Pool's Closed

It's that time of year again.
Halburn is upset Charleston pools are closed so he calls Charleston Mayor Danny Jones at home .

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.

Fat Boyz N The Hood

A real g don't care what the sign says.

Pizza Time!

It was Pizza Time Saturday at the Wave Pool.
Mmmmmmmm, pizza.

First Pool Problem Of The Season

It's the first weekend of May and Halburn is already bitching about the area pools.
What is his obsession with pools?
He showed up at the South Charleston Community Center Pool on Sunday along with his "son" to take a dip. Unfortunately for him (and the employees there), there was a problem with the heater and the pool was closed. Crisco immediately started babbling about the 80 degree temperature outside and demanded they bus the staff up the hill and open the outdoor pool at Little Creek that's not scheduled to open until Memorial Day. Never mind that the water temperature hadn't even reached 65 degrees yet. What's a little hypothermia? "SERVICE ME IMMEDIATELY!!!" His hissy fit immediately brought the kid to tears, so now he's included the boy into his drama. 
I can't believe he actually acknowledged his insane request to move the ocean to Charleston!

South Charleston Community Center Pool

"My poor little guy... I check the web page of a local indoor pool for its hours, closure status, etc. All good. We get there and it's CLOSED due to the heater "cooking" the water. Now it's an 80 degree day, and they ALSO have an outdoor pool. They have staff. Outdoor pool isn't scheduled to open until Memorial Day. 
With temps in the 80's and the ONLY other pool closed, logic says they open the OUTDOOR pool and bus the staff up the hill... (Yes, there IS a bus!). "


Your "poor little guy" is right. Who wants to go through life with you as a father?
Logic says the OUTDOOR pool would have a water temperature of about 60 degrees.
It's the FIRST fucking weekend in May. The temperature hasn't been above 70 degrees before this. Do you have any idea what the water temperature would be in an outdoor pool? You'd be bitching that it was too cold if it were open.

 

Little Creek Park Pool

"When I talk to the director, (after he calls me back after his staff LIES to me and says he isn't working) he acts as if it's crazy to use the second pool. Invites me back tomorrow AFTER I tell him that I only get the boy every other weekend. 
The boy is in tears because he can't go swimming. (He LOVES his TMNT bathing suit, towel, and ball for the pool!)"

The boy is in tears because Daddy is ranting and raving and generally behaving like an asshole in public. He's weeping from embarrassment.
"A word to civic leaders: West Virginia has an overweight population. STOP closing the pools on 80 degree days!!! Now if I was allowed to take him to The Carolinas, there is always the ocean. And, yes, PsychoJudge Kelly banned me from taking him out-of-state and refused to order the ocean be moved to Charleston! The OTHER issue cannot be publicly discussed... 5/3 10:27pm"

A word to Halburn:
West Virginia has an overweight Halburn problem. A pool being open or closed is not going to help you. It's just your excuse.
And a whackadoo demand like wanting a judge to move the ocean is exactly why you can't take the kid  to the Carolinas, or any place out-of-state, for that matter.

 

Summer's Over

Aren't you glad it's time for the pools to close?

Halburn Returns - Show His Ass Again

Trouble Follows Wherever He Goes
Mark Halburn returned for Labor Day and is back to his old tricks.
On Monday, Halburn went to Racine, 60 miles away from Putnam County, where the United Mine Workers union holds their annual Labor Day picnic. This event is a magnet for Democrat politicians pandering for votes. And Earl Ray Tomblin was right there pandering. Which is nothing new.



The new thing this year was that Mark Halburn was there stalking him.
Halburn ambushed Tomblin and began shouting questions at him about embattled Putnam County Family Court Judge William Watkins who Halburn, his toady Jay Smith and local crackpot and retarded child beater Tr0y Sext0n have also been harassing for the past year.Halburn needs to taught a lesson in civics (as well as civility). So let PutnamLIES.com school you once again, meathead.

You see, fatboy, there's this thing we have called the separation of powers. Our government is divided into 3 branches, each with separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility so that no branch has more power than the other branches. The Governor, head of the executive branch, has absolutely no authority over any other branch, regardless of what you may think. We know you probably weren't taught this during your so-called education in the People's Socialist Republic of California, but that's how it works in the real America, you un-American fuck.
Even if Tomblin wanted to do something about your new obsession, he's powerless to do so.

Halburn then continued to follow Tomblin and shouted a second set of questions until he was restrained and forced to leave the area, attendees told PutnamLIES.com. He's lucky the Governor's security detail didn't choke him out and make him do the chicken.

And, no Labor Day would be complete without Halburn bitching about the Wave Pool.



We thought those days were over when he moved to Galivants Ferry, South Carolina in March, but he's such a failure that he can't even hold a steady job there so he has plenty of time to come back and cause trouble here.

Halburn had his visitation with his little boy last weekend (he only gets 9 days a month since he's unfit to be a parent) and took him to the pool Sunday. Here's a question for you, lippy. Did you pay the $7.00 admission for him or did you lie and say he was only 4 years old and sneak him in for free? We know he turned 5 Wednesday.

As is fairly common this time of year, the pool was closed down Sunday afternoon for safety reasons due to nearby thunderstorms and lightning.
Halburn, of course objected to this. He would rather endanger the safety of his little boy and other swimmers so that he can float orca-like on the waves.
He even called County Commissioner Steve Andes and told him that he had two weeks to get a lifeguard certification.

PutnamLIES.com has an even better suggestion.
Why don't YOU get your lifeguard certification, Halburn?
You don't have a job and you could be the only lifeguard for the next two weeks since school has started. You could even call yourself the Lifeguard Supervisor. We understand you're getting your Masters in H.R.

Otherwise go the fuck away. Don't come back here. Your shit got old a long time ago.
You're living on borrowed time anyway.

Hallburn Verbally Attacks Joe Haynes - Again

County Psychopath Continues To Harass Commissioner

For some reason, every year when the pools close, Halburn takes it as a personal affront to himself.
It's always some evil conspiracy to prevent him from swimming, usually headed up by his nemesis, County Commissioner Joe Haynes. Then, as always, he goes on a FOIA fishing expedition.

Earlier this year, after his latest FOIA, he said that, "the commission produced some documents that proved it cost more than $1,142 to maintain Waves of Fun for the Dog Swim."
They produced nothing of the sort. They produced an electric bill and an invoice for some chemicals. The monetary amount was something he pulled out of his big ass. Which proved nothing. PutnamLIES.com proved it cost less than $250 to hold the swim last year.

During that Dog Swim, he browbeat Putnam County Commissioners Steve Andes and Joe Haynes and harassed them both with questions about the dog swim. Andes didn't answer. Haynes wisely refused to speak to PutnumLIVE.com, Halburn's opinion blog.

That's a typical tactic for Hallburn. He exhibited similar boorish behavior at a doctor's office last week.

Then Halburn trots out the old tired canard of the so-called Park Commission firings. Hallburn tries to say that Parks Commission President Sally Holliday didn't resign from the Parks Commission. Again, with Halburn it's all about semantics. It all depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is. This fat fuck is greasier than Slick Willy.

It's just more Hallburn bullshit. He always spins the story to make it more favorable to himself and his friends.

Here's what really happened.
In February 2006, Halburn's hand puppet Cordie Hudkins was fired over his belligerence and bad attitude. Sally Holliday said at that time that she would resign on March 10. Parks Commissioner John Samples also planned to resign at the same time.
At the County Commission meeting at the end of February, both were notified that their terms were up and they were replaced with new members.
Holliday's term had actually expired in August 2004 but she continued to serve beyond then because county commissioners had not updated the commission.
Replacing Holliday and Samples was nothing more than a response to their intention to resign.

But it gives Halburn another reason to attack Haynes. Fast forward to 2011. Halburn acts like the date for the Dog Swim was picked the week before Labor Day and the weather was known. Wrong again, lardass. It was scheduled at the end of July. Nobody knew what the weather was going to be.

Due to the rain on Labor Day, the Dog Swim was canceled, and re-scheduled for the following Saturday. Halburn says, "Again, humans were denied the right to swim in their pool for a week before Labor Day Weekend, including Sunday when it was 88 degrees."
Was it 88 degrees on Sunday? Maybe it was. But was also pouring the rain.

So at the dog swim, Halburn barges through the gates of Waves of Fun and immediately accosts Commissioner Haynes and begins harassing him by shouting questions at him in his squealy, high pitched, lispy voice. Which Halburn apparently thinks is tough but fair.

Then Haynes responded: "I won't talk to you. I refuse to talk to you," and added "You're a psychopath, stay away from me." Halburn then states, "Coming from Haynes, that's a compliment." No, crisco, coming from anyone that's the truth.

Haynes also added, "You've been arrested."
Halburn then tries to deflect attention away from his criminal record by saying, "What he failed to state for everyone within earshot is that this publisher was acquitted-twice-of politically motivated charges based on lies. Twice. And one of those false arrests was instigated by the Putnam County Parks and Recreation Commission."

Yeah? Prove it, lippy.
Your mouth and your actions are what get you arrested.

What you failed to state is that you were convicted of trespassing at a Kanawha County pool. Was that arrest politically motivated? Was your California arrest for strong-arm robbery politically motivated?

At that point Halburn turned and ran away like the pussy that he is.
Raymond Joe Haynes does not have to answer to you about anything, Hallburn. Your questions, coverage and attitude are neither tough nor fair.

We don't blame Hallburn for being an insufferable asshole. Few people would want the world to know that they can't hold a full time job and that they have a severe personality disorder. The mentally ill often do not know they're mentally ill. Verbally attacking public servants because of a vendetta is an old, tired game that the public can see through. And we know Hallburn doesn't want people to know about his bullying tactics, because of his reaction last week to his outburst at a local doctors' office. However, as long as Halburn chooses to act this way in public he is fair game.

With the proliferation of audio and video recorders on everyone's phones, PutnamLIES.com has a suggestion. If you are being harassed by Mark Halburn or see him harassing ANYONE, take out your phone and start recording. If he tries to intimidate you into stopping, keep on recording. It is your defense against him. Then send it to us. If enough people did this it would really expose his behavior to those who he'd rather not have see it. Remember, many people believe his bullshit because it's the only side of the story that they hear.

There is a way that Hallburn can avoid such scrutiny in the future: Let the humans and their dogs enjoy Waves of Fun and stop harassing the citizens of West Virginia. Or he could die in a fire.

PutnamLIES.com has long said that the Parks And Recreation Commission should ban Halburn from any coverage of future Dog Swims and ban him from visiting Putnam County Parks. He's a ticking time bomb.

You're lucky I'm not running the show, Hallburn. I'd give you a roundhouse kick to the sack.

Stay tuned.

Putnam's Job Killers? Not Hardly.

Halburn's Negative Attitudes Killing Putnam County Jobs



Halburn's latest screed tries to blame Putnam County Commissioners Stephen H. "Steve" Andes, James H. "Jim" Caruthers, Raymond "Joe" Haynes, Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards and others for all the ills he sees in Putnam County's business climate.

He claims that business, transportation, and education projects have been killed by those local officials. He calls their voting records anti-business and anti-progress and says they're keeping business and progress from Putnam County which hurts our community and causes needless job losses.

That just isn't true.



As he did, we'll also start with the picture above this paragraph. That's a vacant lot behind the Mi Pueblito Mexican Restaurant, in Hurricane - near Gino's and Tudor's.



Halburn complains that in 2004, Putnam County Commissioners Steve Andes, Jim Caruthers, and Joe Haynes turned down a Tax Increment Funding proposal that was needed to build an office building and retail stores. The lot remains vacant, allegedly costing Putnam County construction, office, and retail jobs.

First of all, you stupid bastard, Joe Haynes wasn't even on the County Commission when this decision was made.
At that time the Commission President was Jim Withrow with Andes and Caruthers being the other two members. But that's just the kind of shoddy reporting we've come to expect from Putnam County's news loser.
(ed. note: After reading it here, Halburn went back and changed the name on his blog to Jim Withrow. You can send us a check for the proofreading, you fat fuck.) Tax Increment Funding money is created when a property is assessed before the property is developed, and then it is reassessed after development. The difference between the two tax values is used to pay back bonds that fund the development.

At the time, WV Commerce Secretary Kelley Goes said that the state approves tax increment financing for water, sewer, road and other "off-site" infrastructure improvement projects.
"We typically don't do retail and residential development," Goes said. "Our philosphy with TIF is you exhaust all other funding allocations, and TIF fills the gap."

So what is the real story here?
Developers approached the Commission about using TIF money to fund their project.
How much are we talking about here?
SIX MILLION DOLLARS!
And WHO are we talking about here?
Former barber and state senator Oshel Craigo.
The man who owns Gino's Pizza, Tudors Biscuit World and a string of other businesses and land all across the state.
He milked the people of West Virginia for 22 years in the WV Senate and then he then wanted them to finance his latest project.
A 16,000-square-foot office building and another building for retail stores. The office portion was to be occupied by the Department of Health and Human Resources which would then move from Teays Valley to Hurricane. Which, by the way, would have doubled the rent that they were paying.
The County Commission said no.
The site could have been developed without TIF funds, but it has not. The County Commission is not to blame for that.

Oshel Fucking Craigo can get financing on his own. He doesn't need the people of West Virginia to underwrite his development projects.
The County Commission's vote wisely saved the citizens' money.
They were right to keep the taxpayers from getting clipped again by Oshel the Barber.
Hallburn takes money from Craigo's companies for ads on his blog, a fact that he does not disclose.

His next whine is is about Rt 35 and another one of the politicians that he has a vendetta against, Karen Facemyer. Facemyer is another Putnam county representative that Hallburn has repeatedly harassed over his non-existent noise issues.



His complaint about this matter? He blames West Virginia
Senators Karen Facemyer, (R-4th) and Mike Hall, (R-4th) for not getting U.S. 35 completed, saying they "drank the "no tolls" Kool-Aid." After their constituents spoke out against any tolls on that road, they took the position that the segment could be built-without tolls. Which it could have been.
Facemyer and Hall both did something that is rare in politics today. They listened to the wishes of their constituents and acted accordingly. They did what they were elected to do.

Where was Hallburn during this debate? All over the map.

First he said "Finish the new US 35 - Even if it means tolls."
Later, when County Commissioner Haynes came out in favor of tolls if it would help complete the road, Halburn criticized him for it! Why? Because whatever Haynes is for, Halburn is against.
He criticized Mason County officials for changing their vote endorsing the tolls after they learned the tolls would increase yearly.

Like fellow liberal John Kerry, Hallburn was for the tolls before he was against them.

Then after the public outcry over the tolls and the was the whole matter was handled, Hallburn suddenly eschewed tolls and called for the road to be completed with tax dollars.
He even called Senator Hall " a genious" (sic) for his plan to finance the road through budget surplus money.

Looks like Hallburn has blisters on his fat ass from riding the fence on this matter. There's also a word for what he's doing here: hypocrisy.



Then there's the old Black family airstrip located just above the Hurricane Walmart and Hurricane Marketplace. Several years ago, the Blacks offered half of that property, free of charge, to Marshall University to build a Putnam County campus. Marshall said "No, thanks." The County Commission was even willing to sell bonds to finance the construction. The lot is still vacant.

We fail to see how any politician at any level is responsible for this. Marshall made a business decision. With the main campus less than 25 miles away in Huntington, regional centers in Teays Valley and Pt. Pleasant and a Graduate School in South Charleston, Marshall obviously saw no need to spend the money to build an unneeded facility in Hallburn's backyard.
Certainly Hallburn's profanity laden article about Marshall's plans to build a new center didn't help.



Next, he moves on to harping about the vacant land owned by the Putnam County Development Authority above the Hurricane Marketplace.

This time, he blames another one of his favorite whipping boys, Hurricane Mayor Scott Edwards for the land not selling. Hallburn came up with a hare brained scheme that the PCDA donate the land as a park to create business traffic for the Hurricane Marketplace. Apparently, they're the bad guys for not giving away land paid for with public money.
He continues to complain that the Hurricane Marketplace still has six empty stores, refusing to recognize that the country is in the worst economic downturn since the great depression, overseen by his fellow über-liberal, President Barack Hussein Obama. And that malls across the country are suffering the same problem.

And, as usual, he unethically neglects to inform his 29 readers about his interest in developing that land. He thinks it will increase the value of second wife's run down property and make it easier to sell.

He continues to blame Edwards and the PCDA for not buying the dilapidated, overpriced property owned by his second wife and her mother by saying by saying that he has refused to redevelop the Walmart neighborhood. Halburn has compounded his stupidity and unwillingness to take responsibility for his own problems by refusing to build his own soundwall and plant his own trees to protect his family from the non-existent "excessive noise" from the store.

The photograph below shows the location in Teays Valley where Sheetz wanted to build.



Sheetz applied for a zoning variance with the Putnam County Planning Commission. It was denied.
The Planning Commission's reasoning?

Sheetz gave an inadequate explanation of safety issues associated with the location of a new traffic light. The site sits between two residential neighborhoods that are in extremely close proximity to the proposed light. A new traffic light could just as easily create problems which may be worse than what currently exists. Safety concerns were also raised regarding children at the bus stop at Green Acres and White Rock Subdivisions.
Sheetz had no answers about how to correct these problems, so the variance wasn't approved.
There's no evil intent. Just a common sense ruling. Sheetz is free to correct the problems, answer the questions and reapply.

Of course Hallburn's desire for a donut and a cup of coffee outweigh the need to keep our neighborhoods and children safe.

Hallburn says more jobs were killed by the politically-appointed bureaucrats. We think that Halburn was embarrassed once again because another project that he promised would happen fell through.

Then we get to the pools. Somehow we always do.

Every year at the end of the summer, Halburn starts complaining about the pools closing.
He whines that closing the pools before Labor Day puts lifeguards out of work.
No, numbnuts, the lifeguards are out of work because they're back in school. They voluntarily left their jobs. It doesn't effect the unemployment rate one iota. That's why the pools are closed. There are no customers. They're all back in school. It's not economically feasible to keep a pool open for a couple of swimmers a day. Try and get that through your thick skull, fatboy.

He continues his bitching saying in Eleanor, the Putnam County pool also closed early. Then he complains about the $158,000 renovation of the pool. After decades the shoddily built pool was in dire need of repairs. Somehow, Haynes, Andes, and the Putnam County Parks and Recreation Commissioners were apparently responsible for this damage even though they've only been in office a short time.



Then he complains about green water at the pool, saying they still aren't maintaining it properly. Of course they're not, asshole. THEY'RE NOT MAINTAINING IT AT ALL!!! The pool is closed for the winter. That's why it's only half full.

And then there's the Dog Swim. Started by Karen Haynes (who Hallburn called a bitch, by the way, because she is married to his enemy Joe Haynes) as a way to raise funds for a new county animal shelter, this has been a pet peeve of animal hater Mark Halburn since its inception. He moans about the fact that the pool is usually closed before the swim due to the lack of lifeguards, saying that in 2010 the swim, which is only for a few hours on one day, cost more than $1,142 by using some arcane mathematical calculations. PutnamLIES.com proved those numbers wrong when we determined the actual cost for the day was only $250.



The next dead horse he attempts to whip is the proposed kiddie pool at Waves of Fun in Valley Park. In the grass below the wave pool he says there should be a kiddie pool.



And once again, you guessed it, it's all Andes, Caruthers, and Haynes' fault for turning down a $250,000 grant and canceling the kiddie pool project.
No, what they did was turn down a grant that would have required the taxpayers of Putnam County to cough up a matching $250,000 in order to receive that grant.

 














And once again Hallburn talks about screwing kids.


This is the photo Mark Hallburn stole from Scott Edwards and added to his opinion blog.

Earlier this year, Hurricane Mayor Scott D. Edwards brought out a group of children for the groundbreaking ceremony of the sprayground at Hurricane City Park. It was supposed to open by August. However, Edwards wisely decided to save the taxpayers money by having city workers install the facility instead of spending $50,000 $100,000 to hire outside contractors.



What's Hallburn's problem?
Project delays prevented the pool from opening this summer.
Now, crews will have plenty of time to get things right instead of rushing the installation only to have the facility open for a couple of weeks at the end of the season. That $50,000 $100,000 Hallburn claims that Hurricane would have quickly made it up by families flocking to the town and shopping before and after the kids enjoy the sprayground. That kind of money is not generated by people swimming ALL SUMMER, much less in two weeks. Once again Halburn demonstrates his lack of business acumen by saying that positive publicity would have been valued at more than $50,000.
Publicity isn't worth shit, lardass. If it was, your negative publicity would have run you out of town years ago.

There's a pattern here: If it's one of Hallburn's political enemies: attack, attack, attack.



Hallburn isn't finished with his stupidity. He has this lame brain idea to to rename Orchard Park Road and Saturn Way to Hurricane Motor Mall, as if that's going to sell some cars.. Calling something a "motor mall" doesn't make it so. It's not any government's job to tell businesses what name to operate under. This is just one more just another way for him to attack Scott Edwards.

If Hallburn is serious about jobs, there a few things he can do.

First, get one himself.

Second, hire some employees for his oh so successful & lucrative opinion blog.

Third, move the "offices" of that oh so successful & lucrative opinion blog out of his second wife's basement into one of the vacant storefronts that he is constantly complaining about.

And fourth and most importantly, stop running down and harassing those business and government leaders that he disagrees with.

After all, how many businesses want to locate in an area where they have to worry about some asswipe with a blog badgering and extorting them into taking out an ad or have to worry about him making a scene because he thinks someone treated him rudely?

As for Hallburn, the gutless pussy with all the answers doesn't even have the balls to run for election, because he knows he would be soundly defeated for any office that he would run for and his inflated ego won't let him accept that fact. Putnam County voters are pretty smart, they see through his act.
But you really wouldn't expect a "man" who won't take responsibility for his own problems to take responsibility for others, would you?

Stop blaming everyone else for the problems you've created for yourself, crisco and look in the mirror. If you're so goddamn smart and have all the solutions, step up. Show your true colors and run for office. Negativity kills jobs!
Put up or shut up!

Halburn Disrupts Dog Swim

Low Turnout Partially Attributed To His Appearance

The 2011 Dog Swim was held Saturday at Waves of Fun, and around 100 people showed up with their dogs. Attendance was hurt this year by several things: It was postponed because of the weather last weekend, the Putnam County Homecoming was going on, and both Marshall and WVU had home games on Saturday.

There was also another reason.
PutnamLIES.com talked to several people who say they stayed away specifically because they were afraid that Hallburn would show up and cause a scene. "I want nothing to do with anything where this guy is", said Greg Patterson of Eleanor. "He's a menace to the community. He should be locked up." Another woman, who wished to remain anonymous said, " That man scares me. He threatened me one time at the drugstore. I'd like to take my dog there but I won't if he will be there. "

And as expected, as soon as Halburn arrived, he started causing problems. He immediately flew into a rage and started yelling at Joe Haynes. Commissioner Haynes told Hallburn, "I won't talk to you. I refuse to talk to you," and added "You're a psychopath, stay away from me." Halburn's typical behavior was disturbing, but not as disturbing as his conduct as a human being.Things may have gotten even uglier but Halburn ran away with his tail tucked between his legs.

Karen Haynes organizes the Dog Swim every year as a fund-raiser for the new Putnam County Animal Shelter. When asked how much money was raised, Haynes tells PutnamLIES.com that $502.00 was donated toward building the new shelter.
Contrary to the Facebook quote from the jailbird assclown Jeremy Linville that Hallburn used in his blog, in 2010 the Dog Swim raised $1,800. A very successful effort.This February, Hallburn falsely alleged in his PutnumLIVE.com blog that keeping Waves of Fun's facilities running for the week prior to the event 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.

Were there as many people as last year? Was as much money raised? No. But that's not really what the dog swim is about. Making new furry friends and families being together is what the dog swim is really all about.
And every penny raised is a penny closer to the goal of building a new animal shelter.

Hallburn's vendetta against Putnam County won't allow him to see that.

But obviously we shamed him, because he later went back after viewing PutnamLIES.com and added a couple of lines about how he supports the shelter and added the contact information that we always include. He also scrubbed the jailbird assclown's comments from his Facebook page as well as his letters page.For more information about the new Putnam county Animal Shelter, call Karen Haynes at 304-757-7584

If you'd like to make a donation, you can can go into the bank or mail it to:
Putnam Animal Relief Center Fund
First State Bank
3754 Teays Valley Road
Hurricane, WV 25526

Sprayground Won't Open This Summer - That's OK

Halburn Continues To Obsess About Area Pools


Who starts a story with "once again, the children of Putnam County get screwed?

Why, it's everyone's favorite asshole, Mark Halburn, of course.

Once again, Halburn uses a sexual connotation when he talks about children. And not surprisingly it has to do with his favorite thing, public pools.

He loves to talk about the children of Putnam County getting screwed. Wishful thinking, fatsack? Wish it were you doing the screwing?

What he's all worked up about is the construction of the Sprayground at City Park.

Last year Hurricane Mayor Scott D. Edwards announced the construction of the new Sprayground. City Manager Scott Newhouse and Development and Tourism Manager Brenda Campbell raised the $200,000 needed for the project through grants and donations.

In May, a dozen children attended the ground breaking ceremony, and Edwards announced that the Sprayground was expected to be completed and open to the public by August 2011. The best part? It will all be free!

Notice that there was never any guarantee of a opening date.

The word is now that it won't open until 2012.

Mayor Edwards explains, "The first part of the year we were met with delays due to the wet weather, then later in construction, we just ran into numerous other issues, that the manufacturer says is very common. I'm using the city workers for the construction for 2 reasons: 1 - to keep us from getting a loan for $100,000 for someone else to do it and 2 - now that we built it, we can maintain it and save even more money."

And of course California liberal Hallburn takes offense to this. "Spend the money faster", he screams. "Never mind the cost, just get it open!!! I WANT TO SWIM!!! I WANT TO SEE THE KIDS IN THEIR BATHING SUITS!!!" You can almost see him stomping his feet and drooling.

He's wrong. As usual.

PutnamLIES.com applauds Mayor Edwards for his actions. Using workers already on the payroll helps stretch the grant money and donations. This is just a smart move. If contractors were hired, prevailing wage laws would drive up the cost tremendously.

The grantors and donors should know that their money is being spent wisely. And in this case it is. We think they would approve.

It's irresponsible to spend funds willy-nilly just to meet some arbitrary deadline. The project will be done when it's done. And by taking time, it can be done correctly. Why rush the Sprayground just to open it for less than a month?

The children and their parents will be there next year. For the entire summer.

And you know what? There's not a kid in town that really gives a damn at this point in the year. Summer is over. School is back in.

Then he continues with his sexual and scatological innuendos, saying that Putnam government officials have both "screwed" and "dumped on" kids.

He then goes on to blame two more of his booger men, Joe Haynes and Steve Andes, neither of which had anything to do with this matter.

Then, he complains that Scott Edwards won't return his emails. Hasn't Hallburn called Edwards every name in the book since he was elected? He's lucky Edwards doesn't kick his flabby ass.

Halburn calls the Sprayground situation bad news. This motherfucker can't be positive about anything. This is a quarter million dollar project that people in the community will be able to use absolutely free.

If someone gave this guy a shit sandwich, he'd complain there wasn't enough shit on it.

Two references to screwing kids and one to shitting on them in the same blog post. A new low even for Mark Halburn and PutnumLive.com

Putnam County Pool Finally Re-Opens

Jump in! The water's great!!!

On an cool, overcast day, two weeks after Mark Hallburn promised it would happen, Putnam County's public pool finally re-opened.



And of course the first thing Halburn did is start whining about how few customers there were and how many employees were sitting around. We also love the way he writes about his photographer when everyone knows it's just him.

Parks and Recreation announced June 11th as the opening date but due to the shoddy construction used when the pool was originally built, it took a couple of weeks longer to complete the renovation.

The renovated pool, and kiddie pool look great, which is to be expected since, through the leadership of Putnam County Commissioners Stephen H. "Steve" Andes, Raymond "Joe" Haynes, and their Parks and Recreation Director Scott W. Williamson, crews had more than a year to repair the pool.

Built in the 1970s, the pool suffered from years of neglect and continued to deteriorate under the reign of former Parks and Recreation President Sally Holliday and Director Cordie Hudkins.

It was closed for the 2010 summer season due to lack of funds and safety concerns. The renovation cost Putnam County taxpayers more than $150,000.

After seeing the results, the time and expense was well worth it.
Once warm weather returns, more swimmers will take advantage of the beautiful facility.

Admission is $5 for adults

Hallburn, you can enter through the side gate.

For more information, please telephone 304-562-0518.

Hallburn Shows His Ass In Charlotte

Escorted From Hotel By Police

The scourge of Putnam County is now stinking up North Carolina.

Halburn's wife had a conference in Charlotte to attend this weekend for the pyramid scheme she's participating in and Li'l Markie thought he'd waddle along with her.



Which he did.
He's now the talk of the hotel industry there.
This weekend he's stayed in a total of 4
hotels. That's right, 4. Count 'em.
There were "pool incidents" in 2 of them.
In the latest incident this morning, Hallburn became very abusive, the police were called and he was escorted from the premises.
What makes this extra sweet?
Because more than likely he got tossed out in front of his kid.
Now junior's seen Daddy in action. The whole family must be bursting with pride.

We're sure he'll have some convoluted explanation. We invite him to tell his side of the story.

Stroked Out!

HEALTH NEWS

According to a PutnamLIES.com source, Halburn was admitted to the hospital Monday suffering from what an initial diagnosis termed a "mild stroke". More tests are scheduled Tuesday to determine if this is the case.

Unfortunately, he is expected to live.
Sources now say it's Bell's Palsy. Well, he's going to wish he stroked out and died because half of his face will be broken. Look out son, Mr. Scary Face is here!




Then he blames...
everyone but himself.
He blames the Sheriff for arresting him and not paying his damage claims, disregarding the fact that he has never actually filed suit to get them.
He blames Joe Haynes for closing the pool at the same time every other pool in the valley closed, for not being allowed to swim whenever the fuck he wants and thinks a 50 year old pool fell apart in 4 years.
You want to see who's at fault, drooly? Just look in the mirror.

It's YOU.

You weigh 370 lbs, have high blood pressure and are a diabetic. You're a high-risk ball of fat who's at risk for repeated strokes. You sit on your big ass all day pretending to be a newsman and Google your name. Your only physical activity is waddling over to the window, shaking your fist and mumbling "excessive noise".

You're a goddamn mobile home with an anger management problem.

Nobody force fed you all those ding dongs and KFC and smacked you in the head until you went crazy.

And it's some else's fault?

It's all just a classic example of being unwilling to take any responsibility for your own actions.

As for the trash bloggers?

"I am sure they are cheering my misfortune." Hallburn says.
You're goddam right we are.

For once in his life, Halburn is right about something.

Whatever the ailment, we wish nothing but the worst to Halburn. Suffer, you drooling prick.

And the wishes start pouring in:


"A Stroke of Luck!"

Hi Mark! It's your ol' pal, Lee!

Karma's a bitch, isn't it? I believe this is God's way of telling you you're a dick.
Where to begin? First of all, it's true. We trash bloggers are all celebrating the fact you're that much closer to being the main course in the biggest pig roast Hell has ever seen. Second, once again you're blaming someone else for you being a fat ass!
We trash bloggers know you all too well, you're milking this for another sympathy angle. We also know that you have a track record of being full of shit, however, a simple phone call to the hospital can confirm all of this.
I can't help but laugh, cackle, and snort at you pointing fingers at everybody else that you can't exercise. What you, and alot of people probably don't know is, is this link I found dated a couple years ago:
http://www.putnumlive.com/SAVINGMYLIFEAJourney.html
(ed note: Sorry Lee, we don't link to shithead's site, no matter how amusing the pictures may be. But readers can get the gist of the story and the pictures on Tyler Hollywood's page: http://tylerhollywood.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/the-transformation-of-mark-halburn/)

You were gonna "Beat the Beetis!", weren't you? That lasted, what...two weeks? You had pictures of yourself taken working out...YOU WERE A BEAST!!! That first Rocky montage and music were going through your head, you were gonna get sliced like some professional wrestler!! But......something happened, didn't it? The fact that you're a lazy fat fuck happened. That fact that you don't want to work for anything happened. You missed your buckets of KFC and Nutter Butters!!
Fast-forward a few years later, people are riding your enormous backside for your bullying, lies, harassment, and general douchebaggedry. You start sweating more than usual, you start stressing and getting angrier that people are catching you in your lies, and most of all, a hot piece of ass stationed in our nation's capital has bested you. Oh yeah, you try calling local authorities, you try rallying a bunch of heifers on your side with claims that a 50 year old man is being bullied, your riding the coattails of young people committing suicide because dicks at their schools are giving them shit for something, you're doing ANYTHING to protect yourself and your lies, and you keep getting more stressed and angry to the point where your blood pressure is rising to dangerous levels. All of a sudden, your face starts to droop and your arm goes numb...

Like all of your "news" stories, it has holes in it. You claim that quacks at the hospital said you may have had Bell's Palsy, what you didn't mention is that having diabetes, because you're too lazy to exercise and eat mountains of food, triggers Bell's Palsy. It's no one's fault but yours, Mark. Again, you want to blame others for your misfortunes. You were convicted in a court-of-law for trespassing. Whatever pool you want to swim in, you have to follow the rules, but then again, this has all been said before. You know the rules, your bitch tit nipples just got all irritated when they didn't bend to your paper demands.
Now look at ya, playing the sympathy card again because you're a miserable fat fuck. I'll let you in on a little secret, Mark. I have lost over 70lbs. How did I do it? The old fashioned way, exercising! Plus, my job, you know...something you DON'T have...requires me being on my feet 8 hours a day. Drinking nothing but water helps, and jogging/walking for 3 hours at a local park helps, too...plus pumping a little iron thrown in for good measure. I worked at it...and working at something is something that's foreign to you.
You're lying in a hospital bed, what I assume is a bariatric bed because you are stupid as you are wide, blaming others but yourself. You know what all this is called, Markie boy? Your shit catching up to you! But, I could type until my fingers bleed, it won't get through to you because you know everything! Everyone is out to get you! We trash bloggers could care less...we already have a "death pool" going on as to when you finally do keel over. So, keep walking the path you're on, fat boy! The devil and all his friends are licking their chops!


If any other readers have any wishes for Li'l Marky send them to: putnamlies.com@gmail.com and we'll make sure they're passed along.