[VIDEO] Says Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Below is the description of the video via rebelpundit:

Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) addresses Occupy the Dream at The People’s Church in Chicago. 1/15/2012. Jackson proposes trillions of new spending, the federal government hiring 15 million people directly at $40,000 for infrastructure. Jackson remarks “for a mere $900 billion” we can get our country working again.

Hat-tip Gateway Pundit!

[VIDEO] Vodkapundit pays homage to MLK with this video of about 17 Minutes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream speech” at the August 28, 1963 March on Washington. It’s hard to believe that next year it will be only 50 years ago. Probably still fresh in the memory of those who were there however. Even now we have a long way to go to live up to that vision.

This can only give some the excuse to never ever join Facebook. The ones who refuse to join in the first place definitely won’t if they get wind of this story:

Within days, all of Facebook’s 800 million users’ profile pages will change. And with it, every photo, status update, wall posting, since your Facebook birth will be much more easily visible.

Facebook claims Timeline will make profiles more comprehensive.

Consumer advocacy groups say it violates users privacy.

“We want people to decide if they want to post the old stuff on the wall, says Marc Rotenberg, of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. “We want people to decide whether the stuff Facebook wants to post, is the stuff they want. It really should be up to the user, not Facebook.”

But for now it’ll be up to Facebook to decide, and users to try to hide the stuff they’d like to keep private.

I found this story via Instapundit who noted:

FACEBOOK IS DOOMED BECAUSE OF TIMELINE. Not due to privacy concerns, but because the new Timelined pages look like nothing so much as old MySpace pages.

There is a reason why I and many other never use MySpace anymore. I’ve always liked FB better, but if MySpace could just become a place for bands to promote themselves then who knows what FB will be. That being said FB could be just another dead social network. There are many online too, for example I used to be on BlackPlanet and sadly I haven’t thought about that place in years.

BTW, so that I don’t contribute over any hyperventilation FB is doing what it can to inform people about the new timelines. There are some things I would like to keep private although I don’t plan to go back and delete every single item that I never want to see the light of day again. Just have to cross the bridge when that time comes.

[VIDEO] Not to turn this into an outlet for only PJTV vids today, but I’m a regular Instapundit reader. Glenn Reynolds who is the blogmaster there is a law professor at a Tennessee university. He’s often written about amongst other things the issue of high education where he currently works.

This was actually first seen on December 23, 2011 and is part of a series on the big stories of 2011. You need not watch this video or see any stories on this issue in the mainstream media (MSM) to know what he’s referring to. Most of us should know students who are struggling because they’re unable to find any gainful employment to pay off their student loans. Including yours truly.

If you regularly read Reynolds’ blog, he doesn’t just take aim at increasing tuition prices. Indeed he may take aim at the process of college admissions, academics in the classroom, even questions whether or not getting an undergrad or graduate degree is worth it.

There are a lot of reforms necessary here. Perhaps colleges should go back to teaching and then gearing their students towards the workplace in whatever field they choose to study. At the same time, college has to be for the serious and it can’t just be about that sheet of sheepskin.