… despite the fact that it’s on F*c*b**k.

About a week ago, faithful Freedom Outlaw Ragnar took the initiative to concoct a Freedom Outlaw Facebook page. Now a friend of his (good going, Friend of Ragnar!) has created this image for it.

Ragnar’s site is likeable, funny, has a lot of activity, and is worth visiting despite its location. Now this image makes it even better.

Seems I’m not alone in this opinion. In less than a week, Ragnar’s page has drawn more than 500 “likes” and has nearly 800 people talking about it. [EDITED: Removed stuff that Ragnar says just shows my ignorance about Facebook] Shazam, Ragnar, how’d you do that?

Join in the fun if you haven’t already.

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• Banning those “clips” is working up to be such an exercise in futility. (H/T J and others)
• The people of Colorado (and elsewhere) are beginning to wake up to the fact that police have become wanton killers of their four-legged family members.
• On the other hand, there are blessed exceptions.
• An announcement from the Galactic Empire Public Relations Department on Earth’s refusal to build a Death Star. (H/T C^2)
• How it’s likely to turn out when the feddies decide to start measuring our happiness.
• I knew the name Tim Racer through dog rescue. He and his wife founded BadRap, one of the first pit bull rescues. They were important in the unprecedented rehabilitation of the Michael Vick dogs. But man oh man, look what else he does! Turns out he’s an accomplished restorer of carousel animals and has branched out into creating (with the collaboration of painter Pam Hessey) these beautiful custom carousel dogs.
• One thing New York’s new anti-gun law won’t accomplish.
• Two from Mental Floss. Twelve proposed U.S. states that didn’t make the cut. And eight government conspiracy theories turned out to be right. More or less.

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By the time you read this, the WhiteHouse.gov petition to make Obama, Biden, and their families safer by creating a gun-free zone around them will have earned the 25,000 signatures required to earn a response from an Official White House Policy Wonk.

It’s just 320 shy as I write this Wednesday night.

Good thing, too, because the WH has just announced that, henceforth, it’ll take 100,000 signatures in 30 days for a petition to be worth bothering with.

Look, I know just as well as you do that all this petitioning is useless. Of course it is. Except for one thing: it’s bothering them. Petitions to secede from the union or subject Our Leader to the same rules he wants us to live by get coverage and get the federal hypocrites’ goat. And that’s something.

So’s this. While I think the NRA’s proposal to put government-paid armed guards in every school is nonsense (and expensive, disastrous nonsense at that), their commercial pointing out that Obama’s kids get exactly what he doesn’t want yours to have is brilliant. It’s so rightly, deservedly emotional. And it pokes at that little spot in all of us that’s increasingly noticing that the political “haves” are keeping themselves well above those who pay their upkeep.

And then, on the same day the WH mouthpiece blasts the NRA ad as “repugnant and cowardly” because it “exploits” children, we watch Obama (as WolfSong so aptly pointed out in recent comments) hiding himself behind a whole wall of excruciatingly manipulated grade schoolers.

Pretty soon … people gonna wonder …

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