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Federal Employee Disability Retirement: Witnessing the residue

Posted onOctober 17, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Most of us merely witness the residue; the process itself, the events leading up to the conclusion, and “during” as opposed to the “after”, and all of the miniscule details that make up “in between” are invisible, ignored, unimportant or simply not thought of. We see the “end product”, only, and that is how it should be. We don’t have time to watch the apple tree grow from a seedling; for sausages to be made; for politics to be compromised; and for other people’s problems to fester. […] Read More …

Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Content

Posted onSeptember 21, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

What do we mean when we distinguish between “content” as opposed to “context”? Are the two always distinguishable, and if so, are there any features or characteristics that make inseparability a potential difficulty? We have all heard the famous phrase from King’s speech about being judged by the “content” of one’s character, as opposed to the “color” of one’s skin – a deviation of sorts from the more customary reference to the distinction made between appearance and reality, […] Read More …

Medical Retirement from Civil Service: Envy without hope

Posted onMay 5, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Can a footman in former times, or a scullery maid while scrubbing the floors, experience envy when class structures forbade any hope of advancing beyond? In days before of rigid demarcations of social and class differentiations, where terms in modernity like “upward mobility” or “moving up the ladder” (have you ever wondered at the condescending connotation of such terms, where “up” is the direction of the movement, as if one were ascending to the heavens, even when such barometric activity often corresponded to moral degradation and sacrifice of one’s character?) were unheard of, […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: The dullness of creative lack

Posted onMay 4, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Have you ever observed the child who takes a stick and imagines himself/herself (we are trying to maintain the decorum of political correctness, here, by including all genders, because the implication otherwise in using a reflexive pronoun identifying a specific population apparently denotes that excluding the other half-or-so of the world’s inhabitants is discriminatory and an engagement of possible malfeasance, which we would not want to be charged with) emboldened by a weapon in hand and being the hero of an imaginary battle, […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement: How we treat one another

Posted onApril 20, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Separation, distance, objectification and electronic means of communication; the loss of human emotions in the very living of life, where the organic has become equivalent to the android, where the original concept encompassed an admixture of synthetic humanity and the combining of components both human and mechanized – and so the artificial construct that we feared in those novels of sci-fi nightmares has, in fact, been realized. […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: Of human frailty

Posted onMarch 31, 2017August 19, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Youth is the folly that disbelieves; middle age, of a progressive realization that the past does not lie, but teaches us of existent graveyards we may have passed unnoticed just yesterday, with question suddenly more prominent about mortality, the afterlife, and whether it is possible to cheat illness, […] Read More …

Federal Employee Disability Retirement Benefits: Fatal Regrets

Posted onMarch 28, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

There are those that allow for reflection, constructive application and corrective adjustments that remain as a positive goal to achieve. Then, there are such acts that become entrenched, atrophy with time, and perform activities of futile repetition unresolved and unattainable. Regrets are what we all carry about in the deep recesses of unstated and unresolved sub-consciousness; fatal regrets are those haunting clouds that follow without being seen, cling without capacity to decapitate, and progressively dominate because we are unable to let go. […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement for Federal Employees: Conspiracy of life

Posted onMarch 25, 2017AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Tabloids lead us to suspect it; odd coincidences force us to confront it; and the amassed aggregate of life experiences allow us to consider seriously the implications of it. Are there such deliberative interconnections that make seeming chance encounters more than the arbitrary clashes of random events, such that they are planned, coordinated and precipitated by human activity beyond mere statistical anomalies? If the creation of the natural world can be acceptably explained by evolutionary forces […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: False Positives

Posted onMarch 17, 2017February 15, 2022AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

We demand that a “retest” be done, to ensure that the result did not have the opposite effect. It is a linguistic conundrum that the affirmative means its negative; for, in medicine, a “positive” result is the worst of news, whereas in most every other context, it is a welcomed declarative. But because it is a result which is not embraced with delight, […] Read More …

FERS & CSRS Disability Retirement: The pleasantry of paper’s caress

Posted onJune 21, 2016AuthorFederal Disability Retirement AttorneyLeave a comment

Will the electronic tablet ever replace paper’s longstanding sovereignty? The invention, dissemination and widespread availability of paper was a notable mark in human progression — if only for what it allowed in establishing communication, transfusion of knowledge and conveyance of data. Like Gutenberg’s movable type printing press, the cotton gin, the Model T Ford and the computer chip of modernity, such inventions became, in retrospect, tumultuous benchmarks of human advancement. If advertising images reflect a hope of an industry, it is clear that paper’s replacement is a target of that sector. […] Read More …