She didn't need special treatment.....

Viking skeleton’s DNA test proves historians wrong

By Natalie O'Neill

 New York Post September 8, 2017

The remains of a powerful viking — long thought to be a man — was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals.

The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th century along with deadly weapons and two horses, leading archaeologists and historians to assume she was a man, according to the findings, published in in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Wrong.

“It’s actually a woman, somewhere over the age of 30 and fairly tall, too, measuring around [5’6″] tall ,” archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University, who conducted the study, told The Local.

And she was likely in charge.

Ronda Rousey vs Bethe Correia

Link to video

The New Yorker: Why Jill Abramson Was Fired

Baquet will be the first African-American to lead the Times.

Fellow-journalists and others scrambled to find out what had happened. Sulzberger had fired Abramson, and he did not try to hide that. In a speech to the newsroom on Wednesday afternoon, he said, “I chose to appoint a new leader of our newsroom (managing editor of the New York Times) because I believe that new leadership will improve some aspects …” Abramson chose not to attend the announcement, and not to pretend that she had volunteered to step down.

As with any such upheaval, there’s a history behind it. (read more)

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PREDICTION: Maureen Dowd jumps to Vanity Fair or Vogue... pic.twitter.com/UEp0NGcTNi
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) May 14, 2014

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Jill Abramson was forced out as ed of ny times because she had the guts to call out the WH for its lack of transparency . A crime at NYT
— john coale (@johnpcoale) May 14, 2014

"MA NAACP President Compares Dem’s Assault On A Woman To “Jaywalking”"

From Massachusetts Radio talk show Michael Graham's blog...

The New England Area Chapter of the NAACP released a letter this morning urging the Massachusetts House of Representatives not to vote to expel convicted woman-beater Rep. Carlos Henriquez. Henriquez is currently serving simultaneously in the State House and the “slammer” up in Billerica. (Or rather was. The House voted 146-5 to expel him.)

I asked the NEAC President, Juan Cofield, who signed the letter, to join me on my radio show today and discuss it... (go here to listen to it)

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From Wikipedia...

War on Women is an expression in United States politics used to describe certain Republican Party policies as a wide-scale effort to restrict women's rights, especially reproductive rights. Prominent Democrats such as Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Boxer, as well as feminists, have used the phrase to criticize proponents of the laws as trying to force their social views on women through legislation. The expression is used to describe Republican policies in areas such as access to reproductive health services, particularly birth control and abortion services; the prosecution of criminal violence against women; the definition of rape for the purpose of the public funding of abortion; and workplace discrimination against women.