We consider a cosmological setup with the inflaton field in the presence of a
redshift dependent Lorentz-violating time-like background to address the
inflationary regime and other phases of the Universe. We also show that the
regime of dark energy at large distances (low redshifts) is essentially
dominated by the presence of the Lorentz-violating background.Comment: 8 pages, no figure, Latex, to appear in AHE