The Year In Review

LOOKING BACK
The Top PutnamEYES.com Stories Of 2011

It's long been 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 2011.

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 computer or netbook, grab a cold Bartles & Jaymes or a banana margarita, and enjoy our "Year in Review."
Let's start off with an old Halburn practice: Lies

Election Ad Deception
Halburn douched up the primary election for Governor by
running ads on his opinion blog for both Betty Ireland and Natalie Tennant that were neither authorized nor paid for by either campaign, despite containing the "Paid For By" disclaimer at the bottom, a clear violation of WV election law.
Neither of the candidates or their supporters wanted ANYTHING to do with Hallburn or his blog. Hallburn was never able to provide any proof that the ads were paid for, a fact which both candidates' financial reports confirmed.

Halburn Terrorizes Parks Office
This February, on his first FOIA fishing expedition of
the year, Halburn demanded information about the operational costs for the wave pool for the months of August and September, apparently looking for some way to smear Joe and Karen Haynes and the 2010 Dog swim. When he went to pay, he did so with $35.00 in pennies.
 
Dog Swim Costs
Shortly thereafter, Hallburn falsely alleged that keeping Waves of Fun's facilities running for the week prior to the annual Dog Swim cost Putnam County Parks and Recreation more than $1,142. However, PutnamLIES.com's investigation proved that the event actually cost less than $250.00.



Hallburn's Readership Stats Disproved
Halburn continued with his "setting new records for readership" bullshit, but PutnamLIES.com's IT expert showed how Hallburn inflates his hit counter by loading almost 100 different links on every pageload, thereby artificially inflating the actual visitors by a factor of 100. We proved his actual daily readership was about 29 readers.
Halburn knows his numbers are a fraud too. As soon as PutnamLIES.com exposed his scam, he stopped bragging about how many hits he got and what a record breaking month he had.

Frontier Fiasco 
In March, after Halburn got pissed off at
Suddenlink for not kissing his ass right, he switched his phone, internet and cable service to Frontier Communications and started harassing them before he was even connected. Within two weeks he had filed a complaint with the WV Public Service Commission against them.
Unfortunately for him, the WV PSC has absolutely NO jurisdiction over internet services or satellite TV services. He had no basis for a claim and his complaint was DENIED once again.

Narrowly Avoids Arrest in Charlotte 
While sponging off his second ex- wife while
she was in North Carolina for a Mary Kay pyramid seminar in March, Halburn was involved in pool incidents at at least 2 different hotels over the course of a long weekend. In the second incident at the Charlotte Airport Comfort Inn, the police were called and Hallburn was escorted out of the hotel along with an unnamed minor boy. Shortly after they returned home, his second ex-wife was fired from a teaching job she had held for a number of years, allegedly over her husband's behavior.

Falsifies Own Poll Results
As part of the pathetic "redesign" of his blog last year, Hallburn added a poll on a sidebar which he loads up with slanted questions. But, Hallburn being Hallburn can't leave anything alone that goes against his preconceived ideas, so he altered the results to make them give the answer he wanted. When we called him on it, he went so far as to accuse HIS readers of stacking the poll.

Removes "Most Read" Stories 
Another part of his redesign was adding a Most Read stories tab. Halburn quietly deleted that, apparently when he noticed that the most read story was a six month old story about a trailer burning down. Kind of hard making it look like he's got 3000 readers per day when the most read story is six months old.

Gets Job, Loses Job 
Halburn was all giddy in April when he got a new job as what he termed a "counselor". Although what kind of counseling is done on a 3-11 PM shift is still a mystery to us. We hear he was cleaning shitters at the Charleston Job Corps center. 
That job, like all his others, was short lived, because he was fired in September. Of course, Hallburn being Hallburn had to say he quit because he didn't like the way things were being run.

Facebook Friending Frenzy
Halburn suddenly went on a Facebook friending spree this year.
Nothing unusual about that. Except it was hundreds of local high school students he was friending. Teenagers and young adults. We find it extremely unusual, troubling and highly inappropriate that a unemployed 50 year old man has an interest in adding high schoolers to his friend list.

Thrown Out Of Strayer University
In May, Halburn was thrown out of Strayer University in Teays Valley where he was attending grad school for a degree in, are you ready for this, Human Relations. Yeah, we got a good laugh out of that too.
But seriously, he went in, caused a big stink, threatened the Dean and was thrown out.
The best part? The Dean is a 4th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo. She could have kicked his ass all the way back to California.

PutnamLIES.com Celebrates 2 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 the truth about Mark Hallburn and his attack blog, PutnumLive. In August we celebrated our second birthday.

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 Disrupts Dog Swim

And

Halburn Attacks Haynes
Halburn suffered another pool related meltdown in September
when he accosted Joe Haynes and his wife Karen at the annual Dog Swim fundraiser for the Animal Shelter. After shouting several questions and making crazed accusations against both Haynes, Halburn ran away like a little bitch.
It was in this article that PutnamLIES.com revealed the REAL truth behind the so-called firings of former Park board members, refuting the false allegations Hallburn has made for years.

Halburn Douches It Up At The Doctors
In September, Halburn's son was sick. Halburn called the
doctor's office and told that they would try and work him in if he cared to wait. Apparently he felt he was too important to wait after he got there and got on the phone to the doctor's main office and proceeded to harangue the person on the other end. Near the end of the conversation, he demanded they pay him one million dollars for his inconvenience. Unbeknownst to him, the entire incident was caught on tape by another patient who was appalled by the behavior she witnessed and sent it to us after the fact.

Banned from Parks
After his latest harassment of Joe and Karen Haynes, the Putnam Parks board did what they should have done long ago. Banned Hallburn from being on any of their properties. Captain Larry Wingo of the Hurricane Police Department personally ordered Halburn to not step foot onto any Parks property.

Wife Files For Divorce
In November, Halburn's long-suffering wife filed for
divorce against him.
Whether it was him losing yet another job, the parks ban, his videoed behavior at his son's doctors office or just an accumulation of his assholery over the years, Mrs. Halburn clearly had enough.
Halburn just added fuel to the fire when he went to his favorite hangout, Topix, to make his public announcement of the event. Oddly enough, he never announced it on his opinion blog or on his Facebook page.

Leaving The State
As part of that announcement he said he would sell PutnumLive and move. How do you sell something that's worth nothing? We're still waiting for that to happen.
Of course, it's at least the third time he's said that this year. In June he said he sold his blog for "six figures" and bought his family an ocean-front condo in North Myrtle Beach. Then in August he said he hit the Powerball and was buying an island home. And just last week he said he moved to a condo in The Lodge development on a golf course in Myrtle Beach. He claims to have sold his blog and is being paid to manage it for 24 months.
We'll believe it when he's gone.

Halburn "apologizes" for being an asshole
As part of a desperate last ditch effort to keep his wife from getting rid of him, Halburn swallowed his pride and made a weak attempt at an apology for his past misdeeds by burying it as one of his Letters to the Editor. As we all know Mark Hallburn has never apologized for anything. He does nothing unless it benefits him. This was no different.
Too little, too late.


Form Letters From Politicians
Towards the end of the year, Halburn returned to his practice of stealing letters to the editor from other sources. But mostly he continued his pathetic practice of running press releases from politicians promoting their agendas and running other people's Facebook comments as letters.


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. Or, just as bad, running them in hopes of getting the business to advertise with him.

We continue to put Halburn, all his "advertisers" and anyone else he promotes, on notice. We are going to parody and belittle all of you. If you're a business and you don't want it done, don't associate with Hallburn. If your ad appears on his blog, you're fair game. He is a boil on the ass of civilized society and we're here to lance it.

Halburn NOT Arrested This Year
Unfortunately he wasn't arrested this year. It certainly wasn't for lack of trying though. The police were present at the Parks office incident, the Charlotte Hotel incident, the Strayer incident and an incident at Ultimate Pawn. 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 continued, but at a reduced level.

His baseless attacks and bullying slowed slightly.

His theft of other photographers' work has ceased.

He has not even made an attempt to defend himself here. Oh, he reads us every day, but he only left one comment last year, and he didn't even have the balls to sign his own name, he tried to do it anonymously. And all he did then was call Joe Haynes and Scott Williamson names. He not once offered any defense for his actions.
Which says a lot. It's hard to defend yourself against the truth.

There was a decrease in articles here at PutnamLIES.com, but that's O.K.
It's because we've forced Halburn to 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 will answer any attack that Halburn makes. And now his output shows it. Who would have thought that Halburn would be apologizing to anyone for anything?

This site has become the number one resource for people seeking the truth about Halburn. When Modern Woodmen, Strayer, University of Phoenix, Comfort Inns, Trader Joe's, Pressley Ridge or AEP want to find out just who this Mark Halburn guy really is, they come here.
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.

We're still watching you, Hallburn. The all seeing eye never blinks.


What's in store for the next year? Only Halburn's continued presence here and his behavior can determine that. Halburn claims he will throw in the towel and leave. Will he follow through? That remains to be seen.

But one thing is for sure, PutnamLIES.com will be here one day longer than Hallburn and his cluttered opinion blog.


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