THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE CHRISTMAS, AND THEY HAVE NUKES – AT 11:18 A.M. ET:  From Britain's Telegraph:

South Korea has lit a massive steel Christmas tree that overlooks the world's most heavily armed border and is within sight of North Korea, prompting threats of attack from the communist state.

The lighting of the tree after a seven-year hiatus marked a pointed return to a tradition that is condemned in Pyongyang as propaganda. The provocative ceremony - which needed government permission to take place - was also a sign that President Lee Myung-bak's administration is serious about countering the North's aggression with measures of its own in the wake of an artillery attack that killed four South Koreans last month.

North Korea, officially atheist and with only a handful of sanctioned churches in Pyongyang with services for foreigners, warned that lighting the tree would constitute a "dangerous, rash act" with the potential to trigger a war.

COMMENT:  There are people who think like this.  We ignore them, or minimize the danger they pose, at our peril.

December 25, 2010