Stocks Down; XMT Tanks

XMT is my Wall Streety designation for rampant consumerism: XMas Tide. I mean, I saw no reason back in the day when God and his Intelligent Designer, Santa, incorporated that this would turn out badly. Alas, XMT was down 3% overall. There is talk of God pulling out. There is talk of a hostile take-over by various demonic entities, one of which being the "dung for brains" Republican National Committee. There is talk of going private. Perhaps Cerberus, who bought Chrysler, may be interested. I always thought it was a wizard idea to name a private equity firm after the dog of Hell. It is so...sort of, in your bloody divine face, O, Lord!