5 days (the Palestinian gangsta vote)

So it's a COLD...and I mean COLD...autumn day here in northern Idaho and there is just a handful of days left until Tuesday.

The big news of the day is the health of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Apparently, he is suffering from a blood platelet deficiency and is being moved to Paris for additional tests to determine its cause. This trip to France will be the first time he has left his headquarters compound since December, 2001.

To try to ease fears or concerns, the Palestinian Authority released this photo and a video of Arafat smiling with his doctors and bodyguards complete with him wearing a gangsta-wannabe hat:

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta...