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Early Medical Retirement for Federal and Postal Employees: Like the Wind-Up Toys of Childhood Yore

Posted onJuly 29, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

They were innovative creations, precursors of the digital age and battery-powered contraptions. The disadvantage, of course, was in the limitations imposed by the length of the coils allowing for winding, releasing, then causing the movement; and so the appearance of independent animation lasted merely for the duration of the internal mechanisms and the capacity allowed by delimited space, time and mechanical release. […] Read More …

Federal & USPS Disability Retirement: The Advantage of Persistence

Posted onJune 17, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

If there are innate, underlying underpinnings of genetic inlays which provide for greater advantages in the evolutionary progression for those who consider survival of the fittest to be the teleological force behind man’s advancement, then the character trait of persistence must be one such data entry. It is certainly a personality pre-condition for the meanest, most hostile and unrelenting individuals and organizations across the spectrum. Like the wild dog with the unbreakable jawbone, persistence is that trait where relenting is not an option, and where right or wrong is not the standard which guides or otherwise influences the decision-making process of an individual who embraces a course of action. […] Read More …

Brady, Deflategate & OPM Federal Disability Retirement

Posted onMay 11, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

It is likely he knew, by evidentiary implication, as the report stated; whether, in the offseason, people pay any attention at all, is another matter altogether; and the dismissive refutations that attempt to justify the actions by minimizing the impact of the insignificant advantage gained by engaging in such conduct, misses the point. At a certain level of any professional endeavor, the proportional advantage gained by even the smallest of competitive edge, increases by an exponential factor. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement Attorney: Social Justice

Posted onApril 13, 2015February 5, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Concurrent litigation entanglements occur often enough; if one has the capacity and ability to compartmentalize life, such multi-adversarial offensives can be effectively coordinated. At the same time, however, it is important to recognize the folly of spreading oneself too thin; history confirms the defeats suffered at the principle of too much, too soon, as in Germany’s incursion on the Eastern Front while taking on North Africa and the entrance of the United States into a reluctant war. […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Those Moments of Enlightened Clarity

Posted onApril 4, 2014February 10, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

It occurs in momentary lapses of time, as if fate, the spirits and the ephemeral heavenly bodies are mocking us silently in childish teases of playful provocations. They are brief segments of clarity, when all of the cylinders of life appear well-oiled, when the metaphorical […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: Fear & Darkness

Posted onMarch 11, 2014AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The veil of darkness provides a contrast; for the predator, it allows for an advantage in stalking its prey; for the prey, the shimmering shadows reverberate of the unknown, but still, if one remains calm and quiet, an equality of disadvantage is allowed for, […] Read More …

Federal Employee Medical Retirement: The Linguistic World of Mirrors

Posted onNovember 4, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Mirrors are peculiar human inventions; they play to the vanity of men and women, while at the same time revealing the cosmetic warts and boils which remain unhidden and starkly open on display. But linguistic mirrors take away that disadvantage of visual perception; […] Read More …

USPS and Federal Civil Service Disability Retirement: Human Beings and Railroad Tracks

Posted onJuly 13, 2013January 14, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney3 Comments

The metaphor of trains and railroad tracks are numerous and infinite in their applicability and relevance: train wrecks; inability to stop; actions which proceed with a directional course towards a cliff; predetermined path of existence; and many others, some which invite […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Magnification of a Reputation

Posted onJune 12, 2013AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

The person whose reputation precedes him/her has the disadvantage of having one’s actions immediately placed into categories defined by the perspective of prior judgments. And so it is with Federal and Postal employees who begin to exhibit chronic medical conditions […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Preempting Anticipated Problems

Posted onMarch 6, 2013December 3, 2021AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

The obvious and self-evident problems of many can be characterized as failing to know what the questions are; for, if the question is unknown, how can one provide an answer? […] Read More …