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Disability Retirement for Federal Government Employees: Admitting defeat

Posted onDecember 27, 2017August 13, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney1 Comment

It is probably the single most difficult thing to do in life, and its inability reflects upon the abysmal state of education, both higher and lower. The manner in which education is perpetuated – where “right answers” receive accolades and admitting of defeat merely alters the pecking order of who is admired and who are relegated to the detritus of human society – merely reinforces the greater loss of empathy, the destruction of civility and the coarsening of society. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: In the “not working” world

Posted onDecember 11, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Excellence is rarely seen; the artisan is dead to the world; and we all struggle through knowing that trinkets from foreign countries symbolize the incompetence of the universe in which we must continue to exist. Something is not working. We all know it, feel it, worry about it and whisper in circles where such things are concealed and rarely revealed. […] Read More …

Medical Retirement under FERS or CSRS: This cold and impervious universe

Posted onApril 8, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Is there any doubt? Does the anthropological perspective favor, by fiat of discourse in fatalism, determinism and Darwinian survival instincts, a “positive” attitude of idealized love, charity, human compassion and empathetic piety? Are we born with such biological dreaminess, only to have it tested, subverted, undermined and callously tortured out of us the remaining days of our lives? When does reality sink in, that this societal artifice that permeates like the opiate-based perfume that subdues and subjugates, performs its miracle of infamy by disseminating soft and cuddly lies, while the wolves and other predators knew all along […] Read More …

OPM Medical Retirement: Time, Memories and Forgetting the Never-ending Cycle

Posted onOctober 9, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement Attorney2 Comments

It is well that human beings have short attention spans and memories, lest the magnification of residual retentive powers should lead one to act. Despite daily repetition of pain, frustration and humiliation or turmoil, we are ready to repeat the process, and let our memories fade into oblivion. Perhaps it is merely another one of the genetically-engineered traits for survivability within the evolutionary context of epochs of adaptation; or, a more proverbial mis-attribution to P.T. Barnum […] Read More …

Federal Disability Retirement: Blemish upon Historical Pride

Posted onOctober 5, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

People often get sidetracked upon irrelevant or peripheral issues of little to no consequence. In the greater order of things important, it is self pride which often inhibits, prevents or otherwise delays the advancement and progression of self-interest. One often hears people boast about never having missed “a day of work” in twenty years, or of the longest streak in some sports about games played, or consecutive appearances; or, that one has never taken a vacation. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The Adaptable Criterion

Posted onSeptember 28, 2015AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

If a criterion is advanced at the outset, one expects that the details of its applicability will result in a fair outcome so long as the requisite subsets are adhered to. The problem is one of generalizations, however, and the linguistic malleability of hermeneutic interpretation, and in the end, the honesty of the individual. There may have been a time when the sin nature of man was contained, and Pandora’s box was sealed, or at least somewhat secured; but once relativism creeped into the general populace, the game of restraint was lost forever. […] Read More …

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