Other facets pointed out by NOAA:

Here's their statement:

It is unfortunate that the tragedy in Tucson continues to stimulate a political blame game. Rather than step back and reflect on the lessons to be learned from this tragedy, both parties have reverted to political partisanship and finger-pointing at a time when the American people are looking for leadership, not more vitriol. In response to this tragedy we need to rise above partisanship, incivility, heated rhetoric, and the business-as-usual approaches that are corroding our political system and tainting the atmosphere in Washington and across the country.

It was inappropriate at the outset to blame Sarah Palin and others for causing this tragedy or for being an accessory to murder. Palin has every right to defend herself against these kinds of attacks, and we agree with her that the best tradition in America is one of finding common ground despite our differences.

Still, we wish that Palin had not invoked the phrase "blood-libel" in reference to the actions of journalists and pundits in placing blame for the shooting in Tucson on others. While the term "blood-libel" has become part of the English parlance to refer to someone being falsely accused, we wish that Palin had used another phrase, instead of one so fraught with pain in Jewish history.

Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, will introduce legislation that will make it a federal crime to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of federal officeholders and judges in response to the shooting in Tucson that killed Judge John Roll and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

   Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed emergency legislation Tuesday establishing "funeral protection zones" to keep protesters away from the memorial services for the victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson.

    Earlier in the day, the Arizona Legislature passed the bill unanimously. ...

    The law will establish a 300-foot perimeter around a funeral location beginning one hour before a service until one hour after a service.

Garamendi, now 65-years-old and a member of Congress, said he's kept a close watch on crowds ever since. He did just that as walked through a Tea Party demonstration last year to cast his vote in support of healthcare reform legislation.

"I was one of those Democrats that marched out of the Cannon office building 200 yards over to the nation's capital," he said.

"The crowd was there right next to us shouting epithets, spitting on a couple of our members. And it was a very, very heated situation."

Garamendi said people had painted "kill the bill" signs, with the word "kill" in giant letters. It was frightening for a moment, he said, as G.O.P. colleagues looked on.

"And I know that our Republican colleagues went out onto the veranda with the crowd below them and encouraged the chanting, encouraged the anger."

All those 3DTVs and virtual reality goggles are soon to be rendered obsolete by contact lenses with built-in LED arrays that can display images on top of your retinas, whether you want them to or not.

Researchers at the University of Washington have been working on extremely tiny and semi-transparent LEDs designed to be integrated into contact lenses. So far, they've managed to create red pixels and blue pixels, and when they can figure out green ones, they'll be able to make full color displays.

Despite being millimeters from your retinas, the images created by the lenses will be in perfect focus, and when the display is turned off, everything will be transparent. Since the lenses are inside your eyelids, though, you can't un-see anything that they decide to project, which is something that you'll have to consider when you're watching something especially scary or gross on them. Power will come from a beltpack that transmits electricity wirelessly to a resonating antenna in the lens itself, and data will be transmitted the same way so that you don't have to plug HDMI cables into your eye sockets.

Charles Turner Habermann, 32, was arrested on charges of threatening a federal official, according to the Seattle Times.

The Times reported that the criminal complaint against Habermann detailed two phone calls he placed to McDermott's office on Dec. 9, in which he said that founding fathers such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson would "blow [McDermott's] brains out" if they met him.

"He's a piece of human filth. He's a liar, he's a communist, he's a piece of [expletive] garbage," Habermann said, according to the complaint.

Habermann was reportedly angry over McDermott's opposition to extending tax cuts for high-income earners. The California man also is alleged to have threatened to kill McDermott's family and friends.