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Finally, Paul McCartney Performs in Israel.

By Joanna Chen | NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 24, 2008

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  • Posted By: williambanzai7 @ 09/28/2008 1:39:36 AM


    OBLADI OBLADA (MARKET LIFE GOES ON)
    (the Beatles)
    (adapted by WilliamBanzai7)

    Ben Bernanke plays backstop for the market place
    Henry is cleaning up subprime quicksand
    Bernanke says to Henry - we've got to save this place
    And as he says this the two of them shake hands.

    [ Chorus: ]
    Obladi oblada markets go on bro
    Lala how that market life goes on
    Obladi Oblada markets go on bro
    Lala how that market life goes on.

    Bernanke takes a trolley from the Fed money store
    Buys a 700 billion dollar bailout ring
    Takes it back to Henry waiting at the door
    And as he gives it to him the markets start to sing.

    [ Chorus ]

    In a couple of years they have refinanced
    all our home sweet homes
    With a couple of big banks running in the yard
    And Hank and Ben sitting on the market throne.

    Happy ever after in the market place
    Bernanke lets the bankers lend a hand
    Henry stays at home and keeps his poker face
    And in the evening they both like
    to sing out with the band.

    [ Chorus ]

    In a couple of years they have refinanced
    all our home sweet homes
    With a couple of big banks running in the yard
    With Ben and Hank sitting on the market throne.

    Happy ever after in the market place
    Benrnanke lets the bankers lend a hand
    Henry stays at home and keeps his poker face
    And in the evening they both sing out with the band.

    [ Chorus: ]
    Obladi oblada markets go on bro
    Lala how that market life goes on
    Obladi Oblada markets go on bro
    Lala how that market life goes on.

  • Posted By: Cheung @ 09/25/2008 6:12:49 PM

    As a Brit I think it's a mistake, gigging in a country which is stealing land and ethnic cleansing indigenous Arabs every day. We boycotted South Africa for it's apartheid, we should boycott Israel too (Lennon would have).

    • Posted By: weisblum1 @ 09/27/2008 12:35:37 PM

      The only ones stealing land are the Brits in Iraq, Afghanistan, Ireland, Folklands etc... The last example of ethnic cleansing I heard of was of your forces bombing weddings and schools with the children inside. Before that you were doing that in Yeguslavia. Please read a little before you spit your ignorant biased nonsense regarding the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.

    • Posted By: weisblum1 @ 09/27/2008 12:31:44 PM

      The only one stealing foreign land is your country in Iraq, Afghanistan and while at it bombing weddings and schools with the children inside. Before you spit your nonsense go study the fact a little.

  • Posted By: Eagles_Heart @ 09/24/2008 10:43:44 PM

    I wonder if the censorship of 43 years ago may have had its point proved by the effects on all of us in the western himisphere who clasped the Beatles to our respective bosoms in the years since thin?.

    And yea, I am kidding! Hey.. they are great.. and elegant compared to today's screaming off-key falsettos.

    That today's "stars" are demonstrably tone-deaf (exceptions: good country western) whose vocal cords will be flapping in hoarse strings of blah in another ten or so years... is their choice of deprivation... screaming to get attention is traditional when spoiled babies do it... why limit it to youngsters?

  • Posted By: Marinegrunti39 @ 09/24/2008 2:39:29 PM

    Wow!! i'm impressed - do you think the Beatles will visit Gaza & the West Bank?

    • Posted By: dloglisci @ 09/24/2008 3:21:11 PM

      Why should he goto theWestBank or Gaza? Would you?

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