The conservative way: focusing like a laser beam on the really important issues

While Republicans and their frothing, mad dog minions are obsessing about gay marriage, flag burning, the so-called "values agenda"; and while they've been exhorting their minions to call for the execution of journalists and shrieking about the liberal plot to steal Superman and calling John Murtha a traitor and just generally hiding under their beds trembling in sheer pee-in-your-pants Fear of Terrorists, a real threat has been right under their noses, ignored completely by them:

- North Korea will respond to a pre-emptive U.S. military attack with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war," the state-run media said Monday, heightening its antagonistic rhetoric.

The Korean Central News Agency, citing an unidentified Rodong Sinmun newspaper "analyst," accused the United States of increasing military pressure on the isolated communist state.

The North Korean threat of retaliation, which is often voiced by its state-controlled media, comes amid U.S. official reports that Pyongyang has shown signs of preparing for a test of a long-range missile.

"The army and people of the DPRK are now in full preparedness to answer a pre-emptive attack with a relentless annihilating strike and a nuclear war with a mighty nuclear deterrent," the report said. DPRK stands for the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The report accused Washington of escalating military pressure on the country with war exercises, a massive arms buildup and aerial espionage by basing new spy planes in South Korea.

You want to be scared? Be scared of what President God's Own Anointed Messenger of Armageddon decides to do with North Korea.