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Now it's been three years since we decided we'd had enough of Mark Halburn's shit. He can no longer abuse Putnam County's citizens, government officials or anyone else that disagrees with him without a response.Our mission when we started PutnamLIES.com was to expose the lies, hypocrisy and unethical behavior of PutnumLive and its "publisher" Mark Hallburn.
And we have succeeded. We are THE outlet for people to answer the scurrilous charges that he makes. He has discovered that it's not so fun when the sandal is on the other foot.

It was a BIG year for PutnamLIES.com and Hallburn continued his long slow slide into oblivion.
We usually look at all the stories from last year but there's really only one big story (with a bunch of smaller related ones) we're going to talk about and you all know what it is.

Mark Halburn ran away in defeat!
Defeated by a woman and PutnamLIES.com.
He couldn't take the heat or embarrassment.

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 decided to make the big announcement on Topix, his favorite hangout. Oddly enough, he never announced it on his opinion blog or on his Facebook page.

Left West Virginia
As part of that announcement he said he would sell PutnumLive and move. We knew the sale announcement was bullshit. How he can sell something that's worth nothing?
He moved but he's still publishing his shitty little blog from South Carolina.

Of course, he said he was moving at least three times last year. In June 2011 he said he sold his blog for "six figures" and bought his family an ocean-front condo in North Myrtle Beach. Then in August of 2011 he said he hit the Powerball and was buying an island home. And in January of this year, he said he moved to a condo in The Lodge development on a golf course in Myrtle Beach. He claimed to have sold his blog and is being paid to manage it for 24 months. We all know Halburn couldn't even manage a good bowel movement.

What actually happened was, at the beginning of last March, his wife threw him out of her house.

With the snow falling, Halburn packed up his pathetic belongings into a puny U-Haul van, tucked his tail between his legs and slunk out of town in the dead of night.

The new reality for Mark Halburn is that he lives in a HUD trailer 50 miles from the beach and he works a part time job at a pier waiting tables and selling bait.

Attacks Judge Michael Kelly
Just before he married his second wife, Halburn forced her and her mother to file for bankruptcy. Putnam County Family Court Judge William Watkins represented the two women in those hearings. Because of that, Watkins recused himself from Halburn's divorce proceedings. The case was them assigned to Kanawha County Family Court Judge Michael Kelly.
Kelly does not put up with anyone's shit and immediately put an end to Halburn's intimidation tactics. Halburn then began attacking Kelly on Topix where he called him a piece of shit among other names and began impugning his integrity.
In February, Judge Kelly signed a temporary child custody order stating who gets the son and when he is to be picked up and returned. Part of that order prevents Halburn from taking the kid out of state. The Judge recognized that Halburn is a risk to take the child and disappear.

On the evening of March 27, after he had already been fired from one job, Halburn arrived a day early to pick up the kid and Delores rightly wouldn't let him have him until the the evening of the 28th which was the time ordered by the court.
Halburn then left the house and went to McDonalds and called the police to try and get them to help him get the kid. They laughed at him and told him to pound sand.

In May, Halburn filed a 5 page handwritten motion with random CAPITAL letters and $10 million in demands. Some of the AWESOME highlights include: Since Halburn is banned from taking the kid out of state, he demands that the State of West Virginia build a zoo near Charleston by 5 pm April 22, 2012 AND bring the Atlantic Ocean to Charleston. He demands Kelly's impeachment and demands that Kelly and Delores' attorney, Henry Glass, pay for a trip to the beach for the boyand his entire pre-K class, since he missed spring break with the boy. He repeatedly whined that he didn't want the divorce and he should get $50,000 from the sale of the wife's house, and cried that she is holding his 50 inch HDTV hostage, which is IN HIS BUSINESS' NAME.

5 pages of single spaced awesome. Oh yeah, he also wished death or commitment in a mental institution upon Judge Kelly.

At the end of May, he filed what he called a "Rite of Prohibition" against the wife, Kelly and her lawyer. That motion was denied.

Halburn is now complaining that Kelly refused to let him take her son to see his grandmother in California (who has since kicked the bucket). Ignoring the fact that the little boy is 4 years old and Halburn never bothered to take to take him for a visit until now. The boy has become just another pawn in Halburn's continuing vendettas with those whom he disagrees.

He called the director of family court services one morning at 9:55 and demanded Chief Justice Menis Ketchum be removed by 10 am. He was informed that she didn't have that kind of power.

He has been harassing people at the WV Supreme Court repeatedly. He even managed to harass individual justices via cell phone and even their home phones.
After filing endless trivial "emergency motions" he was ordered to cease contact with the court.
Halburn was previously banned from the Supreme Court for making threats against employees there.

Attacked William Watkins
As part of his Family Court vendetta and with the help of his toady Lawrence Jay Smith, Halburn published the address and photo of Judge William Watkins endangering Watkins' and his family's safety. Watkins' house and cars have been vandalized numerous times since then.

Halburn continues to harass Watkins via telephone.

And PutnumLive also continues to decline:
Continues to Falsify His Readership Stats
Halburn continues with his "setting new records for readership" bullshit, but PutnamEYES.com's IT expert showed over a year ago 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. He continues to defraud his "advertisers" with these false claims.

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
Halburn continued his pathetic practice of running press releases from politicians promoting their agendas and running other people's Facebook comments as letters to the editor.

Now Printing Only News Releases
It's not like he ever had much real original content, but virtually all the "stories" he runs now are news releases from various government agencies or arrest reports sent to him by the Sheriff's office.

Halburn NOT Arrested This Year Immediately upon his relocation to South Carolina, police agencies here began receiving inquiries from agencies there about him. And he also ran away in time so that he didn't get arrested when he made the big stink at his 2nd ex-wife's house over picking up his son. But, there are still four months left in the year.

We believe that PutnamLIES.com's coverage of his antics have deterred him from behaving in a way that would get him arrested and make him subject to more ridicule here.

So in summary, Halburn has been forced to move out of state.
His baseless attacks and bullying have been slowed. 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 a douchebag, but now he's South Carolina's douchebag and he knows that putnamlies.com will be all over any misstep that he makes here or there.

Our mission all along has been to expose his behavior and 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 has answered 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 , the University of Phoenix, Comfort Inns, Trader Joe's, Pressley Ridge, AEP or the State of South Carolina 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. Halburn has already turned him into a pawn in his divorce.

The internet is forever. This site and the information on it will follow Mark Halburn around until the day he dies.

We invite everyone who has witnessed 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 behavior can determine that.
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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