Comments on: Minutiae?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 21:28:44 +0000

They join fraternities instead of the military and their minds implode. It’s the legacy admissions to university – it makes people assume they are literate and might know what they are doing.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:23:41 +0000

Hiya hipparchia! And thanks for the wishes & the link! :D :lol: It's amazing Bryan! The US Government sounds almost exactly like our Government! Whoda thought it?! *sigh*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 01:08:04 +0000

And people still claim there is massive fraud in the system. It is an insurance policy that is paid out of payroll deductions, The government has borrowed multiple billions from the Social Security trust fund, and they don’t want to pay the ‘loans’ back.

It takes an average of three attempts and a lawyer to to get the disability policy to pay out. The people receiving it need medical verification and a spotless application. You pay for it, but they don’t want to pay claims.

By: hipparchia

hipparchia — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 00:04:14 +0000

happy birthday, kryten! but aren’t you supposed to slow down after 60?

http://cheezburger.com/70599425/funny-cat-video-maru-in-slow-motion

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 23:16:01 +0000

My brother is legally blind — as in, blind as defined by the Social Security Disability legislation — and has been so for most of his adult life. Under the Social Security Disability legislation he doesn’t have to certify that he’s unable to work as long as he provides medical files proving that he’s blind (which he can do so, he has 30 years of medical files that add up to a 5 foot stack of paper about his blindness), he’s just plain old blind, disabled. He is applying for Social Security Disability shortly in order to qualify for Medicare, now that he’s doing contract jobs and no longer able to get health insurance through work. Even though he is blind as defined by the Social Security Act (i.e., by law), and doesn’t have to prove that he’s incapable of working because he’s legislatively disabled, and even though he has a 5 foot stack of paper proving that he’s blind, he *still* is ending up having to hire a lawyer to get his Social Security Disability processed correctly. And then they’re going to check on him every couple of years to make sure he’s still blind. Well, duh. Nobody’s figured out how to do eye transplants yet, of *course* he’s still blind!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 15:19:55 +0000

There is no consistency in any of the systems, The people writing the rules don’t know much if anything about the illnesses or injuries that cause the disabilities, and sometimes seem to decide things by a coin toss, rather than reason and knowledge. There are all kinds of resources that can explain various medical conditions in layman’s terms, but no one in the agencies seems to know or care.

The real problem is that all sanity requires hiring a lawyer, because disability agencies all all seem to ignore the opinions of medical professionals.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sun, 03 Sep 2017 11:46:34 +0000

Yeah. A friend I’ve mentioned here a few times over the years (A Linux guru who worked with Linus years ago), has Cerebral Palsy. Has no cure but they made him prove he still had it every 6 Mths. Finally w/ a lawyer, that was changed to every 2 years. Yet, the old crooked cow I lived with for awhile until about 6 years ago was diagnosed with Epilepsy 40 yrs ago. Been on disability ever since! Never checked once. And never another episode since diagnosed! She drove a School Bus, even though by law, anyone with Epilepsy has their license suspended. The equivalent of the DMV waived it on medical advice! Apparently, they don’t talk to CenterLink! But CL knew she drove a bus as she had to report the income. She was careful not to earn more than allowed to reduce her pension payments & got her tax back.

We win the insanity stakes! Beat that. *sigh*

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 22:40:54 +0000

You obviously are enjoying a happy birthday. At least you can still choose how you celebrate.

In the US it usually takes three attempts and a lawyer to get Social Security disability approved. Canada use to require annual evaluations, but then the amputees got together and complained that their missing bits weren’t growing back, so they changed it to every three years. I think the US also checks every three years.

Right after that video went public, the officer involved retired before he could be brought up on charges. He had more than enough time on the job, and the video made any defense nearly impossible.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 13:43:42 +0000

Got this in my eMail news dump: ‘We only kill black people,’ police officer tells driver at traffic stop So... An honest cop?

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Sat, 02 Sep 2017 10:30:29 +0000

LOL Probably true about the tar! May as well get some use out of the wastage. Plenty of chickens in the USA for feathers. ;) Was my big day today! Officially 60. I went out. Spent a few hours @ my fave cafe called Brewhouse. They are one of the best coffee roasters in Aus. I buy my beans there. They also make great lunches & pastries etc. Then I went to the library. Got home a few hours ago. Just made a late dinner. Kinda filled up on bad (but soooo yummy) things! Diabetes be damned today! Hmmph! It was raining & very grey. Why would I want to be outside, wet & cold! ;) Brewhouse was nice, warm & cosy! And great coffee & food. I'm a regular there. They even gave me a free coffee & small cake w/ a candle! Everyone clapped. Was good. Best day this year. Mom was 60 when she died. So it was a day of melancholy & memories. I feel pretty good, better than I expected in fact. :) And on the plus side... I no longer have to find ways to escape our slave-labor "Work for the Dole" scheme to get my pathetic *entitlement* nor have to look for work! (After 60, they no longer apply. Even though they are insane given I'm on the *Reduced Work Capacity* (8-12 hr/wk) stream after they took me off Disability pension (with still NO explanation - but I KNOW it was to save the bastards $ as I get about $170/wk less)! All Politicians should be locked up as soon as elected! Hmmph! Ahhhh... Sir Terry, you were so right about XXXX (The Last Continent)! I'm applying to get back on Disability soon (Another stupid rule is that I can only apply once every 2 years)! The last 2 were disqualified on a technicality! The last paperwork, filled out by the Head of Surgery, a full Professor, after my surgery 2 yrs ago, was disqualified because she missed a box that required a tick/cross. The paperwork (6 pages) is designed to be confusing. Some check boxes, the absence of a tick implies a cross, others have to be specific. Also, you have 14 days to correct any errors. But they have no requirement to tell you if there are any! After 30 days, that's it. See you in 2 years. Assholes!