Handouts Halburn Strikes Again

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Captain Fatsack's at it again.

April 29: I have an inkjet printer that no longer works.

May 28: A young married couple who are friends of our's (sic) need a working printer and to print out grocery coupons. Can you help?


PutnamEYES.com can help, you greedy bastard. Go buy one. You can get a new one for less than fifty bucks. Spare us the sob stories. We know that's a lie. You don't have any friends. What kind of loser would want to hang out with you?

Isn't it amazing that less than a month after he tried to unload his non working inkjet printer, Handouts Halburn is looking for a working one for a young couple to print coupons and college assignments?

Funny how that works.
He and his wife aren't that young and neither of them are in college.

Halburn Plagiarizes Marshall Press Release

ETHICS NEWS

Serial Plagiarist Strikes Again - Copies Release, Adds His Name As Author 



It's really nice when a local girl succeeds.
What's not so nice is when a local asshole pretending to be a journalist takes the press release announcing that fact and puts his name on it and passes it off as if he wrote it.



Halburn's article announcing the selection of two Marshall University students for an economics presentation is copied word for word from Marshall's press release except with the byline By Mark Halburn added.

Here's the original:
http://www.marshall.edu/pressrelease.asp?ID=2028

It would be a lot easier and save space to just link to the article but we're not going to send him the hits, so here's the article Halburn "wrote":

HALL NOMINATED FOR SYMPOSIUM
Marshall Coed One Of 12 Finalists
By Mark Hallburn
Publisher
PutnumLIVE.com
A Putnam County Student taking an economics class in the Marshall University Lewis College of Business is one of two students that have been selected to be among 12 finalists who will present their ideas to a panel of top United States economists and policy makers during the National Economics Insider Symposium this summer.
While taking Principles of Microeconomic sophomore management major from Hurricane, and Natalie J. Faulk, a senior education student from Hartford, wrote winning papers for the competition. They will travel to Washington, D.C., June 11th-12th to make their presentations to a Nobel Prize winner in economics, a White House economic adviser, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, among others.
Economics and finance adjunct professor Ralph E. McKinney Jr., nominated the students.
“Marshall University is fortunate to have two of 12 finalists for this honor. This speaks highly of our commitment to research and education,” says McKinney.
Contestants could submit essays on one of the following economic issues: health care; the environment; education; housing; technology; or other economic issues needing to be addressed. Faulk wrote about Cap and Trade. Hall wrote about the effect of oil and gas costs on shipping costs. They will be competing for a top prize at the event.
While in Washington, finalists will present to Ben Bernanke, chairmen and member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Paul R. Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics; Olivier Blanchard, Economic Counselor and Director of Research Department of the International Monetary Fund; R. Glenn Hubbard, former Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors; Karl E. Case, the Katherine Coman and A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics at Wellesley College; Frederic S. Mishkin, former Board of Governors member of the Federal Reserve; as well as the following research associates from the National Bureau of Economic Research: Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); David I. Laibson (Harvard University); and John List (University of Chicago).
Students will also tour the Federal Reserve and the White House.
The National Economics Insider Symposium is an exclusive event sponsored by Pearson Higher Education, a publishing company that offers textbooks under the brands Addison-Wesley, Allyn & Bacon, Benjamin Cummings, Longman, Merrill and Prentice Hall.

They're identical.
In the real world that's known as plagiarism. Which could get you expelled from a University like Marshall. I guess the junior college that Halburn attended has looser standards than real schools. After all, they admitted him.

Shame on you Halburn, you unethical fuck.
Why would you think this was acceptable after you've been busted for it numerous times in the past?
You think we're running out of material? Well, all we have to do is wait for you to supply it, big boy. You come through every time.
This kind of unethical behavior is exactly what we've come to expect from you.

And isn't the word "coed" a little condescending? Didn't that word go out in 1970? Why didn't you call her a chick? Do you still use the word negro?

There is nothing wrong with printing a news release. What's wrong is when you pretend that you wrote it.

Land Give Away Proposal Is Totally Irresponsible

GOVERNMENT NEWS

P.C.D.A. PASSES ON LUDICROUS PARK/JOB PROPOSAL
You Going To Donate Your House And Land Too?  


Halburn has once again brought up his most ludicrous idea yet in his latest scheme to profit from the Walmart property .
The PCDA should GIVE AWAY property.

The property in question is the 6.36 acre site up the hill above the Hurricane Marketplace.
PutnamLIES.com first wrote of this inane proposal in April.
There's only an acre and a half of usable land on the property, barely enough to put in a real football field, much less parking for the people that would use it.

The view from PutnamLIES.com Air-1

Plus, donating the land to the county takes it off the tax rolls forever. Causing the taxpayers of Putnam County to pay twice.

The PCDA's mission is to attract businesses and help develop properties, not give away land bought with public money.

Halburn would be calling for the heads of any other government officials that would try to do something like this with any other property.
But, since it's his idea and, in his mind, he stands to profit from this plan, he brings it up.

Halburn won't consider the idea of giving away HIS land or even selling it at a reasonable price but then he turns around and demands that Scott Edwards give away his land.

Once again, Halburn's vendetta against Mayor Edwards has blinded him to the fact that Edwards is but one member of a 21 person board. How is Edwards responsible for this?

Our solution is for the county to seize his second wife's land under eminent domain.
Using the county's own tax estimate, the house is worth $89,100. That's the fair market value. The county pays her the full amount the land is assessed for.
Is seizing the land for the greater good of the community? You bet your ass it is if it gets him out of town. Consider it urban renewal of a blighted property.
It's a win-win for everyone.

In addition to his lack of contact with reality, it's obvious that Halburn has no grasp of how business works.

Non profit businesses CAN make a profit on anything they do. Whether it's selling widgets or a piece of land. They just can't show a profit at the end of the year.
Halburn's lack of understanding of this simple fact just shows his ignorance.

His grasp of construction matters is equally lacking. The top of that hill isn't fill, it's the top of a hill that was bulldozed away. The flat area was made there.
But, many of West Virginia's businesses are built on fill. The Dunbar Plaza shopping center in Dunbar is built on a landfill.

People aren't building or opening businesses because the land is isolated or "fill" land.
People aren't building or opening businesses because of the economy, stupid.
It's the worst it's been for the last 30 years.

The board member that promises to bring this idea up in the next meeting is doing so simply to get Halburn to stop calling him every 5 minutes and whining about it. There will be no serious discussion of a land transfer.The denial to bring up this hare brained scheme is a credit to the responsible leadership of the PCDA. The taxpayers of Putnam County deserve no less.