggest problems in defending herself in this lible lawsuit might have been explaining how she appeared in a picture taken in the Maryland home of a U. S Capital building security guard with a license plate off my car laying on the sofa beside her. Or maybe she just didn't want her audience to finally discover she wasn't exactly who she was claiming to be while she was impersonating a police officer online? For whatever reason, she refused to defend herself and a default judgement was issued against her.

The same scenario pretty much played out with the other defendant in Louisa County, Virginia as well. She also refused to defend herself. I could only assume she was upset at me when I refused to meet her in person and coach her in suing the Louisa Township police chief. A default judgement was also issued against her.

Three more lawsuits are still pending. But they involve much more than lible. One against a Charlottesville police officer, one against an Alexandria police officer, and one against a former Alexandria police officer.

Now getting back to The Hook, I can name over 100 people right now that know me by my real name here. Some people even copy my words here and circulate them in print form and in e-mail. One example was a busy-body copying my words and handing them to her next door neighbor who is a law enforcement officer. What's particularly disturbing about this was the fact the law enforcement officer testified under oath that he had no idea where the lady lived. Would a law enforcement officer lie under oath? Well, obviously they do. He knew where this woman lived. My words are often hung on a bulletin board or two and circulated in memo form to infuriate employees (can't go into much detail on this right now). So, yes, I think a lible case could be proven even in a small community like The Hook.

LIBEL not lible