YOUR TRAVEL: 194 Grace Drive

What's the big deal?

Our correspondent Lee recently won a guitar from ROCK 105 and on the way to St. Albans to pick it up, he decided to make a stop in Hurricane to explore fatsack's claims of noise, visit a couple of "family members" and do a "travel feature."

Lee's account follows.

I passed through Hurricane one Tuesday between 3 and 4 PM. After turning onto Progress Drive, I proceeded up a filthy little lane known as Grace Drive. After passing a scenic metal sculpture area on the right, I arrived at my destination, the house of Mark Halburn's second wife. What a place! I didn't know it was possible to stack 3 double wide trailers like that.

And amenities?
We're talking a yard full of amenities including a tire swing for hours of fun, a couple of old lawn chairs for relaxing, a basketball hoop that my son would love and a Walmart wooden play set that gives kids all the outdoor fun they could want with swings, slide, and a built-in picnic table.

Neighbors told me that in the summer, the yard features a blow up pool and a "party tent."

One said, "They're out there all the time. They don't seem to be too concerned about noise then. They make enough of it. It's like a hillbilly convention."

The only things missing were a car up on blocks, a burn pile and a lawn jockey.

The small withered evergreens planted along the road add to the sense of decrepitude.

I heard the "excessive noise" for myself and it's non-existent. Just normal noise for a neighborhood such as this. I love the fact that the neighbors are a red and white house then a trailer catty-corner on the hill...that's pretty much it.

Even the grates aren't bad, again...just something that goes along with the territory.

On the way out I decided to visit the Walmart and see for myself what the big deal was. Driving up the road, I see plenty of neighboring stores as Rent-A-Center that generate traffic as well, not just Wal-Mart.

I must say, for a Walmart, there was plenty of parking available. There couldn't have been more than 25 cars in the lot. There were virtually no customers inside. I would really enjoy shopping here.

As I exited the parking lot and drove slowly past crisco's house, I blew my horn and lovingly gave the house a one fingered salute.

I urge everyone to drive by and see for yourselves. Admission is free and is a great way to see just what Halburn has been whining about all these years.

Halburn Attempts To Censor Critics

Comes Out Against First Amendment


Score another victory for PutnamLIES.com!
Every minute that Halburn wastes trying to stop us is a minute he can't use to harass someone else.

After months of whining Halburn says he has browbeat a State of West Virginia agency officer to block access to what he has termed a "trash blog".

He continues his crying by saying we've harassed him, his family, and even his clients for more than a year.

Its not so fun when the sandal is on the other foot is it meathead?
It's no different than what you've been doing since you started your cluttered advertising shopper.
You've harassed Scott Edwards, Joe Haynes, Ben Newhouse, judges, lawyers, state and local government employees, construction workers and anyone else that disagrees with you.
If your "clients" don't like the ad parodies of their businesses, there's an easy solution. They can have you pull their ads off your site.

Calling the material and comments on this site "perverted," the unnamed censor apparently deemed this blog "not appropriate for viewing by State of West Virginia employees, (and) therefore, has been blocked by our agency."

We say bullshit.
Notice he won't even name the agency. Maybe it's someone from his imaginary judicial review board.
Some departments/agencies have ALL blogs, ebay, facebook, youtube, sports sites and internet game sites, etc. blocked. Mostly to keep people like Halburn from fucking off all day. Some departments have none blocked. Some departments have no internet access al all. It's a department by department decision.

Frankly, we don't really give a shit. We get virtually no hits from any state offices anyway. Most state employees are hard workers who have better things to do at work than Google their names all day and play on the internet.
Unlike Halburn who takes substitute teaching jobs and then whines about having to work. The work for him is so strenuous that he is constantly hoping for two hour delays or cancellations.

Halburn likes to say that we steal his content, layout, photographs, and headlines everyday
We steal nothing from him. All of our content is original, created in house by our staff artists and writers as a parody. Parody is protected as fair use.

He says he is not revealing the IT employee that he harassed or the agency that he works for because he doesn't want him harassed or stalked.

That's rich coming from someone who has a pattern of doing both. Someone who drove 7 hours and 400 miles to stalk a woman in Washington DC and then threatened her last summer that he was coming there again. Someone who called that same woman's office and harassed a secretary and demanded to speak with her boss. Someone who is obsessed with this woman to this very day. Someone who calls a reporter at 8 AM about a two year old message board comment. The list goes on and on.

We're still on Facebook. We're still on Twitter. And we will continue to be right here as well. We're not going anywhere.
We're like the hydra. Cut off our head, we'll grow two more.

Halburn continues his lunatic ranting:
"another blog operator purged all references to and attacks against PutnumLive.com. None of these blogs are operated by journalists and most allowed anyone to post anything without verifying its authenticity or the authenticity of the author. We suspect many posts under various names to be authored by one out-of-state man."

The content about you is still alive on girlofwords.com. She just had to move it because you're a psychotic stalker.
Your blog is not operated by a journalist either fatsack. You're a self promoting ego piece of shit. People think you're a nut. You sure as hell are not a journalist.
Anything can be posted in a blog. Commenters leave comments. They say what they want.

Keep on suspecting Sherlock.
But get this through your thick paranoid skull:
Lee has nothing to do with this blog. Girlofwords has nothing to do with this blog. Tyler Hollywood has nothing to do with this blog. Scott Edwards, Joe Haynes, nor any other politician have anything to do with this blog. Nothing.

The only unethical "free-for-alls" with fake names, salacious accusations, and libelous statements happen on PutnumLIVE.com.
He then says, "We only publish verified letters."
That's because PutnamLIES.com busted you multiple times for stealing letters to other papers or Facebook postings or message boards.
You've been reduced to running press releases from politicians as letters. It's not like they're sitting there thinking, "What's the best way to inform the public about my agenda? I know, I'll send Mark Halburn a letter!"
Cut and paste. That's your style.

Halburn then says those that want to act like middle school students who start false rumors should take their comments elsewhere. Really Marky? Really? Like you? Maybe they should go to Topix where you've been posting under at least 20 different names, none of them yours. Would that be OK?

Now for the biggest laugh:
"We believe in, and practice, responsible free speech."

Except when it's about you. Then you're against it.
You love to shout about your First Amendment rights.
Well guess what, fuckstick?
We've got them too. The same First Amendment that allows you to publish your swill allows us to attack you for it.
You have the right to your own opinion but not your own facts.
Halburn always wants to shut up those who disagree with him. That how a bully operates. He has the right to free speech but no one else does.

You're no better than the Chinese or the Iranian governments who try to censor speech they don't agree with. You're a communist AND a fascist.

Halburn says many of his readers have informed him that they looked at PutnamLIES.com and were repulsed by its vulgar content.

Good. Because we don't want the inbred rubes and hayseeds that that read his site coming here.
All right thinking people are repulsed by Halburn and his boorish behavior.

He is right about one thing though. We don't have sponsors. We don't need them and we don't want them. We're not in this for money. It costs us nothing to publish this. We have no expenses. We're in this to expose his unethical, sleazy practices.
PutnamLIES.com does not accept ads and then write complementary stories about those advertisers. We practice responsible, ethical journalism.

He goes on: "multiple sources informed us that his little project is funded by a couple of Putnam County politicians."

Once again we're calling bullshit. You have only one source and we know who it is.
Yeah, that's right. Wendy from some group that calls itself People Against Cyber Bullying. We've talked to her on multiple occasions and she has nothing. Everything she has is a figment of her imagination. No names, no bank transfers, nothing. Bupkis. She's just another self absorbed do-gooder with an agenda. There's no funding because this site costs NOTHING. If you have proof to the contrary, produce it.
We have absolutely NO affiliation with any state, local or national politicians. There's simply no there there.

Still, with his readership dropping, we expect it is just a matter of time before Halburn does something really desperate. Maybe then he will get life!

In the wake of the shootings in Arizona we should all remember what the psychiatrists said in Hallburn's mental examination:
"Given his degree of agitation and volatility, any threats made by Mr Halburn should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately."

Meanwhile, PutnamLIES.com continues to be Putnam County's REAL News Leader as our readership consistently grows with people looking to find the truth about Mark Halburn.

And, of course, we thank ALL of our readers for your loyal support.

The Year in Review

LOOKING BACK
The Top PutnamLIES.com Stories Of 2010

It's a news tradition to look back at the previous year's top stories.
With that in mind, PutnamLIES.com is digging back into our
archives to bring you our top news stories from 2010.

We'll let you decide which is the most important or which is the "biggest story." We are just going to present what we feel is the most memorable. So please, kick back with your notebook or netbook, grab a cold Bartles & Jaymes, and enjoy our "Year in Review."

Halburn Convicted Of Trespassing
The year started off with a bang when Halburn was convicted of trespassing before Kanawha County Magistrate Traci Carper-Strickland.
Hallburn was found guilty of trespassing charges stemming from an August 30, 2009 incident at the Shawnee Park pool in Institute WV. He was fined $250 plus court costs of $159.50. He immediately appealed to Circuit Court.

Supreme Court Rejects Case
On January 14, The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia refused 5-0 to hear Halburn's appeal of a circuit court decision granting summary judgment to the City of Hurricane on Halburn’s claim of retaliatory selective enforcement of a municipal ordinance.
The case was Delores Halburn and Mark Halburn v. City of Hurricane, West Virginia, Ben Newhouse, Cleveland Construction, and Kanawha Stone Company, Inc.

DUI Scam Story
We got an anonymous comment from someone in Point Pleasant (wonder which Toady that could be?) saying that Halburn had been arrested for aggravated DUI. After checking, PutnamLIES.com determined that this was a false report. It was nothing more than a blatant fabrication, maliciously left in order to mislead PutnamLIES.com into printing a false story, so some fat bastard could try and sue us.


Defends Child Abuser
Halburn calls convicted child abuser/fellow sociopath Troy Suxton a "local legend" and immediately begins taking up for him.
Psychos of a feather and all that. Is there something in the water here?

Walmart Wall
In February, Walmart notified the city of Hurricane that they had no plans to build nor would they allow others to build a sound wall or plant trees on their property, shattering Halburn's dreams of someone else taking responsibility for his problems.

FOIA/Zoning Change Fiasco
After receiving some documents from another one of his endless strings of FOIA requests, Halburn ran an article "proving" that the city changed the zoning of his second wife's house. There was only one thing wrong. Halburn neglected to make sure that the properties in the documents were actually his wife's.
They weren't.
He was so anxious to bray about "nailing" the Mayor that he didn't even bother to read the description of the land or look at the maps of the properties that had their zoning changed.
That's OK. PutnamLIES.com pointed it out. Once again publicly making him look like the asshole he is.
It is important to note that Halburn has never been able to produce any documents to prove that the zoning was changed.

Toady Arrested and Convicted
In March, Halburn butt boy Lawrence J Smith (alias Jay Lawrence Smith), another alleged journalist, was arrested for trespassing and making a scene when his demands to see some documents without filing a FOIA were not met. After a trial in September and an appeal in December, he met the same fate as his portly mentor did earlier in the year: Guilty.

Beyond The Backyard, Sheetz Force Ads To Be Pulled
Halburn once wrote a story about the "Beyond the Backyard" foundation.
Afterwards, he approached them looking for sponsorship, and they said they weren't interested. He then proceeded to steal the logo and place it on his website as an ad. It ran for almost a year before a PutnamLIES.com correspondent contacted the foundation and asked if they authorized its placement. They said that they did not, and they ordered Halburn to remove it immediately.
Sheetz's corporate offices got into the act when Halburn started running an "ad" featuring their logo. He was forced to pull that as well. 

Walmart Blog Disappears
In May, a source of amusement for everyone disappeared. Halburn pulled the Walmart blog for the third and final time after being pounded on here and Tyler Hollywood's site for his distortions and misrepresentations. He couldn't take the heat so he took the blog down. This pretty much proves what everyone has been saying along: The excessive noise up there was coming from him.

Trespassing Conviction Upheld
Also in May, Halburn's appeal of his January trespassing conviction to Kanawha County Circuit Court was held. Judge Tod Kaufman heard the case and after verbally bitch slapping Halburn, found him guilty, again. PutnamLIES.com was the only media outlet to cover his trespassing conviction and had exclusive audio coverage of the trial.
After the fact, Halburn continues to accuse Kaufman of being a homosexual. Making him a homophobe as well as a racist. We're just surprised he didn't make an anti-Semitic remark as well.

Office Location Exposed
We exposed the fact, and Halburn finally admitted, that his office was not, as he has maintained for years, located right down the road just outside of the Hurricane city limits, but instead in his second wife's house. 

Plagiarism
The long awaited travel segment on Jacksonville was printed, only to be revealed by PutnamLIES.com that every photo and over a quarter of the 500 word article were stolen from another website. 4 months to write 500 words.But what really takes the prize is that he stole a post that Girl of Words made on her blog, and posted it as a comment on some lame DMV hating blog that he started and signed her name. She would never in a million years send anything to Halburn. Unless it's a restraining order.
The DMCA notice that Wordpress received took care of that one pretty quickly.
Later in the year, he printed a press release from Marshall University word for word, put his name on it and passed it off as if he wrote it. 

0-3 with PSC Complaints
Halburn filed 3 petty complaints with the WV PSC in 2010. Every single one of them was denied.

In April he suffered 5 momentary electricity outages, precipitating a complaint against AEP. He wanted free electricity for life as compensation.
On the same day he filed against Suddenlink because his phone went out and they didn't carry the Pirates opening day game. He wanted them to give him free service for life
Then in July his phone jack was broken, his modem was unplugged, and he needed a VCR hooked up. When they didn't come immediately, he filed another complaint, again demanding free service for a year.

Stalking
Halburn messaged girlofwords in June to tell her he'd be in DC later in the summer to interview a Washington Nationals pitching coach from Putnam County whose name he didn't even know. He said he was telling her this ahead of time so she wouldn't spread any more stories about him stalking her.
That had nothing to do with it. It was done to intimidate her. He can't leave her alone and it continues to this day.
Keep it up, fatboy. You're going to get what's coming to you.
 
PutnamLIES.com Celebrates 1 Year Anniversary

In 2009, for the first time, Putnam County citizens had access to unbiased daily news reports when this publisher starts PutnamLIES.com. We soon become the most-read source for unbiased Putnam County news and information, and add "Putnam County's REAL News Leader" to our name. In August we celebrated our first birthday.

A to Z Super Filthymarket Closes
A long time Hurricane institution, the A to Z Supermarket was closed by the health department after they discovered over 130 serious violations during an inspection. PutnamLIES.com correctly reported that it would not reopen.
Halburn kept insisting it would but was proven wrong once again when they closed their doors for good in October. 

Form Letters From Politicians
After being exposed multiple times by PutnamLIES.com for stealing letters to the editor from other sources, Halburn was reduced to running press releases from politicians as letters promoting their agendas.

Started Running Coupons
Proving that his blog is truly nothing more than a cluttered advertising shopper, Halburn starts running coupons.

Continues Running "News" Stories About "Advertisers"
He continued his unethical practice of running fawning stories about his so-called advertisers under the guise of news.

Pool Whining Continues
Halburn continued his yearly whining about the pools closing the last week in August due to the lifeguards all going back to school. Which led directly to:

Halburn Calls Karen Haynes A Bitch
In October, Halburn started frequenting the trailer park of the internet, Topix. Posting under a number of names, he immediately made the place about 10 times douchier than it already was. While complaining about the charity dog swim that is held annually just before the pool closes for the summer, he claimed that the reason that the pools were kept open was that Joe Haynes was "a dog lover. He loves bitches", obviously referring to Haynes' wife Karen and her untiring work to raise funds for a new animal shelter in the county.
A typical remark for a no-class scumbag like Halburn to make.

Halburn Strokes Out
In October, the news the world was waiting for was released. Halburn had stroked out.
Unfortunately for everyone it was only Bell's Palsy and he is expected to recover.
But he does have diabetes and high blood pressure, so there is still hope.


Trader Joe's and Woodmen Visit
After Halburn's latest attempt to browbeat Trader Joe's into opening a store in the area, their corporate offices visited PutnamLIES.com multiple times to find out just what kind of person Halburn really is.
After Halburn harassed several people at Buffalo's Octoberfest where he was representing Woodmen of the World insurance, their corporate office also visited a number of times to read about Halburn's douchery. He's not the type of person an upstanding company like that needs representing them.

Election Warning
Just before the general election in November, the West Virginia Secretary of State sent a warning to Putnam County officials that Halburn might attempt to create a scene and try to disrupt the electoral process. Due to the proactive efforts of the prosecutor and sheriff's office a potential problem was averted.

Haynes Reelected
Much to the chagrin of Halburn, Joe Haynes was overwhelmingly reelected by the people of Putnam County to serve another term on the County Commission.

Desperation Redesign
Late in the year, in a desperate attempt to attract advertisers and bolster his shrinking readership, Halburn had his news blog redesigned. Now with a hit counter so he can falsify the number of imaginary readers that he thinks his site gets. He even let the genius that did the redesign to change his URL from a .com to a far less desirable .net.
MySpace 1994 has become MySpace 2000. Same old shit with a barely new look. Proving you can't polish a turd.

Halburn NOT Arrested This Year
Unfortunately he wasn't arrested this year. It certainly wasn't for lack of trying though. We strongly believe that PutnamLIES.com's coverage of his antics deterred him from behaving in a way that would get him arrested and make him subjected to more ridicule here.

So in summary, his serial plagiarism continues, but at a reduced level.

His baseless attacks and bullying have slowed.

His theft of other photographers' work has slowed.

His endless whining about Walmart continued, but once people started answering back, he ran like the coward that he is and pulled the blog.

We exposed what others had long thought, that many of his ads are placed there without the permission of the businesses they represent in order to sucker others into advertising. He even admitted he runs the ads for free as a "reward."

We were the only media outlet to cover his trespassing conviction and provide audio of that trial.

He has even given up trying to defend himself here. Oh, he reads us every day, but he just doesn't have the balls to even leave a comment. Which says a lot. It's hard to defend yourself against the truth.

There was a decrease in articles here at PutnamLIES.com however. There's a good reason for that. Halburn has cut way back on his assholery. Oh, he's still douching up the county, but he knows that PutnamLIES.com will be all over any misstep that he makes.
Our mission all along has been to force him to act in a more civilized manner. Before he started getting pounded from all sides he was free to attack anyone for any reason without repercussions. Not anymore.
PutnamLIES.com is here to answer any attack that Halburn makes. And now his output shows it.

This site has become a resource for people seeking the truth about Halburn.
Whenever a future employer Googles his name, they'll be able to find this site and see the truth about him. If you Google the word Halburn, the number one search result is for his mental evaluation.

Someday, and that day is not too far away, a little boy will be able to see just what kind of asshole his daddy really is.
The internet is forever. This site and the information on it will follow Halburn around until the day he dies.

We invite everyone who is sick of Halburn's abuse to continue to contact PutnamLIES.com

If we've forgotten anything, please submit it to PutnamLIES.com@gmail.com and we will consider it for publication.

Halburn Now Terrorizing Judicial System

First Douchery Of The New Year
In a case that can have implications for anyone (Halburn) that gets his only "original" stories by regurgitating documents faxed to him from Putnam County Magistrate Court, Halburn has filed a complaint with the state "Judicial Review Commision" (sic).
Halburn claims he filed a complaint with the WV "Judicial Review Commision" (sic), whatever that is. As far as we can tell there is no such animal.
In an article strangely written by him in the third person, and going so far as to actually quote himself, Halburn claims a court policy that requires a $2 per page charge for faxed documents is illegal.
The Putnam County Magistrate Court is refusing to fax Halburn documents because he is too cheap to pay the $2 fee.
What is it about the law that you don't understand, crisco? What are you, a retard?Here's what the law says:

West Virginia Code §29B-1-3(5) The public body may establish fees reasonably calculated to reimburse it for its actual cost in making reproductions of such records.

He fails to understand what actual cost is. It's more than just the cost of a piece of paper or some toner. He actually believes that there is there is NO COST to the magistrate court to send a fax to him.
Well, let PutnamEYES.com school you, dumbass.
Humans are an actual cost.

Human labor is an actual cost.

If you pull a clerk off their job for an hour to pull your records, you're preventing them from doing their job, which has an actual cost to the county, etc.

The county is not operating a personal wire service to feed you news, no matter what you may think, liver lips.

This is all part of your mental defect.

Your mental retardation requires you to take everything literally.
Halburn whines that magistrate courts only charge 50 cents a page when you pick up a document in person, but they charge $2.00 a copy to fax them.

Why?
Maybe it's because when you go in person, they make a copy and hand it to you. When you have it faxed, they have to get the documents, make a copy, take it to a fax machine, dial the number, and make sure everything transmits properly. Looks like about four times the work to us. The costs are neither excessive nor prohibitive.
The cost of $2 a page is statutory under the court's power to make its own rules: http://www.state.wv.us/wvsca/rules/AdminMag.htm

You have a right to the information and they have a right to charge for it. It's as simple as that.
A business that makes all the money that you says it does should easily be able pay $2 a page.

Regardless, nobody is denying you the documents. You're free to go look at them and copy them yourself. Your issue is about the delivery not the access.

Here's a money saving solution for you, you cheap bastard: Get off your fat ass, and drive the 12 miles over to the courthouse and save yourself $1.50.

Antics like yours and your fat little toady, Jay Lawrence Smith, actually make it harder for the public and the media to get access to documents. The Freedom of information act is not a license to do whatever you want.

Supreme Court Administrative Director Steve Canterbury says in the letter to Putnam County Magistrate Court, " I know some news people can be very insistent, even demanding that they be treated differently than the typical citizen. Sometimes that insistence has been known to turn into belligerence, and it is certainly no fun to be on the receiving end of such abuse. If such interactions ever turn too ugly for you to tolerate, then please don't. Call the sheriff's office if no other reasoning works with the belligerent individual."

Now, who could he be talking about?

Could it be...

Halburn?
Is Halburn being singled out? Maybe. But who cares?
If he weren't such an obnoxious asshole to everyone, the court probably wouldn't need this rule and probably wouldn't be charging him. Obviously he never heard the saying, "You catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

This is just one more in a long line of complaints that he's going to lose.

This isn't California where everyone is an arrogant dickbag.
West Virginians genuinely want to help people.
Until you treat them like shit.
And then that's what you get in return.
You reap what you sow Halburn.


You couldn't spell clue if we spotted you the vowels, the consonants, and brought in Vanna White to flip the letters and had it stamped on your flabby white ass.

Happy New Year!

From Putnam County's biggest baby.



One benefit of not wearing a shirt is that it doesn't matter if you drool on yourself.

Happy New Year everyone!