A Visit From Pappy Parker

 Halburn has all these sock puppets he's created to attack others or defend his ridiculous positions. The latest is one called Pappy Parker.

 He originally made a Facebook Profile called Pappy Parker's Fruits & Vegetables way back in March 2013 when we made fun of him for digging through the trash looking for bottle caps.
Back then Pappy said,"I worked at a prize fulfillment center before I retired. Each prize ordered affects about 10 jobs from the warehouse to the packer to the box maker to the UPS processing center to the driver. Keep turning in those Coke points. The economy needs you and your son probably loves getting packages in the mail. As for your critics, screw them. You do great work for Putnam County." 

Except he slipped up. See that phone number? Yeah, that's Halburn's. He added the photo later.

Last Friday, Halburn demanded on his blog that the Board of Education endanger our children's lives by doing away with snow days and sending students to school when the roads are dangerous.

OPINION: School Closures

January 3, 2014 Mark Hallburn 34 Views

Our Students Need To Get An Education
Opinion
Putnam County students get to stay home-for a day. Schools are closed!
Due to the snowfall, Friday, January 3rd, 2014, all Putnam County Schools announced are closed for the day.
It’s a familiar article and announcement made several times a year.
When a few inches of snow falls, Putnam County Schools goes into the “wimp mode” and orders that schools shut down for a day.
This is wrong.
A few inches of overnight snowfall shouldn’t shut down our classrooms. Students need their education on a daily basis.
West Virginia’s schools are some of the worst in the nation. Instead of calling unnecessary snow days, a two-hour delay and a 220 day classroom schedule needs to take place-statewide.
Don’t keep our students home where they watch television and play video games. Parents don’t need to be burdened with last-minute day care and babysitting adjustments. Once a two-hour delay is called, stick with it!
This isn’t a school bus issue. Students rarely die in school bus accidents, including states from Colorado to Wyoming to Maine to Washington. Parents should take the responsibilty (sic) of bringing their children to school.
Our students need their education. Part of that is knowing that education is a priority. A few inches of snow is a lame excuse to cancel school for the day.
There are econonic (sic) issues as well. Those classrooms are heated whether students are there or not. Turning on the heat, lights, and other items when classrooms are empty is simply a waste of money.
It’s a simple solution: Keep our children in school.
 
This obviously caused a firestorm on PutnumLive's FB page.
Virtually every comment berated him for his dangerous, know-nothing position.

He made a feeble attempt to defend himself by trotting out Ol' Pappy Parker to leave comments supporting Halburn's position. He actually broke out the sock puppet to insult the people who criticized his stupid editoral.

Pappy's first lie was, "This retired upstate New York school bus driver is laughing at the comments about school buses. When was the last time someone heard about a school bus crashing on a cold morning? Extremely rare. Even the Pennsylvania school bus crash, this morning, was because the car crossed the divider. No students were injured. The ladies whining with their comments watch too much Soapnet."

Later Pappy continued, "I am a WV native living up the road from Buffalo. I graduated from the old Buffalo High School, moved with my first wife to upstate New York, when our son attended Rochester Institute of Technology. He challenged me, in my 40's to go to college. I did. We graduated together. I came back to West Virginia when my wife passed away. My son went to WVU law school and challenged me to do the same. He graduated with honors. ( I didn't.) But I graduated. Both of us passed the West Virginia Bar. My son still lives in Morgantown and is a Circuit Judge near WVU. I hooked up with a Buffalo High School classmate who had a daughter that went to law school with me and I re-married. She wanted to live in Putnam County and we've been here ever since. We also own a condo in Morgantown, another in Myrtle Beach, and a home in Tampa. We are here this week for the holidays. If people are so concerned about black ice, they need to plow their own roads. Or Putnam County and the Putnam County Schools need to buy some snow plows and get out there. Or both. There's nothing wrong with a community effort. Yes, I was out at 5:00 a.m. plowing our road. My neighbors appreciated being able to drive to work safely. A lawyer driving a snowplow. Shoud have shot video. The main issue is that education needs to be a higher priority."

Do you live in Putnam County or are you just here visiting?
So you worked at a "prize fulfillment center", retired as a bus driver, went to law school  AND you have homes in Putnam County, and Tampa, and condos in Morgantown, Myrtle Beach.
That bus driving must be REAL lucrative.
It must be hard keeping all the lies straight.

Strangely enough, everything Pappy wrote is said and written exactly the way Halburn writes.

Every single one of the responding posts that pointed out that Pappy was really Mark Halburn was deleted.
Then, Sunday, he deleted everyone's posts.

Is it any wonder the Courts won't let him have any custody of his son?
This is exactly the type of self-centered, sleazy, substandard reporting we've come to expect from Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com.

And after he posted his lies, Psycho Pappy went back and updated his profile with a pic stolen from here: http://www.aarp.org/work/working-after-retirement/info-10-2013/nonprofit-helps-veterans-learn-farming.html

He's since changed it again.

 

 

 

 

Nonprofit Helps Veterans Learn Farming

A nonprofit organization of farmers mentor and cultivate careers in agriculture for military veterans.

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