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Who is Karmel Allison?
Among other things she is a PhD. graduate student at UC San Diego. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2006 with a B.A. in Linguistics. She is married and has Type 1 Diabetes. You can read more about her here.
I’m gonna go out on a wild limb and say she’s probably not a Republican. Her Twitter account makes only one semi-political reference and that was a dig at Sarah Palin. She sure doesn’t have many tweets for someone who has a blog and spends a lot of time online.
The real question is why was she standing directly behind and a little to the right of President Obama during his speech when she apparently started to faint? Just the right position where the cameras would show her, and just close enough that he could magically sense that something behind him was wrong and turn around just in time to grab her arm and apply His Healing Touch.
Co-inky-dink?
You tell me. I mean, it’s not like any women have fainted in Obama’s presence before or anything.
UPDATE:
She has health insurance, according to the White House, but is “researching” other lower-cost options in California that she can now buy even though she has a pre-existing condition, so she now is “finally feeling equal to others.”
UPDATE II:
Her husband is David Allison:
David Allison’s Overview
Current:Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder at Nulu
Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Minute7.com
President at Arcaio Inc.Past: Chief Technology Officer at BrightScope
Technical Director at Hat Trick Media
Developer at FrameNet – International Computer Science Institute @ University of California, BerkeleyEducation: University of California, Berkeley
But wait! There’s more!
8875 Costa Verde Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92122 – map
Phone: (858) 353-8390[…]
Categorized under Computers, Peripherals, and Software, our records show it was established in and incorporated in California, current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $200,000 and employs a staff of approximately 2.
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Here’s another question: Why was she there in the first place?
Which one is she?
It would be nice if a real journalist would look into these things. I am Just a Blogger®.
Unless the CA system is completely different she should’ve been able to qualify for health insurance via through UC San Diego. Most universities offer their students a health insurance policy with no pre-existing conditions. Now it could be she’s stayed in school to maintain insurance or that she specifically went back to school and planned her pregnancy that way……….or she could be a good samaritan planning on helping her fellow citizens learn about Obamacare
You obviously don’t understand the issue. She didn’t switch to the student plan because she had no reassurance that she would be able to switch back because of the pre-existing condition bar.. Should she have to remain a student and pay for overpriced colleges putting herself further in debt just to be covered ?? Please..
Where did she say that? Do you know her personally?
Why not? That’s what we all have to do to work.
I clearly understand the issues she has with diabetes and pre-existing conditions, my daughter’s best friend was in the exact same boat.
The question posed in the original post was whether she was someone that got coverage or someone that was helping others learn about ACA. I postured since she’s a grad student she most likely had coverage, that was my point.
BTW I know people in the construction field or that are self-employed that routinely take a couple of classes a year precisely so they can have student insurance. They do it because the student policies are cheap, even if you factor in the cost of the classes. Now that’s in Florida and as I said I don’t know enough about the CA system to know if it’s similar, my guess is that it is similar.
I was also wondering how she was identified and brought from SD to DC – who contacted who and who paid for her trip?
BTW – I had an aunt who went blind and then died from Type 1 Diabetes. I have Type 2. One of my friends growing up had Type 1.
If she maintains that coverage, she can, by federal law. She can do it in the same way that people who have exhausted their COBRA can move to the individual market even if they have pre-existing conditions. It’s part of the PORTABILITY part of HIPAA
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq_consumer_hipaa.html
Maybe she’s just stupid and didn’t figure that out? But she has a PhD in Science, so I dunno.
The link is to a blogpost she wrote about how awesome Obamacare is for her.
Wonder if she realizes that these plans ARE HMO’s.
And she claims childhood diabetes with diagnosis at age nine so is she on parents since childhood? Is she about to drop off at 26?
The WHD commenters are digging into Mrs. Fainty too….one also believes it was staged…..interesting stuff about her husband too.
http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/10/21/feinting-woman-receives-direct-obamacare/
Thanks, I updated my post.
I think it looks fishy the way she is looking at him. Explaining her pregnancy and how close she is to the President
Everything with this farcical caricature of president is staged…..I can no longer watch or listen to him at all….As Bill Shakespeare once said, sonnetly….
“As an unperfect actor on the stage
Who with his fear is put besides his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart.”
Thankfully they usually warn us so we can change channels 🙂
LOL, does she know that the insurance part hasn’t kicked in yet? LOL, what a moron that woman is.
I live in a town on the projected route in the San Joaquin Valley. It sucks. How close will the nearest stop be?
If I need to drive to LA or SF I leave my house and go directly to my destination. If I were to ride the train I would have to go from my house to the nearest train station, ride the train to my destination city, then find transportation to my actual destination.
When you consider all the extra steps and expenses it would be quicker and easier to drive or fly. Driving would probably be a lot cheaper too, especially if I was traveling with family, friends or co-workers.
This is a huge Brown-doggle.
http://hotair.com/archives/2013/10/21/heart-ache-locals-not-thrilled-with-start-of-68-billion-california-high-speed-rail-construction/comment-page-1/#comment-7420201
The trains will be more efficient when transporting dissidents to the camps.
And that may be the legacy of Barack Obama. He made sure Democrats will be showered in graft for decades to come when people get totally sick of the party. How else would he inspire such loyalty from people who will probably lose their jobs?
According to the CHSR website the train from Fresno to Merced will not be operational until 2022, and even then will GO NO FURTHER until Phase 2 of construction is authorized – which looks to be sometime after 2029. Good luck with your travel plans, Klown. They won’t have the Pacheco Pass route between San Jose and “Merced” open until 2026, but it will actually come out at Fairmead, but that’s not important.
Down in the Palmdale to Los Angeles section they actually expect to have high speed rail from LA to Vegas via Metrolink within 3 years. Nevada having more pull than Merced, I can understand that, but not holding my breath.
Link?
If they are going through Pacheco Pass then they are running that line through Silicon Valley and up the Peninsula! Not only is that some of the most expensive real estate on the planet it’s NIMBY tree-hugger country. I figured they would follow the Amtrak line to Manteca and then follow 580 all the way across the Bay Bridge into SF.
FYI – There is no existing rail line from Bakersfield to LA. That will be expensive too. The cheap and easy part of the construction will be upgrading the old lines. Wait until they start using eminent domain to build new lines.
The lawsuits will last decades.
When they build along the LA and Bay Area freeways it will cause epic traffic nightmares.
A Woman… Pregnant… Type 1 Diabetic… At the White House… during a speech about… Health Care…..
CONSPIRACY THEORISTS!!!!! START YOUR ENGINES!!!!!
Wait ….. she is possibly a …. minority………………?
Nom nom nom nom munch munch munch …. oh this is good!!!!….. nom nom nom…. Eat it all up …. there you go….. Nom nom nom ……..
Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’, keep the hate a-flowin’, Kool-aid!
Is she really a minority? *goes to look* Ok, guess she is. Funny, I hadn’t even looked at the clip or pics until you mentioned it, just read the reports.
But then, I’m not obsessed with race, and extra-protective of the “lesser peoples” like you are, you patronizing bigot.
LMAO!
What minority? White women in PhD programs? People named after chewy candies?
Yep, like the sexist bigot you are, your main focus is on (1) woman and (2) minority. Never mind that there is NO FUCKING REASON FOR A PROF AT UC-SAN DIEGO WHO HAS INSURANCE TO BE THERE. Your little mind just skips right over the *important* stuff & jumps right to the bullshit/trivial. No wonder you support Obama — important stuff is irrelevant to you.
What minority? She’s whiter than George Zimmerman!
Evidently non-Nordic is all it takes for a prog to be a minority now. BUT, Dr. Ben Carson or Herman Cain are not black.
It’s her hairdo.
watching this video, she had an obamagasm that like many of us,Obama gave her the ride of her life. She had an orgasm up there. They may even be having an affair how close proximity they were to each other…I want full disclosure if he is fucking everything in a skirt
Keep it in your pants, sport.
whm3, you’ve outdone yourself. Fucktard.
Don’t you know it was “Julia”?
I’m in spam because of a naughty word… I’ll try again:
(Ahem) whm3, you’ve out done yourself, you fracktard.
Don’t you know she is “Julia”?
Woman fainting in Obama speech?
Mission Accomplished
I think he better start hiring some males to faint – he’s really stereotyping women, getting those old vapors and all. Maybe that’s why they hired a pregnant one this time, to make it look more believable, because people have caught on to him and his hiring fainters.
I assume they stretch it over their head.
😆 lol:
Swear to God, there used to be fiscally sane Democrats aplenty. I knew lots. Hell, I was one.
Now? They’ve dropped even any pretense of caring about it. SPEND SPEND SPEND!
Debt is imaginary. Remember when the Soviet Union couldn’t pay it’s debt, it just said, come try and collect…They just didn’t pay the freight. Then they dumped all the shiftless ones in other countries like the U.S. criminals. So did Castro. Maybe we could dump our criminals of on
other countries and lighten our load…
I tried telling the bank that. They still repo’ed my car.
Welcome Insurrectionists!
Obamacare will cover your insurrection surgery, so don’t worry.
LOLOLOL!!
This was the original tweet from this politician:
Is that a Freudian sit?
Heh!
No, that was the DM that got sent as a public tweet. #BankOnIt
You mean she Weinered.
Because I couldn’t exactly call her “Skippy”.
Carrier pigeons with tiny paper applications should be tried next.
Along with mental telepathy and smoke signals.
My nosy next-door-neighbor (the Block Warden) was out in front cleaning her house and windows. She spends a lot of time every day on property maintenance – everything is always trimmed and spotless. (It also allows her to keep an eye on everybody else on the cul-de-sac.)
She mentioned my place with a snide/polite question: “When will you clean your house?” (She’s supposedly from Denmark but she sounds just like my German step-mom in Oklahoma – “Ven vill you kleen your house?”)
I told her I wanted it to look like a haunted house for Halloween.
Burglars never even give my house a second glance.
My husband keeps talking about a “disguised” house. He says we’ll build a shack, or move in a small trailer, then build the actual house underground, really nice. So you go in, and go down hidden stairs to get to the actual dwelling, but leave the shack all trashy and shit.
He’s not a prepper in the slightest, so I think he really just wants a secret underground lair. What boy doesn’t?
Me and your hubby would get along.
With enough room for a really big train layout of course.
Remember those fainters during the 2008 campaign? He’d rescue them by throwing them a water bottle. Presumably fake.
Strangely, it stopped suddenly when someone drew attention to it.
Because . . . RACISM!!!!
HELP! I’m in moderation for typing “J U L I A”!
That wasn’t the reason.
Canada Free Press:
Wow! if Obama loses MSNBC, the floodgates are open.
Texans are throwing Cruz a big ole welcome home party. It’s like streaming.
http://www.kingstreetpatriots.org/live
I am NOT changing the baby!
I’d love to know how many of you naysayers actually deal with type 1 diabetes on a daily basis. I bet not one of you. So until you have walked a mile in some else’s shoes…
How old are you? Our skepticism has nothing to do with her having diabetes.
If you walked a few miles in our shoes you wouldn’t be so gullible.
Oh fuck off. She’s employed at UC-San Diego so she’s got insurance better & CHEAPER than mine, yours and everybody else on this site. She should be the one walking in my shoes– buying individual insurance in the private market before she allows herself to be used as a prop to spew talking points about something that will have NO/MINIMAL EFFECT ON HER but cost the rest of us plenty. Go baa somewhere else, sheep.
*sigh* We’re talking about factual details re: Obamacare, and insurance, and what would and would not have helped her, and whether the story makes sense.
Being sick, or a minority (if she is), or a woman, or suffering, or whatever does not give you a free pass from being analyzed if you get on a national stage and make claims. Nor does doing that analysis have jack-all to do with compassion or lack thereof.
PROTIP: Truth, and policy, and poltics, and all the whole wide world does not revolve around feelings.
My God, the world has become incapable of thinking. It’s #AllAboutTheFeels
Oh nooooes, someone’s feeewings were hurt. Take a number.
Trolls’ attention spans are so short they bitch on one blog about something they thought they heard on another. Either that, or she’s played way too much field hockey without a helmet.
I thought it was caused moo said boo stank.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2470492/Czech-artist-sends-giant-hand-making-obscene-gesture-floating-Prague-river-ahead-parliamentary-elections-communists-taste-power.html
this would be so great floating down the Potomic
Why is that woman wearing a sleeveless dress with cutouts on a chilly day?
http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/10/21/breathtaking-american-spirit-conquers-westboro-crazies-at-soldiers-funeral-85653
maybe backtrack and his bunch including the DOD did not stand up for this soldier, but thousands of patriots did
http://ofthehighest.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/if-you-dont-think-we-are-the-laughing-stock-of-the-world-look-at-this-parade-in-germany/
this hurts me for my country
this has to be a halloween trick, they can not be serious
I’ll bet she’s faking her pregnancy too…
Gimme a break.
Grow a brain and don’t be a dunce looking for conspiracy everywhere…
Yeah, and the IRS didn’t target the Tea Party either.
“Grow a brain”?
Why do you idiot progs hate science?
Piss off. You want to ignore that there is a history with Obama of convenient crowd faintings so he can look heroic. LOTS of them. None of us here categorically said she did this. But being skeptical is not unreasonable given the history.
You know, the history you’d like to pretend doesn’t exist, so you can speak as if our skepticism is occuring in a vacuum.
Hey, Klown, the prog trolls are out in force! I love it. That only happens when they are freaking out because Dear Leader is publicly shitting himself all over the place.
😀
true, they do only come out when their dear leader is really screwing up. they are on the defensive…
you know what is so funny about this whole obamacare-website-gate… they have no one to blame but themselves! they have no bogey-man, and they can’t blame bush or the repubs, or the tea party or even bin laden, for them hiring the wrong people for payola basically (the chicago way). and now they are supposedly bringing in verizon, and i bet that is also a campaign donation pat on the back too. this whole thing should in reality bring only the dems down for being stupid the longer this goes on. they are making themselves look stupid. i hope this is when the other shoe drops for them and when karma finally kicks in. if anyone is still on the side of these guys about this after a couple of months, then they are living in imaginary land.
This.
Also, people need to start highlighting non-stop the fact that Obama said the website was going to cost $92 million; the POS we got actually cost 3x that; and this emergenc “tech surge” is going to cost a whole lot more; and this (the website) was the EASY part of this Obamacare POS.
I thought it was 7x the original lie?
I most certainly could be wrong — all these million dollar figures being thrown around gets confusing.
The tally so far is over 600 million and counting. So yeah, a lot more than 3X.
OFA trolls are being mobilized to shine shit….won’t work this time. I guess the only good news is that the Obot troll demographic is the one that will be hardest hit by the Obamacare scam. It’s the young, healthy, marginally employed group that is expected to provide the funding for this $2.6 trillion/ten year corporate welfare program.
I figured out why Obamacare and its website are failing so much, and why Obama looks like a pathetic idiot. No fake greek columns. Turns out Obama gets his power from fake greek columns. True story.
IBSP
Funny ’cause it’s true.
It was no mistake this passed-in-the-middle-of-the-night Christmas Eve-on-partisan-line POS was set to kick in *after* the 2012 election. It was the only way to keep *reality* from intruding on the fantasy Obama shills to his idiot followers. I mean hell, they don’t even care about reality as they’re *still* trying to polish this turd, but now others will see that WE have been right all along about how incompetent Obama is & how much of a train wreck Obamacare is.
Seriously — how stupid are the Obots. Obama promised to cover 30 million more people while *lowering* premiums for the rest of us by $2500 a year with no change in the quality of our care and these morons *believed* it.
I looked at the comments to the NYT article about Obama’s speech today, and the Obots are still drinking the Kool-Aid: “It’s not Obama’s fault, and ACA is a good law to help people like me.” Someone in Obamaland should be charged with waste, fraud and abuse.
Koolaid is a helluva drug.
In Obamaland, waste, fraud and abuse = prudence, competence and 11th dimensional chess (’cause he’s so super smart!!!!eleventy).
Lots of strange stuff in the spam filter these days:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/10/good-grief-obamacare-website-crashed-with-only-few-hundred-people-trying-to-log-on-in-test-run/
the more info that comes out, the worse it gets
Okay, who broke Twitter??
this will be my standard answer to obots from now on. saves time and energy
It really is a special little town. People think of polo games and fox hunts as only for the hoity toity, and yeah, there were plenty of rich horsey people around. But honestly, I’ve never lived anywhere where there seemed to be less class division. We all went to school together, played together, and even us poor kids jumped the fences and went to the polo field to watch the match and gleefully stomp down the divots between chukkers. I’ve been in Hitchcock Woods just walking so many times when a fox hunt came thundering by, horns blaring. (They use a scent lure, no live foxes.) It’s amazing. We were poor as dirt, but my sister’s best friend was (and is to this day) a wealthy heiress whose family lived on a freaking estate. Nicest people you ever met in your life: utterly unpretentious. No one cared. Maybe I’m just getting old. Maybe I just miss my family who are still there. But people just got along in that little town. Rich, poor, middle class, black, white, asian, whatever. I hate to make it sound like it’s idyllic but….it really was.
It is a great place. We had a big family reunion a couple of years ago. I never lived there, but there’s lots of family to visit.
My experience is that old money is much nicer than new money.
Just saw what I think was some kind of nuclear accident open NCIS Los Angeles. You don’t see that much in TV shows anymore, since the Cold war ended. It’s been ages since I saw the flashing alarms and some dudes skin all bubbling up and peeling off in seconds and shit.
It can’t be better than the guy literally getting his face blown off on The Bridge.
Watched the highlights of DWTS – I think she is underrated as an actress but the Showgirls critics were right – she can’t dance.
Luckily for her the competion is weak this season.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/21/federal-judge-to-rule-obamacare-subsidies-quandary/?page=all#pagebreak
this is something to watch for on Tuesday.
ruling on obamacare subsidies quandary
Don’t know if I missed this up thread but this parody is pretty funny. Make sure you click apply now
http://rexharrisonshat.com/healthcare/
Completely f$@%#ing staged! I don’t care what anyone says, that’s some straight BS and it’s funny how he waits patiently for the crowd to applaud his, talented ability to hear her about to faint and see out of the eyes in the back of his head in just enough time to magically turn around superhero moment lmao!!!! Is it really getting that bad??? Really? It’s funny how he’s the only one who came to her rescue with all the people standing around her all while the person standing next to her holding her hand had no clue. Hmmmmm……
Howard Dean (democrat) says obalmycare is a bailout of the insurance companies in return for bribes (contributions) they paid out to BOTH democrats and republicans. That’s why republicans only put up token resistance to it.
What industry wouldn’t want the government to force 50,000,000 people to become customers overnight?
Of course, none of these “conservatives” bitched when auto insurance became mandatory. This is largely modeled after that.
“People get the government they deserve.” – John Updike/Author
http://dev.fixhealthcarepolicy.com/health-care-news/howard-dean-obamacare-bigger-bailout-for-insurance-companies-than-aig/
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