TRIVIA TUESDAY!!!

Good morning friends! I woke up this morning with a huge smile on my face, because it's trivia Tuesday!! (Oh and also because I received some VERY EXCITING news last night, but that is a developing story and I will share more later) Today's trivia categories are TV/Government/ and Sports. Answer correctly, and you will receive a prize! And remember NO CHEATING! Good luck!!

TV

1. What Disney Channel show starred Shia Labeouf as a mischievous young teen named Louis?

Government

2. Who was the first African-American Supreme Court justice?

Sports

3. What six hockey teams comprise the NHL's original six? (please include city and team name in order to win)

Mar's Monday Movie Madness

Taken starring Liam Neeson was number one at the box office this weekend taking in 24.6 million. Coming in second place was the number one movie of the past two weeks Paul Blart: Mall Cop. You know just as I thought Americans were getting smarter, I have lost my faith in them once again. I mean really people, you made Paul Blart: Mall Cop the number one movie of the last two weeks, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!??!? I would rather watch fifteen Valerie Bertinelli Lifetime movies in a row than go see Paul Blart: Mall Cop, but maybe thats just me.

The first review of He's Just not That Into You is out today in Variety, and unfortunately it's not a good one.

Footballs, Divas, & Groundhogs

Good Morning!! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!

The world's most the famous groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning which, according to legend, means six more weeks of this already awful winter. UGH!

The Pittsburgh Steelers won the Super Bowl last night 27-23 against the Arizona Cardinals. Proving my blog friends wrong who 3-1 predicted a Cardinals win. Sorry guys!

Finally, The Smithsonian Museum is begging Aretha Franklin to give them that famous ahem infamous hat she wore while performing at President Obama's inauguration. Is the Smithsonian doing an exhibit on celebrity fashion mistakes, can we expect Bjork to be donating that duck outfit she wore a few years ago to some awards ceremony in LA?

New RNC Chairman Named

In a last ditch effort to show that their party is indeed diverse the Republicans have picked Michael Steele, the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, to chair the Republican National Committee. Steele will be the first African American to hold the position.

Republicans have also announced that they will be replacing house minority leader John Boehner with Saved By The Bell Star Mario Lopez.

Friday Poll

Well Friday has rolled around once again which means it's poll day!

With Superbowl Sunday in two days, I think I'll give this week's poll over to my sports fanatic friends and ask Who do you want to win the Superbowl this year?

The Pittsburgh Steelers?
or
The Arizona Cardinals?

STD's in the Red States

Wow big shocker apparently STD rates are higher in red states than they are in blue ones. And people thought abstinence only education was working.

The Lilly Ledbetter Act

President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter act into law today. The new law gives women the right to file a lawsuit against the company they are working for, if they discover that they are being paid less than their male counterparts because of their gender. Prior to the act being signed into law women only had 180 days after they started their job to sue for pay discrimination, but the new law gives women 360 days to to file suit after finding out that they have been discriminated against.

Lilly Ledbetter had been working for many years as a supervisor at a General Motors plant in Alabama when she found that she was earning much less than her male co-workers, who performed the same tasks as she did. Ledbetter filed a suit against GM, and the case was taken all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court who then rejected her case 5-4, because she did not sue within the 180 day time limit.

Unfortunately the new law is not retroactive, and Ledbetter will not see any money from this new ruling, but President Obama signing this bill into law is a giant step forward for all women in the workplace. However, it is disgusting to me that it took until 2009 for this law to be put on the books.