Annual Pool Whine Begins

MOTHERFUCKER

It's September and Halburn has started his annual whining about the pools closing.
What is his obsession with pools?

After all these years, he still doesn't get it. Most lifeguards are high school and college students. Once school starts the "pool" of employees dries up. The customers are back in school. Pools don't exist to solely "service him."
And then he makes the ridiculous assertion that pools reduce crime because they give burglars and shoplifters something else to do. Which is hilarious because heroin addicts and meth heads aren't the ones using the pools even when they're open.

His solution is for taxpayers to build pools at every high school. So he could swim there for free, no doubt. And those lifeguards that pools can't find after school starts? Pay them more.

We've got a solution for you, you fat fuck. If you want to swim year round, join the YMCA. But that costs money.
If you actually had a real job, you wouldn't have time to lounge around by the pool all day anyway. You'd be working to pay the full amount of your child support obligations.

Then he closes with the demand,
"Change our way of thinking and get moving!
Lose that weight!"

A polish sausage eating, 330 pound diabetic has no business giving anyone health advice.

Dog Swim Cost Parks No More Than $250

Dog swim 2010 was not a very expensive project.

No more than $250 was spent by the Putnam County Parks and Recreation Department to maintain and operate Waves of Fun for the September 6th, Labor Day fundraiser.

Halburn goes through all sorts of contortions trying to prove that it cost an exorbitant amount of money to hold this event. And as usual, he lies to his shrinking readership.
He does this by including the week before in his costs. The pool closed for the season on August 29.



First of all you can't determine a day's cost by of electricity by dividing the total of the bill by 30 days. You can get an average cost, but not the true usage cost. Costs are based on peak and non peak hours. Nights, Saturday and Sundays are non peak times.
Weekends cost less than weekdays.
There is also the basic cost of operating the facility. Even during the winter when it's closed, it uses approximately 4000 kwh a month in electricity.

Using Hallburn's suspect math for utilities & chemicals, + Scott Williamson's personnel numbers it looks like the cost for the swim was somewhere around $211.25.

Electricity $93.75
Chemicals $37.50
Personnel $80.00
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Total $211.25

The pool was closed for the preceding 7 days. The water wasn't treated or filtered. Since the pumps weren't on there wasn't any wear and tear on them that week so that cost is zero.

The days the pool was closed is immaterial to the cost of the fundraiser. The day of the swim the water was treated then the next day the pool was drained.

Halburn just doesn't get it. He whines every year about the pools closing before labor day. He just can't seem to get it through his thick skull that you can't open a pool if you have no lifeguards.
The kids are back in school so there's no one to go to the pools anyway.
He thinks the pools should stay open just to serve him.
Should a pool stay open an extra week just to serve a handful of patrons?
We say no.
Would he be willing to pay an admission fee based on the number of swimmers that use the pool that week? We don't think so.

$211.25.
Not a big price to pay such for a good cause.
Karen Haynes, organizer of the Dog Swim, reported that the event raised exactly 1884.58 dollars this year.

Hallburn complains that the county doesn't do enough to fund the construction of a new animal shelter, but when they do he complains about that too. He is the worst type of hypocrite.

Halburn will do or say anything to put his political enemies in the worst light.
His petty personal vendettas are not news. He is not a journalist and his opinion blog is not a media outlet.

Why Does Mark Hallburn Hate Dogs?

Why does Mark Hallburn hate me?

Most people in Putnam County are familiar with the annual dog swim on Labor Day at Valley Park Wave Pool.
The pool closes for the summer and man's best friends get a chance to enjoy the water. Donations are accepted at the door to raise money for the Putnam Animal Relief Fund to help build a new shelter in Putnam County. This year's swim was the fourth annual.

Some dog haters feel that they, not dogs, should be the ones swimming, even though there are no lifeguards.
Mark Halburn is one of those.
He doesn't want the dogs to swim in the pool.

Halburn was at the Parks Office Friday afternoon demanding to know why the pool was open for the dogs and closed early for people. (Keep in mind the swim was more than two weeks ago and the pool closed at the SAME TIME IT CLOSES EVERY YEAR.) He wanted to know how much it cost the taxpayers for the dogs to swim.
It didn't cost taxpayers anything...it was all volunteers.

This year's swim raised $1884.58 and there were about 300 dogs that had fun at the pool. Everyone had a great time (except for Halburn, who hates dogs) and can't wait for next year.

What kind of cruel bastard would deny dogs a swim in the pool?
Just remember, many serial killers got their start abusing animals.

I'm Finally Cool

After weeks of sweltering in high temperatures with no pool, I was finally able to cool off today with a refreshing dip.
If Joe Haynes, Steve Andes, Scott Williamson, Sally Holliday or Cordie Fucking Hudkins won't implement my suggestion of white slavery so I'll have some lifeguards at the pool, I'll do something myself for a change.

So I stole the boy's pool. The little bastard never swims in it anyway. All that work and the little shit won't go near it.
Now, if I could just find a way to skim off all this grease floating on the surface.