inflation tooth and nail

INFLATION TOOTH AND NAIL
Okay, don't panic just yet. I'm not really going to blather on and on about inflation today. Just a brief mention. And of course even though I merely pass on information from people that are paid professionals at this sort of thing the trolls will rear back in great agitation, their profuse back hair sticking straight up, bellow out in fearsome indignation, foul breath washing over the masses, convinced I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't know what gets their dander up more, my refusal to worship at the alter of semi-auto's ( I personally think the HK-91 and the 1911A1 auto are the best available personal weapons out there, my constantly repeated and ignored point is that ammo is a dwindling resource and they cost too much ) or the fact that I dare suggest we can't bring the middle class lifestyle into and beyond the collapse. If I had more computer time, it might be amusing to study which kinds of articles set them off on their berserker rage. Then I could write more of them. But, getting back to the title of the article. Tooth And Nail is a movie I just watched. So, a brief bit on inflation, a little on the movie, you tie together the two subjects to get an attention grabbing headline.
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For the last three months, countries out there have been net sellers of Treasury bonds. A few of the smarter folks might be thinking that the US is toast, there is no hope of continual loans saving our butts, and therefor it is a good idea to sell off their existing debt before it isn't worth the paper it's printed on ( or, not worth the computer storage space which is really bad since that's much cheaper than paper ). Then, as if to shake their hands and congratulate them on their intelligent bet, our Helicopter Ben decides we're going to buy our own debt since no one else wants the slop. One trillion in inflation, BAM. Oooh, there it is! Some folks estimate inflation will surge fifteen fold. I don't want to believe that myself. But not wanting it to happen doesn't stop the problem, now does it? I won't even tie in the coming surge of inflation with ammunition price. See, I'm a nice guy and don't rile up the trolls. However, think about the cost of oil. If you enjoyed $4 a gallon gas almost a year ago, back before a lot of the bail outs and printing press sessions, wait for this round of oil price inflation.
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Okay, I've been threatening you with a forthcoming book on apocalypse movies reviews. You have been spared. My 12v battery I've been charging by vehicle and using for my computer and TV/DVD player has started to show too serious of a drain. It went two months using about fifteen amps a week, but once I took it up to twenty it was game over. I might even have been running a very slight deficit every week. The point is that I just don't drive enough to keep it charged enough. I'm going to hook it up to the new solar panel this weekend and just use it for the computer. If I'm lucky, a few hours a week TV. But no more movies. And I spent a long time compiling a list of movies. Well, just another trial and tribulation. I mention this because today's movie review and the one coming up this Saturday are going to be it for awhile, if not for good.
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Tooth And Nail, Rated R, 2007. I recognized Michael Madsen but nobody else. The rest of the actors were teeny boppers. You might know them but I don't. And Madsen was getting a bit long on the tooth, all fat and bloated. He still cuts an imposing figure, I wouldn't call him fat to his face. He's one of the cannibal dudes. The movie does the narration thing in the beginning, and it holds promise. 2012 the oil runs out. A year later the reserves are gone and two years after that 2/3 of the global population is dead. Most of the smart folks figured they would head south for warmth and food. Too many had the same idea and they all killed each other off. A group of survivors is holed up in a hospital, lead by The Professor ( one assumes it was meant without irony, perhaps the writer/director is too young to remember Gilligan's Island ). They are eating off Red Cross emergency rations and putzing with the existing water purifiers. No mention is made of gardening, as the prof is too busy drafting solar panel plans ( we might not eat, but by gum we will have our electricity ). So, with this bare tease on post collapse life, the movie turns into its originally advertised horror theme.
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From there it is not a terrible film, but it does follow the time tested genre path. Young pretty things all together. Unseen horror stalks them. One by one they die. In the end one grows some stones and fights back. I will say that even with that, it was original enough and enjoyable enough. It was a poor to fair post apocalypse movie and a slightly better than average horror movie so it won't waste your time or money. Just don't expect it to be one of your top ten.
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