Certainly, the Islamist groups — per their own declarations — are doing their level best to pull off some sort of terrorist attack.
Ali's declaration that he is "done with cocaine" is not the dawn of sobriety but a protest at the drug's debased quality.
Whether it's his love of the ladies, his yachts, his mysterious lack of eyebrows, his strategic brilliance, his quick-witted jabs at competitors, random musings that he may buy Apple, or declarations that software is done as a category and he'd just buy everyone up, Larry Ellison has long been the software reporter's gift that keeps on giving.
If it is done without a declaration of war, and is not an accidental byproduct of an attack on the military of another nation, it is terrorism.
"The fact is that this declaration has been done before in some local governments, and nothing has changed," said Badamosi Ayuba, a member of the National Assembly who represents part of Kano, the north's biggest city.
In truth, Trump has never been consistent about that (or anything), and has regularly coupled his declarations of being done with Afghans and other foreigners with complaints about the failure to seize their military wealth, to bomb them with sufficient vigor, or to be ready to torture the prisoners that conflicts yield.
The spokesman for the Australian Electoral Commission, Phil Diak, said preliminary scrutiny of all remaining declaration votes was being done on Saturday.
I'll wait for all the evidence to make a final declaration, but he's done baseball, himself, the Yankees and the public a real disservice.
Yet that is exactly what he is doing with his declaration of perpetual war.
Aside from showing face and signing a disaster declaration, as is common practice, Trump is doing little to make things easier on the residents of Texas, his FEMA chief or the communities that will be hurt by future natural disasters. .
"Russia's actions, like its declarations about what was done in Soviet times, the lack of transparency in its ostensibly defensive programs, and its refusal to share the strain, among other things, raise serious questions about Russia's willingness to abide by its treaty obligations," one official said.
