Post-election media perspective seems to have found--suddenly--that the practice of prosecutorial/enforcement discretion is traditional and honored.  Presidents have often opted to exercise this very legal option ... but, I guess that they weren't Obama (so, it was okay :))  Finally, movement in this area will come ... the announcement, as you have probably heard, is expected tomorrow, with the signing in Nevada on Friday.

Wonderful!  Bravo President Obama!  This is the right thing to do ... policy, politics, and promise of a better deal.

   The shooter was apparently a FSU alumna with a law degree from Texas Tech who most recently had worked as an assistant prosecutor in M.M. (but a public defender before that)

Yesterday, a federal judge made Montana the 34th state, issuing no stays.

My guess for next week is Natalie as the power player between the 4 males and the 2 couples. I like her chances at this point -- to survive another week atleast and perhaps further.

In other old news, according to these acoustic experts the final barrage of 10 shots lasted just short of 7 seconds.

That means that since they ended at 12:02:14 then they must have begun at 12:02:07.

This is a mere 7 seconds after Wilson ended his 12:02:00 radio dispatch calling for backup saying nothing about the shot[s] he had just fired from his SUV, that he had hit someone, and asking for EMS.

He hangs up and then gets out of the SUV and races after Brown covering a distance of about 120 feet gun in hand and within 7 seconds has Brown turned looking down the barrel of his gun.

CBSNews

And that made me think, I wonder what he(Tom Colbern R-19th Century) has in mind? What would that look like?

Civil disobedience can take a myriad of forms. But in most of the cases we know from history it is either the weapon of an oppressed group or focuses on oppressive or illegitimate government action. Whatever you think of what the President is doing, though, it's difficult to see how either of those apply. In a very narrow sense, the whole game here is the President declining to act rather than acting.

Now, declining to act can be as illegitimate as acting. I can think of numerous concrete examples that would illustrate the point. But in purely practical terms, it does challenge the idea of civil disobedience since there's little in the way of government action to pivot against or protest. Again, it's inaction.

More substantively, who is the oppressed or injured group? Yes, you could manufacture some construct about how we're all collectively oppressed by an attack on the rule of law. But that's a bit strained - quite apart from the fairly broad agreement that the President has this power, whether or not it's prudent to exercise it. The concrete idea seems to be that anti-immigration Americans - and let's be honest, mainly white people - are oppressed in some way by having undocumented immigrants be able to walk around in the open and be able to work in the open.(Ed)

Not to be too jocular but I guess anti-immigrant activists could lay down on the sidewalk in the way of undocumented immigrants trying to walk to school and challenge the authorities to arrest them or lay down in the streets in the path of undocumented workers driving to work?

It's a bit like anti-gay marriage activists who wonder who will step forward to become the anti-gay marriage Rosa Parks. To liberals who see marriage equality as a freedom movement the whole idea is preposterous and offensive. But just in a basic nuts-and-bolts structural sense, it is hard to pull off the trappings of the righteous demand for your own rights when your own rights aren't in any question and what you're demanding is that someone else not get those rights.

"Over the past few months thousands of concerned Americans from across the political spectrum have urged me to run for president," he said in a video released on YouTube Wednesday. "I have decided to launch an exploratory committee to examine whether I should run for president in 2016. I made this decision after reflecting on numerous political commentaries."

Sitting in front of a simple, blue backdrop, Webb detailed his military service and professional career during the 14-minute video. Webb emphasized his accomplishments as a public servant. Among the issues stressed in the announcement were the need to address criminal justice reform and growing economic inequality.

Out of curiosity, I went to the French version of Huffpo, and to two of their newspapers - lemonde and lefigaro.

Not a peep.

Not a word.

My thought was that this is the way the French are keeping their citizens "safe" - by keeping them in the dark.

12:00:07 Wilson leaves earlier call about a half mile away.

12:01:~ Wilson makes initial contact with the jaywalkers at Canfield.

12:01:50 Call to Ferguson PD of 4230 Disturbance in Progress on Canfield: Ferguson Event Report #2014-029062 / Complaint 14-12391. [the substance and audio of this call has not been released by Ferguson and to date has been ignored by reporters]

Per St Louis Public Radio this "12:01:50 call" was referred to by police dispatch as: "Shooting Event Opened" [Shooting Event??? Did the dispatcher hear a gunshot while on the phone with the caller???]

12:02:00 Wilson calls dispatch saying: "21. Put me on Canfield with two. And send me another car".

12:02:14 Glide audio recording ends with 10 shots fired in sequences of 6 then 4. 135 feet from the vehicle Brown now lays dead on the street.

12:02:22 2nd Ferguson PD Unit Arrival per Ferguson Event Report #2014-029062 [linked above].

Video of immediate aftermath of the Ferguson shooting

12:02:41 3rd Ferguson PD Unit 25 announces Arrival on Canfield.

Brady video of police units immediately after Ferguson shooting [shows Unit 25 that had just arrived with Wilson and another officer on foot]

12:02:48 4th Ferguson PD Unit 22 announces Arrival  on Canfield. [pulls in driveway up the street where Brady is filming and captured on video]

12:03:13 An unidentified officer on the scene asks "Where's the other one?" [probably Unit 22]

12:03:33 Unit 25 requests a supervisor aka Unit 23. [Why did it take them so long to call for a supervisor and what were they doing during this time???]

12:06:00 Black Canseco Cellphone video of scene begins. [shows the 4 units still there at 12:06. Unit 22 in driveway then pulls away followed by arrival of black homicide cars and then Unit 23.]

I would bet that if you watched/listened to 100 interviews with 100 politicians, and, had never seen or heard of them prior, and, they were not introduced as Democrat/Republican/Liberal/Conservative, etc. placing them into neat categories would be extremely difficult, if not impossible.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that most people, those who are not avid political junkies anyway, watch a conversation with a candidate, and just come away with an impression. If you asked them what they thought about the person being interviewed they would say things like, "I liked him/her, or, I didn't like him/her." Maybe, "he had some good ideas, or, his ideas were nuts." "I liked when he said this, or, that, but when he said (that!) that finished him off as far as I was concerned."

The point is that people would make up their minds about a candidate in descriptive terms, not in political labels.

To conclude, and, why I wrote this post; I know I have watched interviews when I didn't know anything about the guest, and, came away with a very positive feeling about the person. Then, when the credits were rolling I was surprised to see my guy referred to as "Conservative" member of XYZ. Or something to that effect.

Anyway, I hope I made some sense.

Which really POed me off.  Jeremy was by far the best character on the show, and the only reason I was still watching.

Apparently his version is that he made the "12:02" call for backup just before he and Brown scuffled at the SUV.

And then just after that scuffle, which included several shots fired, Wilson again called dispatch but the radio channel had been jarred during the scuffle and was changed to the wrong channel.