Tuesday, December 15, 2009




FUCKHEAD SAYS HURRICANE LEVY NO LONGER NEEDED
Claims City Already Has Enough Money


There was a time when the

City of Hurricane was a quiet little town.
That time has come

and gone.

Because several years ago, an out of state douchebag
moved to town and immediately started causing trouble.

Now, in an unsigned "editorial" that is nothing more than another one of his thinly disguised personal rants,

Mark Halburn continues to unethically promote his own self interest by ostensibly railing against an excess levy.

It's really nothing more than a continuation of his personal vendetta against local politicians and government employees. Sure, nobody likes paying their taxes, especially goatse boy, but this goes beyond that.

He whines that the Hurricane city council "arrogantly refused to vote to pave the last dirt road in town."
What road might that be?
Grace Drive of course. The very street that the author lives on.
Is this fact disclosed in the article?
Of course not.

Then he says, "
Since the last Excess Levy passed, electric and water rates have had double-digit percentage increases. Gasoline prices are at $2.55 a gallon and were above $4 a gallon, causing a huge financial strain on families and businesses that they are just starting to recover from. Putnam County voters recently generously passed a school bond that will increase their property taxes at a time when many are without jobs or have taken pay cuts. Health insurance premiums are at record levels."

But that only happened to you, right?
No, dickwad, it happened to everyone, INCLUDING city governments.
Their costs have gone up too, same as everybody else.

And he continues,"...Hurricane voters can't afford afford to vote for a renewal of the Excess Levy. The $8 a month figure that Edwards is using in his rhetoric adds up to $96 a year, which most of us can use to pay a utility bill."

$8.00 a week? You eat that much in candy bars, fatboy.
You know what, asshole? Our utility bills might not be as expensive if you'd quit filing frivolous complaints with the PSC every time your power goes out for 9 minutes.

Then he wants someone to,
"Convince the Putnam County Development Authority to redevelop the neighborhood next to Walmart. This will also help the Hurricane Marketplace/Walmart Shopping Center attract more tenants providing even more jobs and revenue."

Which you hope will put money into your pocket, shitbag.
How convenient.
Do you disclose that your wife and mother-in-law own property in the very neighborhood about which you write? The very property that you forced your wife to decline a offer that was made to buy it?
Hell no you don't.

And
"Eliminate the wasteful city manager salary"

You've had a hard on for Ben Newhouse since he wouldn't roll over and kiss your enormous ass.

You're a biased, unethical piece of shit.

For a "man" that doesn't have the guts to stand for election, you've sure got all the answers for Hurricane's problems.

And the county says
the fair market value of your wife's property is $89,100. You can bet your big ass if they assessed it for $399,000, you'd be down there screaming.

You want to talk about a tax scam?
Let's talk about someone that runs a business out of his wife's home, brags about how much money it generates and then doesn't pay ONE DIME of B&O taxes to the City of Hurricane.
Let's talk about that.

46 comments:

  1. From today's diary:

    "FINALLY, some progress! During a special city council meeting, Scott Edwards, Reggie Billups, and Brian Ellis vote to direct City Manager Benjamin Newhouse to write Walmart about putting trees in between our properties."

    Would these trees block the traffic view of the Hurricane Marketplace business owners?

    Also from today:

    "Edwards refuses to vote for a sound wall because our property is zoned commercial."

    Would someone please confirm if property taxes are being paid for residential or commercial?

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  2. Does tons-o-fun not realize that paved roads invite traffic? If he thinks that he's got problems now, just wait until there's flat surface area and some new storm grates!

    There's one simple way to settle weather or not his "business" is legit. Let's see if he's man enough to post his business license information. According to code, Business Registration Certificate should be "... posted in a conspicuous position in the place where business is being conducted."
    Since his "business" is online, we should, in theory, be able to view his licensure on his website. Additionally, as a "business" you are required to provide documentation and licensure when you are asked for it if it is NOT posted conspicuously. Therefore, Mark Hallburn of PutnamLive.com, I am requesting the licensure of your business be posted online. This can be a simple scan of your business operating permit, or you can type out the information, and I will verify the information with the State of West Virginia.

    Alternatively, you can email this information to the owner of this website.

    When I have requested license information in the past, I have received it within a few hours, so I don't think it's beyond the scope of believability to request this information within 24 hours of the posting of this comment.

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  3. If a soundwall were put in place between two commercial properties, it would ruin the commercial appeal of the unimproved commercial properties. If a sound retaining wall is tall enough to block sound, it's tall enough to block line of vision, too.

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  4. Writing a letter to Walmart and Walmart actually doing anything are two different things.
    How many letters have you written, dickweed?
    How'd those work out for you?

    And if they did build a wall you'd bitch that it blocked your view.

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  5. You know what really irks me about this piece by the fat man?

    He'd bitch about the noise coming from either paving or sound wall construction. Believe it.

    If they gave him everything he ever wanted and more, he'd bitch.

    So, fat man, how do you propose they pave your precious road or build your precious sound wall without making any "excessive" noise?

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  6. He'll demand they use "quiet" machines, ones that produce no noise (he railed about them for a while in his blog, I think when he discovered the word "Neanderthal"). But... he'll then complain they block his view, that it cuts on sunlight, that the birds that now live in them make noise, too many pine needles, not enough pine needles, wind blowing through them makes noise, they don't grow fast enough, no one can see his mother in-laws prime real estate, Russians are in St. Louis and Super Size Me was really a biography... it won't end, no matter what.

    I should call the Assessor's office and ask that, since the property is being listed at $400k, shouldn't it be assessed at that value as well?

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  7. Call them.
    See if they'll come over and reappraise the dump.

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  8. Won't be as "Peachy" for Putnamblob with the new assessor I'm sure!

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  9. From the Publisher's (alleged) website..."Then Lana Call and Patty Hager abstain from voting. I decide to run against them in the next election."

    This ought to be funny as anything ever seen in the city limits of town. Can you imagine him waving at passersby along the interstate exits?!?!

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  10. With a decent amount of notice, we would leave when the sound wall is constructed. It's all a matter of construction crews showing common courtesy-something they are loathe to do.

    The editorial was not written by me. It was a clooaboration of my editorial board members.

    Shawn, you can FOIA the business license.

    Anonymous: The trees would not block the view of Hurricane Marketplace/Walmart Shopping Center as they would be in front of our home-NOT the Hurricane Marketplace/Walmart Shopping Center.

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  11. Actually, no, one doesn't have to FOIA it. Because under the law, if you are asked for your business license, you are required to provide it.

    Unless, of course, you are conducting business without a license. Such as Mark Hal(L)burn is doing.

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  12. Putnamblob doesn't have a business licence or pays B/O taxes, it is a known fact and he will tell the world that. He operates within the city limits, but his data storage for his computer or whatever loophole he is using is at Fraziers Bottom?? Seems he had an agreement with the former Mayor Peake, the fuller brush salesman, and the local avon rep.

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  13. How about we give you a month's notice, you move out, and we never build the wall?

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  14. Here's a copy of the business license. Tate Nutts, you ARE nuts!

    http://www.putnamlive.com/putnamlivecombusinesslicense.html

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  15. Real nice. Now tell us the physical address listed.
    Not the mailing address, the physical address.

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  16. It's 194 Grace Drive, according to USPS.com. That ZIP matches to 194 Grace Drive.

    Looks like Mark's licensed to do business outside of his home. Which is in Hurricane city limits.

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  17. Everything that goes to the Hurricane post office uses 25526.

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  18. The 7445 of the zip+4 ties it to 194 Grace Dr.
    Nice try though.

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  19. We can push Putnamblob here to the limits but he has I'm sure researched this and the City of Hurricane will not push this.... bigger fish to go after so to speak. He's basically an evader and using the legal loopholes that are available to him at the present time. Not defending him here at all but he's pretty shifty to say the least. Some people though with the IRS will make a career of going after people like the Blobster and he needs to look over his shoulder every so oftern...(he will reply that his audits have been in accordance with federal and state laws I'm sure).

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  20. His research consists of calling the former mayor and telling him his office was elsewhere.

    He writes from home, making that his place of business regardless of where the site is hosted.
    Nobody buys the "my office is in Fraziers Bottom" bullshit.

    The business license states the physical address for tax purposes.

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  21. Good points to ponder Mike...

    1. Is he a reputable business owner / tax paying citizen / property owner within the city limits and worthy or eligible to be an elected official per his diary/blog? Not stating you need to be and word be curious to see what the qualifications are to run for an elected office for town of Hurricane?

    2. Can he furnish income tax statements that are requred or not required to run for office that are necessary to be filed with the Secretary of State Office? (remember at one time we had a candidate for President of United States with a local barber as his campaign/finance chairman).

    Let's look into every orifice the Blobster has... or leave it to IRS.

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  22. 1. No/no/no.
    Reputable? Are you kidding? That's why we're here.
    Qualifications for office? Probably a breathing citizen.
    Halbrun's a mouth breather so he probably qualifies.

    2. I don't believe releasing tax statements are required to run for office.
    Want to bet he pleads poverty when it comes time to pay a filing fee?

    You can be assured that the shit will hit the fan if he runs for any office. Everything he has ever done or said will be an issue.

    He is, however, all talk and no action so don't hold your breath for that to happen.

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  23. "Mike" I never said I am running for office. I am saying our home is for sale and that we are moving out of Hurricane. That isn't talk. Cut us a check for $350,000 and watch us move. Now is when we prove that you are no action.

    As for my address, the state has the physical address of PutnamLIVE.com. It isn't in Hurricane and it isn't the one listed on the license copy that I posted. Someone in Chareleston screwed up. Happy hunting!

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  24. Really? Not running?
    Then what does this mean:
    "Then Lana Call and Patty Hager abstain from voting. I decide to run against them in the next election."

    What did you mean by that? You want to have a footrace?
    You'll lose that too.

    I don't know where you got the deluded idea that I was going to give your wife anything for that shithole that you live in. All I know is that Putnam Co. has assessed the fair market value of it at less than $90,000.

    Once again, it's always someone else's fault with you isn't it? You're never at fault.
    They go by what YOU submitted on your license application. We'll see real soon.

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  25. So... you're admitting that this isn't a REAL license then... did you just admit to posting a legal document that isn't actually legal? I'm pretty sure that falls into the criminal charge territory...

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  26. Why aren't you showing the address?
    What do you have to hide?

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  27. The office is at someone else's non-Hurricane home. The address is confidential.

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  28. It's a shame that is the way it is for putnamblob and being evasive. In sure he isn't losing any sleep and seems quite proud of his antics. For someone who keeps saying for years he is the victim in actuallity he is just beating the system and living off the rest of us who are normal tax paying citizens. He will just continue to flaunt and boast how he continues to beat the system. Quite a role model for the community.

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  29. Leonard MotherFuckin' BernsteinDecember 18, 2009 at 7:10 AM

    Oh, and how I KNOW the +4 puts you on the same block? Because it's available online, liar.

    25526-7450 is the WalMart located within alleged earshot of your home.
    25526-7445 is the Halburn hovel at 194 Grace Dr.

    And now I break it down for the idiots.

    ZIP + 4 uses the basic Zone Improvement Plan plus four identifying digits to pinpoint the geographic segment within the five digit delivery area, such as a city block.


    What's the next lie, Crisco McLiarson?

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  30. More sidesteps in here than dance night at the Retirement home...

    Basically, he's saying he drives from his mother-in-law's home near Hurricane to Frazier's Bottom 3 times a week to update said blog?

    Said "near Hurricane" residence is valued (by the Putnam Co. Assessor) at $89k, yet the asking price is $399k (though HE will take $350k... no mention if the owners will accept lower?), is listed as "commercial", yet has a Homestead Exemption. Wonder how he'd try to get out of Capital Gains?

    Since he's not a resident of Hurricane, he expects the taxpayers of Hurricane to a) no vote for an excess levy for more police protection and street paving (since they won't pave a street NOT in Hurricane) and b) to force a Hurricane business to put up a sound wall/trees on its property to prevent anythign above a whisper to travel 30yds from a road, through closed windows/walls, into his residence?

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  31. HarryStamper: never once in the entire Halburn epic has logic ever appeared on his side.

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  32. Capital gains doesn't kick in until after $500,000. So, if you want to pay us more than $500,000 we will be happy to pay the capital gains tax.

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  33. "Harry," I am a resident of Hurricane. My business is about a 1/4 mile outside of Hurricane. Fraziers Bottom is not a convenient location.

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  34. Mark, how many times do you have to be told, you don't live in Hurricane, your "business" isn't in Hurricane, it isn't Fraziers Bottom either. It is on the outskirts of Hurricane so you can skirt the taxes, the same taxes you bitch about day in, day out. You have been proved wrong with your own "business" license, so shut your Crisco stained face. You are making yourself look like a bigger fool than you already are, but it is damned funny for the rest of us.

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  35. Residence not in your name- MIL files single, so $250k allowance for Cap Gains.

    Fraziers Bottom is further than 1/4 mile from Hurricane. Unless this is a new business?

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  36. Harry:

    House is owned by wife and mother in law. Capital gains is at $500,000. Business has not been in Fraziers Bottom for YEARS.

    Tybois:

    I don't care how many times you tell me I don't live in Hurricane. You were WRONG THEN,m WRONG NOW, and YOU are Mr. Crisco! Man up and admit that you are an EPIC FAIL!

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  37. OK...I'm now officially burned up at this ass-clown.

    He's whining that his power blinked off in a severe snow storm and then takes credit that his complaining is why the crews were so fast to respond.

    The power crews are out in miserable conditions to make the recovery as fast as they can, doing their best...and whiney butt's comments about made me puke.

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  38. The great thing about the pat on the back machine is that it requires no electricity.

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  39. What? That is the best you can do? Bouncing the insult back? You can't come up with anything original. That is sad. Plus, you give no arguement on why I am wrong, no evidence supporting your side showing you are right, which makes you the double epic fail, one for the poor insult and two for the no evidence retort. Give it up fatty, it is over. You will never win a match of wits with the likes of myself, Lenny, Lee, Mike, Tyler, GoW, and the many anon. Pack it in Crisco.

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  40. In a battle of wits, Halburn comes unarmed.

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  41. The Blobster complains about Putnam county closing schools Monday. If they kept them open he'd complain that they were endangering kids lives.

    And blaming AEP for the power outage shows not only his lack of understanding about how power distribution works, it also shows his lack of touch with reality.

    But, apparently he's more than willing to help fund the hundreds of thousands of dollars it would take to put generators in every school in the county.
    I guess that's easy to do when you don't pay taxes.

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  42. REALITY:

    AEP is in the power business. It's all they do (unless you consider wasting money sponsoring minor league baseball.) The company should plan for storms like this, have adequate backup systems, and, if necessary, loan generators to the schools. AEP failed thousands of customers and THAT's REALITY!

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  43. You wouldn't know reality if it came up and bit you on your flabby ass, fatboy.
    You're completely delusional. Plus you don't have any idea what you're talking about.

    AEP IS in the power business, but they're not in the UNINTERRUPTIBLE power business. You want that, buy it yourself. I'm pretty sure they sell generators at Walmart.
    AEP had plenty of power, but when you have thousands of trees on the lines there is no way to anticipate where or when an outage will happen.
    You can't have enough backup systems to fix everyone's power instantly. They can't have crews standing by just in case something happens. You'd be the first one to bitch that your electric bill is paying people for standing around if nothing happened.

    It's not the power company's responsibility to loan generators to schools, you or anyone else.
    Once again, shitbag, you show what a whining pussy you are. Thousands have been without power for days, and you're whining about 6 momentary outages.

    So, go ahead and file another complaint, see where that gets you.
    Nowhere. The same as every other one you've filed. Just another smackdown coming your way.

    Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one gets filled first.

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  44. Putnamblob and toy-troy are the local baseball experts now.

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  45. Again Halburn's bias is showing. Skirting the question that he was asked.

    As much as I loathe to repeat myself...

    How would you know the power was out if you do not post to your "news" site from home? If you post from an undisclosed location that is legal for tax purposes, how on this green earth is that possible. You see fit to criticize others for going to the WalMart during a blizzard, but again, if you're not at your home, how would you know? Because if you're not there, going to your "undisclosed location" is just as dangerous as those going to the WalMart. Probably more so, because you've proven you're an unstable individual.

    I don't honestly expect you to answer, because you have proven time and time again that when faced with basic fact, you tuck tail and try to divert. All I know is this... your business license being for a different location is bullshit. You're a liar. Plain and simple.

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  46. If the problem is AEP, buy a generator and close your account with them. I'm sure they won't miss your government subsidized payments, anyway.

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