Bush called the forest fires a Holocaust

Did anybody see that yesterday?
trying to appeal to people's emotions/trauma to promote forest-thinning.

:puke:

victims...

bush* grandpa, prescott bush, funded hitler's rise to power, and personnally supervised Jewish slave labor at Auschwitz....prescott made LOTS of money from working Jews to death in his coal/steel industries....and that money paid for bush1 rise to power, and shrub's inheritance...


read the whole sad story here..written by the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum...

http://www.clamormagazine.org/bush.pdf

Think of all the potential 2X4s that have burned down!:wow:

photo of him grinning happily and flashing a thumb up as he went to look at them?

What a frigging maroon.

"holocaust" existed -- and still exists. It doesn't sound as if he made the most appropriate use of the word ( or used the most appropriate word) but at least he's increasing his vocabulary. :shrug:

Here are the Merriam-Webster Dictionary online definitions for holocaust.

Main Entry: ho·lo·caust
Pronunciation: 'hO-l&-"kost, 'hä- also -"käst or 'ho-l&-kost
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French holocauste, from Late Latin holocaustum, from Greek holokauston, from neuter of holokaustos burnt whole, from hol- + kaustos burnt, from kaiein to burn -- more at CAUSTIC
Date: 13th century


1 : a sacrifice consumed by fire
2 : a thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire <a nuclear holocaust>
3 a often capitalized : the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II -- usually used with the b : a mass slaughter of people; especially : GENOCIDE

But contemporary connotations have really limited it's use.

You don't think Bush knows anything about the accurate definition you cite, do you?

Language evolves. Too bad Bush doesn't believe in evolution!

but for most of us, it will only have one meaning for the rest of our lives. just like holocaust.

but what an idiot.

for the simian to say than conflagration.