Let's have a jamboree!

But it's so hard to choose! Do you go to Davos with the rich wimps or Porto Alegre with the moonbats? At Davos you could listen to the Euros whine (or tell them to get stuffed) but all the action was with the Hollyweirdos and Bill Gates' doodles. Zzzzzz.

Reuters: Residents of Lagoa do Junco perform a play representing the earth
during the visit of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with landless rural workers
of the MST movement, in the town of Lagoa do Junco south of Porto Alegre, January 30, 2005.

On the other hand, at Porto Alegre you could hang out with the party crowd! Hugo Chavez gets hero's welcome at World Social Forum:

Sporting a red shirt embossed with a picture of the revolutionary Che Guevera, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez received a hero's welcome Sunday at the World Social Forum, where activists greeted him with hugs and cries of "Here comes the boss!"

Tens of thousands of people attending the six-day gathering held to protest the simultaneous World Economic Forum in Switzerland consider Chavez their strongest voice against the U.S.-sponsored spread of liberalized trade in Latin America, a move they say benefits multinational companies while enslaving workers.

"Now the imperialist forces are starting to strike against the people of Latin America and the world," Chavez said. "And it's up to our soldiers to stay alert and be prepared to defend the people and not to submit themselves to the interests of the empire."

Some of the drug smugglers he supports must be slipping Hugo a few tootskies!

While Chavez was cheered at the social forum, some jeered Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva when he spoke Thursday, accusing him of failing to come through on promises of social reforms to eradicate Brazilian misery.

Now there's a wingnut test - booing Lula because he isn't far enough to the left.

Earlier Sunday, Chavez traveled 81 miles in a heavily guarded convoy to the town of Teves, visiting a cooperative at the end of a bumpy dirt road, where poor farmers with no land invaded a spread of unused property seven years ago.

The 33 families squatted on the land for years, went to the courts to win possession and now grow rice, corn and fruit. Chavez donned a keffiyah, the checkered Arab headdress, given to him by an admirer and asked farmers what they used to fertilize their crops.

Here's a hint, Hugo. They're rolling on a pile of it in the snap above. More Hugo adulation by following the link, but basically Hugo's a hero to the wingnuts because he has oil money to subsidize his fantasies. Kinda reminds me of someone else.