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Tom Kunich
Apr 16, 2023, 11:21:24 AM4/16/23
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The cop who saved my life is back in town for local rides. Since he is out in the Livermore Valley the climbing while a lot of it will not be intense. And I am not in agreement with the safety of the Tuesday course which will be along what appears to be a freeway so drivers treat it as such. This means that there are long high speed turn-offs from this highway and there will be a very long string of riders. This DOES connect with a Freeway at its very base but the road for most of its distance in two lanes with freakishly fast traffic. At one point a bicycle has to pull out on the freeway in order to take the next exit which then goes through a narrow pass not wide enough for a bicycle and car to pass. It is blind and you can't see opposing traffic but that doesn't stop the cars which are traveling at freeway plus speeds from passing you in the other lane. Once you pass this narrow, the side of the road is often 30 or more feet wide. So the danger from that end it very short. It eventually narrows down to a bike lane and four lane traffic still maintaining that 65+ mph in a 55 mph zone which itself is far too fast on a road with many rollers and cars passing from the opposite direction at high speed in the wrong lane.
Until the car ceases to be king, deaths from automobile will be completely acceptable.
Until the car ceases to be king, deaths from automobile will be completely acceptable.
Jeff Liebermann
Apr 16, 2023, 7:28:58 PM4/16/23
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permanently disabled. Presumably, that means that you are both
collecting permanent disability (PD) from the state. How is it that
you are both now doing long and (judging by your description)
dangerous rides while collecting PD benefits ($203.44 to $1,356.31 per
week) from the state?
01/06/2023
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
"I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
back from the last step from death."
I suspect that your policeman friend does not exist, mostly because of
your past interactions with the police:
<http://sanleandrotalk.voxpublica.org/2013/07/20/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-slpd-handcuffs-good-samaritan-ransacks-his-home-over-100-year-old-gun/>
I also find it odd that I couldn't find any mention of the policeman's
heroic actions on your behalf in various east bay media archives.
However, if I'm wrong, permit me to congratulate you both on amazing
and miraculous simultaneous recoveries from your disabilities.
--
Jeff Liebermann je...@cruzio.com
PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558
Tom Kunich
Apr 17, 2023, 10:57:52 AM4/17/23
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On Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 8:21:24 AM UTC-7, Tom Kunich wrote:
> The cop who saved my life is back in town for local rides. Since he is out in the Livermore Valley the climbing while a lot of it will not be intense. And I am not in agreement with the safety of the Tuesday course which will be along what appears to be a freeway so drivers treat it as such. This means that there are long high speed turn-offs from this highway and there will be a very long string of riders. This DOES connect with a Freeway at its very base but the road for most of its distance in two lanes with freakishly fast traffic. At one point a bicycle has to pull out on the freeway in order to take the next exit which then goes through a narrow pass not wide enough for a bicycle and car to pass. It is blind and you can't see opposing traffic but that doesn't stop the cars which are traveling at freeway plus speeds from passing you in the other lane. Once you pass this narrow, the side of the road is often 30 or more feet wide. So the danger from that end it very short. It eventually narrows down to a bike lane and four lane traffic still maintaining that 65+ mph in a 55 mph zone which itself is far too fast on a road with many rollers and cars passing from the opposite direction at high speed in the wrong lane.
>
> Until the car ceases to be king, deaths from automobile will be completely acceptable.
In my email is a note saying that Liebermann thinks that to be permanently disabled you have to draw disability. Now that is excessively stupid even for Liebermann. Why do you suppose he is always citing one thing or another but never even considered looking up the the social security disability laws? I guess he loves showing just how stupid he is.
> The cop who saved my life is back in town for local rides. Since he is out in the Livermore Valley the climbing while a lot of it will not be intense. And I am not in agreement with the safety of the Tuesday course which will be along what appears to be a freeway so drivers treat it as such. This means that there are long high speed turn-offs from this highway and there will be a very long string of riders. This DOES connect with a Freeway at its very base but the road for most of its distance in two lanes with freakishly fast traffic. At one point a bicycle has to pull out on the freeway in order to take the next exit which then goes through a narrow pass not wide enough for a bicycle and car to pass. It is blind and you can't see opposing traffic but that doesn't stop the cars which are traveling at freeway plus speeds from passing you in the other lane. Once you pass this narrow, the side of the road is often 30 or more feet wide. So the danger from that end it very short. It eventually narrows down to a bike lane and four lane traffic still maintaining that 65+ mph in a 55 mph zone which itself is far too fast on a road with many rollers and cars passing from the opposite direction at high speed in the wrong lane.
>
> Until the car ceases to be king, deaths from automobile will be completely acceptable.
Frank Krygowski
Apr 17, 2023, 11:59:29 AM4/17/23
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On Monday, April 17, 2023 at 10:57:52 AM UTC-4, Tom Kunich wrote:
>
> In my email is a note saying that Liebermann thinks ...
No, Tom, there's no such note in your email unless you wrote it yourself. Why would anybody be sending you email reports
on what's been publicly posted? If you didn't want to read the public post, why would you read the email telling you about
the public post?
That recurring fantasy of yours is one of your weirdest. It makes absolutely no sense.
- Frank Krygowski
>
> In my email is a note saying that Liebermann thinks ...
No, Tom, there's no such note in your email unless you wrote it yourself. Why would anybody be sending you email reports
on what's been publicly posted? If you didn't want to read the public post, why would you read the email telling you about
the public post?
That recurring fantasy of yours is one of your weirdest. It makes absolutely no sense.
- Frank Krygowski
Roger Meriman
Apr 17, 2023, 12:38:33 PM4/17/23
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to read killed files even so!
But he’s correct that folks that get disability Benefits are not the same
as just being disabled, you can be quite significantly disabled but not
qualify.
After all it’s 20/25% of working populations who will have some disability
of some sort.
Roger Merriman
NFN Smith
Apr 17, 2023, 1:57:19 PM4/17/23
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Tom Kunich wrote:
> This means that there are long high speed turn-offs from this highway
> and there will be a very long string of riders. This DOES connect
> with a Freeway at its very base but the road for most of its distance
> in two lanes with freakishly fast traffic. At one point a bicycle has
> to pull out on the freeway in order to take the next exit which then
> goes through a narrow pass not wide enough for a bicycle and car to
> pass. It is blind and you can't see opposing traffic but that doesn't
> stop the cars which are traveling at freeway plus speeds from passing
> you in the other lane. Once you pass this narrow, the side of the
> road is often 30 or more feet wide. So the danger from that end it
> very short. It eventually narrows down to a bike lane and four lane
> traffic still maintaining that 65+ mph in a 55 mph zone which itself
> is far too fast on a road with many rollers and cars passing from the
> opposite direction at high speed in the wrong lane.
Is this the westbound 580?
> This means that there are long high speed turn-offs from this highway
> and there will be a very long string of riders. This DOES connect
> with a Freeway at its very base but the road for most of its distance
> in two lanes with freakishly fast traffic. At one point a bicycle has
> to pull out on the freeway in order to take the next exit which then
> goes through a narrow pass not wide enough for a bicycle and car to
> pass. It is blind and you can't see opposing traffic but that doesn't
> stop the cars which are traveling at freeway plus speeds from passing
> you in the other lane. Once you pass this narrow, the side of the
> road is often 30 or more feet wide. So the danger from that end it
> very short. It eventually narrows down to a bike lane and four lane
> traffic still maintaining that 65+ mph in a 55 mph zone which itself
> is far too fast on a road with many rollers and cars passing from the
> opposite direction at high speed in the wrong lane.
Many years ago, I rode through that area, and that's one of the several
places I know that I have (briefly) ridden a freeway, to get around a
point where there's no other bicycle access. I don't remember how the
offramp was configured?
Or am I thinking about a different location than you're describing?
Smith
Tom Kunich
Apr 17, 2023, 1:58:55 PM4/17/23
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As for kill files - why has no one questioned Ridesalot claim that he has killfiled me?
Krygowski has the sick idea that his postings are so interesting that no one would DARE to use a program to block them from sight.
Why it is so difficult to write a simple program in C to filter out any posting with the Stupid 5's names on it that no one could possibly do it right?
You are aware that a newsreader downloads all of the messages to a reader aren't you? I would give you a copy but I prefer to have people like Krygowski who claimed to have taught mechanical engineering (despite his college refusing to back that story up) believe himself so important that his posting are gold. And I don't know the side effects on Windows machines other than mine. And I wrote it in 2008 and don't remember its contents. It is on my laptop which is in the closet somewhere so I only have the working version on my desktop. And I only have to add or subtract names in the kill file. I took Slocomb's name out for awhile only to discover that he was as stupid as I remembered and I put him back in.
Tell me Rodger - would you like to be a target to the Stupid 5 like I or Andre are? This is why I get emails containing comments about these contemptable assholes instead of them posting anything and making themselves targets for that group of freaks whose lives are filled with hatred against anything I or Andre say. I am often tempted to drive across the hill and kick Liebermann's teeth in when I get the contents of some of his postings. Lord only knows what I would do if I had to actually read the majority of what he posts. Flunky and Krygowski, the same. Neither one of those lying cowards spent any time in the military. Slocomb claims to have retired from the Air Force as a Master Sargent. A lifer would normally retire as a senior or Chief Master Sargant so that is pretty indicative of what the Air Force thought of him. He also claims to have been in SAC and then transferred to TAC. SAC doesn't turn loose of good men. That puts his career in question. Drinking problems? Perhaps. He has made comments about my time in the Air Force that bring into question his claim to being a Crew Chief. Perhaps he was and simply doesn't remember anything. His speaking does sound like dementia. A pistol marksman that NEVER heard of "draw and fire" test which is part of qualification of every cop in the USA? A crew chief that doesn't know that anyone on launch for the bombing system might be called to go with the flights and repair the bomb/nav system in flight? No crew chief could possibly not know that. And since I worked the night shift I was on every morning launch as my partner went home to his wife.
Tom Kunich
Apr 17, 2023, 3:43:31 PM4/17/23
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Tomorrow we're doing the "reverse Collier Canyon" ride which starts at the Marriott at the base of Dublin Grade, heads out Hopyard Rd, veers onto Vineyard and then takes a left 84 which crosses 580 and turns into Collier Canyon. North on Highland Rd. it then hits Tasajara. Then I will have to follow the group since I don't know which of the multiple routes back from there.
Jeff Liebermann
Apr 17, 2023, 4:10:27 PM4/17/23
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:58:54 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>You are aware that a newsreader downloads all of the
>messages to a reader aren't you?
Wrong. I'm using Forte Agent to read news. I download the headers
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>You are aware that a newsreader downloads all of the
>messages to a reader aren't you?
for every message, but not the message bodies, which would be a waste
of bandwidth and diskspace. I only download the messages when I want
to read them. It's called an "offline news reader".
<https://duckduckgo.com/?va=h&t=hp&q=offline+news+reader>
You're using Google Groups to read Usenet news. From your message
header:
Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com;
posting-host=162.251.5.205;
posting-account=ai195goAAAAWOHLnJWPRm0qjf_39qMws
That means you're using a web browser to read news. There is no such
thing as a plugin or extension to your web browser that provides kill
file functionality. You would need a news reader program, such as
Forte Agent, to be using a kill file. However, that's not going to
happen as long as you use Google as your news provider because Google
does not provide public NNTP access to their servers.
Jeff Liebermann
Apr 17, 2023, 6:57:43 PM4/17/23
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>I am often tempted to drive across the hill and kick Liebermann's
>teeth in when I get the contents of some of his postings
That's odd. How is it that some unknown person feeds you the contents
>teeth in when I get the contents of some of his postings
of my messages almost immediately after I post a message? You must
have a very loyal confederate, who monitors RBT continuously, reading
everything, and immediately forwarding everything from 6 of your fans.
After reading all my postings for so long, I'm surprised your loyal
confederate doesn't protest and revolt. How much are you paying them
for this service?
Hint: If you want me to stop error checking your amazing facts, all
you need to do is start telling the truth.
Jeff Liebermann
Apr 17, 2023, 7:33:44 PM4/17/23
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 07:57:50 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>In my email is a note saying that Liebermann thinks that to be permanently disabled you have to draw disability.
Good point. It's rather difficult determining when you suffered your
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>In my email is a note saying that Liebermann thinks that to be permanently disabled you have to draw disability.
concussion and became permanently disabled. This is what I've found
so far. The various dates of the accident are in parenthesis:
I really like this one where you pretend to have ridden with Tom
Kunich:
"Danger From Carbon Fiber Bikes"
<https://www.twospoke.com/threads/danger-from-carbon-fiber-bikes.17594/>
"On the way back to Castro Valley, my friend Tom Kunich (who was also
riding a full carbon fiber Colnago C-40) crashed on the downhill."
(July 10, 2016).
<https://www.cyclingforums.com/threads/danger-from-carbon-fiber-bikes.453355/>
(July 10, 2016)
<https://www.bikeforums.net/general-cycling-discussion/1073471-danger-carbon-fiber-bikes.html>
(July 10, 2016)
<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:6912346811772932096/>
"I got a severe concussion in 2010 that led to a type of seizures that
I didn't remember afterwards. This wasn't discovered and treated
properly until 2012 after 4 car wrecks luckily without any injuries."
<https://medium.com/@cyclintom/on-dec-18-2009-i-was-riding-my-bicycle-with-a-group-and-we-were-coming-off-of-a-bicycle-trail-9f9d582a9b42>
(Dec 18, 2009).
So far, I see 2009, 2010 and 2016 for the date of the accident. There
are probably more dates but these will suffice for now.
Looking at your online resume at:
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/tom-kunich-22012/>
you were working at BioElectroMed up to Dec 2009. There was then a 4
1/4 year gap, before you started at Forward Innovations in Mar 2014.
That fits nicely if the accident occurred in 2010, but doesn't explain
why your claimed you had similar sounding accidents in 2009 and 2016.
Four years should have been sufficient to get on permanent disability.
However, you would have lost your permanent disability payments when
you started working again in Mar 2014. Incidentally, permanent
disability implies that you are unable to ever work again, which was
obviously not the case if you worked at Forward Innovations.
I'm not sure how you could fix this. Claiming that the 2009 and 2016
accidents were a typo error, that you are not permanently disabled,
and that you never collected permanent disability from the state.
Jeff Liebermann
Apr 17, 2023, 9:50:47 PM4/17/23
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:58:54 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>anyone on launch for the bombing system might be called to
>go with the flights and repair the bomb/nav system in flight?
According to:
<cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>anyone on launch for the bombing system might be called to
>go with the flights and repair the bomb/nav system in flight?
<https://sites.google.com/site/leesaircraft/b-52-stratofortre>
there are 6 seats in a B-52 for a crew of 6. In other words, no spare
seats.
<https://sites.google.com/site/leesaircraft/b-52-stratofortre>
"Prior to the B-52G, B-52s and their normal crew of 6 only had 5
ejection seats, none for the gunner".
In other words the early B-52's were short one ejection seat.
Where did you sit?
John B.
Apr 18, 2023, 2:10:20 AM4/18/23
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:50:33 -0700, Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com>
wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:58:54 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
><cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>anyone on launch for the bombing system might be called to
>>go with the flights and repair the bomb/nav system in flight?
>
>According to:
><https://sites.google.com/site/leesaircraft/b-52-stratofortre>
>there are 6 seats in a B-52 for a crew of 6. In other words, no spare
>seats.
Well there is another seat, sort of...Called the Shit Can"or "Shit
Tank". But, of course, no ejection seat :-)
Re 6 seats, in the earlier B-52's the tail gunner sat in a little
"compartment" way back in the tail end of the airplane. The bailout
procedure was to let the side of the "compartment" fall off and just
tumble out. No ejection required.
Re sending a maintenance guy to fix the whatcahamacallit in flight....
Well it sounds pretty logical until you've been around airplanes for a
little bit. I was directly associated with aircraft for the first 10
years I was in the Air Force and in that 10 years I never, repeat
NEVER, saw a plane take off with a known discrepancy of any system
that was required for a safe flight or to complete the mission
requirements.
The thought that an aircraft would take off on a combat mission with
some unit that didn't work and assign an apprentice level airman to go
and hope he could fix it before you get to where they will be shooting
at you is ludicrous.
>
><https://sites.google.com/site/leesaircraft/b-52-stratofortre>
>"Prior to the B-52G, B-52s and their normal crew of 6 only had 5
>ejection seats, none for the gunner".
>In other words the early B-52's were short one ejection seat.
>
>Where did you sit?
--
Cheers,
John B.
wrote:
>On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:58:54 -0700 (PDT), Tom Kunich
><cycl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>anyone on launch for the bombing system might be called to
>>go with the flights and repair the bomb/nav system in flight?
>
>According to:
><https://sites.google.com/site/leesaircraft/b-52-stratofortre>
>there are 6 seats in a B-52 for a crew of 6. In other words, no spare
>seats.
Tank". But, of course, no ejection seat :-)
Re 6 seats, in the earlier B-52's the tail gunner sat in a little
"compartment" way back in the tail end of the airplane. The bailout
procedure was to let the side of the "compartment" fall off and just
tumble out. No ejection required.
Re sending a maintenance guy to fix the whatcahamacallit in flight....
Well it sounds pretty logical until you've been around airplanes for a
little bit. I was directly associated with aircraft for the first 10
years I was in the Air Force and in that 10 years I never, repeat
NEVER, saw a plane take off with a known discrepancy of any system
that was required for a safe flight or to complete the mission
requirements.
The thought that an aircraft would take off on a combat mission with
some unit that didn't work and assign an apprentice level airman to go
and hope he could fix it before you get to where they will be shooting
at you is ludicrous.
>
><https://sites.google.com/site/leesaircraft/b-52-stratofortre>
>"Prior to the B-52G, B-52s and their normal crew of 6 only had 5
>ejection seats, none for the gunner".
>In other words the early B-52's were short one ejection seat.
>
>Where did you sit?
--
John B.
William Crowell
Apr 18, 2023, 10:29:09 AM4/18/23
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Jeff Liebermann
Apr 18, 2023, 4:09:52 PM4/18/23
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
<retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance policy prior to his accident.
Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
<retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance policy prior to his accident.
brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
"How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
<https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
"Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
still receive a lifetime pension."
Notice that Tom would need to prove that his disability was the result
of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
<https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
illionaire:
03/05/2023
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
"... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
worth?"
Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
benefits.
01/06/2023
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
"I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
back from the last step from death."
Roger Meriman
Apr 18, 2023, 4:49:56 PM4/18/23
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Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
> <retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it
>> would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have
>> terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have
>> to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or
>> Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It
>> is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance
>> policy prior to his accident.
>
> Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
> brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
> "How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
> <https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
> "Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
> able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
> your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
> life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
> still receive a lifetime pension."
Almost certainly Tom would be considered disabled, there is no official
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
> <retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it
>> would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have
>> terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have
>> to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or
>> Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It
>> is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance
>> policy prior to his accident.
>
> Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
> brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
> "How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
> <https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
> "Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
> able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
> your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
> life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
> still receive a lifetime pension."
disability as such.
Or to put it another way qualifying for Disability benefits or not is
separate from if one is disabled or not.
>
> Notice that Tom would need to prove that his disability was the result
> of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
> resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
> ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
> be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
> requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
> <https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
>
> Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
> illionaire:
>
> 03/05/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
> "... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
> worth?"
>
> Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
> disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
> benefits.
>
> 01/06/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
> back from the last step from death."
>
>
Roger Merriman
> Notice that Tom would need to prove that his disability was the result
> of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
> resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
> ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
> be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
> requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
> <https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
>
> Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
> illionaire:
>
> 03/05/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
> "... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
> worth?"
>
> Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
> disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
> benefits.
>
> 01/06/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
> back from the last step from death."
>
>
Tom Kunich
Apr 18, 2023, 5:16:12 PM4/18/23
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It isn't at all clear to me if Liebermann is lying or just too stupid to understand English. I had a serious concussion in 2009. My NCIS friend had the head tube on his C40 fall off in 2016. The results of this ended with his finger being amputated. But Liebermann will I'm sure continue to lie about it because that is what he is.
I was worth about $2 million before I was divorced and then Obama's Great Recession. Liebermann, Flunky and Krygowski deny that Obama had anything to do with that but Biden is using the same policies with the same effects. Funny how stupid loves stupid.
Roger Meriman
Apr 18, 2023, 5:37:45 PM4/18/23
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Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
> <retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it
>> would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have
>> terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have
>> to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or
>> Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It
>> is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance
>> policy prior to his accident.
>
> Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
> brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
> "How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
> <https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
> "Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
> able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
> your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
> life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
> still receive a lifetime pension."
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
> <retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it
>> would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have
>> terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have
>> to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or
>> Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It
>> is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance
>> policy prior to his accident.
>
> Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
> brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
> "How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
> <https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
> "Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
> able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
> your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
> life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
> still receive a lifetime pension."
Almost certainly Tom would be considered disabled, there is no official
disability as such.
Or to put it another way qualifying for Disability benefits or not is
separate from if one is disabled or not.
>
disability as such.
Or to put it another way qualifying for Disability benefits or not is
separate from if one is disabled or not.
>
> Notice that Tom would need to prove that his disability was the result
> of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
> resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
> ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
> be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
> requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
> <https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
>
> Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
> illionaire:
>
> 03/05/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
> "... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
> worth?"
>
> Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
> disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
> benefits.
>
> 01/06/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
> back from the last step from death."
>
>
Roger Merriman
> of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
> resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
> ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
> be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
> requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
> <https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
>
> Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
> illionaire:
>
> 03/05/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
> "... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
> worth?"
>
> Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
> disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
> benefits.
>
> 01/06/2023
> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
> back from the last step from death."
>
>
Tom Kunich
Apr 18, 2023, 6:17:14 PM4/18/23
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Krygowski and Flunky are so insulted by my success that they can only deny it and claim that my resume on LinkedIn is phony despite the fact that I couldn't be hired unless employers checked my references. At one point I was making $233,000 a year according to the pay stubs I found. I then moved on to another Cancer detection and treatment company that paid me around $180,000, not as a consultant, but a direct employee Then the President of the company died (from the cancer we were trying to save her from) and her father the inventor of the ultrasound technology sold the company off to another. I don't remember a thing about that company except a reference I found somewhere and gave the President a call worried that I had that concussion and stopped coming in to work and it caused the company to fail. But he told me what happened.
Remember that Frank was a teacher and not an engineer. If he could have held a job as an engineer he would not have taken a job as a teacher. Teachers do not make engineering breakthroughs and that is what really bugs him. Those who can, do. And those who can't, teach. Certainly teaching is important and necessary but pretending that standing in front of a class and repeating the same things over and over interspersed with communist propaganda is hardly the pinnacle of success.
Flunky claims to be an engineer yet he has never been able to solve the simplest engineering question. My guess is that he was the last graduate in his class and was hired because they needed a degreed engineer to sign things off. After his claims of great intelligence he couldn't even understand a VERY simple program I wrote for a leak detector for swimming pools. It was the transmission side of the device so the hardware itself only had to tell the user if it was working and if the battery needed charging.
I know that degrees are important, but they are not the only pathway to training. Besides 3 months of electronics essentials in the Air Force was like 3 years of college. As for programming I simply read a book. And I wrote in 5 different computer languages besides assembly code.
I designed devices with EVERY microprocessor made. I think that you can simply look at my resume on LinkedIn and see that I was pretty advanced. My complete resume was 23 pages long but that was lost when my computer crashed and I took it in to someone like Liebermann and he erased my entire disk and reloaded the wrong version of Windows on it. So nothing was recoverable. I found the reduced resume on-line in several places and put a 3 page resume together. I worked mostly as a consultant so that I could make that kind of money. And mostly on the cutting edge of medical instruments.
NFN Smith
Apr 18, 2023, 8:25:46 PM4/18/23
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Tom Kunich wrote:
> Is this the westbound 580?
>
> Many years ago, I rode through that area, and that's one of the several
> places I know that I have (briefly) ridden a freeway, to get around a
> point where there's no other bicycle access. I don't remember how the
> offramp was configured?
>
> Or am I thinking about a different location than you're describing?
>
> Smith
> From Sunol, you start onto Calaveras Rd and then you take the freeway
> entrance and stay to the right and then take the almost immediate
> right off of the freeway. It is best to plan it so that you can go
> through that narrow gap as fast as you can. Once past that the right
> side of the road may be 30 feet or more wide and the narrowest is
> more than a normal bike lane.. But it is almost all very wide. There
> is a hill that you have to go over which isn't steep or long but it
> is downhill all of the way to Vineyard and highway 84. Beyond that to
> 580 it looks like a freeway. There is a bike lane if memory serves (I
> will see again tomorrow) and the cars coming by is nerve-wracking
OK, that's not what I was thinking. I'm realizing that what I remember
> Is this the westbound 580?
>
> Many years ago, I rode through that area, and that's one of the several
> places I know that I have (briefly) ridden a freeway, to get around a
> point where there's no other bicycle access. I don't remember how the
> offramp was configured?
>
> Or am I thinking about a different location than you're describing?
>
> Smith
> From Sunol, you start onto Calaveras Rd and then you take the freeway
> entrance and stay to the right and then take the almost immediate
> right off of the freeway. It is best to plan it so that you can go
> through that narrow gap as fast as you can. Once past that the right
> side of the road may be 30 feet or more wide and the narrowest is
> more than a normal bike lane.. But it is almost all very wide. There
> is a hill that you have to go over which isn't steep or long but it
> is downhill all of the way to Vineyard and highway 84. Beyond that to
> 580 it looks like a freeway. There is a bike lane if memory serves (I
> will see again tomorrow) and the cars coming by is nerve-wracking
is Vasco Road. When I went through there, I passed through Livermore
and then I did do Calaveras Road into Sunol, but it's the opposite
direction. I don't remember the gap that you, but that was a lot of
years ago, and obviously, not paying enough attention that it still
registers in my mind.
Smith
Jeff Liebermann
Apr 18, 2023, 11:38:32 PM4/18/23
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 20:49:53 GMT, Roger Meriman <ro...@sarlet.com>
wrote:
>Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
>> <retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it
>>> would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have
>>> terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have
>>> to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or
>>> Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It
>>> is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance
>>> policy prior to his accident.
>>
>> Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
>> brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
>> "How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
>> <https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
>> "Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
>> able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
>> your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
>> life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
>> still receive a lifetime pension."
>
>Almost certainly Tom would be considered disabled, there is no official
>disability as such.
True. He could declare himself to be disabled and act the part
accordingly. Whether anyone would recognize him as disabled is rather
questionable. I don't know of any other permanently disabled person
doing such amazing and impressive bicycle rides.
We do recognize the term "legally disabled". For example:
"Are You Considered Legally Disabled by Social Security?"
<https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/disability/considered-legally-disabled-social-security.html>
"Tax Tips for the Legally Disabled"
<https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/disability/tax-tips-for-the-legally-disabled/L2YSQyIaq>
I haven't done much reading on the topic, but it seems that "legally
disabled" means that the SSA (social security administration) and IRS
(internal revenue service) recognize someone as qualifying to receive
tax credits, payments, and deductions:
"What Is Permanent and Total Disability?"
<https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040sr#en_US_2022_publink11357od0e172>
For the IRS, permanently disabled requires only a physicians statement
attesting that:
1. He or she can't engage in any substantial gainful activity because
of a physical or mental condition.
2. A physician determines that the disability has lasted or can be
expected to last continuously for at least a year or can lead to
death.
Since Tom worked in a "substantial gainful activity" at Forward
Innovations from Mar 2014 to Sept 2014 he's not qualified for SSI
disability benefits.
>Or to put it another way qualifying for Disability benefits or not is
>separate from if one is disabled or not.
Maybe. It would seem (to me) that he could declare himself to be
disabled, but I think he needs to demonstrate that at least he
qualifies for permanent disability benefits to be "permanently
disabled". I'll dig some more and see what I can find.
>> Notice that Tom would need to prove that his disability was the result
>> of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
>> resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
>> ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
>> be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
>> requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
>> <https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
>>
>> Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
>> illionaire:
>>
>> 03/05/2023
>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
>> "... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
>> worth?"
>>
>> Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
>> disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
>> benefits.
>>
>> 01/06/2023
>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
>> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
>> back from the last step from death."
>>
>>
>Roger Merriman
>
>
wrote:
>Jeff Liebermann <je...@cruzio.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 07:29:07 -0700 (PDT), William Crowell
>> <retrog...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Jeff, it seems to me that if Tom really were on disability benefits, it
>>> would probably be state disability benefits ("SDI"), but SDI would have
>>> terminated a year after the injury. Any continuing benefits would have
>>> to be Social Security Disability (if his S.S. benefits were vested) or
>>> Supplemental Security Income (if his S.S. benefits weren't vested). It
>>> is also possible that Tom had purchased a disability income insurance
>>> policy prior to his accident.
>>
>> Tom referred to being "permanently disabled". With TBI (traumatic
>> brain injury) he might qualify for SDI benefits:
>> "How To Apply for Permanent Disability Benefits in California?"
>> <https://sackettlaw.com/blog/how-to-apply-for-permanent-disability-benefits-in-california/>
>> "Permanent Total Disability: If you are 100% disabled and are also
>> able to prove that the disabilities in question were a consequence of
>> your work, you can receive weekly payments for your entire remaining
>> life. But if your disability rating ranges between 70% to 90%, you can
>> still receive a lifetime pension."
>
>Almost certainly Tom would be considered disabled, there is no official
>disability as such.
accordingly. Whether anyone would recognize him as disabled is rather
questionable. I don't know of any other permanently disabled person
doing such amazing and impressive bicycle rides.
We do recognize the term "legally disabled". For example:
"Are You Considered Legally Disabled by Social Security?"
<https://www.alllaw.com/articles/nolo/disability/considered-legally-disabled-social-security.html>
"Tax Tips for the Legally Disabled"
<https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/disability/tax-tips-for-the-legally-disabled/L2YSQyIaq>
I haven't done much reading on the topic, but it seems that "legally
disabled" means that the SSA (social security administration) and IRS
(internal revenue service) recognize someone as qualifying to receive
tax credits, payments, and deductions:
"What Is Permanent and Total Disability?"
<https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1040sr#en_US_2022_publink11357od0e172>
For the IRS, permanently disabled requires only a physicians statement
attesting that:
1. He or she can't engage in any substantial gainful activity because
of a physical or mental condition.
2. A physician determines that the disability has lasted or can be
expected to last continuously for at least a year or can lead to
death.
Since Tom worked in a "substantial gainful activity" at Forward
Innovations from Mar 2014 to Sept 2014 he's not qualified for SSI
disability benefits.
>Or to put it another way qualifying for Disability benefits or not is
>separate from if one is disabled or not.
disabled, but I think he needs to demonstrate that at least he
qualifies for permanent disability benefits to be "permanently
disabled". I'll dig some more and see what I can find.
>> Notice that Tom would need to prove that his disability was the result
>> of a work related injury or condition. I don't believe that injuries
>> resulting from having the CF fork collapse on recreational a bicycle
>> ride qualifies. Instead, I suspect that Tom has declared himself to
>> be permanently disabled, without applying for benefits or meeting the
>> requirements. With TBI, he might have qualified for federal SSDI:
>> <https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/disability/>
>>
>> Purchasing insurance is a possibility. After all, Tom claims to be a
>> illionaire:
>>
>> 03/05/2023
>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/JG80Gv6eFz4/m/I5iXXkCRAgAJ>
>> "... I am worth a million and 3/4 dollars. Exactly what are you
>> worth?"
>>
>> Having an TBI in 2010, and then returning to work in 2014, would
>> disqualify him from collecting state, federal or insurance disability
>> benefits.
>>
>> 01/06/2023
>> <https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/K-cG5lehtd0/m/X3FtbYbXAAAJ>
>> "I am permanently disabled and so is the cop who managed to get me
>> back from the last step from death."
>>
>>
>Roger Merriman
>
>
Roger Meriman
Apr 19, 2023, 2:06:35 AM4/19/23
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generally don’t as well I don’t find them interesting I have in the past, I
generally top out at 70miles on mixed ie gravel rides.
For myself on the bike the while not symptom free it’s not something that
requires much cognitive load which like most is the most disabling aspect
is fatigue which isn’t the quite same as being tired. In that you tire
cognitively quickly as your brain doesn’t work as well, and isn’t recovered
by sleep ie tiring day will knock one for six for few days, ie you need to
manage fatigue.
Which is the other judging folks on their good day, I do go for big days
out on the bike in-spite of only or because of only able to work two days a
week.
Ie I will have planned and managed fatigue for this, and some days it will
not happen.
Yes he’s been inconsistent and is Tom but on this at least I’ll take it a
face value for most part at least.
>
> We do recognize the term "legally disabled". For example:
Legal is just about disability benefits, nothing more.
> We do recognize the term "legally disabled". For example:
In terms of is someone are you disabled. It’s boils down to does X stop or
hinder you from doing normal stuff? So for me the main thing is I can’t
work or do stuff every day as I’ll simply run out of brain.
Frank Krygowski
Apr 19, 2023, 11:46:57 AM4/19/23
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On 4/18/2023 11:38 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>
> We do recognize the term "legally disabled". For example ...
Very vaguely related: I have a neighbor around the block whose eyesight
prevents driving but who can ride a bike to get around. And I've had
internet correspondence with, and once personally met, a man who is
legally blind but is a very competent and skilled utility cyclist.
The latter man went from waiting for buses and begging rides from
friends to a life of independence when he learned proper traffic
techniques, including using the full lane in accordance with the law.
He was repeatedly hassled by local police for doing that until he took
them to court, and the judge confirmed that his riding style was
perfectly legal. In particular, lane center is almost always free of
debris and spurious obstructions, unlike bike lanes.
--
- Frank Krygowski
>
> We do recognize the term "legally disabled". For example ...
Very vaguely related: I have a neighbor around the block whose eyesight
prevents driving but who can ride a bike to get around. And I've had
internet correspondence with, and once personally met, a man who is
legally blind but is a very competent and skilled utility cyclist.
The latter man went from waiting for buses and begging rides from
friends to a life of independence when he learned proper traffic
techniques, including using the full lane in accordance with the law.
He was repeatedly hassled by local police for doing that until he took
them to court, and the judge confirmed that his riding style was
perfectly legal. In particular, lane center is almost always free of
debris and spurious obstructions, unlike bike lanes.
--
- Frank Krygowski
Tom Kunich
Apr 19, 2023, 2:15:41 PM4/19/23
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