Senator Thom Goolsby

NEVER, NEVER, EVER Payoff a Traffic Ticket in North Carolina UNLESS...

UNLESS you have spoken with an experienced traffic lawyer who constantly handles these types of cases and are told there is NOTHING that can be done for you.

If you pay the ticket, you will be hit with the MAXIMUM POINTS ALLOWED on your insurance and drivers license.

I have NEVER responded that there was NOTHING I could do in 22 years of practice and suspect that I never will! Why, there are many options to keep you from being hit with points and they should ALL be exhausted BEFORE ever paying a ticket and receiving points.

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Do NOT Pay Off that Traffic Ticket! Do NOT pay off your traffic ticket! If you do, you will be guaranteed the maximum insurance points and driver's license points. I can almost always improve e...

Before William Tecumseh Sherman became a great Union general, he was demoted for apparent insanity.

In October 1861, General Sherman, commander of Union forces in Kentucky, told Secretary of War Simon Cameron he needed 60,000 men to defend his territory and 200,000 to go on the offensive. Cameron called Sherman’s request “insane” and removed the general from command.

In a letter to his brother, a devastated Sherman wrote, “I do think I Should have committed su***de were it not for my children. I do not think that I can again be trusted with command.” However, in February 1862, Sherman was reassigned to Paducah, Kentucky, under Ulysses S. Grant, who saw not insanity but competence in the disgraced general.

Later in the war, when a civilian badmouthed Grant, Sherman defended his friend, saying, “General Grant is a great general. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.”

Before and during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln pushed to send freed slaves abroad.

The policy, called colonization, had been supported by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay—a hero of Lincoln’s—and even Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose protagonists in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ultimately emigrate from the United States to Africa.

In August 1862, Lincoln brought five black ministers to the White House and told them that slavery and the war had demonstrated that it would be “better for us both, therefore, to be separated.” He wanted to send freed blacks to Central America, even calling for a constitutional amendment authorizing Congress to pay for colonization.

However, prominent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison were appalled by the idea. Lincoln never succeeded at gathering support for the policy. After he signed the Emancipation Proclamation, he never mentioned it again in public.

Remember people’s names!

It's important to make people feel appreciated. Everyone loves the sound of their own name!

To remember a name, say their name back to them when they introduce themselves. Then repeat the name in your head a number of times until you are sure you have it.

Continue to use their name in conversation as much as possible to remove any chance of forgetting it. If you’re still having trouble, make up a rhyme about their name: “Stan the Man” or “Natalie flatters me.” It may be goofy, but it works!