Seorang Perempuan calon anggota legislatif (Caleg) Dapil V DPRD Kabupaten Ngawi dari Partai Demokrat, Miftahul Jannah, ditemani suaminya menggelar ritual doa dan mandi di Sungai Tempuk Alas Ketonggo (Srigati) Desa Babadan, Kecamatan Paron, Kabupaten Ngawi, Rabu (12/3/2014) kemarin.
NGAWI, Saco-Indonesia.com — Seorang Perempuan calon anggota legislatif (Caleg) Dapil V DPRD Kabupaten Ngawi dari Partai Demokrat, Miftahul Jannah, ditemani suaminya menggelar ritual doa dan mandi di Sungai Tempuk Alas Ketonggo (Srigati) Desa Babadan, Kecamatan Paron, Kabupaten Ngawi, Rabu (12/3/2014) kemarin.
Ritual dilakukan agar bisa lolos menjadi anggota DPRD Kabupaten Ngawi dalam Pemilihan Umum Lagislatif (Pileg) 9 April 2014.
Surya/Sudarmawan Miftahul Jannah membasuh muka
Surya/Sudarmawan Miftahul Jannah membasuh muka
Berbagai upaya, termasuk upaya spiritual yang tidak masuk akal dilakukan para caleg di daerah untuk mendapatkan berkah dan terpilih menjadi wakil rakyat. Puluhan caleg mendatangi tempat ini, tetapi kebanyakan melakukan ritual di sungai ini secara sembunyi.
Tak hanya Miftahul Jannah, sejak sebulan mendekati pelaksanaan pemilihan umum legislatif (Pileg), puluhan calon anggota legislatif (Caleg) sudah berdatangan ke Alas Ketonggo (Srigati).
Mereka datang ke Alas Ketonggo untuk menggelar ritual doa dan mandi di Sungai Tempuk yang ada di tengah hutan jati itu.
Juru Kunci Alas Ketonggo, Marji, mengatakan, sudah banyak caleg yang datang ke Alas Ketonggo untuk menggelar ritual berdoa dan mandi di Sungai Tumpuk.
Surya/Sudarmawan Miftahul Jannah saat ritual doa dan mandi di Sungai Tempuk
Surya/Sudarmawan Miftahul Jannah saat ritual doa dan mandi di Sungai Tempuk
Rata-rata mereka berharap bisa lolos menjadi anggota DPR RI, DPRD Provinsi, DPRD Kabupaten, dan DPD di lokasi yang dianggap keramat itu.
"Yang datang kalau puluhan atau sekitar 50 orang sudah ada. Rata-rata datangnya secara sembunyi-sembunyi. Kalau namanya saya lupa mereka merata dari bermacam-macam partai yang bertarung dalam Pileg 9 April itu. Wong sehari sudah ada 3 sampai 5 orang sejak dua pekan terakhir," kata Marji.
5 Alasan Mengapa pria menyukai wanita lebih muda
Faktanya, wanita
lebih cepat dewasa dibandingkan pria. Jadi, ketika pria dan wanita berada di usia yang sama,
wanita telah berpikir jauh di atas pria. Tak jarang, stigma beda usia 5 tahun - pria lebih tua 5
tahun dari wanita - dianjurkan agar hubungan pernikahan jadi langgeng. Nah, berikut adalah alasan
mengapa pria menyukai wanita yang berusia lebih muda darinya, seperti dilansir Boldsky.
Faktanya, wanita lebih cepat dewasa dibandingkan pria. Jadi, ketika pria dan wanita berada
di usia yang sama, wanita telah berpikir jauh di atas pria. Tak jarang, stigma beda usia 5 tahun
- pria lebih tua 5 tahun dari wanita - dianjurkan agar hubungan pernikahan jadi langgeng. Nah,
berikut adalah alasan mengapa pria menyukai wanita yang berusia lebih muda darinya, seperti
dilansir Boldsky.
1. Tingkat kematangan
Wanita lebih cepat matang daripada pria. Maka tak jarang, pria memilih pasangan yang lebih
muda darinya karena dianggap memiliki tingkat kematangan yang sama dengannya. Sementara itu,
mengencani pasangan yang seumur atau jauh lebih muda sering membuat pria terintimidasi karena
dianggap belum dewasa.
2. Fisik
Tak
dapat dipungkiri, pria selalu mencari pasangan yang menarik secara fisik. Dalam hal ini, wanita
muda tentunya memiliki tampilan yang menarik dan segar.
3.
Perspektif berbeda
Mengencani seorang wanita muda dapat memberikan
pandangan baru yang berbeda. Antusiasme itu membuat pria merasa lebih tertantang untuk mengerti
dunia yang baru dikenalnya dan sering bertukar pikiran dengan pasangan jika ada sesuatu yang
tidak dimengertinya.
4. Lebih terbuka
Seiring dengan bertambahnya usia, wanita akan tumbuh menjadi individu yang banyak
perhitungan. Mereka merinci segala sesuatu secara mendetail dan tak mudah percaya orang lain.
Sementara itu, berkencan dengan pasangan seumur cenderung sering berbeda pendapat karena melihat
masalah dari sudut pandang yang sama. Dalam kasus ini, perbedaan usia bisa bermanfaat bagi
hubungan cinta karena memberi perbedaan sudut pandang dan pemikiran.
5. Ego
Selain aktif secara fisik, wanita muda memiliki
pemikiran yang jauh lebih kritis dan berapi-api. Hal ini membuat pria mau tidak mau merasa
tertantang untuk mempertahankan egonya. Secara tidak sadar, itu membuatnya jadi lebih kreatif
dalam mencari solusi atas semua masalah. Sebab, pria tidak pernah ingin dikalahkan ketika
terjadi perdebatan.
6. Dianggap sebagai pelindung
Mengencani pasangan yang lebih muda membuat pria bisa merasa dominan dan
dibutuhkan. Sebab, wanita lebih muda cenderung sangat bergantung pada pasangan. Sebaliknya,
wanita yang berusia lebih tua atau seumur dengan pria cenderung lebih mandiri dan kuat. Tak
jarang, kemandirian dan ketegasan mereka membuat nyali pria ciut.
Inilah
enam hal yang membuat pria memilih pasangan yang lebih muda dari usianya. Lalu, bagaimana
dengan Anda? Menurut Anda, enak pacaran dengan pasangan yang lebih tua, sepantaran, atau lebih
tua?
G.O.P. Hopefuls Now Aiming to Woo the Middle Class
WASHINGTON — The last three men to win the Republican nomination have been the prosperous son of a president (George W. Bush), a senator who could not recall how many homes his family owned (John McCain of Arizona; it was seven) and a private equity executive worth an estimated $200 million (Mitt Romney).
The candidates hoping to be the party’s nominee in 2016 are trying to create a very different set of associations. On Sunday, Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, joined the presidential field.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida praises his parents, a bartender and a Kmart stock clerk, as he urges audiences not to forget “the workers in our hotel kitchens, the landscaping crews in our neighborhoods, the late-night janitorial staff that clean our offices.”
Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, a preacher’s son, posts on Twitter about his ham-and-cheese sandwiches and boasts of his coupon-clipping frugality. His $1 Kohl’s sweater has become a campaign celebrity in its own right.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky laments the existence of “two Americas,” borrowing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s phrase to describe economically and racially troubled communities like Ferguson, Mo., and Detroit.
“Some say, ‘But Democrats care more about the poor,’ ” Mr. Paul likes to say. “If that’s true, why is black unemployment still twice white unemployment? Why has household income declined by $3,500 over the past six years?”
We are in the midst of the Empathy Primary — the rhetorical battleground shaping the Republican presidential field of 2016.
Harmed by the perception that they favor the wealthy at the expense of middle-of-the-road Americans, the party’s contenders are each trying their hardest to get across what the elder George Bush once inelegantly told recession-battered voters in 1992: “Message: I care.”
Their ability to do so — less bluntly, more sincerely — could prove decisive in an election year when power, privilege and family connections will loom large for both parties.
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Questions of understanding and compassion cost Republicans in the last election. Mr. Romney, who memorably dismissed the “47 percent” of Americans as freeloaders, lost to President Obama by 63 percentage points among voters who cast their ballots for the candidate who “cares about people like me,” according to exit polls.
And a Pew poll from February showed that people still believe Republicans are indifferent to working Americans: 54 percent said the Republican Party does not care about the middle class.
That taint of callousness explains why Senator Ted Cruz of Texas declared last week that Republicans “are and should be the party of the 47 percent” — and why another son of a president, Jeb Bush, has made economic opportunity the centerpiece of his message.
With his pedigree and considerable wealth — since he left the Florida governor’s office almost a decade ago he has earned millions of dollars sitting on corporate boards and advising banks — Mr. Bush probably has the most complicated task making the argument to voters that he understands their concerns.
On a visit last week to Puerto Rico, Mr. Bush sounded every bit the populist, railing against “elites” who have stifled economic growth and innovation. In the kind of economy he envisions leading, he said: “We wouldn’t have the middle being squeezed. People in poverty would have a chance to rise up. And the social strains that exist — because the haves and have-nots is the big debate in our country today — would subside.”
Republicans’ emphasis on poorer and working-class Americans now represents a shift from the party’s longstanding focus on business owners and “job creators” as the drivers of economic opportunity.
This is intentional, Republican operatives said.
In the last presidential election, Republicans rushed to defend business owners against what they saw as hostility by Democrats to successful, wealthy entrepreneurs.
“Part of what you had was a reaction to the Democrats’ dehumanization of business owners: ‘Oh, you think you started your plumbing company? No you didn’t,’ ” said Grover Norquist, the conservative activist and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
But now, Mr. Norquist said, Republicans should move past that. “Focus on the people in the room who know someone who couldn’t get a job, or a promotion, or a raise because taxes are too high or regulations eat up companies’ time,” he said. “The rich guy can take care of himself.”
Democrats argue that the public will ultimately see through such an approach because Republican positions like opposing a minimum-wage increase and giving private banks a larger role in student loans would hurt working Americans.
“If Republican candidates are just repeating the same tired policies, I’m not sure that smiling while saying it is going to be enough,” said Guy Cecil, a Democratic strategist who is joining a “super PAC” working on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Republicans have already attacked Mrs. Clinton over the wealth and power she and her husband have accumulated, caricaturing her as an out-of-touch multimillionaire who earns hundreds of thousands of dollars per speech and has not driven a car since 1996.
Mr. Walker hit this theme recently on Fox News, pointing to Mrs. Clinton’s lucrative book deals and her multiple residences. “This is not someone who is connected with everyday Americans,” he said. His own net worth, according to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, is less than a half-million dollars; Mr. Walker also owes tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards.
But showing off a cheap sweater or boasting of a bootstraps family background not only helps draw a contrast with Mrs. Clinton’s latter-day affluence, it is also an implicit argument against Mr. Bush.
Mr. Walker, who featured a 1998 Saturn with more than 100,000 miles on the odometer in a 2010 campaign ad during his first run for governor, likes to talk about flipping burgers at McDonald’s as a young person. His mother, he has said, grew up on a farm with no indoor plumbing until she was in high school.
Mr. Rubio, among the least wealthy members of the Senate, with an estimated net worth of around a half-million dollars, uses his working-class upbringing as evidence of the “exceptionalism” of America, “where even the son of a bartender and a maid can have the same dreams and the same future as those who come from power and privilege.”
Mr. Cruz alludes to his family’s dysfunction — his parents, he says, were heavy drinkers — and recounts his father’s tale of fleeing Cuba with $100 sewn into his underwear.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey notes that his father paid his way through college working nights at an ice cream plant.
But sometimes the attempts at projecting authenticity can seem forced. Mr. Christie recently found himself on the defensive after telling a New Hampshire audience, “I don’t consider myself a wealthy man.” Tax returns showed that he and his wife, a longtime Wall Street executive, earned nearly $700,000 in 2013.
The story of success against the odds is a political classic, even if it is one the Republican Party has not been able to tell for a long time. Ronald Reagan liked to say that while he had not been born on the wrong side of the tracks, he could always hear the whistle. Richard Nixon was fond of reminding voters how he was born in a house his father had built.
“Probably the idea that is most attractive to an average voter, and an idea that both Republicans and Democrats try to craft into their messages, is this idea that you can rise from nothing,” said Charles C. W. Cooke, a writer for National Review.
There is a certain delight Republicans take in turning that message to their advantage now.
“That’s what Obama did with Hillary,” Mr. Cooke said. “He acknowledged it openly: ‘This is ridiculous. Look at me, this one-term senator with dark skin and all of America’s unsolved racial problems, running against the wife of the last Democratic president.”
In Baltimore, National Guard Pullout Begins as Citywide Curfew Is Lifted
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National Guard soldiers boarding a truck in Baltimore on Sunday.
Baltimore residents prepared to resume the more familiar rhythms of their lives as days passed without new bouts of widespread rioting and as the National Guard began to pull its troops from the city.