Area Thieving Bastard Steals Senator Ed Gaunch’s column

Out-of-state publisher Mark Halburn has plagiarized yet another article to run in his fake news hate blog.
This time it’s right out of the Gazette-Mail. This was the only news outlet in which Gaunch’s article appeared.
Gaunch confirms he did not send the op-ed to Halburn.

“Mark Halburn is a liar.”

Nowhere in the column on Halburn’s blog does he acknowledge that it is from the Gazette-Mail or provide a link to the original.
It’s just blatant theft from a blatant thief.

https://www.wvgazettemail.com/…/article_b0cf8c95-0142-55a0-…

Then, on  July 19, the plagiarist doubled down and made this statement:

 

False accusation? Hardly.

A spokesperson for the Gazette Mail confirms that they did not receive Gaunch’s column until July 10. It ran on the 11th.

Halburn didn’t share the link until July 16. So he wants us to believe he left it sitting there 8 days without promoting it? Right.
Halburn is so desperate to drive traffic to his site that he pimps any of his stories as soon as he publishes them.

Amazing how Halburn claims he published an article before it was even written.
He must have hopped in the Delorean and gone ahead in time.

So the delusional liar is delusional. And a thief.

Serial Plagiarist Back On The Loose

Halburn Plagiarizes Sunday Gazette Article

Once again PutnamLIES.com has uncovered another blatant theft of material by Mark Vance Halburn. This time it comes from the Sunday Gazette-Mail
Halburn's M.O. is to take text from an opinion article or news story and claim it's a letter sent by a reader.
In another demonstration of his desperation, he has resorted to his old practice of journalism: plagiarism and theft of intellectual property.



He has lifted word for word an article that ran on the Sunday Gazette-Mail's opinion page.



Halburn continues to demonstrate his lack of ethics and integrity by plagiarizing text and publishing it, and by lying to his "readers" by acting like it was sent to him as a letter. And then he tops it off with a little Facebook stalking, by swiping one of her profile pictures.

Strange that the article doesn't appear in any other media outlet anywhere.
There is no way in the world that a WVU student from Summersville would even know his third rate, fake news hate blog even existed, much less send that article to him as a letter to the editor.

It takes a thief.
Same old Halburn.
Fucking scumbag.

Stealing Material Once Again

Which Dunbar Blogger is stealing material again?

Halburn sometimes runs editorial cartoons on his little blog. (He used to have a subscription to a cartoon service but wasn't making enough money to renew it.)
He recently ran one drawn by Jim Morin of the Miami Herald and syndicated by the New York Times/CWS Syndicate.

The problem?
He erased the artist's signature and the newspaper's name.
That's theft.
It's also nothing new for him.

The version he stole and altered is on the left. The original is on the right.

Looks like another job by the Crazed Cartooner.

The Facts Don't Lie

But Hallburn Does -
Election Chicanery Exposed



Last month Hallburn got busted once again. This time for running campaign ads without the candidates' permission.

He illegally ran unpaid ads for both Natalie Tennant and Betty Ireland's campaigns for the gubernatorial nomination.



PutnamEYES.com said that the truth would come out when the first primary campaign financial reports were released.
And it has.
The truth is that Halburn lied.
Again.
Neither Ireland nor Tennant's reports lists PutnumLive as an expenditure or an in-kind contribution.

The Tennant ad even had the "Paid For by the Elect Natalie Tennant Committee" disclaimer. Which, if it was not a paid ad, is a violation of election law.

Campaign reports must contain all expenses.
An advertiser cannot donate ads to a candidate unless a value is declared and the donation is accepted by the candidate.PutnamEYES.com's prediction came true when Halburn claimed that unnamed supporters of the candidates only paid for the ads through February 28th. He says he doesn't run free advertisements.
Another lie which PutnamEYES.com has disproved.
Even Halburn admitted that he runs free ads. He just can't remember all the lies he's told.

Funny though, when the Secretary of State's Election Fraud Division got involved, the ads disappeared.
Halburn's explanation doesn't hold water. No politician buys an ad for one month, 3 months before an election. Especially to reach Halburn's 29 readers.

Next, he claimed ads were paid for by candidate supporters who plan to run them again when they get funds. He says no one ordered them removed.

Neither of these campaigns are hurting for money. The fact is, neither campaign sees the need for blog advertising.

He claims that political ads run $300 a month. Which is another lie.
Expenditure reports show that they cost anywhere between 25-200 dollars a month, when he decides to charge for them at all.
Some candidates pay nothing. Reports show that Brady Paxton for example, paid zero despite his ad running there for at least a month.
A Dale Martin ad that appeared before the general election in November apparently ran for free as well. It does not appear in any of his expenditures.
Both ads contained the "paid for" disclaimer.

Here are the numbers for the 2010 election cycle:

Brady Paxton
No expenditures since 11/5/08

Dale Martin
5/24/10 - ad - $100

Cathy Larck
4/25/10 - monthly ad - $125
5/11/10 - monthly ad - $125
11/14/10 - monthly ad - $175

Justin Black
5/7/10 - Advertisement - $100

Marge Carpenter
3/31/2010 - Advertising - $200
4/25/10 - Advertising - $25
5/3/10 - Advertising - $200

Debra Girimont
6/13/09 - ad test - $150

Additionally, in the 2008 Supreme Court race, Halburn ran an ad for now Justice Menis Ketchum that didn't appear on Ketchum's expenditures. Again containing the "paid for" disclaimer.

The candidates for county offices, Debbie Phillips, W.D. Arthur, William Legg & Kathie Crouse, are not required to file reports , so we can't tell if any of those candidates actually paid for their ads.

So, the bottom line here is that Halburn ran the Ireland and Tennant ads completely unsanctioned, without any permission or compensation from the campaigns.

Illegal?
Probably.
Unethical?
Certainly.
Neither is new for Mark Hallburn.

The sad thing about this whole episode is that both candidates knew these ads were running there but took no steps to have them removed. If neither of these two women weren't willing to stand up to a bully like Halburn, how are they going to stand up for the people of West Virginia on the really tough issues that face our state?

ANY politician that advertises with PutnumLive.com is not fit to hold office.


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Halburn Endorses Ireland 
Halburn Refuses To Remove Political Ad 
Halburn Ordered To Remove Ads!
Halburn Continues to Prevaricate In Election Ad Controversy
 

Hallburn Gets His Panties In A Wad At 6:15 a.m.

Halburn Attacks, Steals Images From Contractor's Site


Halburn's idyllic life of fucking off was apparently disturbed Tuesday morning by people who actually work for a living.
And since he's too much of a pussy to write about meaningless shit like this in his humorous Walmart blog, he published his latest screed on his opinion blog like it was news.

The workers, from Retention Pond Services in Wilmington NC, are working on the drainage system for the Walmart access road. Their website features copyrighted photographs of idyllic, peaceful scenes which Halburn immediately stole to illustrate his article.
And being completely without ethics, he once again neglected to tell his 29 readers that HE is the Walmart neighbor that he is writing about.

He first fired off an email to Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards who, if he's smart, has any Halburn emails filtered straight to the shitcan.

Then, at 6:15 am, the mongoloid actually thought he'd get an answer if he called the company's offices. If his past practices are any clue, he continued to call them over and over until someone answered and told him to go pound sand.

Last week he was complaining that the crew had part of the access road blocked, this week he's complaining about something called "excessing" noise.

Just when in the hell are they supposed to do this work, Hallburn? The earlier they start, the earlier they finish. If they would have done this during middle of the night you would have been out there bitching, calling them rude and inconsiderate.

Most people have to get up and go to work in the morning and are gone all day, so someone working doesn't bother them. But we guess you sleep in and get up later to ship your kid off to daycare so you can sit around the house all day in your underwear and jack off.

We thought you had an important job teaching the thugs at one of the worst performing middle schools in Kanawha County. What happened to that? What happened to that Fortune 50 job that you were bragging about getting? Don't you have to get up early for those?

You want common sense fatboy?
Common sense says you don't continually whine about something that you're not going to change.

HALLBURN ORDERED TO REMOVE ADS!

Opinion Blog Caught In Another Lie

The Secretary Of State's office has ordered Hallburn to remove the Tennant & Ireland ads from his opinion blog immediately due to violation of election law.

Sources tell PutnamLIES.com that both campaigns were furious that Halburn used their ads without authorization.

PutnamLIES.com reported two weeks ago that he was running an unauthorized campaign ad for Republican gubernatorial candidate Betty Ireland about a week after he started running one for a Democrat candidate, Natalie Tennant.
Turns out BOTH of them were both unauthorized.

Halburn commented last week that the ads were endorsed by the candidates' campaigns. Again, not true.
He said they were paid for by the candidates' supporters who also supplied the logos for the ads.

Will he have an explanation?
Probably something like "They only paid for February", or some such shit. No candidate buys a two week ad. If you have proof, Hallburn, produce it. We'll run it here along with your explanation.

Won't happen.

Why not?

Because he's a pussy that doesn't have the guts to show his face here. He reads us all the time, but he's not man enough to try and defend himself here.
He knows he's been caught, but his mental illness does not allow him to admit that he's wrong.

The candidates and their supporters want NOTHING to do with Hallburn and his opinion blog. They are making a stand for ethical reporting and the large, growing audience of readers that LOVE PutnamLIES.com, which broke yet another daily readership record today!

Here at PutnamLIES.com we promise to continue to report the truth even if a pinhead from Putnam County whines and throws a fit every time we lift up the rug and expose what he has been up to. Trouble is, he was used to being able to do whatever he wanted without question. Now that PutnamLIES.com is here, we call him on his unethical behavior and immoral practices, even when he harasses our publisher, commenters and readers.

Readership and advertising support for Putnumlive.com continues to decline. Hallburn continues to embarrass himself.

We will have more as it develops.

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Halburn Refuses To Remove Political Ad
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Halburn Endorses Ireland

Her Lack Of Action Indicates Acceptance
Free Ad Obviously An Anti Sorsaia Measure

In 2009, Halburn deliberately misrepresented the fact that Debra Girimont, a candidate for the House of Delegates, was a sponsor of the Putnam County Tailgate Party when she was merely a participant. A fact that PutnamEYES.com revealed and Halburn refused to retract even when the candidate called him on it.

Now he has done it again. On February 13, Hallburn placed an ad on his opinion blog for Betty Ireland, a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, without her permission. The difference is, this time the candidate is not willing to do anything about it.

After spotting the ad, PutnamLIES.com knew that Ms Ireland was not at fault, she was yet another victim of the unscrupulous publisher of PutnumLive.com, Mark Hallburn. He was merely using her ad as a means to further his own political agenda and satisfy a personal vendetta.

Her campaign was notified about this immediately and has taken absolutely no action. And as the ad is still up, there are only two explanations. Either they just don't care or they approve of Halburn running the ad. Neither bodes well for her.

We believe it is a case of just not caring. Maybe they believe that Halburn doesn't have enough readers to make it worth their time. They're right about the readers, but not right about letting this slide. He is a content thief who makes a practice of doing exactly what he did with her ad.

Betty Ireland

Ms. Ireland, we have just two questions for you.

If you're this indecisive as a candidate over this issue, how effective would you be as governor?

If you're not willing to take a decisive stand on Halburn running this ad without your permission, how can the people of West Virginia trust that you'll do the right thing when faced with tough decisions?
You could have picked up the phone yourself and told the fat thief to remove the ad.
We're sure you have lawyers working for your campaign, you could have used one of those.
By letting him continue to run this ad, you are accepting his endorsement and condoning his theft.
Having a Governor that says one thing and does another is not what West Virginia needs. The buck stops with you. Your word should be your bond.
For you to allow this unauthorized ad to continue to run on his site is a slap in the face to every voter in Putnam County and West Virginia. Halburn is a bully. This is exactly how he gets away with things like this. People think it's too much trouble to do anything. Which emboldens him even more. It is simply political poison for any candidate to have anything to do with him. You should run away from him instead of being Facebook friends with a domestic terrorist.
You stand up to a bully. A public denunciation from you would have gone a long way with your would-be constituents and demonstrated some leadership against this civic menace.
Halburn, we condemn your biased, underhanded, unscrupulous, unethical behavior. These examples show just how low you will go to to make yourself appear to be a legitimate journalist.
Once again you have proven yourself to be the hack we all know you are.

UPDATE: Here's a comment Halburn left elsewhere because he's not man enough to leave one here:
"It also reported that the ad is not endorsed by the candidate's
campaign. Again, not true. It is paid for by her supporters who also
supplied the logo for the ad."

Someone's lying. Who do YOU believe?


RELATED STORIES:
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Halburn Ordered To Remove Ads!
The Facts Don't Lie
Halburn Continues to Prevaricate In Election Ad Controversy

Halburn Refuses To Remove Political Ad

Ad Is Unauthorized

In his zeal to promote anyone else than one of his "enemies", an ad for Republican Gubernatorial candidate Betty Ireland appeared on Halburn's opinion blog Sunday.



The strange thing is that nobody from Ireland's campaign authorized its placement.


"This was an unauthorized ad placement"

Apparently the Ireland campaign doesn't have the guts to order him to remove it.
When will it go? We will see.

Halburn's hated nemesis Mark Sorsaia is also running for the Republican nomination. Which explains Hallburn's motivation to run the ad.


"PutnumLIVE is not a legitimate media source."

Subscribing to the old axiom, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," he took it upon himself to run the ad without anyone's permission.
At no charge.
Like all his other ads.
At no time did he contact anyone associated with her campaign.

Which begs the question, If he ran Ireland's ad without her permission, is there any question he is doing the same thing with Natalie Tennant's?

This is just the kind of sleazy, underhanded, biased reporting that Hallburn has become notorious for. People have come to expect this type of unethical coverage from PutnumLIVE.com.
Any candidate that would stoop so low as to run ads there is not fit to hold office.

SORSAIA SLAMS PUTNUMLIVE.COM PUBLISHER

LEGAL NEWS



SORSAIA SLAMS PUTNUMLIVE.COM PUBLISHER
Correctly Calls Publisher "Alleged Journalist"
Halburn Whines

 
Halburn gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar once again and once again it's some else's fault.
This time it's Putnam County Prosecutor Mark Sorsaia.
It's always someone else's fault with this fat fuck.

After reading about a memo published on PutnamLIES.com, Putnam County's REAL news source, Halburn stole the scans of that memo and wrote an article complaining about his mistreatment. Boo fucking hoo.

"I do not believe that Mr. Halburn at PutnumLive is a legitimate media source," Sorsaia said in the November 1st memo.
You've got that right, Mr. Prosecutor. Nobody does.

Halburn whines that Sorsaia never contacted him about the call from the secretary of State's office.
A prosecutor doesn't phone a suspect to get his side of the story.
No clarification is needed. The memo speaks for itself.

What apparently prompted the memo was a telephone call from the office of West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie E. Tennant.

What prompted the phone call was this: A Jefferson County judge dismissed charges against a newspaper reporter for taking photos inside a polling place. Halburn then called the Secretary of State to let them know his opinion on the case. He was told that the constitutionality of the issue had not been settled and that a lawsuit addressing the law had been filed but not ruled on. Halburn then started giving his legal opinions about the case saying the First Amendment allowed such photography. Other vague statements were made which were interpreted as an intent by him to disrupt the election. Common sense precautions were taken.

Halburn then called Putnam County County Clerk Brian Wood and made the same statements.

Obviously, Halburn's reputation precedes him not only here but at the Secretary of State's office and every other place where they've had to deal with him. Halburn has a long history of making threats just vague enough that he can weasel out of them by maintaining he meant something else.

They've all read his psychiatric evaluation where the report said, "Given his degree of agitation and volatility, threats made by Mr. Halburn should be taken seriously and dealt with appropriately."

And that's exactly what they're doing.

The Secretary of State is merely doing her job by warning county authorities of potential problems. The prosecutor is doing his job by warning law enforcement and the county clerk of the same thing.

He would be remiss in his duties by not doing so.

As far as we know, Halburn has never taken a law course or worked for a legal firm. He also never went to journalism school. While he is not even qualified to be a journalist, he is certainly not qualified to argue the law. We are not sure why Halburn apparently thinks he is an expert about law. In journalism school, reporters are taught to interview all of the key people involved in a situation to get the complete story. They are also taught to report fairly and without bias. Halburn does neither of these.

Halburn later informed Sorsaia that his memo will be turned over as part of a formal complaint to whatever state agency oversees prosecuting attorneys. "Whatever state agency oversees prosecuting attorneys"? He doesn't even know. Whatta maroon.

Halburn says he doesn't know why Sorsaia would attempt to enforce a law that another West Virginia prosecutor has determined is unconstitutional.

Here's why, nonuts. Prosecutors also do not determine the constitutionality of laws. That role belongs to the judges.

Halburn also says that PutnumLive.com would never photograph an unwilling subject.

Really?
 

He should tell that to the many people that he's photographed or attempted to photograph over the years. It happened last month at the Buffalo Octoberfest.

As for what Sorsaia was told in the conversation with the SOS's office, we do not know. It appears that the information was serious enough though for him to write the memo and warn law enforcement to beware.
PutnamLIES.com applauds Mr. Sorsaia for protecting the voters of Putnam County.

In these days where domestic terrorism is rampant, government cannot afford to let its guard down against miscreants who would do the public harm or try to undermine the electoral process.

Related article:

Authorities Fear Halburn May Attempt To Disrupt Election!

He's At It Again

Fun With Twitter

Here's an amusing tweet we came across today:

And here's the letter:

Letters To The Publisher
"The People's Voice"

Halburn is neither respectable nor a reporter.
He's a thief, pure and simple.

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.

Halburn Forced To Remove Sheetz Ad

For the second time this month, Halburn has been forced to pull an ad.
After one of PutnamLIES.com's investigative reporters contacted the Sheetz main office in Pennsylvania, Halburn was forced to pull the "ad" for their stores that he placed on his pages. Those cease and desist letters work  wonders

.

 

Notice the difference?

 However, and this is just a note to Sheetz's corporate folks and lawyers, and we know you're reading this, there are at least 25 other examples of the logo that still appear in his past news stories contained in his "Headline Archives". His other archives contain it as well.
You'll have to take a hammer to him to make him comply.

Here's how it works: He writes a story about the business and then places an ad for that business on his site. Then he tells them that the ad is running and since he's running a special on his prime ad space, they might as well pay him for it.
Then he leaves the ad up unless they object.
A former advertiser told PutnamLIES.com, "To my knowledge, there's 3 or less people that are actually paying for their ads. I think the others are up there just to make his site look more appealing to other suckers. After I canceled my ad with him he kept it up for about another 6 months. I was losing more business from having the ad on there than I was gaining from it. Then that nut tried to come back after about a year and bill me for the ad."
PutnamLIES.com exposed Halburn's misuse of Beyond The Backyard's logo in a story earlier this month.

Hallburn places the ads on his webpage to make it look legitimate, when in fact he's just using the logos without permission.
How many are actually sponsors and how many are "fake sponsors"?
No reputable merchant should have anything to do with him.

This is just one more example of the sleazy practices we've come to expect from this scumbag.

Halburn Forced To Pull Ad

Halburn likes to pretend that he's compassionate by running ads for nonprofit organizations.

Well, there's one group that doesn't want Halburn's charity.
That's Beyond The Backyard.
Founded by Charleston attorney Bobby Warner, Beyond the Backyard is a youth organization dedicated to introducing kids to outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, mountain biking, mountain climbing, hiking and camping.
Some time ago, Hallburn approached Warner's business begging for sponsorship, and they told him they weren't interested. In their reply was the logo for the Beyond The Backyard program.
Halburn then stole the logo and placed it on his website. It has been there for at least a year.
Warner was asked last week if he authorized its placement on Halburn's site. He said that he in no way did so, and would have it removed immediately.
This all happened Friday May 7. On Saturday May 8, the ad was gone.
It's amazing what a cease and desist letter can do.
Don't steal a lawyer's logo, dummy!

PutnamLIES.com and others have long wondered how many ads and logos have simply been stolen and placed on his site to make it look legitimate.
We know for a fact that a certain radio stations logo was there for a long time until they finally demanded that he remove it. We also know of a large pizza and breakfast chain that is afraid to pull their ads for fear of negative reporting.

If your business' logo appears on his site, contact Halburn immediately and demand that it be removed.

This kind of thing demonstrates just how low Halburn will stoop.
He's a fucking thief.

UPDATE: Halburn now claims that Warner’s "PR guy" (notice he can't provide a name) approached HIM to run a story. He claims that he personally met with him at Warner’s law office. He says that he interviewed the "PR guy" who provided photos and the logo after Halburn offered to run it free of charge.

Unfortunately for Halburn, the truth is that the "story" he ran was nothing more than a press release which he published verbatim. There was no interview with the "PR guy". It's all the same bunch of bullshit that we've come to expect from him.

Back In the Saddle Again

Recognize this?



A lovely image of winter 2010 in West Virginia?
Nope.
It's Bella Vista, Arkansas.

Which picture is the original?



If you guessed the latest "Hot Shots" contribution to the douchebag's cluttered advertising shopping blog you'd be wrong.

Submitted? More like stolen.
Notice the submitter's name isn't given. A sure tip-off of a ripoff.

Lo and behold, it was stolen from here:
http://mywideblueseas.blogspot.com/2010/02/familiar-foreign-land.html

Last week it was permission, this week it's back to theft.
It takes a thief.
Same old Halburn.
Fucking scumbag.

UPDATE: As of March 8, Halburn was notified of his theft by the photographer. We'll see how long it takes him to comply.

UPDATED UPDATE: It took the content thief three weeks to pull the picture.

Porcine Pussy Purloins Previously Published Post...Again

Another blatant incident of plagiarism has been uncovered by PutnamLIES.com just this afternoon.
Back in July on girlofwords.com, Halburn was raving about the DMV requiring ID to renew his license, and how everyone at the DMV are dummies.
So he starts this blog called DMVDummies. And it just lays there like a turd. Oh, there are a couple of posts but Halburn made them under other names the day he started it.

And then in December just days after PutnamLIES.com revealed his plagiarism of letters to the editor, he copies a GOW post and makes it into a comment on that blog and signs it with the name of GOW's very own, Jacque. (Now cached because Wordpress did the right thing and pulled it down.)
Probably in retaliation for that article. Somehow he has convinced himself and his multiple personalities that Jacque, Lee and the PutnamLIES.com staff are one and the same person. And what better way to get back than to steal an article and reprint it on a blog that nobody reads. I'm sure he was rubbing his fat little hands together and cackling maniacally.

When contacted for comment, Jacque said, "That motherfucking son of a bitch stole my blog and posted it as a comment. And linking to it only by my name is NOT enough. I wasn't cited. It's just offensive. I'm fucking livid. That's unacceptable!"
She talks more about it in this post.

We did not attempt to contact Halburn because we know he did it and frankly we're not interested it how he'd try to explain this.

Watch your back, you fat bastard, We're coming after your advertisers next.

Serial Plagiarist Still at Large - NOW UPDATED WITH MORE LIES

Halburn took a 6 day vacation last August and went to the Hillbilly Riveria, Myrtle Beach SC. He claims to have only spent 2 days there.

He also claimed to have gone to Jacksonville Florida, which PutnamEYES.com is calling bullshit on right now.
This was at the same time he was emailing girlofwords from a Best Buy in Myrtle Beach posing as Rich Chrampanis.

On Saturday August 15 he wrote:
"I was in Jacksonville, Florida, shooting photos for an upcoming travel feature. You will see it someday in our Your Travel section."

Jacksonville is a 6 1/2 hour drive from Myrtle Beach. Who takes a day trip that takes 6 1/2 hours one way while on vacation?
What kind of a "man" abandons his family to go "take photos" for a blog article?
Well, someday came in December in the "Your Travel - Jacksonville, Florida" section. And we see it all right. We see an article of less than 500 words that took 4 months to write. We also see a lot of nice photos.
Unfortunately for you Halburn, YOU TOOK NONE OF THEM. NOT ONE. Every single photo is stolen. YOU stole all of them.

When Halburn writes:

"Historians report that Don Pedro Menéndez de Avilés first came ashore in what is now known as St. Augustine on September 8th, 1565. Aviles and his expedition celebrated Mass. Though they didn't know it then, their worship started the first permanently settled city and its first Catholic parish in the United States.

Throughout the years of political turnover, the parish church was burned to the ground several times. However, in 1797, a new parish church was constructed on the corner of St. George and Treasury streets facing the plaza – where it stands today."

it was plagiarized verbatim (that means word for word, Halburn) from:

Hello Jacksonville.com

That's 25% of the entire article.

Even the picture of the Basilica is stolen. SHAME!
You're going straight to hell, fatboy.

You're not kidding anybody, shitheel. You went to Google and got found some Jacksonville pictures and then went to the sites and stole them.

Like these from Adventure Landing, which, by the way, is in Jacksonville Beach not Jacksonville. You would have known that had you actually gone there.

http://www.insideflorida.com/detail/adventure-landing/

Once again proving that even so-called "original" material on your site cannot be trusted.
Why any advertiser would want to be associated with this type of behavior is a mystery.

You're a hack and a thief and you're not very good at either.

And it's obvious that these accusations are correct since you have no response to them. Your silence speaks volumes.

But, as the old saying goes, Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

UPDATE:

Halburn continues to lie in his latest slobber filled rant:

"...falsely accusing me of writing a less than 500 word travel article about Jacksonville. They can't count. The article is well over 500 words, and the photos that they claim were stolen were used by permission. But the blog does use the word "Lies" in its name, so at least it is correct about its constant attacks and lack of truthfulness."

Well over 500 words? Maybe now.
Because after we published the above article exposing his latest plagiarism, he changed the article.
Glad to see though that you agree that the lies we are writing about are yours.

Here's the original. Cached on January 3, 2010.
Don't just take our word for it. Look for yourself. Copy the text. Paste it into your word processor. Do a word count.
You'll find, as we did, 461 words.

Once again lard lad, you have proven yourself to be a unethical, dishonest piece of shit.

UPDATE 1/19:

The original photographer confirms Halburn stole the Adventure Landing photos.

Letters, I Get Letters

So I'm sitting in the basement my office (the one in Fraziers Bottom, NOT in my wife's house) last month licking the KFC grease off my fingers when I get another brainstorm.

I need some letters from more exotic locales. That will show the nay-sayers and trash-talking bloggers a thing or two. See, I like to think that by printing letters from other states, they'll think I have readers all across the country.
The problem is, nobody from any other state writes in, much less actually reads any of my "stories". I have enough trouble attracting local readers.
Even most of my local letters are made up. Do you think there's actually a Ray Bloomington of Hurricane, George Williamson of Eleanor, or John Grange of Scott Depot?

But the internet is an amazing thing, You can find letters to the editor in every online newspaper.
There's tons of them, who's going to know if I reprint a few and say that they were sent to me? What's someone going to do? Contact and ask them?

So I printed this in November's Letters to the Editor:



Which is very interesting, because here's the original:


http://www.mariettatimes.com/page/content.detail/id/517660.html?nav=5007

Notice how I dropped the part where she talks about her local concerns. That's because I knew that would be a tip off that it was swiped. Pretty smart, huh?
Lower Salem OH is 125 miles from Hurricane.

And then I printed this one:


Which came from here:


http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/letters/story/1344561.html

Key Biscayne is over 1,000 miles from Hurricane.

And why stop there:



The original came from here:


http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20091112/ai_n42085590/

Fremont CA is over 2,500 miles from Hurricane.
Who-hoo! Look at me! I get letters from across the US. I'm very important!
Not really though.
Like somebody once said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time and the rest you can just jerk off. "
With my personality disorder, I'm a pro at both.

If that trash-talking blogger could write here I bet he'd make up some headline like "Pussy Publisher Plagiarises Purloined Postings" or say something like,
"I'll guaran-fucking-tee that NONE of these people sent these letters."
And he'd be right.


All I have to say is they would write they knew who I am and what I stand for.
I'M MARK "HALLBURN", GODDAMMIT!!!